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Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1901-1940 Table of Contents Half title page Title page C-page Contents Publisher's Note Contributors Keyword List of Contents [all vols] List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars [all vols] World Maps Half title page Early 20th century, Elster and Geitel Study Radioactivity Early 20th century, Mahler Directs the Vienna Court Opera 1901, Creation of the First Synthetic Vat Dye 1901, Discovery of Human Blood Groups 1901, Grijns Suggests the Cause of Beriberi 1901, Hewitt Invents the Mercury-Vapor Lamp 1901, Hopkins Announces the Discovery of Tryptophan 1901, Ivanov Develops Artificial Insemination 1901-1904, Kipping Discovers Silicones 1901-1911, China Allows Some Western Reforms 1901-1925, Teletype Is Developed January, 1901, American Bowling Club Hosts Its First Tournament January 1, 1901, Commonwealth of Australia Is Formed January 10, 1901, Discovery of Oil at Spindletop February 4, 1901, Reed Reports That Mosquitoes Transmit Yellow Fever February 26, 1901, Morgan Assembles the World's Largest Corporation May 27, 1901, Insular Cases July 1, 1901, Canada Claims the Arctic Islands August 30, 1901, Booth Receives Patent for the Vacuum Cleaner September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt Becomes U.S. President December 10, 1901, First Nobel Prizes Are Awarded December 10, 1901, Röntgen Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of X Rays December 12, 1901, First Transatlantic Telegraphic Radio Transmission December 19, 1901, Completion of the Mombasa-Lake Victoria Railway 1902, Bateson Publishes Mendel's Principles of Heredity 1902, Carrel Rejoins Severed Blood Vessels 1902, Cement Manufacturers Agree to Cooperate on Pricing 1902, Heart of Darkness Critiques Imperialism 1902, Hobson Critiques Imperialism 1902, James Proposes a Rational Basis for Religious Experience 1902, Johnson Duplicates Disc Recordings 1902, Levi Recognizes the Axiom of Choice in Set Theory 1902, McClung Contributes to the Discovery of the Sex Chromosome 1902, Philippines Ends Its Uprising Against the United States 1902, Zsigmondy Invents the Ultramicroscope 1902-1903, Pavlov Develops the Concept of Reinforcement 1902-1913, Tiffany Leads the Art Nouveau Movement in the United States January, 1902, French Expedition at Susa Discovers Hammurabi's Code January 1, 1902, First Rose Bowl Game January 30, 1902, Anglo-Japanese Treaty Brings Japan into World Markets February 17, 1902, Stieglitz Organizes the Photo-Secession March and June, 1902, Kennelly and Heaviside Theorize Existence of the Ionosphere March 4, 1902, American Automobile Association Is Established April, 1902, Rhodes Scholarships Are Instituted April-June, 1902, Bayliss and Starling Establish the Role of Hormones April 11, 1902, Caruso Records for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company May 8, 1902, Mount Pelée Erupts May 12-October 23, 1902, Anthracite Coal Strike May 31, 1902, Treaty of Vereeniging Ends the Boer War June 2, 1902-May 31, 1913, Expansion of Direct Democracy June 12, 1902, Australia Extends Suffrage to Women June 16, 1902, Russell Discovers the "Great Paradox" June 17, 1902, Reclamation Act Promotes Western Agriculture August, 1902, A Trip to the Moon Introduces Special Effects August 12, 1902, Founding of International Harvester Company September 27, 1902, Tobacco Companies Unite to Split World Markets December, 1902, Sutton Proposes That Chromosomes Carry Hereditary Traits December 2-5, 1902, Founding of the International Sanitary Bureau 1903, Delaware Revises Corporation Laws 1903, Hoffmann and Moser Found the Wiener Werkstätte 1903, Scott Publishes The Theory of Advertising 1903, Shaw Articulates His Philosophy in Man and Superman 1903, Tsiolkovsky Proposes Using Liquid Oxygen for Space Travel 1903-1904, Hale Establishes Mount Wilson Observatory 1903-1906, Pogroms in Imperial Russia 1903-1957, Vaughan Williams Composes His Nine Symphonies January 5, 1903, Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock February 14, 1903, Creation of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor February 23, 1903, U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Federal Powers to Regulate Commerce March 14, 1903, First U.S. National Wildlife Refuge Is Established May, 1903, Roosevelt and Muir Visit Yosemite May 22, 1903, Platt Amendment May 23, 1903, Wisconsin Adopts the First Primary Election Law June 6, 1903, Founding of the Weekly Indian Opinion July 1, 1903, First Tour de France August 2-September, 1903, Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia August 9, 1903, Pius X Becomes Pope Fall, 1903, Gillette Markets the First Razor with a Disposable Blade Fall, 1903, The Great Train Robbery Introduces New Editing Techniques October 1-13, 1903, Baseball Holds Its First World Series October 10, 1903, Pankhursts Found the Women's Social and Political Union November, 1903, Henry James's The Ambassadors Is Published November 3, 1903, Panama Declares Independence from Colombia November 18, 1903, U.S. Acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone December 10, 1903, Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for Discovering Natural Radioactivity December 17, 1903, Wright Brothers' First Flight 1904, Canadian Cultivation of Marquis Wheat 1904, First Practical Photoelectric Cell Is Developed 1904, Freud Advances the Psychoanalytic Method 1904, Hartmann Discovers the First Evidence of Interstellar Matter 1904, Kapteyn Discovers Two Star Streams in the Galaxy 1904-1905, Bartók and Kodály Collect Hungarian Folk Songs 1904-1905, Gorgas Develops Effective Methods of Mosquito Control 1904-1905, Weber Posits the "Protestant Ethic" 1904-1907, Brouwer Develops Intuitionist Foundations of Mathematics 1904-1908, Haber Develops Process for Extracting Nitrogen from the Air 1904-1908, Zermelo Undertakes Comprehensive Axiomatization of Set Theory 1904-1912, Brandenberger Invents Cellophane January, 1904-1905, Herero and Nama Revolts February 9, 1904-September 5, 1905, Russo-Japanese War March 14, 1904, U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Northern Securities April-May, 1904, Sherrington Clarifies the Role of the Nervous System April 8, 1904, Entente Cordiale April 18, 1904, L'Humanité Gives Voice to French Socialist Politics May 18, 1904, International Agreement Targets White Slave Trade Summer, 1904, Construction Begins on the Panama Canal September 7, 1904, Lhasa Convention Is Signed in Tibet October 31, 1904-1906, Welsh Revival Spreads Pentecostalism November 7, 1904, Cohan's Little Johnny Jones Premieres November 16, 1904, Fleming Patents the First Vacuum Tube December 26, 1904, Duncan Interprets Chopin in Her Russian Debut December 27, 1904, Abbey Theatre Heralds the Celtic Revival 1905, Baker Establishes the 47 Workshop at Harvard 1905, Einthoven Begins Clinical Studies with Electrocardiography 1905, Hertzsprung Notes Relationship Between Star Color and Luminosity 1905, Hoffmann Designs the Palais Stoclet 1905, Introduction of the First Injectable Anesthetic 1905, Punnett's Mendelism Includes Diagrams Showing Heredity 1905, Singer Begins Manufacturing Sewing Machines in Russia 1905-1907, Baekeland Invents Bakelite 1905-1907, Boltwood Uses Radioactivity to Determine Ages of Rocks January 3, 1905, Pinchot Becomes Head of the U.S. Forest Service January 5, 1905, National Audubon Society Is Established January 22, 1905, Bloody Sunday January 30, 1905, U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Prosecution of the Beef Trust February 23, 1905, First American Service Organization Is Founded March, 1905, Einstein Describes the Photoelectric Effect March 31, 1905, Tangier Crisis April 17, 1905, U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Maximum Hours Law June, 1905, First Nickelodeon Film Theater Opens Summer, 1905, Avant-Garde Artists Form Die Brücke June 27, 1905, Founding of Industrial Workers of the World July 11, 1905, Founding of the Niagara Movement August, 1905, Lowell Predicts the Existence of Pluto August-December, 1905, Armstrong Committee Examines the Insurance Industry Fall, 1905, Einstein States His Theory of Special Relativity Fall, 1905, Stein Holds Her First Paris Salons October, 1905, Fauves Exhibit at the Salon d'Automne October 26, 1905, Norway Becomes Independent October 30, 1905, October Manifesto November 24, 1905, Reinhardt Becomes Director of the Deutsches Theater November 28, 1905, Sinn Féin Is Founded December, 1905, Crile Performs the First Direct Blood Transfusion December 9, 1905, Strauss's Salome Shocks Audiences 1906, Anschütz-Kaempfe Invents the First Practical Gyrocompass 1906, Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements 1906, Bateson and Punnett Observe Gene Linkage 1906, Cottrell Invents the Electrostatic Precipitation Process 1906, Fréchet Introduces the Concept of Abstract Space 1906, Hopkins Postulates the Presence of Vitamins 1906, Markov Discovers the Theory of Linked Probabilities 1906, Pareto Analyzes the Distribution of Wealth 1906, Publication of The English Hymnal 1906-1907, Artists Find Inspiration in African Tribal Art 1906-1910, Oldham and Mohorovi{ccaron}i{cacute} Determine the Earth's Interior Structure 1906-1913, Willstätter Discovers the Composition of Chlorophyll January 11, 1906, Founding of the Monist League Leads to the Eugenics Movement January 12, 1906, American College Football Allows the Forward Pass February, 1906, Sinclair Publishes The Jungle February 12, 1906, Establishment of the British Labour Party Spring, 1906, Lee Establishes the Field of Public Relations April, 1906-1908, Azusa Street Revival April 18, 1906, San Francisco Earthquake May 10-July 21, 1906, First Meeting of the Duma June 26-27, 1906, First Grand Prix Auto Race June 27-29, 1906, International Association for the Prevention of Smoke Is Founded June 30, 1906, Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act July 20, 1906, Finland Grants Women Suffrage August 4, 1906, First German U-Boat Is Launched September 19, 1906, Bern Convention Prohibits Night Work for Women October, 1906-October, 1907, Persia Adopts a Constitution October 6, 1906, Launching of the Dreadnought October 25, 1906, Japan Protests Segregation of Japanese in California Schools December 10, 1906, Thomson Wins the Nobel Prize for Discovering the Electron December 24, 1906, Fessenden Pioneers Radio Broadcasting December 30, 1906, Muslim League Protests Government Abuses of Minority Rights in India 1907, Bergson's Creative Evolution Inspires Artists and Thinkers 1907, Famine Strikes Russia 1907, Haldane Develops Stage Decompression for Deep-Sea Divers 1907, Hertzsprung Describes Giant and Dwarf Stellar Divisions 1907, Lumières Develop Color Photography 1907, Meinecke Advances the Analytic Method in History 1907, Plague Kills 1.2 Million in India 1907, Publication of Busoni's Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music 1907, Publication of James's Pragmatism January 16, 1907-February 14, 1912, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona Become U.S. States January 26, 1907, The Playboy of the Western World Offends Irish Audiences March, 1907, Romanian Peasant Revolt March 14, 1907, Gentlemen's Agreement March 19, 1907-April, 1914, Publication of The Catholic Encyclopedia Spring, 1907, Development of Nerve Fibers Is Observed May 14, 1907, Formation of the Plunket Society August, 1907, Baden-Powell Establishes the Boy Scouts August 31, 1907, Formation of the Triple Entente October, 1907, Deutscher Werkbund Is Founded October-November, 1907, Panic of 1907 October 18, 1907, Second Hague Peace Conference October 22, 1907, Ringling Bros. Buys Barnum and Bailey Circus December 22, 1907, Pavlova Performs The Dying Swan 1908, Chlorination of the U.S. Water Supply Begins 1908, Hardy and Weinberg Present a Model of Population Genetics 1908, Hughes Revolutionizes Oil Well Drilling 1908-1909, Schoenberg Breaks with Tonality 1908-1915, Morgan Develops the Gene-Chromosome Theory January 11, 1908, Roosevelt Withdraws the Grand Canyon from Mining Claims January 21, 1908, The Ghost Sonata Influences Modern Theater and Drama January 27, 1908, U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Allows Yellow-Dog Contracts February 3, 1908, Danbury Hatters Decision Constrains Secondary Boycotts February 11, 1908, Geiger and Rutherford Develop a Radiation Counter February 24, 1908, Muller v. Oregon February 29, 1908, Cadillac Demonstrates Interchangeable Parts April 8, 1908, Harvard University Founds a Business School May 13-15, 1908, Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources May 26, 1908, Oil Is Discovered in Persia Summer, 1908, Salon d'Automne Rejects Braque's Cubist Works June 26, 1908, Hale Discovers Strong Magnetic Fields in Sunspots July 24, 1908, Young Turks Stage a Coup in the Ottoman Empire July 26, 1908, Bureau of Investigation Begins Operation October 3, 1908, First Issue of Pravda Appears October 7, 1908, Austria Annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina November-December, 1908, Ehrlich and Metchnikoff Conduct Pioneering Immunity Research November 1, 1908, Belgium Annexes the Congo November 28, 1908, Christian Science Monitor Is Founded December, 1908, Boule Reconstructs the First Neanderthal Skeleton December 3, 1908, Elgar's First Symphony Premieres to Acclaim December 21, 1908, Cairo University Is Inaugurated December 26, 1908, First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion December 28, 1908, Earthquake and Tsunami Devastate Sicily 1909, First Kibbutz Is Established in Palestine 1909, Johannsen Coins the Terms "Gene," "Genotype," and "Phenotype" 1909, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Admits Women to University Education 1909, Steinitz Inaugurates Modern Abstract Algebra 1909-1913, United States Begins "Dollar Diplomacy" 1909-1929, Pickford Reigns as "America's Sweetheart" January-August, 1909, Millikan Conducts His Oil-Drop Experiment February 12, 1909, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded February 20, 1909, Marinetti Issues the Futurist Manifesto March, 1909-1912, Republican Congressional Insurgency March 4, 1909, U.S. Congress Updates Copyright Law April, 1909-August, 1911, Parliament Act Redefines British Democracy April 6, 1909, Peary and Henson Reach the North Pole May 19, 1909, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Astounds Paris June 2, 1909, Fokine's Les Sylphides Introduces Abstract Ballet July 25, 1909, First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel August 5, 1909, Tariff Act of 1909 Limits Corporate Privacy August 19, 1909, First Auto Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway October, 1909, Canada Cement Affair Prompts Legislative Reform October, 1909, Completion of the AEG Turbine Factory 1910's, Garbage Industry Introduces Reforms 1910's, Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era 1910, Angell Advances Pacifism 1910, Electric Washing Machine Is Introduced 1910, Euthenics Calls for Pollution Control 1910, Gaudí Completes the Casa Milá Apartment House 1910, Rous Discovers That Some Cancers Are Caused by Viruses 1910, Steinmetz Warns of Pollution in "The Future of Electricity" 1910, Thomson Confirms the Possibility of Isotopes 1910-1913, Principia Mathematica Defines the Logistic Movement 1910-1930, Great Northern Migration Spring, 1910, Poiret's Hobble Skirt Becomes the Rage April, 1910, Ehrlich Introduces Salvarsan as a Cure for Syphilis April 5, 1910, First Morris Plan Bank Opens May 31, 1910, Formation of the Union of South Africa June 25, 1910, The Firebird Premieres in Paris July 1, 1910, U.S. Bureau of Mines Is Established August 22, 1910, Japanese Annexation of Korea October 5, 1910, Republic of Portugal Is Proclaimed Mid-October, 1910-December 1, 1920, Mexican Revolution November 25, 1910, Carnegie Establishes the Endowment for International Peace 1911, Boas Publishes The Mind of Primitive Man 1911, Hashimoto Founds the Nissan Motor Company 1911-1912, Italy Annexes Libya 1911-1920, Borden Leads Canada Through World War I 1911-1923, Rilke's Duino Elegies Redefines Poetics March 15, 1911, Scriabin's Prometheus Premieres in Moscow March 25, 1911, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 28, 1911, Baro-Kano Railroad Begins Operation in Nigeria April 3, 1911, Sibelius Conducts the Premiere of His Fourth Symphony April 14, 1911, Lever Acquires Land Concession in the Belgian Congo May 15, 1911, U.S. Supreme Court Establishes the "Rule of Reason" May 29, 1911, U.S. Supreme Court Breaks Up the American Tobacco Company July 1, 1911, Agadir Crisis July 24, 1911, Bingham Discovers Machu Picchu September, 1911, Der Blaue Reiter Abandons Representation in Art September 4-15, 1911, Students Challenge Corporal Punishment in British Schools September 14, 1911, Assassination of Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin Fall, 1911, Sturtevant Produces the First Chromosome Map October 10, 1911, Sun Yixian Overthrows the Qing Dynasty November 20, 1911, Mahler's Masterpiece Das Lied von der Erde Premieres December 2, 1911, Australasian Antarctic Expedition Commences December 14, 1911, Amundsen Reaches the South Pole December 31, 1911, Parliament Nationalizes the British Telephone System 1912, Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage Launches the Western Genre 1912, Jung Publishes The Psychology of the Unconscious 1912, Kandinsky Publishes His Theory of Abstract Art 1912, Slipher Obtains the Spectrum of a Distant Galaxy 1912-1913, Bohr Uses Quantum Theory to Identify Atomic Structure 1912-1914, Abel Develops the First Artificial Kidney 1912-1915, X-Ray Crystallography Is Developed by the Braggs 1912-1929, Wahh{amacr}b{imacr}ism Strengthens in Saudi Arabia January, 1912, Wegener Proposes the Theory of Continental Drift January 8, 1912, South African Native National Congress Meets February 23, 1912, International Opium Convention Is Signed March 3, 1912, Leavitt Discovers How to Measure Galactic Distances March 7, 1912, Rutherford Describes the Atomic Nucleus Spring, 1912, Pound Announces the Birth of the Imagist Movement April 9, 1912, Children's Bureau Is Founded April 14-15, 1912, Sinking of the Titanic May 5-July 27, 1912, Stockholm Hosts the Summer Olympics May 29, 1912, L'Après-midi d'un faune Scandalizes Parisian Audiences June 4, 1912, Massachusetts Adopts the First Minimum Wage Law in the United States June 7, 1912, Pope Pius X Condemns Slavery July 10, 1912, Massey Is Elected Prime Minister of New Zealand August, 1912, Sennett Defines Slapstick Comedy August 4-November, 1912, U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua August 7 and 12, 1912, Hess Discovers Cosmic Rays August 14, 1912, U.S. Public Health Service Is Established October, 1912, Harriet Monroe Founds Poetry Magazine October 12, 1912, First Conference of the Society of American Indians October 18, 1912-August 10, 1913, Balkan Wars November 5, 1912, Wilson Is Elected U.S. President 1913, Apollinaire Defines Cubism 1913, Duchamp's "Readymades" Redefine Art 1913, Edison Shows the First Talking Pictures 1913, First Geothermal Power Plant Begins Operation 1913, Fuller Brush Company Is Incorporated 1913, Gutenberg Discovers Earth's Mantle-Outer Core Boundary 1913, Hertzsprung Uses Cepheid Variables to Calculate Distances to the Stars 1913, Husserl Advances Phenomenology 1913, Salomon Develops Mammography 1913, Schick Introduces a Test for Diphtheria 1913-1927, Proust Publishes Remembrance of Things Past January, 1913, Burton Refines Petroleum with Thermal Cracking January 17, 1913, Fabry Quantifies Ozone in the Upper Atmosphere February 17-March 15, 1913, Armory Show February 25, 1913, U.S. Federal Income Tax Is Authorized March 1, 1913, Ford Assembly Line Begins Operation March 4, 1913, Migratory Bird Act March 31, 1913, Webern's Six Pieces for Large Orchestra Premieres May 14, 1913, Rockefeller Foundation Is Founded May 20, 1913, Passage of the First Alien Land Law May 29, 1913, The Rite of Spring Stuns Audiences August, 1913, Advertisers Adopt a Truth-in-Advertising Code September, 1913, Anti-Defamation League Is Founded November 5, 1913, Completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct December, 1913, Russell Announces His Theory of Stellar Evolution December 19, 1913, U.S. Congress Approves a Dam in Hetch Hetchy Valley December 23, 1913, Federal Reserve Act 1914, Rutherford Discovers the Proton 1914, U.S. Government Begins Using Cost-Plus Contracts January 5, 1914, Ford Announces a Five-Dollar, Eight-Hour Workday February 13, 1914, ASCAP Forms to Protect Writers and Publishers of Music March, 1914, Gilbreth Publishes The Psychology of Management June 28-August 4, 1914, Outbreak of World War I June 28, 1914-November 11, 1918, World War I August 15, 1914, Panama Canal Opens September 1, 1914, Last Passenger Pigeon Dies September 5-9, 1914, First Battle of the Marne September 15, 1914, Irish Home Rule Bill September 22, 1914, Germany Begins Extensive Submarine Warfare September 26, 1914, Federal Trade Commission Is Organized October 15, 1914, Clayton Antitrust Act October 15, 1914, Labor Unions Win Exemption from Antitrust Laws October 30, 1914, Spain Declares Neutrality in World War I November 5, 1914, British Mount a Second Front Against the Ottomans November 7, 1914, Lippmann Helps to Establish The New Republic 1915, Merrill Lynch & Company Is Founded 1915, The Metamorphosis Anticipates Modern Feelings of Alienation 1915-1919, National Birth Control League Forms January 19, 1915, Germany Launches the First Zeppelin Bombing Raids January 25, 1915, First Transcontinental Telephone Call Is Made February 19, 1915-January 9, 1916, Gallipoli Campaign Falters March, 1915, Defense of India Act Impedes the Freedom Struggle March 3, 1915, Griffith Releases The Birth of a Nation April 22-27, 1915, Germany Uses Poison Gas Against Allied Troops April 24, 1915, Armenian Genocide Begins April 28-May 1, 1915, International Congress of Women May, 1915, Fokker Aircraft Are Equipped with Machine Guns May 7, 1915, German Torpedoes Sink the Lusitania May 20, 1915, Corning Glass Works Trademarks Pyrex Summer, 1915, Denishawn School of Dance Opens September, 1915-February, 1916, McLean Discovers the Natural Anticoagulant Heparin September 5-8, 1915, and April 24-30, 1916, Zimmerwald and Kienthal Conferences September 11, 1915, Women's Institutes Are Founded in Great Britain October, 1915-March, 1917, Langevin Develops Active Sonar October 21, 1915, First Demonstration of Transatlantic Radiotelephony November 25, 1915, Einstein Completes His Theory of General Relativity December 8, 1915, Poppies Become a Symbol for Fallen Soldiers December 17, 1915, Malevich Introduces Suprematism 1916, Completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad 1916, Dada Movement Emerges at the Cabaret Voltaire 1916, Dewey Applies Pragmatism to Education 1916, Ives Completes His Fourth Symphony 1916, Schwarzschild Solves the Equations of General Relativity January-June, 1916, Lenin Critiques Modern Capitalism February 21-December 18, 1916, Battle of Verdun March 15, 1916-February 5, 1917, Pershing Expedition April 24-29, 1916, Easter Rebellion May 31-June 1, 1916, Battle of Jutland June 5, 1916, Brandeis Becomes the First Jewish Supreme Court Justice July, 1916, Fayol Publishes General and Industrial Management July, 1916, New York City Institutes a Comprehensive Zoning Law August, 1916, Hindenburg Program Militarizes the German Economy August 25, 1916, National Park Service Is Created September 8, 1916, United States Establishes a Permanent Tariff Commission September 11, 1916, First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens September 19, 1916, American Institute of Accountants Is Founded October 16, 1916, First American Birth Control Clinic Opens November 7, 1916, First Woman Is Elected to the U.S. Congress 1917, American Farmers Increase Insecticide Use 1917, Birdseye Invents Quick-Frozen Foods 1917, National Woman's Party Is Founded 1917, De Stijl Advocates Mondrian's Neoplasticism 1917, Yeats Publishes The Wild Swans at Coole 1917-1918, Bolsheviks Suppress the Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1920, Ukrainian Nationalists Struggle for Independence 1917-1924, Russian Communists Inaugurate the Red Terror 1917-1970, Pound's Cantos Is Published January 31, 1917, Mexican Constitution Establishes an Advanced Labor Code February 5, 1917, Immigration Act of 1917 February 26, 1917, Mount McKinley National Park Is Created March-November, 1917, Lenin Leads the Russian Revolution March 2, 1917, Jones Act of 1917 April 6, 1917, United States Enters World War I April 13, 1917, U.S. Curtails Civil Liberties During World War I April 30, 1917, Formation of the American Friends Service Committee May, 1917, Universal Negro Improvement Association Establishes a U.S. Chapter May 13-October 17, 1917, Marian Apparitions in Fátima, Portugal June, 1917, First Pulitzer Prizes Are Awarded June 15, 1917, and May 16, 1918, Espionage and Sedition Acts July 8, 1917, United States Establishes the War Industries Board September 15, 1917, Forbes Magazine Is Founded September 20, 1917, Canadian Women Gain the Vote October 3, 1917, U.S. Congress Imposes a Wartime Excess-Profits Tax October 15, 1917, France Executes Mata Hari November, 1917, Hooker Telescope Is Installed on Mount Wilson November 2, 1917, Balfour Declaration Supports a Jewish Homeland in Palestine November 6-7, 1917, Bolsheviks Mount the October Revolution December 6, 1917, Halifax Explosion December 6, 1917-October 14, 1920, Finland Gains Independence 1918, Cather's My Ántonia Promotes Regional Literature 1918, Noether Shows the Equivalence of Symmetry and Conservation 1918-1919, Germans Revolt and Form a Socialist Government 1918-1919, Rietveld Designs the Red-Blue Chair 1918-1921, Russian Civil War January 8, 1918, Shapley Proves the Sun Is Distant from the Center of Our Galaxy February 6, 1918, British Women Gain the Vote February 24, 1918-August 11, 1920, Baltic States Gain Independence March, 1918-1919, Influenza Epidemic Strikes March 3, 1918, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Summer, 1918, Rise of Cultural Relativism Revises Historiography July 3, 1918, Migratory Bird Treaty Act September 26-November 11, 1918, Meuse-Argonne Offensive November, 1918-June, 1920, Demobilization of U.S. Forces After World War I November 5, 1918-November 2, 1920, Republican Resurgence Ends America's Progressive Era December 1, 1918, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes Declares Independence December 21, 1918, Birth of Czechoslovakia 1919, Aston Builds the First Mass Spectrograph and Discovers Isotopes 1919, Founding of the World Christian Fundamentals Association 1919, German Artists Found the Bauhaus 1919, Mises Develops the Frequency Theory of Probability 1919, Principles of Shortwave Radio Communication Are Discovered 1919-1920, Ponzi Cheats Thousands in an Investment Scheme 1919-1921, Bjerknes Discovers Fronts in Atmospheric Circulation 1919-1933, Racist Theories Aid Nazi Rise to Political Power January 15, 1919, Assassination of Rosa Luxemburg January 19-21, 1919, Paris Peace Conference Addresses Protection for Minorities February 1, 1919, Lenin Approves the First Soviet Nature Preserve March 2-6, 1919, Lenin Establishes the Comintern March 15-May 9, 1919, Formation of the American Legion Spring, 1919, Frisch Discovers That Bees Communicate Through Body Movements April 13, 1919, British Soldiers Massacre Indians at Amritsar April 28, 1919, League of Nations Is Established May 4, 1919, May Fourth Movement May 15-June 26, 1919, Winnipeg General Strike May 19, 1919-September 11, 1922, Greco-Turkish War May 20, 1919, National Parks and Conservation Association Is Founded June 28, 1919, International Labor Organization Is Established June 28, 1919, Treaty of Versailles July 31, 1919, Weimar Constitution August, 1919-May, 1920, Red Scare September 10, 1919, Saint-Germain-en-Laye Convention Attempts to Curtail Slavery September 22, 1919-January 8, 1920, Steelworkers Strike for Improved Working Conditions October 1-9, 1919, Black Sox Scandal November 6, 1919, Einstein's Theory of Gravitation Is Confirmed over Newton's Theory November 16, 1919, Horthy Consolidates Power in Hungary Early 1920's, Slipher Presents Evidence of Redshifts in Galactic Spectra 1920's, Chanel Defines Modern Women's Fashion 1920's, Donham Promotes the Case Study Teaching Method at Harvard 1920's, Harlem Renaissance 1920's, Jantzen Popularizes the One-Piece Bathing Suit 1920's, Radio Develops as a Mass Broadcast Medium Early 1920, Britain Represses Somali Rebellion 1920, Advisory Councils Give Botswana Natives Limited Representation 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles Introduces Hercule Poirot 1920, Premiere of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920-1921, Ireland Is Granted Home Rule and Northern Ireland Is Created 1920-1922, Gandhi Leads a Noncooperation Movement 1920-1924, Melville Is Rediscovered as a Major American Novelist 1920-1925, Great Britain Establishes Unemployment Benefits 1920-1930, Millikan Investigates Cosmic Rays January 3, 1920, New York Yankees Acquire Babe Ruth January 16, 1920, Formation of Les Six January 16, 1920-December 5, 1933, Prohibition January 19, 1920, American Civil Liberties Union Is Founded February 14, 1920, League of Women Voters Is Founded February 25, 1920, Mineral Act Regulates Public Lands March 1, 1920, United States v. United States Steel Corporation April 26, 1920, Great Britain and France Sign the San Remo Agreement May-November, 1920, Great Iraqi Revolt May 7, 1920, Group of Seven Exhibition May 16, 1920, Canonization of Joan of Arc July, 1920, Procter & Gamble Announces Plans to Sell Directly to Retailers July 10, 1920-September, 1926, Meighen Era in Canada August 20-September 17, 1920, Formation of the American Professional Football Association August 20-November 2, 1920, Radio Broadcasting Begins August 26, 1920, U.S. Women Gain the Right to Vote September 8, 1920, U.S. Post Office Begins Transcontinental Airmail Delivery November 20, 1920, Formation of Qantas Airlines December 13, 1920, Michelson Measures the Diameter of a Star December 13, 1920, Permanent Court of International Justice Is Established December 29, 1920, General Motors Institutes a Multidivisional Structure December 29, 1920, Rise of the French Communist Party 1921, Boulanger Takes Copland as a Student 1921, First Woman Elected to Australian Parliament 1921, Larson Constructs the First Modern Polygraph 1921, Man Ray Creates the Rayograph 1921, Noether Publishes the Theory of Ideals in Rings 1921, Sweden Abolishes Capital Punishment 1921, Tuberculosis Vaccine BCG Is Developed 1921, Wittgenstein Emerges as an Important Philosopher 1921-1922, Banting and Best Isolate the Hormone Insulin 1921-1923, Famine in Russia Claims Millions of Lives 1921-1923, Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk Reflects Postwar Disillusionment 1921-1923, Scandals of the Harding Administration 1921-1923, Schoenberg Develops His Twelve-Tone System 1921-1924, Ku Klux Klan Spreads Terror in the American South 1921-1948, King Era in Canada March, 1921, Lenin Announces the New Economic Policy March 18, 1921, Poland Secures Independence March 20, 1921, Plebiscite Splits Upper Silesia Between Poland and Germany May 10, 1921, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author Premieres May 19, 1921, Emergency Quota Act August, 1921, Moplah Rebellion September 8, 1921, First Miss America Is Crowned November 11, 1921, Harding Eulogizes the Unknown Soldier November 11-13, 1921, and March 25-31, 1925, Sanger Organizes Conferences on Birth Control November 12, 1921-February 6, 1922, Washington Disarmament Conference November 23, 1921-June 30, 1929, Sheppard-Towner Act 1922, Eliot Publishes The Waste Land 1922, First Major U.S. Shopping Center Opens 1922, First Meeting of the Vienna Circle 1922, McCollum Names Vitamin D and Pioneers Its Use Against Rickets January, 1922, Izaak Walton League Is Formed February, 1922, Reader's Digest Is Founded February 2, 1922, Joyce's Ulysses Redefines Modern Fiction April 16, 1922, Treaty of Rapallo June, 1922, New Wimbledon Tennis Stadium Is Dedicated July 24, 1922, League of Nations Establishes Mandate for Palestine September 22, 1922, Cable Act October 24-30, 1922, Mussolini's "March on Rome" November 4, 1922, Carter Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamen November 13, 1922, Ozawa v. United States December 10, 1922, Nansen Wins the Nobel Peace Prize December 14, 1922, Oil Is Discovered in Venezuela 1923, A. C. Nielsen Company Pioneers in Marketing and Media Research 1923, Andrews Expedition Discovers the First Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs 1923, Buber Breaks New Ground in Religious Philosophy 1923, De Broglie Explains the Wave-Particle Duality of Light 1923, Discovery of the Compton Effect 1923, Federal Power Commission Disallows Kings River Dams 1923, Germans Barter for Goods in Response to Hyperinflation 1923, Kahn Develops a Modified Syphilis Test 1923, The Ten Commandments Advances American Film Spectacle 1923-1939, Cambridge Ancient History Appears January 11, 1923-August 16, 1924, France Occupies the Ruhr February 15, 1923, Bessie Smith Records "Downhearted Blues" March 3, 1923, Luce Founds Time Magazine March 5, 1923, Nevada and Montana Introduce Old-Age Pensions March 14, 1923, American Management Association Is Established April 9, 1923, U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Minimum Wage Laws Summer, 1923, Zdansky Discovers Peking Man June 26, 1923, Oklahoma Imposes Martial Law in Response to KKK Violence August 27-September 29, 1923, Corfu Crisis September 1, 1923, Earthquake Rocks Japan October, 1923, Teapot Dome Scandal October 1, 1923, Great Britain Grants Self-Government to Southern Rhodesia October 18, 1923, Stravinsky Completes His Wind Octet November 8, 1923, Beer Hall Putsch December 10, 1923, Proposal of the Equal Rights Amendment December 29, 1923, Zworykin Applies for Patent on an Early Type of Television 1924, Hubble Determines the Distance to the Andromeda Nebula 1924, Mann's The Magic Mountain Reflects European Crisis 1924, Soviets Establish a Society for the Protection of Nature 1924, Steenbock Discovers Sunlight Increases Vitamin D in Food 1924, Svedberg Develops the Ultracentrifuge 1924, U.S. Government Loses Its Suit Against Alcoa 1924-1932, Hawthorne Studies Examine Human Productivity 1924-1976, Howard Hughes Builds a Business Empire January 25-February 5, 1924, First Winter Olympic Games February, 1924, IBM Changes Its Name and Product Line February 12, 1924, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Premieres in New York March, 1924, Eddington Formulates the Mass-Luminosity Law for Stars March 31, 1924, Formation of the Blue Four Advances Abstract Painting May 21, 1924, Farmers Dynamite the Los Angeles Aqueduct May 26, 1924, Immigration Act of 1924 May 28, 1924, U.S. Congress Establishes the Border Patrol June 2, 1924, Indian Citizenship Act June 3, 1924, Gila Wilderness Area Is Designated June 7, 1924, Oil Pollution Act Sets Penalties for Polluters Summer, 1924, Dart Discovers the First Australopithecine Fossil September 1, 1924, Dawes Plan October, 1924, Surrealism Is Born October 21, 1924, Halibut Treaty November 4, 1924, Coolidge Is Elected U.S. President December, 1924, Hubble Shows That Other Galaxies Are Independent Systems December 4, 1924, Von Stroheim's Silent Masterpiece Greed Premieres December 10, 1924, Hoover Becomes the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Investigation 1925, The City Initiates the Study of Urban Ecology 1925, Cranbrook Academy Promotes the Arts and Crafts Movement 1925, Eisenstein's Potemkin Introduces New Film Editing Techniques 1925, Gide's The Counterfeiters Questions Moral Absolutes 1925, Hamilton Publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States 1925, McKinsey Founds a Management Consulting Firm 1925, New Objectivity Movement Is Introduced 1925, Sears, Roebuck Opens Its First Retail Outlet 1925, Whipple Discovers Importance of Iron for Red Blood Cells 1925, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Explores Women's Consciousness 1925-1926, Mussolini Seizes Dictatorial Powers in Italy 1925-1927, Gance's Napoléon Revolutionizes Filmmaking Techniques 1925-1935, Women's Rights in India Undergo a Decade of Change 1925-1979, Pahlavi Shahs Attempt to Modernize Iran January 1, 1925, Bell Labs Is Formed January 5, 1925, First Female Governor in the United States February 2, 1925, U.S. Congress Authorizes Private Carriers for Airmail February 21, 1925, Ross Founds The New Yorker February 28, 1925, Corrupt Practices Act Limits Political Contributions Spring, 1925, Pauli Formulates the Exclusion Principle April, 1925-May, 1927, German Expedition Discovers the Mid-Atlantic Ridge April 10, 1925, Fitzgerald Captures the Roaring Twenties in The Great Gatsby May-June, 1925, Paris Exhibition Defines Art Deco May 1, 1925, Cyprus Becomes a British Crown Colony May 5, 1925, Japan Introduces Suffrage for Men May 17, 1925, Thérèse of Lisieux Is Canonized June 17, 1925, Geneva Protocol Is Signed June 26, 1925, Chaplin Produces His Masterpiece The Gold Rush July 10-21, 1925, Scopes Trial July 18, 1925-December 11, 1926, Mein Kampf Outlines Nazi Thought August 7, 1925, West African Student Union Is Founded August 14, 1925, Norway Annexes Svalbard September 30, 1925, Chesterton Critiques Modernism and Defends Christianity October, 1925, Germany Attempts to Restructure the Versailles Treaty October-December, 1925, Baker Dances in La Revue nègre October 23, 1925, Greece Invades Bulgaria November, 1925, Armstrong Records with the Hot Five November 28, 1925, WSM Launches The Grand Ole Opry December 14, 1925, Berg's Wozzeck Premieres in Berlin 1926, Vernadsky Publishes The Biosphere 1926-1927, Mail-Order Clubs Revolutionize Book Sales 1926-1949, Chinese Civil War March 16, 1926, Launching of the First Liquid-Fueled Rocket May, 1926, Durant Publishes The Story of Philosophy May 3-12, 1926, British Workers Launch General Strike May 12-15, 1926, Pi{lstrok}sudski Seizes Power in Poland May 20, 1926, Air Commerce Act Creates a Federal Airways System May 20, 1926, Railway Labor Act Provides for Mediation of Labor Disputes July, 1926, Eddington Publishes The Internal Constitution of the Stars July 18, 1926, Treaty of Ankara August, 1926-September, 1928, Warner Bros. Introduces Talking Motion Pictures August 6, 1926, Ederle Swims the English Channel September 9, 1926, National Broadcasting Company Is Founded September 25, 1926, League of Nations Adopts International Slavery Convention October 22, 1926, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Speaks for the Lost Generation December, 1926, Keaton's The General Is Released 1927, Heidegger Publishes Being and Time 1927, Kuleshov and Pudovkin Introduce Montage to Filmmaking 1927, Lang Expands the Limits of Filmmaking with Metropolis 1927, Lemaître Proposes the Big Bang Theory 1927, Number of U.S. Automakers Falls to Forty-Four 1927, Oort Proves the Spiral Structure of the Milky Way 1927, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Is Established January 1, 1927, British Broadcasting Corporation Is Chartered February-March, 1927, Heisenberg Articulates the Uncertainty Principle February 21, 1927, Eastman Kodak Is Found to Be in Violation of the Sherman Act February 25, 1927, McFadden Act Regulates Branch Banking May, 1927, Indiana Dunes Are Preserved as a State Park May 17, 1927, Monet's Water Lilies Are Shown at the Musée de L'Orangerie May 20, 1927, Lindbergh Makes the First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight July 17, 1927, Brecht and Weill Collaborate on the Mahagonny Songspiel August 4, 1927, Rodgers Cuts His First Record for RCA Victor August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed October 6, 1927, The Jazz Singer Premieres as the First "Talkie" December 4, 1927, Ellington Begins Performing at the Cotton Club December 27, 1927, Show Boat Is the First American Musical to Emphasize Plot 1928, Buñuel and Dalí Champion Surrealism in An Andalusian Dog 1928, Bush Builds the First Differential Analyzer 1928, Smith-Hoover Campaign 1928-1932, Szent-Györgyi Discovers Vitamin C January, 1928, Papanicolaou Develops a Test for Diagnosing Uterine Cancer March, 1928, Muslim Brotherhood Is Founded in Egypt March 19, 1928, Amos 'n' Andy Radio Show Goes on the Air May 11, 1928, Sound Technology Revolutionizes the Motion-Picture Industry May 15, 1928, Australia Begins the Flying Doctor Service May 18, 1928, Shakhty Case Debuts Show Trials in Moscow Summer, 1928, Gamow Explains Radioactive Alpha Decay with Quantum Tunneling July 2, 1928, Great Britain Lowers the Voting Age for Women August, 1928, Mead Publishes Coming of Age in Samoa August 27, 1928, Kellogg-Briand Pact September, 1928, Fleming Discovers Penicillin in Molds September 17, 1928, Oil Companies Cooperate in a Cartel Covering the Middle East October 1, 1928, Stalin Introduces Central Planning December 10, 1928, Undset Accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature 1929, Baylor Plan Introduces Prepaid Hospital Care 1929, Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical Film 1929, Hubble Confirms the Expanding Universe 1929, Loewy Pioneers American Industrial Design 1929-1930, The Bedbug and The Bathhouse Exemplify Revolutionary Theater 1929-1938, Berger Studies the Human Electroencephalogram 1929-1940, Maginot Line Is Built January, 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front Stresses the Futility of War January, 1929, Trotsky Is Sent into Exile February 11, 1929, Lateran Treaty February 14, 1929, Valentine's Day Massacre February 17, 1929, League of United Latin American Citizens Is Founded May 16, 1929, First Academy Awards Honor Film Achievement June 3-August 28, 1929, Tacna-Arica Compromise June 15, 1929, Agricultural Marketing Act July, 1929, Drinker and Shaw Develop a Mechanical Respirator July, 1929-July, 1931, Gödel Proves Incompleteness-Inconsistency for Formal Systems August 23, 1929, Western Wall Riots September, 1929-January, 1930, The Maltese Falcon Introduces the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel October 7, 1929, The Sound and the Fury Launches Faulkner's Career October 24-29, 1929, U.S. Stock Market Crashes October 29, 1929-1939, Great Depression November 8, 1929, New York's Museum of Modern Art Opens to the Public November 19, 1929, Serengeti Game Reserve Is Created Winter, 1929-1930, Schmidt Invents the Corrector for the Schmidt Camera and Telescope Early 1930's, Mass Deportations of Mexicans 1930's, Americans Embrace Radio Entertainment 1930's, Guthrie's Populist Songs Reflect the Depression-Era United States 1930's, Hindemith Advances Music as a Social Activity 1930's, Hollywood Enters Its Golden Age 1930's, Invention of the Slug Rejector Spreads Use of Vending Machines 1930's, Jung Develops Analytical Psychology 1930's, Wolman Begins Investigating Water and Sewage Systems 1930's-1940's, Studio System Dominates Hollywood Filmmaking 1930, Dutch Elm Disease Arrives in the United States 1930, Lyot's Coronagraph Allows Observation of the Sun's Outer Atmosphere 1930, Zinsser Develops an Immunization Against Typhus 1930-1931, Pauling Develops His Theory of the Chemical Bond 1930-1932, Jansky's Experiments Lead to Radio Astronomy 1930-1935, Von Sternberg Makes Dietrich a Superstar February, 1930, Crane Publishes The Bridge February, 1930, Luce Founds Fortune Magazine February 18, 1930, Tombaugh Discovers Pluto March 12-April 5, 1930, Gandhi Leads the Salt March March 31, 1930-1931, Hawk's Nest Tunnel Construction Leads to Disaster April, 1930, Midgley Introduces Dichlorodifluoromethane as a Refrigerant Gas April 2, 1930, Haile Selassie Is Crowned Emperor of Ethiopia May 30, 1930, Canadian National Parks Act June 6, 1930-August 27, 1934, First Manned Bathysphere Dives June 17, 1930, Hoover Signs the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Summer, 1930, Nation of Islam Is Founded August, 1930, Lambeth Conference Allows Artificial Contraception August, 1930-1935, Bennett Era in Canada August 29, 1930, Japanese American Citizens League Is Founded September, 1930, Auden's Poems Speak for a Generation September 8, 1930, Canada Enacts Depression-Era Relief Legislation September 27, 1930, First Grand Slam of Golf December, 1930, Du Pont Introduces Freon December 11, 1930, Bank of United States Fails 1931, Karloff and Lugosi Become Kings of Horror 1931, Ultramares Case Establishes Liability for Auditors 1931-1932, Gangster Films Become Popular 1931-1935, Chandrasekhar Calculates the Upper Limit of a White Dwarf Star's Mass 1931-1941, The Group Theatre Flourishes January 2, 1931, Lawrence Develops the Cyclotron March 5, 1931, India Signs the Delhi Pact March 19, 1931, Nevada Legalizes Gambling Spring, 1931, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye Exemplifies Functionalist Architecture March 25, 1931-July, 1937, Scottsboro Trials April, 1931, First Electron Microscope Is Constructed April 14, 1931, Second Spanish Republic Is Proclaimed May 1, 1931, Empire State Building Opens May 8, 1931, Credit-Anstalt Bank of Austria Fails May 27, 1931, Piccard Travels to the Stratosphere by Balloon July, 1931, Yellow River Flood July 26, 1931, International Bible Students Association Becomes Jehovah's Witnesses November 17, 1931, Whitney Museum of American Art Opens in New York December 11, 1931, Formation of the British Commonwealth of Nations 1932, Berle and Means Discuss Corporate Control 1932, Céline's Journey to the End of the Night Expresses Interwar Cynicism 1932, Gilson's Spirit of Medieval Philosophy Reassesses Christian Thought 1932-1935, Domagk Discovers That Sulfonamides Can Save Lives 1932-1940, Development of Negritude January-February, 1932, El Salvador's Military Massacres Civilians January 7, 1932, Stimson Doctrine January 22, 1932, Reconstruction Finance Corporation Is Created February, 1932, Chadwick Discovers the Neutron March 9, 1932, De Valera Is Elected President of the Irish Dáil March 19, 1932, Dedication of the Sydney Harbour Bridge March 23, 1932, Norris-La Guardia Act Strengthens Labor Organizations April, 1932, Cockcroft and Walton Split the Atom April 23, 1932, Stalin Restricts Soviet Composers April 23, 1932-August, 1934, Socialist Realism Is Mandated in Soviet Literature May 20-21, 1932, First Transatlantic Solo Flight by a Woman July 3, 1932, Jooss's Antiwar Dance The Green Table Premieres July 18, 1932, St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty July 21-August 21, 1932, Ottawa Agreements July 28, 1932, Bonus March August 1, 1932, Canada's First Major Socialist Movement September, 1932, Anderson Discovers the Positron September 25, 1932, Poona Pact Grants Representation to India's Untouchables October, 1932, Wright Founds the Taliesin Fellowship November, 1932, Antitrust Prosecution Forces RCA to Restructure November 8, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt Is Elected U.S. President December, 1932-Spring, 1934, Great Famine Strikes the Soviet Union Winter, 1932, Huxley's Brave New World Forecasts Technological Totalitarianism 1933, Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career 1933, Forty-Second Street Defines 1930's Film Musicals 1933, Kallet and Schlink Publish 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs 1933-1934, First Artificial Radioactive Element Is Developed January 2, 1933, Coward's Design for Living Epitomizes the 1930's January 23, 1933, Italy Creates the Industrial Reconstruction Institute January 30, 1933, Hitler Comes to Power in Germany February 24, 1933, Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations February 27, 1933, Reichstag Fire February 28, 1933, Perkins Becomes First Woman Secretary of Labor March, 1933, Nazi Concentration Camps Begin Operating March 4, 1933-1945, Good Neighbor Policy March 9-June 16, 1933, The Hundred Days March 23, 1933, Enabling Act of 1933 April 5, 1933, U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps Is Established May 18, 1933, Tennessee Valley Authority Is Created June 16, 1933, Banking Act of 1933 Reorganizes the American Banking System June 16, 1933, Roosevelt Signs the National Industrial Recovery Act July 6, 1933, First Major League Baseball All-Star Game August 2, 1933, Soviets Open the White Sea-Baltic Canal August 11-13, 1933, Iraqi Army Slaughters Assyrian Christians September, 1933, Marshall Writes The People's Forests September 8, 1933, Work Begins on the Grand Coulee Dam Fall, 1933-October 20, 1949, Lewis Convenes the Inklings October 18, 1933, Roosevelt Creates the Commodity Credit Corporation November-December, 1933, Fermi Proposes the Neutrino Theory of Beta Decay November 16, 1933, United States Recognizes Russia's Bolshevik Regime December 8, 1933, Canonization of Bernadette Soubirous December 17, 1933, End of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama's Rule 1934, Benedict Publishes Patterns of Culture 1934, Discovery of the Cherenkov Effect 1934, Lubitsch's The Merry Widow Opens New Vistas for Film Musicals 1934, Soviet Union Bans Abstract Art 1934, Squier Founds Muzak 1934, Toynbee's Metahistorical Approach Sparks Debate 1934, Zwicky and Baade Propose a Theory of Neutron Stars 1934-1935, Hitchcock Becomes Synonymous with Suspense 1934-1938, Production Code Gives Birth to Screwball Comedy 1934-1939, Dust Bowl Devastates the Great Plains 1934-1945, Radar Is Developed February, 1934, Rivera's Rockefeller Center Mural Is Destroyed February 6, 1934, Stavisky Riots March 16, 1934, Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act March 24, 1934, Philippine Independence Act May 23, 1934 @T2 = Police Apprehend Bonnie and Clyde, Securities and Exchange Commission Is Established June 10, 1934, Federal Communications Commission Is Established by Congress June 18, 1934, Indian Reorganization Act June 26, 1934, Federal Credit Union Act June 28, 1934, Taylor Grazing Act June 30-July 2, 1934, Great Blood Purge September 1, 1934, Miller's Tropic of Cancer Stirs Controversy Fall, 1934-May 6, 1953, Gibbon Develops the Heart-Lung Machine October 16, 1934-October 18, 1935, Mao's Long March October 19, 1934, Marshall and Leopold Form the Wilderness Society November, 1934, Yukawa Proposes the Existence of Mesons December, 1934, Stalin Begins the Purge Trials December 1, 1934, Goodman Begins His Let's Dance Broadcasts December 6, 1934, Balanchine's Serenade Inaugurates American Ballet December 29, 1934, Japan Renounces Disarmament Treaties 1935, Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes 1935, Penguin Develops a Line of Paperback Books 1935-1936, Turing Invents the Universal Turing Machine January, 1935, Richter Develops a Scale for Measuring Earthquake Strength January, 1935, Schiaparelli's Boutique Mingles Art and Fashion February, 1935-October 27, 1938, Carothers Invents Nylon February 12, 1935, Exhibition of American Abstract Painting Opens in New York February 19, 1935, Odets's Awake and Sing! Becomes a Model for Protest Drama February 27, 1935, Temple Receives a Special Academy Award April 8, 1935, Works Progress Administration Is Established April 15, 1935, Arbitration Affirms National Responsibility for Pollution April 27, 1935, Soil Conservation Service Is Established May 27, 1935, Black Monday June 10, 1935, Formation of Alcoholics Anonymous July, 1935, Tansley Proposes the Term "Ecosystem" July 5, 1935, Wagner Act August 14, 1935, Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act August 23, 1935, Banking Act of 1935 Centralizes U.S. Monetary Control August 29, 1935-June 30, 1939, Federal Theatre Project Promotes Live Theater August 31, 1935-November 4, 1939, Neutrality Acts September 6, 1935, Top Hat Establishes the Astaire-Rogers Dance Team October 10, 1935, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Opens in New York October 11, 1935-July 15, 1936, League of Nations Applies Economic Sanctions Against Italy October 23, 1935-November 15, 1948, King Returns to Power in Canada November-December, 1935, Egas Moniz Develops the Prefrontal Lobotomy November 5, 1935, Armstrong Demonstrates FM Radio Broadcasting November 10, 1935, Congress of Industrial Organizations Is Founded November 27, 1935, New Zealand's First Labour Party Administration 1936, Lehmann Discovers the Earth's Inner Core 1936, Müller Invents the Field Emission Microscope 1936-1946, France Nationalizes Its Banking and Industrial Sectors January-March, 1936, Consumers Union of the United States Emerges January 1, 1936, Ford Foundation Is Established January 26, 1936, Tudor's Jardin aux lilas Premieres in London January 28, 1936, Soviets Condemn Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District February 4, 1936, Darling Founds the National Wildlife Federation February 4, 1936, Keynes Proposes Government Management of the Economy February 17, 1936, Corporatism Comes to Paraguay March 7, 1936, German Troops March into the Rhineland March 11, 1936, Boulder Dam Is Completed April 15, 1936-1939, Great Uprising of Arabs in Palestine June 19, 1936, Robinson-Patman Act Restricts Price Discrimination June 25, 1936, The DC-3 Opens a New Era of Air Travel July 17, 1936, Spanish Civil War Begins August 1-16, 1936, Germany Hosts the Summer Olympics August 2-18, 1936, Claretian Martyrs Are Executed in Spain November, 1936, Carnegie Redefines Self-Help Literature November 2, 1936, BBC Airs the First High-Definition Television Program November 11, 1936, Reciprocal Trade Act November 23, 1936, Fluorescent Lighting Is Introduced November 23, 1936, Luce Launches Life Magazine November 25, 1936, Germany and Japan Sign the Anti-Comintern Pact December, 1936, Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace December 10, 1936, Edward VIII Abdicates the British Throne 1937, Dreyfuss Designs the Bell 300 Telephone 1937, Prouvé Pioneers Architectural Prefabrication 1937-1938, Aalto Designs Villa Mairea 1937-1939, Renoir's Films Explore Social and Political Themes January-September, 1937, Segrè Identifies the First Artificial Element January, 1937-February, 1940, Adams Lobbies Congress to Preserve Kings Canyon January 6, 1937, Embargo on Arms to Spain February 5-July 22, 1937, Supreme Court-Packing Fight March, 1937, Delaware River Project Begins March, 1937, Krebs Describes the Citric Acid Cycle March 14, 1937, Pius XI Urges Resistance Against Nazism April 1, 1937, Britain Separates Burma from India April 26, 1937, Raids on Guernica May 6, 1937, Hindenburg Dirigible Bursts into Flames May 26, 1937, Egypt Joins the League of Nations May 27, 1937, Golden Gate Bridge Opens June, 1937, Theiler Develops a Treatment for Yellow Fever June-September, 1937, Reber Builds the First Intentional Radio Telescope June 2, 1937, Berg's Lulu Opens in Zurich July, 1937, Picasso Exhibits Guernica July 7, 1937, China Declares War on Japan July 19-November 30, 1937, Nazi Germany Hosts the Degenerate Art Exhibition August 17, 1937, Miller-Tydings Act Legalizes Retail Price Maintenance September, 1937, Tolkien Redefines Fantasy Literature September 2, 1937, Pittman-Robertson Act Provides State Wildlife Funding Fall, 1937-Winter, 1938, Weidenreich Reconstructs the Face of Peking Man October, 1937, The Diary of a Country Priest Inspires American Readers December, 1937-February, 1938, Rape of Nanjing December 21, 1937, Disney Releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1938, Barnard Publishes The Functions of the Executive 1938, Callendar Connects Industry with Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide 1938, Hofmann Synthesizes the Potent Psychedelic Drug LSD-25 1938, John Muir Trail Is Completed 1938-1950, Golden Age of American Science Fiction January, 1938, Kapitsa Explains Superfluidity February 4, 1938, Our Town Opens on Broadway February 10, 1938, Fannie Mae Promotes Home Ownership February 12-April 10, 1938, The Anschluss March 3, 1938, Rise of Commercial Oil Industry in Saudi Arabia March 18, 1938, Mexico Nationalizes Foreign Oil Properties March 21, 1938, Wheeler-Lea Act Broadens FTC Control over Advertising April, 1938, Cerletti and Bini Use Electroshock to Treat Schizophrenia April 5, 1938, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Debuts May 26, 1938, HUAC Is Established June 7, 1938, Chinese Forces Break Yellow River Levees June 21, 1938, Natural Gas Act June 25, 1938, Fair Labor Standards Act June 25, 1938, Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act July 6-15, 1938, Evian Conference September 17, 1938, First Grand Slam of Tennis September 29-30, 1938, Munich Conference October 5, 1938, Death of Maria Faustina Kowalska October 22, 1938, Carlson and Kornei Make the First Xerographic Photocopy October 30, 1938, Welles Broadcasts The War of the Worlds November 9-10, 1938, Kristallnacht December, 1938, Hahn Splits the Uranium Atom December 10, 1938, Buck Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature 1939, Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique 1939, Ford Defines the Western in Stagecoach 1939, Müller Discovers the Insecticidal Properties of DDT 1939-1945, Nazi Extermination of the Jews 1939-1949, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys Define Bluegrass Music January 2, 1939, Marian Anderson Is Barred from Constitution Hall February 15, 1939, Oppenheimer Calculates the Nature of Black Holes March 2, 1939, Pius XII Becomes Pope March 31, 1939, Sherlock Holmes Film Series Begins April, 1939, The Grapes of Wrath Portrays Depression-Era America April 7, 1939, Italy Invades and Annexes Albania April 30, 1939, American Television Debuts at the World's Fair May 16, 1939, First U.S. Food Stamp Program Begins June 12, 1939, Dedication of the Baseball Hall of Fame Summer, 1939, Stalin Suppresses the Russian Orthodox Church August, 1939, United States Begins Mobilization for World War II August 17, 1939, The Wizard of Oz Premieres August 23-24, 1939, Nazi-Soviet Pact September 1, 1939, Germany Invades Poland September 10, 1939, Canada Enters World War II November 1, 1939, Rockefeller Center Is Completed November 30, 1939-March 12, 1940, Russo-Finnish War December 15, 1939, Gone with the Wind Premieres 1940, García Lorca's Poet in New York Is Published 1940, Wright's Native Son Depicts Racism in America 1940-1941, Moore's Subway Sketches Record War Images April-May, 1940, Soviets Massacre Polish Prisoners of War April 9, 1940, Germany Invades Norway May, 1940, Florey and Chain Develop Penicillin as an Antibiotic May, 1940, Roosevelt Uses Business Leaders for World War II Planning May 10-June 22, 1940, Collapse of France May 16, 1940-1944, Gypsies Are Exterminated in Nazi Death Camps May 26-June 4, 1940, Evacuation of Dunkirk June 14, 1940, United States Begins Building a Two-Ocean Navy June 30, 1940, Congress Centralizes Regulation of U.S. Commercial Air Traffic July 1, 1940, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Is Formed July 10-October 31, 1940, Battle of Britain August, 1940, Japan Announces the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere August 3, 1940-March, 1941, Italy Invades British Somaliland August 16, 1940, Ogdensburg Agreement September, 1940, Japan Occupies Indochinese Ports September 1, 1940, First Color Television Broadcast September 12, 1940, Lascaux Cave Paintings Are Discovered September 13, 1940, Italy Invades Egypt November 7, 1940, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses November 13, 1940, Disney's Fantasia Premieres December, 1940, Koestler Examines the Dark Side of Communism December 30, 1940, Arroyo Seco Freeway Opens in Los Angeles Appendixes: Bibliography Electronic Resources Chronological List of Entries Geographical Index Category Index Indexes: Personages Index Subject Index |
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