25. 1898 U.S.
declares war on
Spain.
Battle of Manila Bay: U.S.
annexes
Hawaii,
American forces invade Puerto Rico. Treaty
of Paris ends the Spanish-American
War. 1899 U.S. annexes Guam,
the Philippines,
and Puerto
Rico. . Kate
Chopin
(1851-1904): The
Awakening 1900 Theodore Dreiser
(1871-1945): Sister
Carrie 1901 World
Fair in
Paris 26. 1901 Theodore
Roosevelt
26th President of the U.S. 1902 Europe: 1903 Wright
Brothers
fly the first successful
airplane. . Henry
James
(1843-1916): The
Ambassadors 1904 Construction of
Panama Canal begins. 1905 Einstein proposes
Theory of Relativity. 1906 Upton Sinclair
(1878-1968): The
Jungle 1907 US invades
Nicaragua. . Popular
Culture: 1908 Ford's
Model
T
(1908-27). The General Motors Corporation
formed. 27. 1909 William
Howard Taft
27th President of the U.S. (till 1913) . Ezra
Pound
(1885-1972): Personae 1910 Mark Twain and Leo
Tolstoi die. 1911 Music: 1912 The
Titanic
sinks on her maiden voyage. . Edgar
Rice Burroughs
(1857-1950): Tarzan
of the Apes 28.
1913 Woodrow
Wilson is
elected president in the U. S. . Music: 1914 Assassination of
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of
Austria-Hungary in Sarajewo leads to World
War I (1914-19). .19.1.4 Gertrude
Stein
(1874-1946): Tender
Buttons 1915 Arthur Miller
born. 1916 William E. Boeing,
a Seattle timber baron, establishes the
Boeing Airplane Company with a contract to
build 50 planes for the Navy. . Ezra
Pound
(1885-1972): In a station of the
Metro 1917 The Germans begin
all out submarine warfare. 1918 Germany
surrenders. 1919 Treaty
of Versailles
ends World War I. 1920 League of Nations
is established in Geneva. 29. 1921 Warren
G. Harding
US president till 1923 1922 Fascists take power
in Italy (Mussolini). 19.22 T.
S. Eliot
(1888-1965): The Waste Land 30. "Modernism" 1923 Calvin
Coolidge US
president till 1929. . Music: 1924 US army intervenes
in Honduras elections. . Music: 1925 Hitler founds Nazi
party in Germany. Ku
Klux Klan
reaches a membership of 4 000
000. 1925 Europe: 1926 General
Strike in
Britain. . Ernest
Hemingway
(1899-1961): Fiesta (The Sun Also
Rises) 1927 Charles
Lindbergh
flies non-stop from New York to Paris in
the "Spirit of St. Louis." . Europe: 1928 Heisenberg:
Uncertainty Principle . Eugene
O'Neill
(1888-1953): Strange Interlude 31. 1929 Leon
Trotsky
(1879-1940) is exiled from the
U.S.S.R. . William
Faulkner
(1897-1962): The Sound and the Fury 1930 Dashiell
Hammett (1894-1961):
The Maltese Falcon 1931 7 years' drought
begins in Oklahoma ("Dust
Bowl")
. Eugene
O'Neill (1888-1953):
Mourning Becomes Electra 1932 Erskine
Caldwell
(1903-87): Tobacco Road 32. Music:
Big
Bands and Swing 1933 Italy invades
Ethopia. . Film: 1934 Farm families leave
dust
bowl-stricken
Great Plains and move west to California.
1935 Zora
Neale Hurston
(1901-60): Mules and Men 1936 Jesse Owens wins
four gold medals in track-and-field at the
1936 Olympics in Berlin . Margaret Mitchell
(1900-1949): Gone with the Wind 1937 German bombers
under Franco attack civilians in Guernica
in The Spanish Civil War. . John
Steinbeck
(1902-1968): Of Mice and Men 1938 Orson
Welles'
(1915-1985) radio production of H.G.
Wells' War of the Worlds causes a
national panic 1939 Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression
Pact. . John
Steinbeck
(1902-1968): The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Battle of Britain,
London Blitz. . Ernest
Hemingway
(1899-1961): For Whom the Bell
Tolls. 1941 Japan launches a
surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor. US
declares
war on Japan.
US
declares war on
Germany. 1941 John
Crowe Ransom
(1888-1974): The New Criticism 1942 Thornton
Wilder
(1897-1975): The Skin of our Teeth 1943 Film: 1944 Russians break the
siege of Leningrad. . Tennessee
Williams
(1911-1983): The Glass
Menagerie The
Cold War 1945 U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. Mussolini
killed. Germany surrenders. Europe: 1946 Nürnberg
War Crimes Trial. . Eugene
O'Neill (1888-1953):
The Iceman Cometh 1947 . David Mamet
born. 1948 Berlin
Airlift . Norman
Mailer
(1923-): The Naked and the
Dead 1949 Arthur
Miller
(1915-): Death of a Salesman
(concordance) 1950 Korean
War
(1950-53). 1951 Color television is
introduced in the U.S. .. Jermome
D. Salinger
(1919-): The Catcher in the Rye 1952 Ernest
Hemingway
(1899-1961): The Old Man and the
Sea; 34. The
Literature and Culture of the American
1950s "The
Beat Generation" 1953 General
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
is elected president of the United
States. .. Alfred C.
Kinsey:
Sexual Behavior in the Human
Female 1954 The French leave
Vietnam.
Vietnam is divided. .. Hollywood
Blacklist
of "Un-American" actors. Walt Disney's
testimony. 1955 Sputnik
launched. 195.5 Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977): Lolita. (GB
edition) 1956 Hungarian
Revolt.
Arthur Miller marries Marilyn Monroe. . Eugene
O'Neill (1888-1953):
A Long Day's Journey Into Night 1957 Suez Crisis. . Arthur
Miller
(1915-): Collected Plays published. 1958 Nikita Khrushchev
General Secretary of the USSR. . Truman
Capote
(1924-1984): Breakfast at Tiffany's 1959 Cuban
Revolution
completed: Dictator Batista escapes to US
on 1 January 1959. . William
S. Burroughs
(1914-): Naked Lunch 1959 Mattel introduces
Barbie
Dolls 1960 Civil
Rights Movement:
sit-ins 1960 Edward
Albee
(1928-): The American Dream 1961 John
F. Kennedy
president of the US. . Joseph
Heller
(1923-99): Catch 22 1962 J.F. Kennedy:
The
Space Challenge. 1962 Edward
Albee
(1928-): Who is Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? 1963 "March on
Washington" by the Civil
Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King: "I have a dream"
speech. . Thomas Pynchon
(1937-): V 36. Hippie
Movement 1964 The Civil Rights
Acts prohibits discrimination based on
race, color, religion, or gender. (NAACP
timeline) . Music: 1965 Capital punishment
abolished in Britain. 1965 Alex Haley: The
Autobiography of Malcolm X 1966 The
Black
Panther
party is founded. . Thomas Pynchon
(1937-): The Crying of Lot 49 1967 Martin Luther King
leads an anti Vietnam protest in New
York. . Norman
Mailer
(1923-): Why Are We in Vietnam? 1968 Assassination of
Martin Luther King in Memphis. Robert
Kennedy killed. . John
Barth
(1930-): Lost in the Funhouse 37. Postmodernism 1969 Richard
M. Nixon president
of the US. Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong the
first man on the moon. . Woodstock
(pop music festival) 1970 My-Lai
Trial.
American forces invade Cambodia. December:
The United States begins withdrawling
troops from Vietnam. . Music: 1971 NASDAQ
Stock Market is born. Trading is executed
through a computer and telecommunication
network that transmits real-time quote and
trade data to more than 1.3 million users
in 83 countries. . John Updike
(1932-): Rabbit Redux 1972 Watergate
scandal in US. Architecture: 1973 Cease-fire in
Vietnam. The last of American forces leave
Vietnam. .. Thomas Pynchon
(1937-): Gravity's Rainbow 1974 Nixon
resigns. .. Film: 38. Music:
Rock 1974 Gerald
Ford (till
1977) 1975 Music: 1976 North and South
Vietnam are united. .. Architecture: 39. 1977 Jimmy
Carter (Democrat)
elected as 39th US president. (till
1981) .. Toni Morrison
(1931-): Song of Solomon 1978 John Irving
(1942-): The World According to
Garp 1979 Margareth
Thatcher
(The "Iron Lady") Conservative Prime
Minister in Great Britain (till 1990) .. Music: 1980 Mount
St. Helens
(volcano eruption). .. Europe: 40. Music:
Hip-Hop 1981 Ronald
Reagan
elected as 40th US president (till
1989) .. John Updike
(1932-): Rabbit Is Rich 1982 .. Alice
Walker
(1944-)The Color Purple 1983 Reagan proposes
Star
Wars . William
Least Heat-Moon,
Blue Highways 1984 Macintosh computer
"Apple" launched . Madonna: Like A
Virgin 1985 -
1991 Michael Gorbachov
General Secretary in USSR 1985 Sam Shepard
(1943-): A Lie of the Mind 1986 Chernobyl
Disaster in USSR 1987 Dow
Jones
(Index launched at 40.94 points in 1896):
October 19th, Black Monday crash, 22.61%
or 508 points. . Toni Morrison
(1931-): Beloved 1988 Salman Rushdie:
The Satanic Verses 41. 1989 George
Bush 41st
American president (till 1993). 9th Nov.:
Berlin Wall comes down. Ayatollah Khomeini
pronounces Fatwa
(death sentence) for Salman Rushdie. 1990 Germany
unified. .. First McDonald's
opened in Russia. 1991 Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty signed in Moscow. Boris
Yeltzin elected as President of Russia.
End of Cold War. The USSR dissolved into
15 nations. Gorbachev resigns as head of
CP .. Douglas
Coupland
(1961-): Generation X 1992 Norman
Mailer
(1923-): Harlot's Ghost 42. 1993 Bill
Clinton
42nd American president 1994 Edward
Albee
(1928-): The Three Tall Women 1995 Dow
Jones
(Index launched at 40.94 points in 1896)
has first-ever close above 5000 in Nov.
21th, nine months after hitting
4000. 1996 5th March:
NASDAQ-100
Indexes start at 100 points 1997 Great Britain:
Antony
Blair (Labour)
PM 1998 Film: 1999 NATO begins
launching air strikes against
Yugoslavia. 2000 Peak of "new
economy": .. Antonio Negri,
Michael Hardt: Empire 43. 2001 George
W. Bush
elected (?) as 43rd president of the US
(50,456,169 votes against Al Gore's
50,996,116) . Jonathan
Franzen
(1959-): The Corrections 2002 War on
Afghanistan 2003 NASDAQ-100
NDX Index (starting at 100 points on 5th
March 1996) at 157 points (03/05). See
the
last 7 years till
today
William
McKinley
Republican,
(1897-1901)
Literature:
Naturalism
Regionalism
United
Fruit
Company founded.
L. Frank Baum: The
Wizard of Oz
U.S. President William McKinley is
assassinated by a mentally ill
anarchist.
Theodore
Roosevelt
26th President of the U.S.
Congress confers U.S. citizenship on all
Native Americans residing in the Oklahoma
Territory.
Theodore
Roosevelt
Republican,
(1901-09)
Congress confers U.S. citizenship on all
Native Americans residing in the Oklahoma
Territory.
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Music:
Scott
Joplin
(1867-1917): Piano Rags
Jack
London
(1876-1916): The Call of the
Wild
W.
E. B. Du Bois
(1877-1963): The
Souls of Black
Folk
Film:
The first silent movie: The
Great Train Robbery
Roosevelt asserts U.S. right to intervene
in Latin America.
Music:
Charles
Yves
(1874-1954): The Unanswered Question;
Central Park in the Dark
The
Ziegfield Follies
(1907-37)
Art:
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973):
Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon
William
Howard Taft
Republican,
(1909-13)
"Modernism"
Modernism
and Experimentation
Music: Ragtime
The National Association for Advancement
of Colored People NAACP
is formed (timeline)
Gertrude
Stein
(1874-1946): Three
Lives
Scott
Joplin
(1867-1917): Treemonisha
Irving Berlin: Alexander's Ragtime
Band
Film:
The Nestor Company opens the first film
studio in the Hollywood area of Los
Angeles
US invades Panama, Honduras,
Cuba.
Woodrow
Wilson
Democrat,
(1913-21)
"Modernism"
Modernism
and Experimentation
Music: New
Orleans Jazz
Segregation introduced officially into the
Federal Government.
Igor Stravinsky: Rite of
Spring
The United States declares itself
officially neutral in World War I (see:
1917)
Construction of Panama Canal
completed.
Ludlow
Massacre
US invades Haiti.
William Christopher Handy (1873 -
1958) St
Louis Blues
June: The United States enters World War I
on the side of the allies. The NAACP
fights and wins the battle to enable
African Americans to be commissioned as
army officers.
October
Revolution:
Victory of the Bolshewists in Russia. The
new Soviet Union signs an armistice with
Germany.
Puerto Ricans are granted United States
citizenship. US invades Cuba (occupation
till 1933)
US invades Panama and maintains a police
force there.
Wilson makes a public statement against
lynching.
State legislatures ratify the 18th
Amendment: prohibition
(more).
Chicago Race Riots.
US army intervenes in Honduras
elections.
Jack Dempsey Heavyweight Boxing Champion
(1919-1926)
The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified
(Women's
suffrage)
The first commercial radio
broadcast
Warren
G. Harding
Republican,
(1921-23)
Music:
Duke
Ellington
(1899-1974) forms band in New York.
Louis
Armstrong
(1901-71) joins King Oliver's (1885 -
1938) Creole
Jazz Band
Calvin
Coolidge
Republican,
(1923-29)
Algonquin
Round Table
"Harlem
Renaissance"
"The
Lost Generation"
Music: Chicago
The
Roaring Twenties
Ziegfield
Follies
Bessie
Smith
(1894-1937): Down Hearted
Blues
George
Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue
"Jelly Roll" Morton (Ferdinand Lemott,
1890 - 1941) and the Red Hot Peppers:
Jelly
Roll Blues
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
US:
Theodore
Dreiser
(1871-1945): An American Tragedy
John
Dos Passos
(1896-1970): Manhatten Transfer
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940): The Great Gatsby
Alain
Locke
(1886-1954): The New Negro
Film:
Charles
Chaplin
(1889-1977): The Gold Rush
Music:
Louis
Armstrong
(1901-71): Louis
Armstrong and his Hot Five
Europe:
Franz Kafka (1883-1924): The
Castle
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Film:
Fritz
Lang
(1890-1976): Metropolis
Music:
Kern/Hammerstein:
Show Boat
(Musical)
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers
penicillin.
Strike of banana plantation workers
against United
Fruit in
Columbia.
Edward Albee born.
Europe:
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's
Lover
Brecht/Weill: Dreigroschenoper
Film:
Walt
Disney's
first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Herbert
Hoover
Republican,(1929-33)
The
Great Depression
Herbert
Hoover
becomes 32nd president of the US.
Black Thursday, October 23rd: The New York
Stock
Market crashes.
On Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th the
Dow
Jones Index
(launched at 40.94 points in 1896) goes
down 12.82% and 11.73% (38.33 and 30.57
points) leading to the Great
Depression
Al
Capone
arrested. Martin Luther King jr.
born.
Dashiell
Hammett (1894-1961):
Red Harvest
Music:
Bessie
Smith
(1894-1937): St. Louis Blues
Thomas
"Fats" Waller
( 1904 - 1943) Ain't
Misbehavin'
William
Faulkner
(1897-1962): As I Lie Dying
Hollywood establishes The
Motion Picture Production
Code
(Hays' Code) on crime, sex, vulgarity
etc.
Charles
Chaplin
(1889-1977): City Lights
Architecture:
Empire
State Building
completed.
Music:
Duke
Ellington
(1899-1974): It Don't Mean A Thing If
It Ain't Got That Swing
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Democrat,
(1933-45)
"Harlem
Renaissance"
The
Great Depression,
New Deal
World
War II
Music: Swing
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
(till 1945): "New
Deal"
The 21st Amendment is added to the
Constitution, repealing Prohibition.
Marx
Brothers:
Duck Soup
Music:
George
Gershwin:
Porgy and Bess
John
Dos Passos
(1896-1970): U.S.A.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955): How to Win
Friends and Influence People
Film:
Marx
Brothers:
A Night at the Opera
Zora
Neale Hurston
(1901-60): Their Eyes Were Watching
God
Art:
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973):
Guernica
Music:
Woody
Guthrie
(1912-67): Dust Bowl
Ballads
Thornton
Wilder
(1897-1975): Our Town
Richard
Wright (1908-1960)
Uncle Tom's Children
Music:
Benny
Goodman
(1909-86): Concert in Carnegie Hall
Sidney
Bechet
(1897-1959): Summertime
Europe:
Sigmund Freud in London.
Germany invades Poland. Beginning of Wold
War II.
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980):
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Raymond
Chandler (1888-1959):
The Big Sleep
Films:
Victor
Fleming
(1883-1949): Gone
with the Wind,
The
Wizard of Oz
Ernst
Lubitsch
(1892-1947): Ninotchka
(with Greta Garbo)
Europe:
James Joyce: Finnegan's
Wake
Trotsky
assassinated in Coyoacan,
Mexico.
Sir
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister (Conservative
Party) till 1945
Raymond
Chandler (1888-1959):
Farewell My Lovely
Richard
Wright (1908-1960)
Native Son
Film:
Charles
Chaplin
(1889-1977): The Great Dictator
Orson
Welles
(1915-1985): Citizen
Kane
John
Ford
(1894-1973), Grapes
of Wrath
Music:
Glen
Miller:
In the Mood
Film:
Walt
Disney:
Fantasia
Music:
Billie
Holiday
(1915-59) God Bless the Child
Louis
Prima
(1911-78) Sing Sing Sing
Langston
Hughes
(1902-67) Shakespeare in Harlem
Ralph
Ellison
(1914-1994) Invisible Man
Film:
Michael
Curtiz
(1886-1962): Casablanca
(with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid
Bergman)
Ernst
Lubitsch
(1892-1947): To
be or not to be
Music:
Bing Crosby: White
Christmas
Sam Wood: For
Whom the Bell Tolls
The Allies land in Normandy (June 6th:
D-Day)
Film:
Billy
Wilder
(1906-2002): Double
Indemnity
Music:
Billie
Holiday
(1915-59) Lover Man
33.
Harry
S. Truman
Democrat,
(1945-53)
Music:
Bebop
US President Harry
S. Truman
authorizes the dropping of the atomic
bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
Yalta
Conference.
Beginning of Cold
War
United
Nations
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Music:
Dmitri Shostakovich: 9th
Symphony
Winston Churchill's Iron
Curtain Speech
Gertrude Stein dies.
Gertrude
Stein
(1874-1946): Reflections
on the Atomic Bomb
Tennessee
Williams
(1911-1983): A Streetcar Named
Desire
Arthur
Miller
(1915-): All My Sons
Music:
Mario
Lanza
performs at the Hollywood Bowl
Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights.
Harry Truman signs an Executive Order
banning racial discrimination by the
Federal government.
Gwendolyn
Brooks
(1917-2000): Annie Allen
Film:
Carol
Reed
(1906-76), The
Third Man
Senator Joseph
R. McCarthy,
a Republican from Wisconsin, claims to
have a list of 205 known communists in the
State Department.
Edward
Teller
tests H-bomb.
Carson
McCullers
(1917-67):The Ballad of the Sad
Cafe
Langston
Hughes
(1902-67), Montage of a Dream
Deferred
John
Steinbeck
(1902-1968): East of Eden
Flannery
O'Connor
(1925-64): Wise Blood
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Republican,
(1953-61)
The
fifties
Music: Rock
'n' Roll
Death of Stalin.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
conquer Everest.
Arthur
Miller
(1915-): The Crucible
Raymond
Chandler (1888-1959):
The Long Goodbye
Saul
Bellow
(1915-): The Adventures of Augie
March
James
Baldwin
(1924-1987) Go, Tell it on the
Mountain
Europe:
Samuel Beckett: An attendant Godot
(French)
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical
Investigations
Music:
Bill
Haley and the
Comets:
Rock around the Clock
USA: Communist
Control Act
Hoover
and the
"Un-Americans"
Strikes of banana plantation workers in
Guatemala and Honduras. Guatemala
coup
(CIA)
Film:
Alfred
Hitchcock
(1899-1980): Rear Window
Rosa
Parks, a
black lady, refuses to give her seat at
the front of the "colored section" of a
bus to a white passenger, defying a
southern custom of the time. In response
to her arrest the Montgomery black
community launches a bus boycott. As newly
elected president of the Montgomery
Improvement Association (MIA), Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr., is leading the
boycott.
Webmaster
born.
Tennessee
Williams
(1911-1983): Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Allen
Ginsberg
(1926-97), "Howl"
Thomas H. Johnson's edition of Emily
Dickinson's poems
Film:
Nicholas
Ray
(1911-79): Rebel
without a Cause
(with James
Dean)
Billy
Wilder
(1906-2002): The
Seven Year Itch
(with Marilyn
Monroe)
Music:
Ray
Charles
(1930-): I Got A Woman
Popular Culture:
Disneyland
opens in Anaheim, California.
Granma sets sail for
Cuba.
Saul
Bellow
(1915-): Seize the Day
Popular Music:
Elvis
Presley
(1935-1977): Love Me
Tender
Sputnik is launched (beginning of "Space
Race")
Arthur
Miller
convicted of contempt of Congress for
refusing to name names to the House
Un-American Activities Committee.
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969): On
the Road
Bernard
Malamud
(1914-1986): The Assistant
Film:
Stanley
Kubrick
(1928-99): Paths
of Glory
Music:
Leonard
Bernstein
(1918-90): West
Side Story
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977):
Lolita. (US edition)
Film:
Alfred
Hitchcock
(1899-1980): Vertigo
Fidel Castro begins agrarian
reform.
Film:
Alfred
Hitchcock
(1899-1980): North by Nortwest.
Billy
Wilder
(1906-2002): Some Like it Hot
Architecture:
Frank
Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959), Guggenheim
Museum
Edward
Albee
(1928-): Zoo
Story,
The Sandbox
Krushchev: Address
to the UN General
Assembly.
Muhammad
Ali
(Cassius Clay) wins light heavyweight gold
medal at the Olympic games.
John
Updike
(1932-): Rabbit, Run
Harper
Lee (1934-)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Flannery
O'Connor
(1925-64): The Violent Bear It
Anyway
Film:
Alfred
Hitchcock
(1899-1980): Psycho
Billy
Wilder
(1906-2002): The
Apartment
35.
John
F. Kennedy
Democrat,
(1961-63)
Us attack at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
fails: Cuba Crisis (1961-62).
The Berlin wall is built.
Yuri
Gagarin
first man in space.
Marilyn
Monroe and
Arthur
Miller
divorced.
Langston
Hughes
(1902-67), The Best of Simple; Ask Your
Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
Film:
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins:
West
Side Story
Billy
Wilder
(1906-2002):
One-Two-Three
American spy planes spot Soviet missile
bases on Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis.
Kennedy: Address
on the Cuban Crisis.
e.e.cummings
dies. Marilyn
Monroe
dies.
Ken
Kesey
(1935-): One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977): Pale
Fire
Marshall Mc Luhan: The Gutenberg
Galaxy
Art:
Andy
Warhol:
Campbell Soup Cans
Pop Music:
Bob
Dylan:
Blowing in the Wind
J. F. Kennedy's visit to Berlin. John F.
Kennedy killed in Dallas, Texas.
Escalation
of the war in
Vietnam.
Robert Frost dies. William Carlos Williams
dies. Sylvia Plath commits
suicide.
Sylvia
Plath
(1932-63): The Bell Jar
Music:
Louis
Armstrong
(1901-71): Hello Dolly
Lyndon
B. Johnson
Democrat,
(1963-69)
The
Sixties
Music: Rock
Martin
Luther King
is awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize
Chuck
Berry
(1926-): Greatest Hits
Film:
Stanley
Kubrick
(1928-99): Dr. Strangelove or How I
Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the
Bomb
First anti-Vietnam war march in
Washington.
Black leader Malcom
X is
assassinated in New York.
T. S. Eliot dies.
Popular Music:
The
Byrds (Bob
Dylan): Mr Tambourine Man.
Bob
Dylan:
Like a Rolling Stone
Film:
Mike
Nichols
(1931-): Who's
Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?
Pop Music:
Beach
Boys:
Good Vibrations
Frank
Zappa
(1940-93): Freak Out
Che Guevara killed in Bolivia.
Film:
Walt
Disney
(1901-66): The Jungle Book
Arthur
Penn
(1922-): Bonnie
and Clyde
Mike
Nichols
(1931-): The
Graduate
Roman
Polanski
(1933-): The Fearless Vampire
Killers
Music:
Summer
of Love in
San Francisco
Jimmy
Hendrix:
Hey Joe, Purple Haze
Beatles: All You Need is Love,
Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane,
Michelle, Yesterday
The Grateful Death: Grateful
Dead (psychedelic Rock)
Jim
Morrison
and The Doors: Light my
Fire
Vietnam War: Massacre in My
Lai.
Prague Spring; Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia.
Revolution
in Paris.
Andy
Warhol
shot.
Tom Wolfe (1931-): The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test
Noam
Chomsky:
Language and Mind.
Music:
Rock Musical Hair
The Beatles: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band
Film:
Stanley
Kubrick
(1928-99): 2001: A Space Odyssey
Roman
Polanski
(1933-): Rosemary's Baby
Richard
M. Nixon
Republican,
(1969-74)
Music: Fusion
(Jazz/Rock)
Rock
John
Lennon /
Yoko Ono: Give Peace a Chance
Janis
Joplin:
Kozmic Blues
Film:
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper:
Easy
Rider
Paul McCartney announces breakup of the
Beatles.
Jimmy
Hendrix and
Janis
Joplin
die.
Pink
Floyd: Atom
Heart Mother
Music:
John
Lennon
(1940-1980): Imagine
Film:
Stanley
Kubrick
(1928-99): A Clockwork Orange
Roman
Polanski
(1933-): Macbeth
Dow
Jones
(Index launched at 40.94 points in 1896):
first close above 1000, called Wall
Street's equivalent of breaking the sound
barrier.
Ezra Pound dies.
Robert
Venturi
(1925-): Learning
from Las Vegas
Music:
Chuck Berry: Johnny B.
Goode
Henry Kissinger wins Nobel Peace
Prize.
Arab Oil Embargo leeds to
Recession.
Film:
George
Lucas
(1944-): American
Graffiti
William
Friedkin
(1935-): The
Exorcist
Roman
Polanski
(1933-): Chinatown
Gerald
Ford
Republican, (1974-77)
Bob
Marley
(1945-1981): No Woman No Cry
Film:
Milos
Forman
(1932-): One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest
Bruce Graham: Sears Tower,
Chicago
Music:
Philipp
Glass:
Einstein on the Beach ("minimal
music")
Film:
Martin
Scorsese:
Taxi Driver
Jimmy
Carter
Democrat,
(1977-81)
Music:
Hip-Hop
disco
New
Wave
Film:
George Lucas: Star
Wars
John Badham: Saturday
Night Fever
Architecture:
Minoru Yamasaki, World
Trade Center,
New York
Music:
Elvis Presley dies
Radioactive Leak at Three Mile
Islands.
Sugar Hills Gang: Rapper's
Delight
Film:
Francis
Ford Coppola
(1939-): Apocalypse
Now,
Ted Turner Establishes CNN
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
Music:
John Lennon killed in New York.
Pink
Floyd:
The Wall
Architecture:
Michael Graves: Portland
Building,
Portland (Oregon)
Ronald
Reagan
Republican,
(1981-89)
techno
Heavy
Metal
Assassination Attempt on President
Reagan
AIDS identified.
Personal Computers (PC) introduced by IBM
Music:
MTV broadcasts
Film:
Steven
Spielberg:
E.T.
US invade Grenada.
David
Mamet
(1947-): Glengarry Glen
Ross
Bret Easton Ellis (1964-): Less Than
Zero
Music:
Michael
Jackson
(1958-): Thriller
Tom Wolfe (1931-): The Bonfire of
the Vanities
Film:
John
Cleese and
Charles Crichton: A
Fish Called
Wanda
Barry Levinson:
Rain
Man
George
Bush
Republican,
(1989-93)
US invades Panama and arrests President
Noriega.
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait.
Gulf
War
Human
Genom Project
started.
John Updike (1932-): Rabbit at
Rest
Miles
Davis (1926-91)
Bret
Easton Ellis
(1964-): American Psycho
Music:
Pearl Jam: Ten (grunge
rock)
David
Mamet
(1947-): Oleanna
Bill
Clinton
Democrat,
(1993-2001)
Film:
Steven
Spielberg:
Schindler's
List
Dow
Jones
(Index launched at 40.94 points in 1896):
Biggest-ever point loss at 554.26 (but
only 7.18%) followed by then-biggest point
gain; 337.17 (4.71%) in October
27/28.
John Madden: Shakespeare
in Love
Dow
Jones
(Index launched at 40.94 points in 1896)
Industrial Average jumps over 10'000
points primarily behind tech-stock rally
("new economy").
NASDAQ-100
NDX Index (starting at 100 points on 5th
March 1996) at 782 points on March
27th
George
W. Bush
Republican,
(2001-)
September 11th: Terrorist Attack on World
Trade Center and Pentagon.
Dow
Jones at
7759.59
March 20th: US starts war on
Iraq
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