Strategy: Locating People Born in 1900
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1900–Ferdinand von Zeppelin launches the first zeppelin.
1900–The Singer Sewing machine wins Grand Prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition
1900–The first Brownie Cameras sold for $1.00.
1900–Quarantine of Chinatown in San Francisco after nine dealths blamed on bubonic plague.
1900–Galveston, TX hurricane kills 8,000
1900–Max Planck proposes that atoms emit energy in discrete amounts, called quanta.
1901– Death of Queen Victoria
1901– Second Inaugural Address of President William McKinley
1901–United States Steel Company, the world's largest industrial corporation, is formed by merging 10 companies.
1901–Pan-American Exposition and death of President William McKinley
1901–Guglielmo Marconi develops a wireless telegraph (radio) capable of relaying messages over long distances.
1901– Electric washing machine is invented
1901– "The Evolution of Negro Leadership" a speech by W.E.B. DuBois
1901–Jane Leland Stanford deeds $28 million in property, stocks and bonds, the largest gift to an institution by a woman.
1902 – American industrialist Eli Olds introduces assembly-line to his Oldsmobile factory in Detroit (MI).
1902 – Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposés
1902 - Chinese Exclusion Act extended for 10 years.
1902–Society women take "slumming tours" through San Francisco's Chinatown.
1902 – Alexis Carrel devises first organ transplant procedure.
1902 – "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin - see section in Music on blues, jazz, and ragtime
1902 – "A Trip to the Moon" a state-of-the-art science fiction film directed by Georges Melies features a rocket hitting the moon square in the eye.
1903 – Wright Brothers lift-off at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1903 – First Baseball World Series
1903 – In Dahomey the first all-Black musical on a major Broadway stage
1903–An outbreak of typhoid in Palo Alto due to contaminated milk sickens over a hundred people.
1903 – The first box of Crayola Crayons costs 5¢ and contains 8 colors
1903 – "Industrial Education for the Negro" a speech by Booker T. Washington
1903 – "The Talented Tenth" by W.E.B. DuBois
1904–Armed men patrol the Southern Pacific due to dynamite threats and railway accidents attributed to a gang requesting ransom.
1904 – World’s Fair
1904 - Bakelite, a synthetic plastic, is produced.
1904 - Panama Canal begun (1904-1914)
1904 - Chinese Exclusion Act extended indefinitely
1905 – "Lincoln and the Race Problem" by Theodore Rosevelt
1905 – Inaugural Address of President Theodore Roosevelt
1905 – Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") founded
1905 – Bloody Sunday in Russia
1906 – Pure Food and Drug Act
1906 – Meat Inspection Act
1906 – Vacuum tube invented by Lee De Forest.
1906–Long distance phone service from New York to San Francisco is perfected using a "repeater" system invented by David C. St. Charles.
1906 - Mauretania, the first steam-turbine powered ocean liner, is launched.
1906 – San Francisco Earthquake
1906 - Atlanta Race Riots
1906 – Niagara Manifesto
1907 – Ringling, Barnum and Bailey Circus
1907 – Peak year for US immigration
1907–After a meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Eugene Schmitz agrees to close San Francisco's "oriental schools" and allow Asian children to attend white schools. The San Francisco School Board ended the school segregation order the following month, but only for Japanese students on the basis that they are "not Mongolians."
1907 – Picasso paints "Les Demoiselles"
1907– San Francisco Streetcar strike
1907 – Famous Trials in American History: The Trial of Bill Haywood
1907– Bakelite, a nonflammable material used in engine parts, jewelry and electronics is invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland
1908 – Model-T Ford production began
1908 – The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill
1908–Race riots in Springfield, Illinois
1908–San Francisco's first taxicab company is formed with 25 cabs.
1908 – Cellophane is invented
1908 - Hetch Hetchy hearings and John Muir's response
1909 - Inaugural Address of President William H. Taft
1909 – Women’s Factory Strike
1909 – Peary claims to have reached the North Pole
1909 – National Negro Committee (later known as the NAACP) held its first meeting in New York City
1909 – Laminated safety glass is developed in France
1909 – Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes performs on stage in Paris, redefining the role of ballet as a synthesis of the arts (combined with Michel Fokine's choreography, Vaslav Nijinsky's dancing, Igor Stravinsky's music and Pablo Picasso's art).
1909 – Oakland's Fung Joe Guey flies a bi-plane a half-mile 15ft. above Piedmont Heights, San Francisco.
1909 – Neon lamp is invented in France
1909 – Futurism founded in Italy
1910 – Halley’s Comet
1910 – Tungsten coil filament for light bulbs invented by American chemist William Coolidge.
1910 – Angel Island opened as an official immigrant station
1910 – Boy Scouts founded
1910 – Enrico Caruso sings in an experimental radio broadcast
1910 – Mexican Revolution
1910 – Sheet-music sales reach 2 billion a year, led by 6 million copies of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
1911 – Amundsen of Norway reaches South Pole
1911– Electric starter for automobile invented
1911 - Cellophane invented
1911 – National Urban League founded
1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
1911– The Masses published
1911– Willis Haviland Carrier invents air conditioning
1911–Ishi is introduced to the press by University of California scientists.
1911–Women in California are granted the right to vote by a narrow margin.
1912 – Titanic sinks
1912 – Presidential election - ballot
1912 – "Memphis Blues" by W. C. Handy is the first published blues composition
1912 – Vaslav Nijinsky performs his first ballet "Afternoon of a Faun."
1912 – Expedition to the South Pole
1913 – First Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson
1913 – Ford perfects mass production by introducing conveyor belt.
1913 – Long-lasting light bulbs produced by chemist Irving Langmuir.
1913 – Coolidge tube for medical X-rays invented.
1913 – Leo Frank Case
1913 – "Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky premiered in Paris
1913 –Niels Bohr proposes a planetary model of the atom in which electrons orbit the nucleus.
1913 – Calumet copper miners strike, Christmas eve disaster
1914 – Brassiere invented
1914-1918 – World War I
1914 – Panama Canal completed (1904-1914)
1914 – "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg
1914 – Ludlow Massacre
1915–The first transcontinental telephone conversations including President Woodrow Wilson and telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell are held between San Francisco, Boston, New York and Georgia
1915 – "Why Women Should Vote" by Jane Addams
1915–"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
1915 – Pyrex glass invented
1915– Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith
1915 – Anna Pavlova to San Francisco for the world premiere of her "California Poppy."
1915– World's Fair held in San Francisco, California.
1915 – The Panama-California Exposition in San Diego
1916 – Everett Massacre (Industrial Workers of the World)
1916 – Preparedness Day - parade and bombing
1916 – Stainless steel is made in England
1916 – Oakland inventors devise the formula for household bleach
1917 – Second Inaugural Address of President Woodrow Wilson
1917– Shick develops the electric razor
1917– Iron-workers from San Francisco's Union Iron Works strike and demonstrate.
1917– California Fruit Growers ask Sacramento lawmakers to allow Chinese farm laborers to supply the labor need created by the war.
1918 – Spanish influenza epidemic
1918 – Marcus Garvey incorporated the Universal Negro Improvement Association and began publishing Negro World
1918 – The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918
1919 – Birth of the Bauhaus design school (Gropius, Klee, Kandinksy, Breuer, Mies van der Rohe)
1919 – New York Daily News founded
1919 – Boston Police Strike
1919 – Steel strike
1920 – 19th Amendment ratified and women get the vote.
1920 – American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) founded.
1920 – Child Welfare League of America founded.
1920 – Prohibition takes effect
1920 – Matewan massacre
1920's – Tractors used in farming.
1920– California's Alien Land Law bars Japanese immigrants from buying land in the name of their American-born children.
1921– Inaugural Address of President Warren G. Harding (1921)
1921 - Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty
1921 – Tulsa (OK) race riot
1922 – Tutankahmen discovered
1923 – Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, is completed.
1923 – Vladimir K. Zworykin patents first television camera.
1923 – Invention of FM radio
1923 – Rosewood (FLA) massacre
1924 – Leopold and Loeb Trial; Famous Trials in American History
1924 – Fax machines
1924 –Tuberculosis vaccine developed
1924 – Frosted incandescent lamp invented
1924– Transcontinental airmail begins
19251925 – Inaugural Address of President Calvin Coolidge (1925)
1925 – First televised image
1925 – Clarence Birdseye invents quick-freezing.
1925 – Bronx River Parkway, the first US super-highway, is completed.
1925 – Scopes trial
1926 – Sesquicentennial International Exposition, 1776-1926, Philadelphia
1926 – Zalmon Simmons introduces the Beautyrest inner-spring mattress for $39.50
1926 – Walter Gropius' Bauhaus is built in Dessau, Germany
1926 – Aerosol spray is invented
1927– Werner Heisenberg arrives at his uncertainty principle.
1927 – Charles A. Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane, the Spirit of St. Louis.
1927– Babe Ruth breaks his own record for the most home runs (60) in a single season
1927– Philo Farnsworth develops television
1928 – Amelia Earhart’s flight across the Atlantic
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1929 – Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover
1929 – Stock Market collapses
© Debbie Abilock August 22, 1999-2004