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1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison
1891 the First Motion Picture Camera invented by W.L.K Dickson, patented by Thomas Edison the Same year Martha Graham Was born!  
1893-1897 Grover Cleveland 
1895 the widely accepted birth date of movies with the Lumiere brothers.  
1897-1901 William McKinley 
1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt  
1903 Wright Brothers ~ the Wright Flyer  
1908-1927 Ford's Model T is invented and produced.  
1909-1913 William Howard Taft   
1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson  
1917 U.S. joins WWI
1921-1923 Warren G. Harding
1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge  
1926 NBC the U.S.'s first major broadcast network
1927 The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie" (motion picture with sound) is released  
1929-early 1940's Great Depression  
1929-1933 Herbert Hoover 
1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt   
1941 U.S. Joins WWII  
1945-1953 Harry S Truman 

1950

• North Korea invades South Korea and captures Seoul in the first weeks of the conflict. At the United Nations, the Soviet Union is boycotting proceedings, so the U.S is able to push through a resolution 

• The Soviet Union begins putting nuclear missiles on submarines.

• The postwar baby boom dramatically increases birthrates in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
• In 1950, CBS broadcasts the first TV program in color.

1951

• The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, limiting the president to a maximum of two terms in office. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four terms beginning in 1932. He died within months of beginning his fourth term. He was the first and only president to be elected to more than two terms.
• Electric power is produced from the first atomic power reactor in Arcon, Idaho. The U.S. tests nuclear weapons in Nevada and the South Pacific throughout the 50s.

1952

• Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president of the United States, the first Republican president in 20 years. Richard Nixon is his Vice-President.

1953

• The Korean War ends after three years of inconclusive fighting. An armistice is signed and the boundary between North and South Korea is drawn at the 38th parallel.

1954

• U.S. President Eisenhower formulates the domino theory that says that once one country falls to a communist regime others in the region will be vulnerable, too. It is this theory that will be invoked by President Lyndon Johnson to escalate the war in Vietnam.
• The Brown v. Board of Education decision is handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court saying that "separate but equal" school systems are unconstitutional. An era of desegregation of schools is instituted.
• The U.S. launches the first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.

1955

• Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparks a bus boycott led by local minister Martin Luther King, Jr., and sets the American civil rights movement in motion.

1956

• Dwight Eisenhower reelected as President of the United States. 

1959

• Fidel Castro installs the first communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations in 1961.

1960

• John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon run against each other for the U.S. presidency. In the first televised presidential debate, Kennedy is credited with winning the debate. In November, Kennedy wins a close election becoming the youngest person ever elected president.

1961 

• Ernest Hemingway commits suicide. Grandma Moses dies at 99.
• Yuri Gagarin first man in space. Alan Shepard first American in space.

1962 

• Marilyn Monroe dies.

1963 

• Martin Luther King Jr. delivers famous "I Have a Dream" speech at Washington rally.
• President Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald

1964

• Beatles give first American concert.
• Martin Luther King Jr. receives Nobel Peace Prize.

1965 

• Winston Churchill dies. 

1968 

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated.

1969

•  Neil Armstrong first man on moon. 

1971 

• Louis Armstrong dies. 

1973 

• Pablo Picasso dies.

1974 

• President Nixon resigns.

1975 

• End of American involvement in Vietnam.

1978 

• John Paul II becomes first Polish pope.

1980 

• Ronald Reagan defeats President Carter. 
• United States boycotts Moscow Olympics.
•  John Lennon shot.

1983 

• Brooklyn Bridge is one hundred years old. 
• United States invades Granada.

1986 

• Challenger space shuttle explodes, killing crew. 
• Statue of Liberty Centennial celebration.
• U.S.S. Titanic found.

1987

•  Reagan administration shaken by Iran–Contra scandal. 

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