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Hazel Riggs |
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Major events during her first 100 years |
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Year |
Event |
Age |
1903 |
The Wright Brothers First Flight |
1 |
1903 |
First silent movie, "The Great Robbery" |
1 |
1906 |
San Francisco earthquake |
3 |
1908 |
Chicago Cubs win The Worlds Series |
5 |
1908 |
Ford produces its first Model-T car |
5 |
1911 |
First Air Mail letters flown |
8 |
1912 |
The Titanic luxury liner sinks in the Atlantic Ocean |
9 |
1914 |
World War 1 |
11 |
1914 |
The first traffic lights installed in Cleveland, Ohio |
11 |
1920 |
Women right to vote, 19th Ammendment |
17 |
1920 |
The first commercial radio broadcast is made |
17 |
1927 |
Lindbergh solo Flight across Atlantic |
24 |
1927 |
First talking movie "The Jazz Singer" with Al Jolsen |
24 |
1927 |
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs |
24 |
1928 |
Walt Disneys 1st Mickey Mouse movie "Steamboat Willie" |
25 |
1929 |
Stock Market Crash / Great Depression |
26 |
1931 |
The Empire State Building opens in New York City |
28 |
1931 |
Al Capone arrested for tax-evasion |
28 |
1931 |
Inventor Thomas A. Edison dies |
28 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart flies solo across Atlantic |
29 |
1934 |
John Dillinger killed in Chicago outside a theatre |
31 |
1934 |
Television first demonstrated |
31 |
1935 |
Hoover Dam completed |
32 |
1937 |
Golden Gate Bridge opens |
34 |
1939 |
MGM Movies: "Gone with the Wind" & "The Wizard of Oz" |
36 |
1940 |
First television network in Schenectady, New York |
37 |
1941 |
Pearl Harbor bombed / World War 2 |
38 |
1947 |
Jackie Robinson, first African American to play baseball |
44 |
1950 |
Korean War |
47 |
1954 |
Elvis Presley records "That's Alright Momma" |
51 |
1955 |
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Alabama |
52 |
1955 |
Ray Kroc opens the first McDonalds restaurant |
52 |
1956 |
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show |
53 |
1956 |
The first transatlantic telephone cable begins operation |
53 |
1962 |
John Glenn orbits the earth |
59 |
1962 |
Johnny Carson host 1st Tonight Show on NBC |
59 |
1963 |
President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
60 |
1964 |
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show |
61 |
1968 |
Robert F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King killed |
65 |
1969 |
Man walks on the Moon, Ohio native Neil Armstrong |
66 |
1970 |
4 Kent State students killed by National Guard |
67 |
1972 |
Watergate, break-in at the Democratic headquarters |
69 |
1974 |
President Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford sworn in |
71 |
1977 |
Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland home in Memphis |
74 |
1981 |
The first space shuttle Columbia is launched |
78 |
1981 |
Princess Diana weds Prince Charles |
78 |
1989 |
The Berlin Wall falls |
86 |
1995 |
Federal building in Oklahoma City bombed |
92 |
1997 |
Princess Diana killed in Paris auto accident |
94 |
2001 |
World Trade Center attacked by terrorist |
98 |