Hazel Riggs  
  Major events during her first 100 years  
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

Last Updated on 11/18/2003
By Dave Cline