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1898-2000 Timeline
Brief overview of events during the life of William Pierson.
1898-depression grips nation.
1901-United States Steel Corporation formed, the world’s largest business at the time. President McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
1904-Roosevelt reelected.
1906-A program of voice and music broadcast over radio in the United States.
1908-William Howard Taft elected president.
1912-Woodrow Wilson elected president.
1913-Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments ratified.
1914-Panama Canal opens.
1920-Nineteenth Amendment ratified. Warren Harding elected president. Prohibition takes effect.
1925-Scopes trial held in Dayton, Tenn.
1927-Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic.
1929-Stock market crashes.
1932-FDR elected president.
1933-Hitler takes power in Germany.
1941-Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
1944-Allied forces land in Normandy.
1945-Japan surrenders after detonation of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1950-Senator McCarthy begins his Red hunt.
1952-Eisenhower elected president.
1955-Salk polio vaccine announced.
1957-Soviet Union launches Sputnik.
1959-Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba.
1961-Berlin crisis leads to construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962-Cuban missile crisis grips nation.
1963-President Kennedy assassinated.
1964-Beatles make first visit to U.S.
1968-James Earl Ray kills Martin Luther King Jr.
1969-Neil Armstrong walks on moon.
1972-Nixon visits China.
1979-Three Mile Island nuclear plant comes close to disaster.
1981-AIDS recognized as new disease.
1984-Reagan wins reelection.
1989-Germans tear down Berlin Wall.
1990-West and East Germany unite.
1991-Operation Desert Storm drives Iraqis from Kuwait.
1992-Los Angeles riots.
1996-Clinton wins second term.
1998-Texas executes Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
2000-Scientists map human DNA.
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