Yankees Championship TIMELINE World Historical, Social, technological & Cultural Events
1923
• Harlem’s Cotton Club opens • Yankee Stadium opens its doors • President Warren G. Harding dies and is succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge • Pharaoh Tutankhamen discovered
1927
• First transatlantic telephone call is made • Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight • Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control • The Jazz Singer opens • Babe Ruth’s 60-homerun season
1928
• Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean • 1st all-talking motion picture shown • Mickey Mouse makes his 1st appearance • Sliced bread is sold for the first time • Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A’s 9-7
1932
• Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated President • The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression • Al Capone sent to prison for Tax Evasion • Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot • Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs
1936
1937
• Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. • African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics • Start of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge • Spanish Civil War Begins • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is published
• The dirigible “Hindenburg” explodes • Picasso completes his painting Guernica • Spam is introduced by the Hormel company • Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens
1938
• German troops occupy Austria and march into the Sudetenland • Kristallnacht - “The Night of Broken Glass” occurs in Germany • Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of Uranium • House Committee on Un-American Activities established • Orson Welles The War of the Worlds is broadcast • Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town premiers
1939
• Nazis invade Czechoslovakia and Poland • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. • WWII begins • John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is first published • Lou Gehrig retires due to his illness declaring himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth” • The first Little League Baseball game is played in Williamsport, Pennsylvania • The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York
1941
• Attack on Pearl Harbor • United States and Britain declare war on Japan • Hitler declares War on the United States • Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City. • Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak begins • Lou Gehrig dies of ALS
1943
• Mussolini resigns in Italy and Surrender Of Italy is announced • The Allied leaders of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union meet • Great Depression officially ends in the United States • Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! opens
Yankees Championship TIMELINE World Historical, Social, technological & Cultural Events
1947
• The Cold War Begins • India and Pakistan gain independence from the British Empire • Captain Chuck Yeager, USAF, breaks the sound barrier • Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway • Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball
1949
• The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance • Communist People’s Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong • South Africa institutionalizes apartheid. • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller opens on Broadway
1950
• US leads UN in Korean War • Era of McCarthyism begins • Brink’s robbery in Boston - almost $3 million stolen • Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts comic strip • Elston Howard signed to Yankees
1951
1952
• The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to Russians • The Catcher in the Rye is first published by J.D. Salinger • I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS • Joe DiMaggio announces retirement
• George VI of England dies - his daughter becomes Elizabeth II • 56 million watch Richard Nixon’s “Checker’s speech” • Jonas E. Salk develops the first polio vaccine • Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man published
1953
• Joseph Stalin dies • Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated President of United States • Korean armistice signed • The Crucible by Arthur Miller opens on Broadway • Mickey Mantle hits a 565’ (172 m) HR in Washington DC’s Griffith Stadium • Yankees win record 5th consecutive World Championship
1956
• Morocco declares its independence from France • Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with “Heartbreak Hotel” • Egypt takes control of Suez Canal • Woody Guthrie, “This Land is Your Land” debuts • Don Larsen pitches perfect game in World Series
1958
• The US Supreme Court rules unanimously that Little Rock, Ark., schools must integrate • NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration is formed • Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole • Truman Capote’s, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is published
1961
• John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States • Bay of Pigs invasion • East Germany erects the Berlin Wall • First Direct US Military Involvement in Vietnam • West Side Story is adapted for the big screen
1962
• Cuban Missile Crisis • The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi • Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth • Bob Dylan releases his debut album
Yankees Championship TIMELINE World Historical, Social, technological & Cultural Events
1977
1978
• Jimmy Carter inaugurated President of United States • Deng Xiaoping restored to power as Gang of Four is expelled • Apple Computer is incorporated • The New York City blackout lasts for 25 hours • Saturday Night Fever sparks the disco inferno • Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson have televised altercation at Fenway Park
• “Framework for Peace” in Middle East signed • Serial killer David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam,” is sentenced to 365 years in prison • Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable stereo • First Test Tube Baby is born
1996
• Chechens capture 2,000 Russians Chechnya peace treaty later signed • Britain alarmed by an outbreak of “mad cow” disease • Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female US secretary of state • Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team clone the world’s first sheep
1998
• Europeans agree on single currency, the euro • US Announces first budget surplus in 30 years • President Bill Clinton Impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice • Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film of all time
1999
• Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down • The human population of the world surpasses six billion • Columbine High School massacre • Star Wars Episode I opens and breaks a string of box office records • Joe DiMaggio dies at 84
2000
2009
• Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam • U.S. presidential election closest in decades • Human genome deciphered • 51 million viewers watch the first season finale of the reality show “Survivor”
• Barack Obama inaugurated as first African American President • Afghanistan holds provincial and presidential elections • Congress passes the Stimulus Act to address deep economic troubles • The death of Michael Jackson brings worldwide outpourings of grief • New Yankee Stadium opens • Derek Jeter breaks Lou Gehrigs all time franchise mark of 2,721 hits
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