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