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Events of the 1900s: when did it happen? (page 1 of 5)

Page 1 of 5, answers 1 to 42. The years of 208 famous events of the 1900s, from 1900 to 1998, sorted oldest to newest, each with a short fact.

• When was the first Hershey's milk chocolate bar sold?1900
• When was the Wizard of Oz book published?1900
• When were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?1901
• When did Theodore Roosevelt become president?1901
• When was the teddy bear created?1902
• When did Willis Carrier invent modern air conditioning?1902
• When did the Wright brothers make the first powered flight?1903
• When was Harley-Davidson founded?1903
• When was the first World Series played?1903
• When did the New York City subway open?1904
• When did Einstein publish special relativity?1905
• When was the San Francisco earthquake?1906
• When was Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, invented?1907
• When did the first New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square?1907
• When did Ford launch the Model T?1908
• When was the NAACP founded?1909
• When was the Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre?1911
• When did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole?1911
• When was the first Indianapolis 500 run?1911
• When did the Titanic sink?1912
• When did Arizona become the 48th state?1912
• When was the first crossword puzzle published?1913
• When did the first Model T roll off a moving assembly line?1913
• When did the US start a federal income tax?1913
• When did World War I begin?1914
• When did the Panama Canal open?1914
• When was the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine?1915
• When did Einstein publish general relativity?1915
• When was the National Park Service created?1916
• When was the Russian Revolution?1917
• When was the first jazz record released?1917
• When did the US enter World War I?1917
• When did World War I end?1918
• When did the Spanish flu pandemic begin?1918
• When was Grand Canyon National Park created?1919
• When did US women win the right to vote?1920
• When were Band-Aid adhesive bandages invented?1920
• When did Prohibition begin?1920
• When did KDKA in Pittsburgh start the first commercial radio station?1920
• When was Tutankhamun's tomb found?1922
• When was insulin first used to treat diabetes?1922
• When did the BBC make its first radio broadcast?1922