1. American Pastimes A Brief Timeline of a Century of Play
3/1/72: Yellowstone Nat’l Park established
American Pastimes A Brief Timeline of a Century of Play
3/10/76: First telephone call made
1877: Edison invents the phonograph
5/4/86: Haymarket bombing
1886: Coca-Cola Co. founded
1888: Eastman Kodak established
10/29/69: ARPANET first operates; Internet invented
1/15/67: Super Bowl I
1890: The Western Frontier is “closed”
11/7/27: Farnsworth invents the TV
6/24/63: Telcan home video recorder invented
1892: World’s Columbian Exposition
7/13/30: First World Cup
11/16/32: Vaudeville “dies”
1960: “The Pill” first publicly available
4/6/96: First Modern Olympics
5/30/43: AAGPBL, Girls’ baseball league founded
3/2/97: Marconi patents radio
1899: Veblen publishes “Theory of the Leisure Class”
2/14/46: ENIAC invented
WWI
PROHIBITION
WWII
KOREA
’80 ’ ’ ’ ‘ ‘ ’ ‘60
4/4/23: Warner Bros. Studios founded
4/14/12: RMS Titanic sinks
5/2/52: First jet airliner enters service
1952: First video game created
10/1/03: First World Series
12/17/03: Wright Bros flight
12/30/03: Iroquois Theater fire
1911: Cabaret comes to the US
4/15/47: Robinson breaks the MLB color barrier
1947: Commercial microwave invented
8/12/08: First Model T produced
2/5/09: Bakelite invented
10/1/19: Black Sox scandal
DePaul TPS 2014