Can you name the years (1901-2000) in which these events in American history, politics, and pop culture took place?

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The Rose Bowl (as the 'Tournament East-West Football Game') is played for the first time
Coca-Cola releases the infamous 'New Coke'
The Chicago Tribune goes to press with 'Dewey Defeats Truman'
The 'Pentagon Papers' are published
Golfer Horton Smith wins the first Masters Tournament
The University of Oregon wins the first NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Harry Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his command
The 19th Ammendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote
The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty creates NATO
The Chicago 'Black Sox' arrange with gamblers to throw the World Series
The 'Roswell [NM] Daily Record' first reports on the crash of a UFO
The film 'Titanic' is released
Medicare and Medicaid are established
Oklahoma becomes the 46th state
The video game 'Pong' debuts
Operation Desert Storm---the First Gulf War--begins
Harvey Milk and George Moscone are assassinated in San Francisco
Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is declared to be 'safe and effective' by the FDA
The Hoover Dam is completed
In New York City, the Chrysler Building is completed
J. Edgar Hoover becomes the first Director of the modern FBI
The Boy Scouts of America are formally incorporated
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states, respectively
Green Bay defeats Kansas City in Super Bowl I
'The Star-Spangled Banner' becomes the official national anthem
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed
In Tennessee, John Scopes is put on trial for teaching evolution
The US Post Office begins airmail service
The USA (and 64 other countries) boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow
Apple Computer is founded
Microsoft is founded
The United States formally enters World War I
NASA is established
'Nirvana' frontman Kurt Cobain commits suicide
EventYear
Tupac Shakur is gunned down in Las Vegas
Vanessa Williams becomes the first African-American 'Miss America'
TV ads first appear in support of presidential campaigns, with 'I Like Ike' proving successful
'Steamboat Willie' (starring Mickey Mouse) is released
Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first female candidate for Vice President
The NAACP is symbollically founded on the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth
The Chicago Cubs win the second of two back-to-back World Series titles
New York City begins subway service
In Pennsylvania, the US's first nuclear power plant opens
Four LAPD officers are acquitted in the Rodney King case, setting off a riot
Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court declares abortion legal
Upton Sinclair publishes 'The Jungle,' resulting in widespread food safety reforms
Erwin Rommel defeats US forces in the Battle of Kasserine Pass
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis
'Time' magazine hits shelves for the first time
The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated
Frankin Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term as president
Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the moon
Jesse 'The Body' Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota
The Wright Flyer takes off for the first time at Kitty Hawk, NC
The 21st Ammendment is ratified, repealing Prohibition
New Mexico and Arizona become the 47th and 48th states, respectively
Dwight Eisenhower gives the go-ahead order for the D-Day Invasion
Babe Ruth hits his first home run
Apollo 13 undergoes a crisis in space when an oxygen tank explodes
The 'Morris Worm' becomes the first computer worm to spread virally via the Internet
Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts' first appears in newspapers
Pearl Harbor is bombed
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time
Theodore Roosevelt first becomes president
Macy's stages its first annual Thanksgiving Day Parade
The legendary Route 66 is formally established
EventYear
NBC becomes the first of the 'Big 3' networks to hit the television airwaves
The Tomb of the Unknown Solider is dedicated, enshrining the body of a WWI casualty
In the so-called 'Crime of the Century,' Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped and murdered
Henry Ford begins using a moving assembly line in his factory
The Federal Trade Commission is established
Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman to be elected to Congress
Space Shuttle 'Challenger' explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
Micahel Jackson's album 'Thriller' is released
McDonald's sells its first 'Happy Meal'
MTV begins broadcasting
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules school segregation unconstitutional
The Playstation 2 is officially released in the US
The first Wal-Mart opens its doors
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
The first National Coming Out Day is celebrated
American pilot Francis Powers is shot down and captured by the USSR
Ray Harroun wins the innagural Indianapolis 500
The Exxon 'Valdez' runs aground in Alaska
The Hubble Space Telescope enters orbit
The Great Crash hits Wall Street, ushering in the Great Depression
Elvis Presley dies at age 42
O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
Aaron Copland composes his 'Fanfare for the Common Man'
The original 'Star Trek' premiers on TV
The Interstate Highway System is created
Richard Nixon resigns the presidency
Charles Lindbergh completes his landmark trans-Atlantic flight in the 'Spirit of St. Louis'
At the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC, the first computer, is completed
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Julliard School is founded in Manhattan
Terrorists detonate a vehicle bomb in the World Trade Center parking garage
While attempting to dock in New Jersey, the 'Hindenburg' catches fire and burns
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The American Century: 1901-2000 Quiz

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  • Created Nov 15, 2010 in History
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