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Subject: US 1900s Timeline Dela. Co. Connection (1994)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:47:01 EST

Please read the year 1994, you have a man Staff Sgt. Joseph A. FOSS
born & raised in Delaware County involved in this & the note at the
very end!

1900 William McKinley becomes President
1901 Teddy Roosevelt becomes President after McKinley is assassinated
1902 A Tailor made suit could be purchased for $10.00
1903 The Wright brothers become the first men in flight
1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, MO attracts 20, 000 people
1905 The US admits more than a million immigrants
1906 A Packard automobile could be purchased for $3,000
(I purchased a loaded 1965 Pontiac Catalina for $2975 in 1965)
1907 Mother's Day is observed for the first time
1908 Henry Ford produces the Model T
1909 Robert E Peary is the first man on the North Pole
1910 Daniel Beard founds the Boy Scout
1911 Irving Berlin composes "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
1912 The "Titanic" sinks
1913 Cecil B. Demille arrives in Hollywood to direct his first motion picture
1914 George Eastman sells his first Kodak camera
1915 The "Ziegfield Follies" opens on Broadway
1916 President Wilson is re-elected
1917 The start of World War I
1918 The United States is divided into 4 time zones
1919 Women win the right to vote
1920 Prohibition becomes law
1921 Warren G Harding inaugurated as President
1922 The "Charleston" becomes he nations dance craze
1923 Duke Ellington, maven of Jazz, gets his start in Harlem
1924 George Gershwin premieres "Rhapsody in Blue" in NYC
1925 Clarence Darrow defends John T Scopes in the "Monkey Trial"
1926 You could purchase a refrigerator for $87.50
1927 Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic in "The Spirit of St. Louis"
1928 "Piggly Wiggly" opens as the first self-service grocery store
1929 The stock market crashes starting the Great Depression
1930 A haircut and shave costs 30 cents
1931 THE ANNUAL SALARY OF A US CONGRESSMAN WAS $8,663
1932 The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped
1933 Repeal of Prohibition Law
1934 A cruise/tour of Europe .. 60 days/11 countries costs $495
1935 Shirley Temple becomes the biggest box office draw for the next 3 years
1936 President Roosevelt nominated for a second term
1937 The "Hindenberg" catches fire killing 36 people
1938 Orson Wells narrates "War of the Worlds" and terrifies the nation
1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres
1940 Hitler controls all of western Europe
1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor inciting US involvement in World War II
1942 US builds and test it's first jet, the XP-59
1943 Leonardo DaVinci's "Last Supper: discovered after a bomb knocks out a
wall of a church
1944 Tennessee Williams publishes "The Glass Menageria"
1945 World War II ends on August 14 as Japan surrenders
1946 Commercial television begins
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black player in Major League baseball
1948 The first polaroid camera is introduced
1949 America Cancer Society warns that cigarette smoking may be damaging to
your health
1950 National Geographic Society estimates that there are 300 million stars
in the Milky Way
1951 "I Love Lucy" premieres
1952 Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" premieres
1953 Sir Edmund Hillary becomes the first man to reach the summit of Mt
Everest
1954 Jonas Salk develops a vaccine for polio
1955 Jim Henson creates Kermit the Front, the first muppet
1956 Elvis Presley receives national acclaim with "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Dr Suess publishes "The Cat in the Hat"
1958 Explorer I is America's first satellite
1959 Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states
1960 Alan Shepherd becomes the first American in space
1961 The Cuban Missle Crisis
1962 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth
1963 President Kennedy is assassinated
1964 The Beatles make their first tour of the US
1965 The Astrodome, the first completely covered stadium in the world,
opens in Houston
1966 Miniskirts come into fashion
1967 Mickey Mantle hits his 500th career home run
1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis
1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
1970 John Wayne wins academy award for "True Grit"
1971 Norman Lear brings the controversial "All in the Family" to TV
1972 Roe vs Wade became law
1973 The Vietnam war ends
1974 Nixon resigns US Presidency amidst the Watergate scandal
1975 "A Chorus Line" opens on Broadway
1976 US celebrates it's Bicentennial
1977 "Roots", the first TV mini-series, makes its debut
1978 John Irving publishes "The World According to Garp"
1979 Nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island
1980 Mt St Helen's volcano in US erupts
1981 American hostages are released from Iran
1982 Steven Spielberg releases "E T"
1983 Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
1984 The summer Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles
1985 An untouched Mayan tomb is discovered in Peru
1986 The space shuttle "Challenger" explodes
1987 Al Unser wins his 4th Indianapolis 500 race
1988 Superman celebrates 50 years in comic books
1989 Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on the game
1990 Nelson Mandela is freed after 3 decades in prison in South Africa
1991 Persian Gulf War and Operation Desert Storm
1992 Manuel Noriega is ousted as president of Panama
1993 Floods ravage the MidWest
1994 O. J. Simpson pleads not guilty to murder of his ex-wife
1995 The Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City is bombed by terrorists
1996 The US women's gymnastic team wins the gold medal in Atlanta
1997 Princess Diana dies in automobile accident in Paris
1998 Frank Sinatra dies
1999 The biggest New Year's Eve Party of the century

Note: My son Staff Sgt. Joseph A. FOSS was involved in the O. J.
SIMPSON Case. He was the Marine Recruiter at Redondo Beach
who introduced Mark FUHRMANN to Kathleen BELL! She said, the
racial comments were made in front of my son. I received the
phone call from Mark FUHRMANN's investigator, Anthony PELLICANO
telling me that my son was involved in the O. J. SIMPSON Case & they
were trying to reach him--can you imagine a mother receiving this
phone call out of the blue--my son had know idea he was involved!

Helen M. (Webber) Imburgia

Happy hunting, Helen

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