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MITCHELL, Benjamin

MITCHELL, Benjamin

Male 1875 - 1958  (83 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1865 
  • 31 Jan 1865—31 Jan 1965: Slavery abolished
    Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
1902 
  • 1902—1902: 1st Electric Theatre
    Thomas L. Tally opened his Electric Theater in Los Angeles, a radical new venture devoted to movies and other high-tech devices of the era, like audio recordings.
1903 
  • 15 Feb 1903—15 Feb 1903: The teddy bear debuts
    In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt decided he needed a break from the White House. For the Rough Rider, a vacation meant hunting, so he traveled to Mississippi during bear-hunting season. On the second day of the trip, the hounds picked up a scent — and an aging 235-pound black bear was promptly clubbed and tied to a tree, awaiting the commander in chief’s lethal shot. Roosevelt, however, refused the unsportsmanlike opportunity. Although the bear was eventually euthanized, reporters’ stories still made the president seem merciful — and Washington Post cartoonist Clifford Berryman immortalized the moment with an illustration showing the old bear as a cute little cub and the president waving his arm: “Drawing the line in Mississippi,” it read. Brooklyn candy-shop owner Morris Michtom saw the cartoon and had an idea for his wife Rose to stitch up stuffed-toy bears. The president gave his permission to dub them “Teddy’s bears,” and knockoffs quickly abounded.
1905 
  • 1905—1905: Theory of special relativity published
    Einstein’s theory of special relativity published. It transforms the nature of modern physical knowledge
1914 
  • 18 Jun 1914—1918: WW1
    The Habsburg and Ottoman empires collapse; maps of Europe and the Middle East are redrawn.
1915 
  • 1 Jan 1915—1 Jan 1915: NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
    NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
  • 25 Jan 1915—25 Jan 1915: 1st Transatlantic phone call
    Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call
1929 
  • 1929—1929: Stock Market Crash
    “The chief business of the American people is business,” U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge said in 1925. And with the American economy humming during the “Roaring Twenties” (the Jazz Age), peace and prosperity reigned in the United States…until it didn’t. The era came to a close in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, setting the stage for years of economic deprivation and calamity during the Great Depression.
1939 
  • 1939—1945: WW2
    Outbreak of Second World War: 50 million die worldwide from 1939-45 in the world’s largest and most deadly conflict, which ends the long age of imperialisms.
1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941—7 Dec 1941: Peal Harbor Attacked
    Peal Harbor Attacked
10 1944 
  • 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D Day
    D Day
11 1945 
  • 1945—1945: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    Having again stayed out of the initial stages of another worldwide conflict, the U.S. entered World War II on the side of the Allies following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941). In August 1945, with the war in Europe over and U.S. forces advancing on Japan, U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman ushered in the nuclear era by choosing to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in the hope that the terrible destruction unleashed would prevent an even greater loss of life that seemed likely with a protracted island-by-island invasion of Japan.
12 1949 
  • 1949—1949: Communist China founded
    China is created as a single territorial unit with a common administration and a modernizing economy.
13 1950 
  • 1950—1950: Korean War
    Korean War
14 1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—1 Nov 1955: Start of Vietnam War
    Start of Vietnam War
  • 1 Dec 1955—1 Dec 1955: Rosa Parks arrested for not moving to the back of the bus
    Rosa Parks arrested for not moving to the back of the bus
15 1958 
  • 1958—1958: NASA Formed
    NASA Formed



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