| Birth (Death Year) | Event 1 | Event 2 | Event 3 | Event 4 | Event 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Aaron Copeland (1990) | Gold Standard Act Ratified | ||||
| 1901 | Walt Disney (1966) | McKinley Assassinated | Teddy Roosevelt becomes President | |||
| 1902 | John Steinbeck (1968) | Roosevelt sues Nothern Securities Company under Sherman act | ||||
| 1903 | Bing Crosby (1977) | Dept. of Commerce and Labor founded | Treaty signed to build Panama canal | |||
| 1904 | Dr. Suess (1991) | US buys Panama canal zone | Work starts on Panama canal | First part of NYC subway opens | ||
| 1905 | Howard Hughes (1976) | NAACP formed | ||||
| 1906 | Estee Lauder (2004) | The Jungle published | Congress passes Meat Inspection Act | Atlanta race riots | ||
| 1907 | John Wayne (1979) | Busiest year at Ellis Island | Financial Panic of 1907 | Oklahoma becomes a State | ||
| 1908 | LBJ (1973) | Springfield Race Riots | Model T launches | |||
| 1909 | Barry Goldwater (1998) | William Howard Taft becomes President | US purchases first warplane | First race at Indy Raceway | ||
| 1910 | John Wooden (2010) | Boy Scouts Formed | Republicans reduce power of US Speaker | United States Dept. of Mines established | ||
| 1911 | Ronald Reagan (2004) | Triangle Shirtwaste Factory fire | US Supreme Court orders Standard Oil broken up | First Indy 500 | Chevrolet enters auto biz | |
| 1912 | Sam Snead (2002) | New Mexico admitted as State | Arizona admitted as a State | Girls Scouts founded | Titanic sinks | |
| 1913 | Rosa Parks (2005) | 16th Amendment ratified allowing income tax | Women’s suffrage march takes place in DC | Wilson becomes President | 17th Amendent ratified allowing direction election of Senators | Federal Reserve created |
| 1914 | Joe DiMaggio (1999) | World War I breaks out. US declares nuetrality | Panal Canal opens | FTC is established | ||
| 1915 | Frank Sinatra (1998) | Birth of a Nation premiers | Lusitania sunk | Leo Frank lynched | ||
| 1916 | Walter Cronkite (2009) | Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa | Justice Brandeis joins Supreme Court | Wilson creates National Park Service | Margaret Sanger opens family planning center in NYC and is arrested | |
| 1917 | JFK (1963) | Congress passes immigration Act of 1917 restricting much immigration from Asia | Zimmermann Telegraph – seeks to have Mexico declare war on US | Senate adopts cloture rule to prevent filibusters | Women get vote in New York State | |
| 1918 | Ted Williams (2002) | Spanish flu reaching US | Congress adopts time zones | World War I ends | ||
| 1919 | J.D. Salinger (2010) | Prohibition goes into effect | Congress approves 19th amendment (women’s sufferage) | First transcontinental motor convoy | ||
| 1920 | Stan Musial (2013) | First Red Scare in US – 4,000 suspected communists held | 19th Amendment is ratified (women’s sufferage) | Wall Street bombing | First radio sold in US | |
| 1921 | John Glenn (2016) | Warren Harding sworn in as President | Emergency Quota act limits immigration | Tulsa Race Riots | ||
| 1922 | Betty White (2021) | Teapot Dome Scandal | Lincoln Memorial Dedicated | The Cable Act | ||
| 1923 | Bob Dole (2021) | Oklahoma prohibits the teaching of evolution | Hollywood sign inaugurated | Calvin Coolidge becomes President after Harding’s death | Walt Disney Disney Company founded | |
| 1924 | George HW Bush (2018) | IBM founded | First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade | Castle Gate Mining Disaster | Indian Citizenship Act | |
| 1925 | Yogi Berra (2015) | First women governor elected | Scopes Trial: teaching evolution | Air Mail Act | ||
| 1926 | Marilyn Monroe (1962) | Air Commerce Act; licensing pilots and planes | US Highway Numbering System approved | NBC radio launches | ||
| 1927 | Harry Belafonte (2023) | First transatlantic phone call | Great Mississippi Flood | Charles Linbergh Flight to Europe | The Radio Act | |
| 1928 | Fred Rogers (2003) | Steamboat Willy released | Congress approves Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) | |||
| 1929 | MLK (1968) | St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | Herbert Hoover becomes President | Dow Jones reached high on 381 | Wall Street Crash in October | Permanent Appointment Act |
| 1930 | Buzz Aldrin | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act | Hoover asks for $150m in public works projects | |||
| 1931 | Willie Mays (2024) | Nevada legalizes gambling | Empire State Building opens | Construction on Rockefeller begins | George Washington Bridge opens | |
| 1932 | Little Richard (2020) | Hoover supports armament limitations | Dow Jones reaches lowest part of Depression | Radio City Music Hall opens | ||
| 1933 | Ruth Bader Ginsberg (2020) | Congress votes for Phillipines independence | 20th Amendment changing inauguration day to Jan. 20 | Roosevelt makes it illegal for citizens to own gold. US goes off gold standard | 21st Amendment appealing Prohibition | Tennessee Valley Authority created/Civil Works Authority Created |
| 1934 | Hank Aaron (2021) | Dust Bowl | Securities & Exchange Commission created | National Firearms Act | ||
| 1935 | Elvis Presley (1977) | Works Progress Administration created | Social Security Act signed into law | Hoover Dam dedicated | The Wagner Act | |
| 1936 | Mary Tyler Moore (2017) | Gone with the Wind is published | Jesse Owens wins 100 meter dash in Berlin Olympics | |||
| 1937 | Colin Powell (2021) | FDR proposes to enlarge to the SC Court | Steel workers organization sign collective bargaining agreement with US Steel | Hindenberg disaster | Amelia Earhardt disappears | Snow White and Seven Dwarfs premiers |
| 1938 | Stephen Breyer | First appearance of Superman | Evian Conference. US only accepts 27,000 Jews | FDR reaffirms US nuetrality | Minimum wage established in US | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| 1939 | Judy Collins | Nazi rally in MSG draws 20,000/SS St. Louis turned around from US | Wizard of Oz and Gone with Wind premier | Batman makes his first appearance | Einstein writes to FDR about Atom Bomb | US declares its nuetrality |
| 1940 | Nancy Pelosi | First McDonald’s opens | Lend lease agreement between US and Britain | First peacetime draft | US must become the great Arsenal of Democracy | Alien Registration Act |
| 1941 | Bob Dylan | FDR Four Freedoms Speech | Japanese Spy arrives in Pearl Harbor | America First Committee holds first mass rally | Attack on Pearl Harbor | America declares war on Japan; Germany and Italy declare war on US |
| 1942 | Muhammad Ali (2016) | First US Troops arrive in Ireland | FDR signs order creating Japanese Internment Camps | Battle of Midway | Alaska Highway is completed | |
| 1943 | Janice Joplin (1970) | The Penatagon is opened | Eisenhower chosen to lead allies in Europe | Jefferson Memorial Dedicated | Italy Surrenders | Works Progress Administration closed |
| 1944 | Rudy Giuliani | D-Day commences | Battle of the Buldge | George Marshall becomes 5 star general | GI Bill signed into law | |
| 1945 | Goldie Hawn | Yalta Conference | Battle for Iwo Jima & Okinawa | FDR dies. Truman becomes President | Victory in Europe | Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki/Japan surrenders |
| 1946 | Dolly Parton | ENIAC is launched. First general purpose computer | Ho Chi Ming signs an agreement with France to recognize Vietnam’s independence | Phillipines granted independence | US Atomic Energy Commission launches | Truman establishes Commission on Civil Rights |
| 1947 | Hillary Clinton | Jackie Robinson signs contract with Dodgers, plays in MLB | First use of Cold War | Marshall Plan unveiled | Supposed UFO seen in Roswell, NM | CIA established/Air Force becomes separate |
| 1948 | James Taylor | NASCAR founded | Organization of American States formed | US recognizes Israel | First monkey astronaut launched | Truman ends segregation in military |
| 1949 | Meryl Streep | Fair Deal unveiled | NATO is created | Department of Defense formed | Housing Act of 1949 | Reorganization Act of 1949 |
| 1950 | Chuck Schumer | North Korean troops cross into South Korea | Defense Production Act signed into law | |||
| 1951 | Sally Ride (2012) | UN headquarters opens in NY | 22nd Amendment ratified, limiting Presidents to 2 terms | Great Flood of 1951 | Catcher in the Rye is published | I Love Lucy makes its debut |
| 1952 | Bob Costas | Occupation of Japan ends | Puerto Rico becomes a self- governing commonwealth | First Hydrogen bomb test | NSA founded | |
| 1953 | Tim Allen | Eisenhower becomes President | Julies & Ethel Rosenberg executed | Korean war ends with armistace | Earl Warren becomes Chief Justice | |
| 1954 | Sonia Sotomayer | Eisenhower gives Domino theory speech | Brown v. Bd. Of Education decided | McCarthy hearings | Under God added to pledge of allegiance | Ellis Island closes |
| 1955 | Bill Gates | Eisenhower sends first advisors to Vietnam | Salk’s polio vaccine gets FDA approval | Disneyland opens | Emmett Till murdered/Rose Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat | James Dean killed; one month before Rebel without a Cause released |
| 1956 | Joe Montana | Elvis Presley enters music charts for first time | Eisenhower signs Federal Aid Highway Act | Hard disk invented by IBM | The Ten Commandments Released | Supreme Court declares segregated busing illegal; Montgomery bus boycott ends |
| 1957 | Vanna White | Civil Rights Act of 1957 enacted | Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock to protect the Little Rock 9 | First combat death in Vietnam | Toyota begins exporting to US | Soviets launch Sputnick |
| 1958 | Alec Baldwin | US launches first Satellite | Recession of 1958 | Federal Aviation Act of 1958 giving authority to FAA of American skies | NASA created | National Defense Education Act |
| 1959 | Magic Johnson | Alaska & Hawaii admitted as States | US recognizes Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba | First Daytona 500 | NASA announces Mercury 7 | First arms control treaty between US and Soviet Union over Antarctica |
| 1960 | John Elway | Greensboro sit- ins/Ruby Bridges attends elementary school in New Orleans/Civil Rights Act of 1960 | 3,500 soldiers to Vietnam | U-2 with Gary Powers is shot down | FDA approves first birth control pill | To Kill a Mockingbird is released |
| 1961 | George Clooney | Eisenhower gives military industrial complex speech | JFK becomes President | Kennedy launches the Peace Corps | Amendment passes to allow DC residents to vote in Presidential elections | Bay of Pigs invasion fails |
| 1962 | Tom Cruise | John Glenn orbits earth | First Wal-Mart opens in Arkansas | Cuban Missle Crisis | Trade Expansion Act | |
| 1963 | Michael Jordan | Ban on all transactions with Cuba | JFK delivers Civil Rights Address | Zip codes established in US | US, UK and USSR sign test ban treaty | MLK delivers I have a Dream Speech |
| 1964 | Kamala Harris | Lyndon Johnson calls for War on Poverty in State of Union | 24th Amendment passed prohibiting poll taxes in national elections | Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show | Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin incident |
| 1965 | Ben Stiller | Johnson unveils Great Society in State of Union | Macolm X assassinated/ Bloody Sunday | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Johnson establishes Medicaid and Medicare | Johnson signs immigration law eliminating quotas based on national origin |
| 1966 | Mike Tyson | US announces major troop expansion in Vietnam | Demonstrations increase against war | Black Panther Party founded | Department of Transportation created | First Kwanzaa celebrated |
| 1967 | Kurt Cobain (1994) | Super Bowl I | Apollo I tragedy | 25th Amendment is ratified (President succession) | Six Day War in Israel | Loving v. Virginia – bans on interacial marriages unconstitutional |
| 1968 | Tony Hawk | North Vietnam launches the Tet offensive | LBJ announces he will not seek reelection | MLK & RFK assassinated | US repeals gold standard | LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1968 |
| 1969 | Jennifer Aniston | Nixon becomes President | 747 makes first flight | Stonewall riots launch gay rights movement | Apollo 11 moon landing | Woodstock Festival |
| 1970 | Matt Damon | First Earth Day | Beatles break up | Apollo 13 accident | Kent State shooting, students protesting spread of Vietnam war into Cambodia | EPA begins operations |
| 1971 | Michael Strahan | All in the Family debuts | First Starbucks opens | US ends trade embargo of China | 26th Amendment ratified. Lowering voting age to 18 | Walt Disney World opens |
| 1972 | Shaquille O’Neal | Nixon visits China | Congress votes to send Equal Rights Amendment to the States | US and Russia sign SALT I treaty | Watergate break-in | Last US ground forces withdraw from Vietnam |
| 1973 | Kristen Wiig | Roe v. Wade – SC overturns state bans on abortion | Peace announced with Vietnam; US prisoners released | First cell phone call in US | World Trade Center opens in NYC | DEA is founded |
| 1974 | Leonardo DiCaprio | House launches impeachment hearings | Nixon announces his resignation; Ford assumes Presidency | Ford signs Campaign Finance Reform law | Restrictions on holding private gold are lifted | Privacy Act of 1974 |
| 1975 | Tiger Woods | Wheel of Fortune premiers | Bill Gates starts Microsoft | The fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces | Jaws released | SNL launches |
| 1976 | Reese Witherspoon | Apple is founded | Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act | NBA-ABA merger | Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel and unusual | Carter defeats Ford in Presidential election |
| 1977 | John Oliver | Carter sworn in as President | Roots runs on ABC/Star Wars released | NYC blackout of 1977 | Saturday Night Fever released | Community Reinvestment Act |
| 1978 | Kobe Bryant (2020) | First Home Depot opens | Senate votes to give Panama control of Panama canal in 1999 | legal gambling starts in AC | Grease is released | Carter signs Full Employment Act |
| 1979 | Drew Brees | US and China have full diplomatic relations | Egypt and Israel meet to sign on peace agreement | Carter signs law establishing Department of Education | Iran hostage crisis. 90 hostages taken | First Republican Governor in Louisiana in 100 years |
| 1980 | Kim Kardashian | US Hockey Team beats USSR for the Miracle on Ice | Mass exodus of Cubans to US | CNN is launched | Republicans drop support for Equal Rights Amendment | Reagan beats Carter in Presidential race |
| 1981 | Serena Williams | US hostages are released by Iran | Reagan becomes President | CDC recognizes first recognized cases of AIDS in homosexual men | Sandra Day O’Connor nominated as first female Supreme Court Justice | Space Shuttle program launches |
| 1982 | Kelly Clarkson | AT&T broken up into baby bells | Epcot opens in Disney World | Vietnam Memorial Dedicated | Michael Jackson’s Thriller released | First US execution by lethal injection |
| 1983 | Carrie Underwood | Apple Lisa Computer is released | Final episode of MASH, most watched television broadcast | Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon | Sally Ride becomes first women in space | Cabbage Patch dolls released |
| 1984 | Olivia Wilde | Soviet Union boycott LA Olympic games | Reagan reelectded in landslide | Goetz shooting on NYC subway | Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 | |
| 1985 | Bruno Mars | Reagan sworn in for second term | FBI brings charges against heads of mafia’s five families | NEXT is founded by Steve Jobs after he leaves Apple | Live Aid Benefit Concerts | Nintendo is released in US |
| 1986 | Lindsay Lohan | First MLK day observed | Challenger Disaster | Halley’s Comet | Hands Across America supports fighting hunger | Statute of Liberty Reopens after renovation |
| 1987 | Colin Kaepernick | Reagan famous “Tear Down this Wall” speech | Reagan Bork nomination fails in Senate | Jessica McClure falls down a well | Black Monday on Wall Street | |
| 1988 | Kevin Durant | Anthony Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court | Wrigley Field – First nightgame in history | George HW Bush elected President | Reagan signs bill for death penalty for drug traffickers | First World AIDS day is observed |
| 1989 | Alex Morgan | President Bush takes office | First GPS satallite goes into space | Exxon Valdez spill | Minimum wage increased to $4.25 | Berlin Wall falls |
| 1990 | Jennifer Lawrence | Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson | Ryan White dies of Aids | Hubble Telescope launched | George Bush agrees to raise taxes to reduce deficit | George Bush signs American with Disabilities Act |
| 1991 | Aaron Donald | Operation Desert Storm | Rodney King beating | Nirvana releases Nevermind | Clarence Thomas confirmed to SC | Soviet Union dissolves |
| 1992 | Miley Cirus | LA riots | 27th Amendment becomes law. Prevents mid-term pay raises | Mall of America opens | Hurricane Andrew | Clinton defeats Bush and Perot to win Presidency |
| 1993 | Ariana Grande | Bill Clinton sworn in as President | WTC bombing | Waco standoff | “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy | PLO and Israel sign peace accord |
| 1994 | Aly Raisman | Nancy Kerrigan hit in the leg | The Superhighway Summit | Clinton signs Federal Assault Weapons Ban | Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered | Republican Revolution |
| 1995 | Kendell Jenner | Yahoo! Is incorporated | Oklahoma City Bombing | OJ Simpson murder trial | Microsoft releases Windows 95 | Million Man March |
| 1996 | Zendaya | Clinton signs line- item veto act. SC rules law unconstitutional | Hoover Institute releases an optimistic report on Global Warming | Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act | Bob Dole nominated as Republican candidate for President | Clinton signs welfare reform law |
| 1997 | Lamar Jackson | FDR memorial opens | Titanic premiers | Nasa’s Pathfinder lands on Mars | Steve Jobs returns to Apple | google.com is registered |
| 1998 | Malia Obama | Smoking is banned in California bars and restaurants | Monica Lewinsky affair/Clinton impeached | Presidential line item veto found unconstitutional | Viagra is approved by FDA | White Supremists murder James Byrd |
| 1999 | Kiernan Shipka | Roth IRA is introduced | Columbine Massacre | US Women win World Cup | Unemployment rate falls to under 4% | Recording industry files lawsuit against Napster |
| 2000 | Laurie Hernandez | AOL buys Time Warner | Vermont legalizes same-sex civil unions | Court orders breakup of Microsoft | USS Cole bombing | Bush v. Gore Recount |
| 2001 | Billie Eilish | George Bush becomes President | Bush withdraws from 1997 Kyoto Protocol | Bush tax cuts signed into law | Judge Roy Moore installs ten comandments in Court rotunda | September 11th |
| 2002 | Maddie Ziegler | George Bush signs No Child Left Behind Act | Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan | GWB describes Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the Axis of Evil | DC sniper attacks | Congress authorizes attack on Iraq |
| 2003 | Olivia Rodrigo | Space Shuttle Disaster | Colin Powell presents case against Iraq at UN | Iraq War begins | Northeast power outage | Mass rules laws outlawsing gay marriage are unconstitutional |
| 2004 | Coco Gauff | Nasa’s Spirit and Opportunity land on Mars | Abu Ghraib prison controversy | Final episode of Friends | Mass legalizes same-sex marriage | Assault Weapons Ban expires |
| 2005 | Honey Boo Boo | George Bush begins second term | YouTube goes online | Terri Schiavo debate | The Office debuts | Hurricane Katrina |
| 2006 | Suri Cruise | Liquids banned on US flights | Steve Irwin killed by a Stingray | Google buys YouTube | Dems take Control of both houses of Congress | US Housing Bubble; foreclosures increase by 42% |
| 2007 | Release of first iPhone | Virginia Tech Massacre | Live Earth concerts | Mitchell Report detailing steroids in baseball | ||
| 2008 | Writers strike | Bush releases an economic stimulus plan | California legalizes same sex marriage | Lehman Brothers declare bankruptcy | Obama elected President | |
| 2009 | Iowa allows same sex marriages | Obama releases mileage and emission requirements for cars | Michael Jackson dies | Sonia Sotomayer becomes a Justice | Obama signs Hate Crimes Prevention Act | |
| 2010 | Haiti Earthquake | SC decides Citizens United v. FEC | Obamacare signs into law | BP Oil Spill | Dodd-Frank signed into law | |
| 2011 | Gabbie Giffords shot and injured | Watson wins on Jeapordy | Obama releases long- form birth certificate | Bin Laden killed in Pakistan | Space Shuttle program ends |
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| 2012 | Trayvon Martin killed by George Zimmerman | SC holds Obamacare is constitutional | Aurora movie theatre shooting/Sandy Hook tragedy | Hurricane Sandy | Obama wins reelection | |
| 2013 | Boston Marathon Bombing | IRS admits that it targeted conservative groups | SC strikes down Section 4 of 1965 Voting Rights Act | SC strikes down Defense of Marriage Act | Detroit files for bankruptcy | |
| 2014 | Minimum wage for federal contractors lifted from $7.25 to $10.10 | Obama proposes deep cuts to military | West Africa Ebola Outbreak | One World Trade opens in NYC | US and Cuba engage in normal diplomatic relations | |
| 2015 | American Pharoah wins Triple Crown | Bruce Jenner comes out transgender | Trump announces run for White House | SC upholds Obamacare | SC rules in favor of same-sex marriages | |
| 2016 | Justice Scalia dies | Kobe’s last game. Scores 60 points | Harriet Tubman to replace Jackson on the 20 | Pulse nightclub shooting | Trump wins election | |
| 2017 | Trump becomes President | Trump leaves TPP | Gorsuch fills Scalia’s seat | Comey fired. Mueller hired as Special Counsel | March in Charlottsville | |
| 2018 | Parkland shooting/Tree of Life Shooting | Unemployment rate falls to 3.9% | Trump meets with Kim Jung-Un | Kavanaugh becomes SC justice, replacing Kennedy | Trump withdraws from Iran nuclear deal | |
| 2019 | Mueller report is released | Bump stocks made illegal in US | Ukraine scandel breaks with whistleblower/Trump impeached | Protests to support fighting climate change led by Greta Thunberg | USMCA replaces NAFTA | |
| 2020 | First case of Covid- 19 on January 21, 2020 | Kobe Bryant killed in a helicopter crash | Trump acquitted at impeachment trial | George Floyd killing and Black Lives Matter protests | Biden elected President | |
| 2021 | January 6th attack on capital | First flight on Mars by Ingenuity helicopter | Tokyo Olympics. Delayed a year due to Covid | Afganistan falls to Taliban | Launch of James Webb Telescope | |
| 2022 | World population reaches 8 billion | Russia invades Ukraine | Global Covid deaths reach 6 million | Queen Elizabeth Dies | Open AI releases Chat GPT |
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| 2023 | Silicon Valley Bank and First Republican Bank fail | Titan submersible implodes | Barbie and Oppenheimer open the same weekend | Hamas launches attack on Israel | The first AI safety summit takes place in UK |
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| 2024 | Container ship hits Francis Scott Key Bridge | Total Solar Eclipse across North America | Dow Jones reaches 40,000 for first time | Biden drops out of Presidential race. Vice President Harris accepts Dem nomination | Trump Elected Reelected 47th President |