| May 2004 Missouri Regional Newsletter p4 |
| 1923- Coca-Cola establishes international marketing department
1927- First movie with sound, The Jazz Singer, released 1927- First television broadcast 1927- Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris 1928- Mickey Mouse first appears (in role of "Steamboat Willie") 1928- Sliced bread first marketed to public 1929- Wall Street crash triggers worldwide depression 1929- First movie with both sound and Technicolor released 1929- First Academy Awards 1935- FM radio introduced 1939- Television introduced at World's Fair 1939- Hollywood's "Golden Year" sees premieres of Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, and The Wizard of Oz 1939- World War II breaks out in Europe 1940- First McDonald's opens 1941- Penicillin revolutionizes medicine 1941- Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor 1945- First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan 1946- "Baby Boom" begins 1946- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech, launching Cold War 1947- Jackie Robinson joins Brooklyn Dodgers 1947- Roswell "alien incident" occurs in New Mexico 1948- Cable television first introduced 1949- First Jet aircraft built 1949- First Emmy Awards 1949- National Basketball Association (NBA) founded 1950- NFL begins televising games 1954- U.S. outlaws segregation in public schools 1954- Senator Joe McCarthy holds anti-communist McCarthy hearings 1954- Premiere issue of TV Guide published 1955- Disneyland opens in California 1956- Elvis appears on The Ed Sullivan Show |