Anniversaries
are plentiful in 2015. Whatever happened
in 1215, 1915, 1815, and even 1990 contributed to the world we have today. No doubt books have been – or will be – written
about the celebrated events of yesteryear.
Below is a random sampling of milestone events:
100
Years Ago
Pluto
was photographed for the first time
The
first submarine disaster takes place
Babe
Ruth makes his pitching debut
AT&T
becomes the first corporation with a million stockholders
BMT
(Brooklyn Rapid Transit) begins subway service
150
Years Ago
Lincoln
assassinated
Civil
War ends
Congress
bans slavery
Alice in
Wonderland is published
350
Years Ago
New
Amsterdam legally becomes British and is renamed New York after English Duke of
York
80 Years
Ago
The
first Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl is played
Iceland
becomes first Western nation to legalize abortion
Monopoly
board games go on sale
50 Years
First
person to walk in space – Russian Astronaut Alexey Leonon
Death of
Winston Churchill
MLK Jr’s
First March from Selma
Sound of
Music premiers
First US
combat troops land in Vietnam
800
Years
Signing
of the Magna Carta
200
Years
The War
of 1812 concludes
Napoleon
is exiled after defeat
25 Years
Hubble
Telescope was launched
Encyclopedia
Britannica sales peaked at 120,000 volumes
The
number of librarians peaked
Gorbachev
elected as the first president of the Soviet Union
Germany
is reunified
75 Years
Elmer
Fudd makes his cartoon debut
Booker
T. Washington becomes first African-American to be depicted on a US postage
stamp
The
Battle of Britain in WWII
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