USA Vietnam War Ends
The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
Richard M. Nixon first president of USA to resign from office. His decision was announced 8 Aug 1974.
Gerald Ford president of the USA 1974-1977.
The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
Gene splicing invented.
The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
Bic invents the disposable lighter.
The word processor invented.
Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
The dot-matrix printer invented.
The food processor invented.
The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
The daisy-wheel printer invented.
The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
Richard Nixon president of the USA 1969-1974.
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
The first handheld calculator invented.
Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
Astroturf invented.
Soft contact lenses invented.
NutraSweet invented.
The compact disk invented by James Russell.
Acrylic paint invented.
Permanent-press fabric invented.
BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
The first videodisc invented.
The audio cassette invented.
The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
Valium invented.
The nondairy creamer invented.
USA Vietnam War Begins
The halogen lamp invented.
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
Barbie Doll invented.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
The modem invented.
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Fortran (computer language) invented.
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
Optic fiber invented.
Oral contraceptives invented.
The first nonstick pan produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
Radial tires invented.
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
Mr. Potato Head patented.
The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
The first diet soft drink sold called the "No-Cal Beverage" a gingerale sold by Kirsch.
Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
Elizabeth II. Ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1956.
Super glue invented.
Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
Cake mix invented.
The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
Mobile phones first invented.
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
World War II ends.
Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
The atomic bomb invented.
The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
Richard James invents the slinky.
James Wright invent silly putty.
Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1923 - 1994 (71 years)