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| 1 | 1920 | - 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
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| 2 | 1921 | - 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
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| 3 | 1921-1923 | - 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
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| 4 | 1923 | - 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
- 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
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| 5 | 1923-1929 | - 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
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| 6 | 1924 | - 1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York.
Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris.
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
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| 7 | 1926 | - 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
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| 8 | 1927 | - 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
- 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
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| 9 | 1928 | - 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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| 10 | 1929-1933 | - 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 11 | 1932 | - 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
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| 12 | 1933-1945 | - 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 13 | 1935 | - 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
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| 14 | 1936 | - 1936: Electric guitars debut.
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| 15 | 1937 | - 1937: First vaccine for typhus
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| 16 | 1939-1945 | |
| 17 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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| 18 | 1943 | - 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
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| 19 | 1945 | - 1945: First vaccine for influenza
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| 20 | 1945-1953 | - 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 21 | 1948 | - 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
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| 22 | 1949 | - 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
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| 23 | 1950-1953 | |
| 24 | 1953-1961 | - 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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| 25 | 1955 | - 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
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| 26 | 1956 | - 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
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| 27 | 1960 | - 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
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| 28 | 1961-1963 | - 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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| 29 | 1963-1969 | - 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
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| 30 | 1964 | - 1964: First vaccine for measles
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| 31 | 1965-1975 | |
| 32 | 1967 | - 1967: First vaccine for mumps
- 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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| 33 | 1969-1974 | - 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
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| 34 | 1973 | - 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
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| 35 | 1974 | - 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
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| 36 | 1974-1977 | - 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
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| 37 | 1977 | - 1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
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| 38 | 1977-1981 | - 1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
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| 39 | 1978 | - 1978: First vaccine for meningitis
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| 40 | 1981 | - 1981: MTV goes on the air running around the clock music videos.
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| 41 | 1981-1989 | - 1981-1989: Ronald Wilson Reagan serves as fortieth president of the United States.
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| 42 | 1988 | - 1988: CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
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| 43 | 1989-1993 | - 1989-1993: George Herbert Walker Bush serves as forty-first president of the United States.
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| 44 | 1990-1991 | - 1990-1991: Persian Gulf War
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| 45 | 1993-2001 | - 1993-2001: William Jefferson Clinton serves as forty-second president of the United States.
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| 46 | 2001- | - 2001-: George Walker Bush serves as forty-third president of the United States.
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| 47 | 2003 | |
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