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Isaac Franklin "Ike" Walker

Isaac Franklin "Ike" Walker

Male 1877 - 1954  (77 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1877-1881 
  • 1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
1878 
  • 1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1879 
  • 1879: First vaccine for cholera
  • 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
1881 
  • 1881: First vaccine for anthrax
  • 1881: Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady.
  • 1881: Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor.
  • 1881: James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
1881-1885 
  • 1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
1882 
  • 1882: First vaccine for rabies
1883 
  • 1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.
  • 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
1884 
  • 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
1885 
  • 1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado.
  • 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
10 1885-1889 
  • 1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
11 1888 
  • 1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
12 1889 
  • 1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
13 1889-1893 
  • 1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
14 1890 
  • 1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
  • 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
15 1891 
  • 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
16 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
17 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
18 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
19 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
20 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
21 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
22 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
23 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
24 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
25 1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
26 1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
27 1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
28 1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
29 1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
30 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
31 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
32 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
33 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
34 1913 
  • 1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs.
  • 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers!
  • 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
35 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
36 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
37 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
38 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
39 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
40 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
41 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
42 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
43 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
44 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
45 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
46 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.
47 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
48 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
49 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
50 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
51 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
52 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
53 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
54 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
55 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
56 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
57 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
58 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
59 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
60 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
61 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
62 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
63 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
64 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
65 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
66 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
67 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
68 1961-1963 
  • 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
69 1963-1969 
  • 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
70 1964 
  • 1964: First vaccine for measles
71 1965-1975 
  • 1965-1975: Vietnam War
72 1967 
  • 1967: First vaccine for mumps
  • 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
73 1969-1974 
  • 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
74 1973 
  • 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
75 1974 
  • 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
76 1974-1977 
  • 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.


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