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| 1 | 1926 | - 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
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| 2 | 1927 | - 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
- 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
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| 3 | 1928 | - 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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| 4 | 1929-1933 | - 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
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| 5 | 1932 | - 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
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| 6 | 1933-1945 | - 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
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| 7 | 1935 | - 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
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| 8 | 1936 | - 1936: Electric guitars debut.
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| 9 | 1937 | - 1937: First vaccine for typhus
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| 10 | 1939-1945 | |
| 11 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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| 12 | 1943 | - 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
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| 13 | 1945 | - 1945: First vaccine for influenza
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| 14 | 1945-1953 | - 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 15 | 1948 | - 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
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| 16 | 1949 | - 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
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| 17 | 1950-1953 | |
| 18 | 1953-1961 | - 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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| 19 | 1955 | - 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
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| 20 | 1956 | - 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
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| 21 | 1960 | - 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
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| 22 | 1961-1963 | - 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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1925 - 1962 (36 years)