President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic (Jan 14), nine men from various Jewish charitable organizations form Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (Jan 15), the first British public toilet for women opens in London (Feb 11), French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first - around 30 km long - airship trip (Sep 24), Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French (Dec 2) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1911, the first official air mail flight takes place in India, carrying 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km (Feb 18), International Women’s Day is celebrated for the first time (Mar 8), The New York Public Library is officially dedicated (May 23), IBM is incorporated in New York (Jun 15), Chevrolet enters the automobile market to compete with Ford (Nov 3), the Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition reaches the South Pole (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Demonstration of the free-fall prevention mechanism in 1854 In the year 1857, the Estonian newspaper, Postimees, is established (Jan 1), the largest slave auction in the United States history is held in Savannah, Georgia (Mar 3), the first Otis elevator is installed, in New York City (Mar 23), Indian combatants capture Delhi from the British East India Company (May 11), the Victoria and Albert Museum is officially opened in London (Jun 22), Sheffield F. Continue reading

Hitler and Mussolini in Venice in 1934 In the year 1934, Alcatraz becomes a prison (Jan 1, and remained so until 1963), Fuji Photo Film is founded (Jan 20), the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana (May 23), Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time, in Venice (Jun 14), Night of the Long Knifes in Germany increases Nazi power (Jun 30), Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany (Aug 2), the Soviet Union joins the League of Nations (Sep 19), Persia becomes Iran (Dec 27) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1971, cigarette advertisements are banned on radio and television in the United States (Jan 2), All in the Family debuts on CBS (Jan 12), Idi Amin becomes president of Uganda, and Charles Manson is found guilty in Los Angeles (Jan 25), Bangladesh declares itself an independent country (May 31), Neville Bonner becomes the first indigenous Australian to sit in the country’s parliament (Jun 11), Jim Morrison is found dead in Paris (Jul 3), Apollo 15 astronauts ride the first lunar rover on the Moon(Jul 31), Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida (Oct 1), Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, Canada (Oct 14), Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully (Nov 13), Starbucks is founded - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1961, U.S. President Eisenhower warns in his Farewell Address of the increasing power of the military-industrial complex (Jan 17), the Beatles perform for the first time (Feb 9), Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space (Apr 12), the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins, failing two days later (Apr 17), the Swedish ship Vasa is removed from the water after 333 years of its sinking (Apr 24), Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space (May 5), President Kennedy announces his plan to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade (May 25), construction of the Berlin Wall begins (Aug 13), JFK sends 18,000 military advisers to South Vietnam (Nov 18), Fidel Castro announces that Cuba will now adopt socialism (Dec 2), Goa becomes part of India after 400 years of Portuguese rule (Dec 19) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1899, Opel Motors open for business (Jan 21), Felix Hoffmann patents aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark (Mar 6), Jean Sibelius’s First Symphony premiers in Helsinki (Apr 26), gold is discovered in Nome, Alaska, leading to the Nome Gold Rush (Jul 27), Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident (Sep 13), the FC Barcelona Association football club is founded (Nov 29) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_160” align=“alignright” width=“388”]SS Savannah in 1819[/caption] In the year 1819, Spain cedes Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and for $5 million (Feb 22), all onboard the French slave ship Le Rodeur become blind during the voyage over Atlantic, and consequently all of the slaves are thrown overboard (Apr 6), the SS Savannah leaves Georgia to become the first steamship to cross Atlantic, arriving at Liverpool on June 20 (May 22), Columbia acquires independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar (Aug 7), Museo del Prado opens in Madrid (Nov 19) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1839, the first photograph of the Moon is taken by the French photographer Louis Daguerre (Jan 2), the Boston Morning Post first records the use of “O.K” (which stands for “oll korrekt”) (Mar 23), the world’s first commercial electric telegraph line comes into operation in England (Apr 9), Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (Jun 22), British forces seize Hong Kong as a base, as it prepares to wage the First Opium War (Aug 23) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_152” align=“alignright” width=“426”]Zeppelin from the year 1936[/caption] In the year 1900, the first electric bus becomes operational in New York City (Jan 2), Dwight F Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament (Feb 9), Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country (Feb 14), the British Labour Party is formed (Feb 27), the Paris World Exhibition opens (Apr 14), Hawaii becomes an official U. Continue reading

In the year 1957, Eisenhower’s second term as U.S. president begins (Jan 20), the first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr (Apr 1), John Lennon(16) and Paul McCartney(15) meet for the very first time, 3 years before forming the Beatles (Jul 6), Olav V becomes King of Norway (Sep 21), David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in the UK (Oct 2), the Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth (Oct 4), Sputnik 2 is launched, with the dog Laika on board (Nov 3), Gordon Gould invents the laser (Nov 13), the Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time (Dec 20) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_81” align=“alignleft” width=“294”]Blessing the flag of Revolution in 1821[/caption] In the year 1821, the revolutionary Greek flag is raised at Agia Lavra, marking the looming independence from the Ottoman Empire - later celebrated as the Greek Independence Day (Mar 25), Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena (May 5), the United States takes possession of Florida, the territory bought from Spain (Jul 10), the Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time (Aug 4), the world’s first geographical society is established in Paris, France (Dec 15), Spain loses many of its South American colonies during the year 1821 - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

Pick a year between 1901 and 2000! If you have forefathers or -mothers born any of these years, you can have them added in the list by simply leaving a comment on the box below the year in question. Keep in mind though that you need to have the permission of any living person to be added here, unless that person is yourself. 1901 - 1902 - 1903 - 1904 - 1905 - 1906 - 1907 - **1908 **- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1918 - 1919 - 1920 - 1921 - 1922 - 1923 - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - 1929 - 1930 - 1931 - 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945 - 1946 - 1947 - 1948 - 1949 - 1950 - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 - 1955 - 1956- 1957 - 1958 - 1959 - 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 - 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 Updated 29. Continue reading

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Jaffa Road in the 19th century Jerusalem Here you have all the years between 1801 and 1900. A century that saw hundreds of important inventions in all fields of science. Click on any of these years to see who was born where, and what they did or accomplished during their lives. If you have ancestors born during this time period, you can as a patron have them easily added in the list. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_102” align=“alignleft” width=“354”]Alaska area compared with the other U.S. states[/caption] In the year 1867, Prince Mutsuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (Feb 3), Johann Strauss' The_ Blue Danube_ is first performed, in Vienna (Feb 13), the United States purchases Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars (Mar 30), Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada - the first independent dominion in the British Empire (May 29), Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital (Sep 14), the last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji (Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1889, the Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia (Jan 15), the Eiffel Tower is inaugurated (Mar 31) and opens for the public in Paris, France (May 6), the Wall Street Journal is established (Jun 8), the Children’s Charter is passed in the United Kingdom, imposing criminal penalties to deter child abuse (Aug 26), the Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris (Oct 6), in San Francisco, the first jukebox goes into operation (Nov 23) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1946, Project Diana opens the Space Age (Jan 10), Trygve Lie is selected as the first UN Secretary-General (Feb 1), Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina (Feb 24) and Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam (Mar 2), women vote for the first time in Japan (Apr 10), Italy is declared a republic (Jun 10), the bikini is first modeled in Paris (Jul 5), the U.S. detonates nuclear bomb near Bikini Atoll, and the last mass lynching in the U. Continue reading

In the year 1991, Gulf War’s Operation Desert Storm begins in Iraq (Jan 16), Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union (Mar 3), Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Soviet republic Russia (Jun 12), Berlin becomes the capital of the unified Germany (Jun 20), the Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved (Jul 1), The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic States (Sep 6), the Soviet Union is dissolved (Dec 26), and officially ceases to exist (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1989, George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st U.S. president (Jan 20), the Soviet army leaves Afghanistan (Feb 2), Rain Man wins the Academy Award for the best picture (Mar 29), the first McDonald’s restaurant begins construction in Moscow (May 3), Mikhail Gorbachev visits China (May 14), the Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing (Jun 4), France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (Jul 14), two million people join hands in the Baltic Way to demonstrate against Soviet rule of the Baltic republics (Aug 23), **Berlin Wall falls **(Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading