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| 1864 |
Richard Strauss and Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec born.
Louis Pasteur invents
pasteurization |
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| 1865 |
Wagner's Tristan und
Isolde; The Civil War
ends; Abraham Lincoln is
assassinated. |
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| 1875 |
Bizet's Carmen and
Tchaikovsky's Piano
Concerto No. 1; C.G.
Jung born. |
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| 1876 |
Mark Twain's The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer;
Alexander Graham Bell
patents the telephone. |
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| 1880 |
Rodin's The Thinker;
New York streets are lit by
electricity. |
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| 1881 |
President Garfield
assassinated; Pablo
Picasso born. |
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| 1886 |
Strauss begins his first tone
poem, Macbeth; Seurat
paints Sunday Afternoon on
the Grande Jatte. |
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| 1893 |
Dvorák's "New World"
Symphony; World
Exhibition in Chicago. |
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| 1894 |
Strauss's first opera,
Guntram, has disastrous
premiere; Rudyard
Kipling's The Jungle Book. |
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| 1896 |
Strauss begins composing
Don Quixote; First modern
Olympics (Athens, Greece). |
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| 1903 |
Jack London's The Call
of the Wild; Orville and
Wilbur Wright's first flight |
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| 1904 |
Ravinia Park and
Orchestra Hall open;
George Balanchine and
Vladimir Horowitz born. |
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| 1905 |
Strauss's opera Salome
shocks audiences;
Debussy's La Mer and
Lehar's The Merry Widow. |
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| 1909 |
Strauss's Elektra
premieres; First plastic
is produced. |
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| 1911 |
Strauss's opera Der
Rosenkavalier and
Stravinsky's Petrushka. |
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| 1912 |
Ravinia begins
presenting opera;
The "S.S. Titanic" sinks.
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| 1913 |
Stravinsky's Le sacré
du printemps; Charlie
Chaplin's first film. |
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| 1919 |
Strauss's Die Frau
ohne Schatten; 18th
Amendment ("Prohibition")
makes alcohol illegal. |
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| 1920 |
Ravel's La valse and
Gustav Holst's The
Planets; American women
are given the vote. |
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| 1929 |
"Black Friday" signals start
of the Great Depression;
Chicago's St. Valentine's
Day Massacre. |
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| 1931 |
The Empire State
Building completed; "The
Star-Spangled Banner"
becomes national anthem. |
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| 1932 |
Aldous Huxley's Brave
New World; Amelia
Earhart flies solo across
the Atlantic. |
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| 1935 |
Gershwin's opera Porgy
and Bess premieres;
President Roosevelt signs
U.S. Social Security Act. |
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| 1936 |
Ravinia Park reopens as
Ravinia Festival; Margaret
Mitchell's Gone With the
Wind. |
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| 1939 |
Aaron Copland's Billy the
Kid; France and Great
Britain declare war on
Germany. |
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| 1940 |
Germany invades Paris
and begins "Blitzkreig"
air raids on London;
Germany, Japan and Italy
form the Axis. |
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| 1941 |
The U.S. declares war on
Japan, Germany and Italy
after bombing of Pearl
Harbor. |
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| 1942 |
Aaron Copland's Rodeo
and Strauss's final opera,
Capriccio; American
scientists split the atom. |
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| 1945 |
The U.S. drops atomic
bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasake. Japan
surrenders, marking the
end of World War II. |
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| 1948 |
Strauss's Four Last
Songs. The state of Israel
is created. |
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| 1949 |
The U.S.S.R. tests its
first atomic bomb;
Richard Strauss dies. |
