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1900
1900’s
1900 - William McKinley defeated
William Jennings Bryan for the U.S.
presidency — the two had faced off
with the same results in 1896.
Williams Jennings Bryan is famous in
Mission for having lived there for
several months.
1908- The Ford Model T was introduced.
1903- LRGV: Hidalgo Irrigation
Company was organized
1904- LRGV: St. Louis Brownsville &
Mexico Railway arrives in Brownsville
1902- The teddy bear was
first made when there was a
wondrous comic in the
newspaper.
The
comic
showed
how
Teddy
Roosevelt refused to shoot
a defenseless bear. It also
showed his telling his men
to release the bear.
1906- Kellogg's Starts Selling
Corn Flakes
1903- First License Plates
Issued in the U.S.
1908- LRGV: Hidalgo County
moves county seat to Chapin, a
new town
1903- The era of aviation arrived when
Orville Wright successfully piloted the
first flight at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina.
1906- LRGV: Rio Grande Land and
Irrigation Company diverts the Rio
Grande River causing 413-acres of
land, including the town of Rio Rico,
to “move“ to Mexico - south of the
Rio Grande.
1909- LRGV: First international
bridge built in Brownsville
1910
1910- LRGV Jacinto Trevino, who
lived in Cameron County, Texas,
witnessed
James
Darwin
horsewhipping
Jacinto's
young
cousin. Trevino fatally shot Darwin
and fled to Mexico. Trevino later
returned to Texas and escaped an
ambush,
killing
several
law
enforcement officers.
1912- 1,500 perished when
the Titanic struck an iceberg
and sank during its maiden
voyage.
1914- First electric traffic
light
1916- Pancho Villa led his rebels in
an attack on Columbus, New
Mexico, killing 17 Americans.
Despite warnings from the Mexican
government, U.S. troops were sent
into Mexico to bring Villa to justice.
Their year-long search for Villa was
fruitless.
1912- Oreo Cookies First
Introduced
1911- LRGV: Chapin's name
changed to Edinburg; "new" Hidalgo
County courthouse built
1918-The World War I ended in
the 11th hour of the 11th day of
the 11th month.
1917- U.S. Enters World War I
1915- LRGV: Border raids; Texas
Rangers sent to the Valley to try and
quell raids, President Wilson orders
increase in military build-up along
border
1918- Daylight Saving Time
Introduced
1920
1928- “The Greatest Thing
Since Sliced Bread”
Before 1928 bread was only
sold in whole loaves and
had to be sliced at home
1923-LRGV: Texas Citrus
Fruit Growers Exchange built
1920- Prohibition Begins in
the U.S.
1926- LRGV: Reynosa
International Bridge dedicated
1928-Bubble Gum Invented
1929-LRGV: Ruby Red
grapefruit discovered in McAllen
by A. E. Henninger
1928-First Mickey Mouse Cartoon
1927-LRGV: Edcouch and Elsa
established
1920- Women Granted the Right to
Vote in U.S.
1929-Patent for the
first coin-operated
vending machine
1927-LRGV: Edinburg College
established, would later
become The University of
Texas-Pan American
1929-"Black Tuesday" —
October 29th —New York Stock
Market crashes beginning the
Great Depression
1930
1930-The Veterans
Administration was
created.
1935-President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Social
Security Act.
1938- A federal minimum
wage of 25¢ per hour
was established
1932-Air Conditioning invented
1933-LRGV: Hurricane devastates
Valley and damages the Reynosa
International Bridge
1934-Parker Brothers Sells
the Game "Monopoly"
1932-Lindbergh's Baby Kidnapped
1939- Nylon stockings were
introduced.
1931- The Star-Spangled
Banner was chosen over America
The Beautiful as the U.S. national
anthem.
1933-Facing the worst depression in U.S.
history, Franklin Roosevelt declared in
his inaugural address that "the only thing
we have to fear is fear itself."
1937-The Golden Gate
Bridge was completed.
1940
1940-Hitler's conquests in
Europe were softening
America's isolationist stand
as World War II continued.
Italy declared war
1945-Microwave Oven Invented
1943-LRGV: Santa Ana
Wildlife Refuge created
1941-Pearl Harbor, U.S. base in
Hawaii is attacked by the
Japanese on December 7th.
President Roosevelt calls it “a
day that shall live in infamy” and
announced a declaration of war
against Japan.
1945-Atomic
bomb
dropped on Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
by
President
Truman
in
August. The Japanese
surrendered
aboard
the U.S.S. Missouri on
September 1st.
1945-Germans Surrender,
Hitler Commits Suicide.
World War II ends.
1947-UFOs (Unidentified flying
objects) or "flying saucers“ The
government confirmed to a local
newspaper that a saucer crashed
near Roswell, New Mexico and that
alien bodies had been recovered
from the site, but later recanted all
accounts of the crash, saying the
object was just a weather balloon.
1945-First Computer Built
1949-George Orwell
Publishes his book 1984
1943-"WACS" the Women's
Army Corps was organized.
Other branches of the
service
formed
similar
organizations.
1946-Bikinis Introduced
1950
1950-first modern credit
card introduced
1951-Color TV
introduced in Missouri
on September 1st.
1953-LRGV:
President Eisenhower
speaks at dedication
of Falcon Dam
.
1955-“Duck and cover
when you see a flash” –
what school children were
taught in government drills
that they could avoid the
devastation of nuclear
weapons
1957-The Space Race
begins when Russia
successfully launched the
first man-made orbiting
satellite, the Sputnik.
1958- Peace Symbol
Created
1953-DNA Discovered
1958-NASA founded
1950-Korean War Begins
1951-LRGV:
Edinburg
Junior
College becomes a
four year university,
and changes its
name to Edinburg
Regional College
1952-LRGV:
One
year
later,
the
college changes its
name
to
Pan
American
College,
with the appointment
of
eight-member
board of regents
1955-McDonald's Corporation
Founded
1959- Castro becomes dictator of Cuba.
1960
1960-First Televised
Presidential Debates
1963-Rev.
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.
delivers
his
legendary "I Have A
Dream" speech to a
quarter-million
people a civil rights
March in Washington
1963-President John F.
Kennedy
was
assassinated during a
motorcade procession in
Dallas on November
22nd. Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson was
sworn in as
chief
executive hours after the
assassination
1960-Lasers Invented
1961- Berlin Wall Built
1963-The U.S. Post
Office implemented
the Zip Code, which
replaced
zone
designations in large
cities and added 5
digits to all American
addresses.
1966-LRGV: La Casita Farms
strike in Starr County (Strikes
last until 1968)
1964-The
Warren
Commission determined
that Lee Harvey Oswald
was the lone Kennedy
assassin and there was
no conspiracy in the
Dallas shooting.
1967-LRGV: Hurricane Beulah
devastates Valley. Hidalgo and
Cameron
Counties
were
flooded with torrential rain. The
water took weeks to drain
1968-LRGV: Edcouch Elsa
students draft 15 demands
and begin protests
1966- UT Austin’s bell
tower is the site where a
sniper killed 13 and
wounded
31.
After
police shot and killed
Charles Whitman, they
discovered
he
had
earlier killed his wife
and mother.
1969-The world's largest
TV audience to date
watched astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin become the first
men to walk on the
moon.
1970
1970-LRGV: San
Juan Shrine church
destroyed when pilot
flies his plane into it
1971-LRGV: "Pharr Riot" is incited by
police brutality toward Mexican Americans
1971-VCRs introduced
1975-Microsoft founded
1970-Computer Floppy Disks
Introduced
1977-The Carter
administration created
the Department Of
Energy and called for
voluntary cutbacks on
energy use.
1978-LRGV: Hurricane
Allen hits the Rio Grande
Valley
1972-Pocket Calculators
Introduced
1971-LRGV: Pan American College
gains full university status and
becomes Pan American University
1978-McGruff the crime dog
takes first bite out of crime
.
1976-LRGV: La Plaza
Mall opened in
McAllen, later to
become the most
productive shopping
mall in the United
States
1978-John Paul II
Becomes Pope
1980
1980-Mt. St. Helens in
southwest Washington
erupted, killing 62 and
spreading thick ash
over an area of 250
square miles.
1981-Personal Computers
(PC) Introduced by IBM
1981-Pac-Man is extremely
popular
1985-Coca Cola outraged
its
customers
by
introducing a reformulated
version of the long-popular
soft drink. 20 weeks later,
the company announced it
would bring back the old
recipe under the name
Coke Classic.
1982-Seven deaths due to
cyanide-filled Tylenol capsules
led the government to impose
new tamper-resistant packaging
for over-the-counter drugs.
1987-Greg Lamonde became
the first American to win the
Tour De France.
1986-Reduced safety standards in an
attempt to speed up the launch date
resulted in the
explosion of the
space shuttle Challenger shortly after
takeoff. Elementary school teacher
Christa McAulliffe — appointed to the
mission by President Reagan — died
in the blast as her students watched
TV coverage in her Concord, New
Hampshire classroom.
.
1989-LRGV: Pan American
University merges with U.T.
system and becomes the
University of Texas Pan
American.
1990
1990-Operation
Desert
Shield
consisted
of
527,000 American military
personnel sent to Saudi
Arabia and the Persian
Gulf after Iraq invaded
Kuwait.
1992-Riots,
looting
and
burning broke out in Los
Angeles after the acquittal of
four white police officers on
the major counts in the
beating of Rodney King. King
appealed to blacks and whites
to get along.
1992-Large department store
chains began to show losses,
with Alexander's, Woolworth
and Macy's closing stores.
Macy's filed for bankruptcy.
1999-The Euro was
established as the New
European Currency
1994-A major league baseball
strike over the issue of salary
caps caused cancelation of the
World Series. There was plenty
of Texas pride as Dallas took the
Super Bowl and Houston won
the NBA Playoffs.
1993-LRGV: Governor Ann
Richards signs Senate Bill 251
creating South Texas Community
College
1999-Japan's Pokemon
card and video games
became enormously
popular.
1995-Shortly
before
the
release of her first Englishlanguage
album,
Tejano
superstar Selena was shot
and killed. Police arrested the
leader of her fan club,
Yolanda Saldivar, who was
found guilty a few months
later
1995-In the worst terrorist
attack in U.S. history, the
front half of the federal
building in Oklahoma City
was literally blown to bits,
killing 168 and injuring
hundreds more. Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols
were arrested.
1999- Killing Spree
at Columbine High
School
1999-Technicians
scrambled to fix "Y2K
bugs," problems that
could render computers
unusable should their
two-digit date systems
change years from 99 to
00.
1999-Ignoring the fact
that a new century and
millennium
would
actually begin with the
year
2001,
concert
promoters,
advertisers
and the media, plus a
majority of the public,
considered New Year's
Eve 1999 to be the
moment of the transition.