1902 — Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper
1903 — First Major League Baseball World Series
— Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first successful self-propelled airplane
1914 — World War I begins
1928 — Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1932 — Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
1952 — Princess Elizabeth becomes queen of England
1961 — Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to fly into outer space
1963 — First measles vaccine administered in the United States
1967 — Christiaan Barnard performs the first human-to-human heart transplant
1969 — First message sent over the Internet
1978 — Muhammad Ali wins his third world heavyweight boxing championship
1993 — Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
1994 — Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa
2007 — First iPhone is released
2016 — Michael Phelps wins his twenty-third gold Olympic medal for swimming
— Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature