TIMELINE OF
THE WORLD

1898 Campbell’s Soup introduces its red-and-white label

1926 Marilyn Monroe is born

1929 The stock market crashes and the Great Depression begins

1930 Ruth Wakefield invents the chocolate-chip cookie

1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed;
the United States enters World War II

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American
to play major-league baseball

1954 The first restaurant in the McDonald’s chain opens

1963 President Kennedy is assassinated

1964 The Beatles come to America

1966 Star Trek premieres

1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk
on the moon

1971 The first e-mail is sent

1976 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the
Apple I computer

1977 Star Wars is released

1980 The video game Pac-Man is introduced

1981 MTV begins

1989 The Simpsons premieres