(
visit link)
Myrtle R. Milne was born in 1904 and in that year Theodore Roosevelt was president.
Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.371 miles per hour.
The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Time Square.
What remarkable changes she must have seen during her lifetime.
It's amazing how different the world was when she was born as compared to when she died.
1907 - April 17 - was the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island,with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
1910 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first former president to ride in an airplane.
1915 - The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
1920 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to The Constitution.
1926 - In New York City, the Warner Brother' Vitaphone system premiered with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1930 - The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Jimmy Dewar invests Hostess Twinkies.
1935 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1940 - California's first modern freeway, State Route 110, opens to traffic.
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the U.S. into World War II
1945 - World War II ends.
1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines Illinois.
1960 - Democratic U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was elected president.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy assassination
1969 - Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong takes the first historic steps by a human on the surface.
1972 - The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.
1975 - End of Vietnam War
1983 - The first woman in space,Sally Ride on the Challenger
1992 - After 30 years Johnny Carson retired as host of NBC's The Tonight Show.
1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, dropping 20 inches of snow, has gust winds of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet.
2000 - The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets in game 5 to win their 26th World Series title.
2001 - 9/11
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere
2007 - George W. Bush was president, the United States.
The Sopranos ended with the infamous cut to black ending, The Price is Right airs its final episode hosted by Bob Parker and the first iPhone is released in the U.S.