Mary A. Perina was born in 1883, and lived to the remarkable old age of one hundred and three. She was born the same year the Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic in NYC, after 13 years of construction.
What remarkable changes she must have seen during her lifetime.
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks was born.
1884 - Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1885 - The statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1886 - Pharmacist John Pemberton creates a carbonated beverage called Coca-Cola.
1891 - The Music Hall in New York, known as Carnegie Hall has its grand opening and first public performance with Tchaikovsky.
1900 - The Wright brothers began their first manned glider experimental flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 - The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents.
1910 - First commercial flight of the Zeppelin.
1912 - RMs Titanic sank.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1915 - Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.
1919 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight.
1930 - The Great Depression
1931 - Empire State Building completed.
- Construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan begins.
1933 - 21st Amendment ends prohibition
1939 - World War II
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
1945 - End of World War II
1950 - Korean War begins when North Korea invade South Korea.(1950-1953)
1955 - Start of Vietnam War.
1958 - The USSR orbits Sputnik 1 beginning the Space Race.
1961 - Alan Shepard is the first American astronaut to reach space, in a sub-orbital flight.
1963 - "I Have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech in Washington, DC.
1963 - Assassination of President Kennedy.
1969 - Moon Landing, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr., become the first men to land on the moon.
1974 - Nixon Resignation.
1975 - End of the Vietnam War.
1983 - The first woman in space, Sally Ride on the Challenger.
1987 - We lost, Randolph Scott, Andy Warhol, Danny Kaye, Liberace and Rita Hayworth.
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