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Centenarian James J Brady was born in 1878 and in that year Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States. The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. The Salem witchcraft trial, the last of its kind in the U.S., opens in Salem, Massachusetts.
It's amazing how different the world was when he was born as compared to when he died.
Some historical events that happened during James lifetime.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was dedicated by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
1889 - The U.S. enters its first global conflict, the Spanish-American War.
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.
1908 - First Model-T by the Ford Motor Company.
1912 - RMS Titanic sank.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1915 - The first U.S. Coast to Coast long distance telephone call.
1919 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment.
1920 - Nineteenth Amendment, granted women the right to vote.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight.
1930 - The Great Depression.
1931 - Empire State Building is 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
l976 - United States Bicentennial. From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time.