In the early 1900s, a gallon of milk cost about 35 cents.
The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery, debuted in 1903.
Orville and Wilbur Wright are the first people to fly a controlled, powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.
Albert Einstein formulated his famous theory of relativity in 1905.
Henry Ford began production of the Model T in 1908.
1910: There were 10,000 “nickelodeon” early motion-picture theaters throughout the U.S. that played one- and two-reel films lasting from 15 minutes to an hour.
1912: On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its way from England to New York City, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.
1914: World War I started in August 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sarajevo.
1914: Charlie Chaplin began his acting legacy in 1914 as the Little Tramp in Henry Lehman’s “Kid Auto Races at Venice.”
1915: Alexander Graham Bell made his first transcontinental telephone call from New York to his assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco on January 15.
1917: The U.S. officially joined World War I on April 16 when Congress declared war on Germany.
1918: The first documented case of the Spanish Flu began in Fort Riley, Kansas in March, eventually spreading and infecting approximately 500 million people, about one-third of the world’s population at the time.
1919: World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles by Germany and Allied Powers on June 28.
1920: 783,389 residents counted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1920: Oregon League of Women Voters founded.
1922: First Oregon State Park established at Sarah Helmick State Recreation Area south of Monmouth.
1924: Clarke-McNary Act aids federal-state forest fire protection.
1925: League of Oregon Cities founded.
1926: Astoria Column completed.
1930: U.S. Census counts 953,786 Oregon residents.
1933: Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Projects Administration start projects.
1935: Congress authorizes Bonneville Dam along the Columbia River.
1935: Fire destroys the Oregon State Capitol building.
1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Timberline Lodge and Bonneville Dam.
1937: Oregon Shakespeare Festival begins in Ashland.
1938: Bonneville Dam completed.
1939: University of Oregon wins NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship.
1939: New Oregon State Capitol building completed in Salem.
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