US MEDIA | CULTURE | BRAND
Timeline
The Sun debuts
1833
Volney B Palmer, Ad Agency opens
1840
The New York Times debuts
1851
The Civil War begins
1861
The Civil War ends
1865
NW Ayer & Son, Ad Agency opens
1869
Train track development: 170,000 miles over next 30 years
1871
Montgomery Ward Catalog debuts
1872
Yellowstone National Park created
1872
The Kentucky Derby debuts
1875
End of Reconstruction
1877
P&G’s first Ivory Soap ad campaign
1882
Ladies Home Journal, first ad supported magazine
1883
Pre-cut cardboard box invented
1890
Carnegie Hall opens
1891
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
1893
Campbell’s Condensed Soup debuts
1897
Grape Nuts debuts
1897
39% of US lives in Urban areas
1900
President McKinley assassinated
1901
Ladies Home Journal, first magazine with 1 million subscribers
1903
Powered flight achieved by Wright Brothers
1903
Montgomery Ward has three million catalogs in circulation
1904
HJ Heinz Incorporates
1905
Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity
1905
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes introduced
1906
Upton Sinclair’s, “The Jungle”
1906
Pure Food and Drug Act
1906
Jack Johnson, first African-American heavyweight boxing champion
1908
Titanic sinks
1912
Ford introduces the assembly line
1913
US income tax laws ratified
1913
15 million immigrants arrived in US since 1900
1915
The Birth of a Nation – film
1915
Pancho Villa Expedition
1916
US Steel is America’s largest company
1917
US enters WWI
1917
Immigration Act of 1917
1917
National Prohibition Act passed
1919
Women earn legal right to vote
1920
First radio ad sales
1922
The Great Gatsby – novel
1925
The Jazz Singer – film
1927
Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willy debuts – animation
1928
Stock market crash
1929
McElroy memo at P&G
1931
Empire State Building completed
1931
New Deal legislation begins
1933
Wizard of Oz – film
1939
Gone with the Wind – film
1939
US enters WW2
1941
United States uses Atomic bombs against Japan
1945
Jackson Pollock’s #5 – art
1948
9% of US households own a TV
1950
Catcher in the Rye – novel
1951
I love Lucy – TV show
1951
The invisible Man – novel
1952
Playboy’s 1st Issue released
1953
Bill Haley and the Comets, “Rock Around the Clock” – music
1954
Brown v Board of Education
1954
McDonald’s debuts
1955
The Honeymooners – TV show
1955
Federal Highway Act
1956
On the Road – novel
1957
Kind of Blue – jazz album
1959
80% of US households own a TV
1960
Andy Warhol’s, ‘Campbell’s Soup’ – art
1962
JFK is assassinated
1963
Birmingham Church Bombing
1963
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) wins heavyweight title
1964
The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan Show
1964
Malcolm X assassinated
1965
Martin Luther King assassinated
1968
NASA lands on the moon
1969
Manson murders
1969
Vietnam draft begins
1969
Woodstock concert
1969
74% of US lives in Urban areas
1970
Attica Prison riots
1971
Title IX
1972
Nixon resigns
1974
Jaws – film
1975
Vietnam War ends
1975
US Bicentennial
1976
Star Wars – film
1977
Atari 2600 debuts
1977
Roots mini-series debuts
1977
Jonestown Massacre
1978
ESPN debuts
1979
60 Minutes is a top 3 TV show for next 5 years
1979
CNN debuts
1980
Pac Man – video game
1980
MTV debuts
1981
E.T. – film
1982
Michael Jackson’s Thriller – music
1982
Women earn more Bachelor degree’s than men in US
1982
M.A.S.H. finale – most watched TV program ever in US
1983
Michael Jackson on Motown 25
1983
8.2% of US households own a computer
1984
Tetris debuts
1984
Macintosh Computer introduced
1984
The Cosby Show premieres
1984
Capital City buys ABC for $3.5 Billion
1985
General Electric buys RCA/NBC
1985
Super Mario Bros released
1985
Air Jordans released
1985
Challenger Shuttle disaster
1986
Fox Network debuts
1986
The Fairness Doctrine is repealed
1987
Berlin Wall falls
1989
Gulf War begins
1991
USSR dissolved
1991
Magic Johnson announces he is HIV+
1991
World Wide Web available
1991
Los Angeles Riots
1992
MTV’s Real World premieres
1992
22.9% of US households own a computer
1993
OJ Simpson freeway chase
1994
Oklahoma City bombing
1995
Westinghouse buys CBS for $5.4 billion
1995
Walt Disney buys Capital City/ABC for $19 billion
1995
Fox News debuts
1996
Amazon goes public
1997
Titanic, film
1997
Grand Theft Auto debuts
1997
Michael Jordan wins his 6th Championship
1998
Google debuts
1998
Columbine massacre
1999
Napster debuts
1999
The Sopranos premieres
1999
Time Warner and AOL merger
2000
iPod debuts
2001
Xbox debuts
2001
9/11 Attack
2001
Myspace debuts
2004
YouTube debuts
2005
Google buys YouTube
2006
Twitter debuts
2006
iPhone debuts
2007
Netflix introduces streaming content
2007
Keeping up with the Kardashians debuts
2007
Breaking Bad debuts
2008
Android System debuts
2008
Women earn more PhDs in US then men
2008
Obama becomes president
2009
Super Bowl XLIV becomes most watched TV program ever
2010
80% of US population lives in Urban area
2010
Instagram debuts
2010
Lost finale
2010
Walking Dead debuts
2010
Game of Thrones debuts
2011
Minecraft debuts
2011
Facebook buys Instagram
2012
SnapChat debuts
2012
PewDiePie becomes most subscribed-to-user on YouTube
2013
Amazon buys Twitch
2014
AB InBev buys SABMiller for $90 billion
2016
More women enrolled in US law schools than men
2016
More women enrolled in US medical schools than men
2017
Disney buys Fox assets for $56 billion
2017
Total Media Ad Spend in the US – $205 Billion
2017
