1908-1910 Winning Percentage = .666
1908 – Kerosene outsells Gasoline as a fuel and Henry Ford sells his first Model T
1909 – Indianapolis opens their famous Race Track and stages the 1st ever event.
1910 – May 18 – The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1911-1919 Winning Percentage = .553
1911 – IBM incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) in New York.
1912 – The RMS Titanic sinks, along with 1,494 people.
1913 – General Electric begins to sell stoves and toasters.
1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
1915 – Orson Welles is born
1916 – The light switch was invented by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed .
1918 – Canned Tomato Sauce is introduced.
1919 – The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women.
1920-1929 Winning Percentage = .526
1920 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1921 – Green Bay Packers are formed with $500 of backing from a local meat packing plant.
1922 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1924 – American airman Russell L. Maughan flew from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit
1925 – Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1926 – U.S. Route 66 was established.
1927 – The first demonstration of television before a live audience.
1928 – Sliced Bread Introduced
1929 – The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut
1930-1939 Winning Percentage = .579
1930 – Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
1931 – Nevada legalizes gambling.
1932 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration,
1934 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
1935 – World’s first parking meters, in Oklahoma City.
1936 – The Girl Scouts of America sell their first cookie.
1937 – Spam is invented
1938 – Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon”.
1939 – The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded.
1940-1949 Winning Percentage = .479
1940 – RKO releases Walt Disney’s second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.
1941 – Captain America Comics #1 issues the first Captain America & Bucky comic.
1942 – Lions became extinct in Iran by this date.
1943 – Rioting between military personnel and Mexican American youths erupts in East Los Angeles and is dubbed the “Zoot Suit Riots”.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Micky Dolenz is born
1946 – Frozen French Fries are invented
1947 – The Chicago Cardinals the NFL’s oldest franchise wins their last championship, they are now in Arizona and playing the role of the Cubs in that league.
1948 – Hells Angels founded in California.
1949 – First Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.
1950-1959 Winning Percentage = .437
1950 – Britain formally recognizes Israel.
1951 – I Love Lucy debuts on CBS.
1952 – Bob Costas is born
1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.
1954 – The New York Giants win the World Series, the franchises last.
1955 – Disneyland opens, in Anaheim, California.
1956 – Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with “Heartbreak Hotel.”
1957 – Better Home and Gardens publishes their first Microwave cook book
1958 – December 28 – The Baltimore Colts beat The New York Giants 23-17 in overtime to win The NFL Championship.
1959 – The Barbie doll debuts.
1960-1969 Winning Percentage = .459
1960 – 1960 Summer Olympics: Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing.
1961 – Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller.
1962 – AT&T’s Telstar, the world’s first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit, and activated the next day.
1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
1964 – Coke in a can is introduced
1965 – Bob Dylan releases his album Highway 61 Revisited
1966 – Luna 10 enters orbit around the Moon.
1967 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. The last time they won the championship
1968 – Johnny Cash records “Live at Folsom Prison”.
1969 – The Mets win the World Championship in their 8th season… beating the Cubs.
1970-1979 Winning Percentage = .487
1970 – Riverfront Stadium opens
1971 – Nine MLB pitchers throw more then 285 innings, 4 of them topping 310.
1972 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model-T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
1973 – O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.
1974 – Stephen King publishes his first novel, Carrie, under his own name.
1975 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live
1976 – The Seattle Seahawks first football game is played.
1977 – The first Apple II computers go on sale.
1978 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1980-1989 Winning Percentage = .472
1980 – Mobster Henry Hill busted on drug possession.
1981 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed
1982 – The car brand Toyota Camry introduced.
1983 – Hooters opens up in Clearwater, Florida.
1984 – Cubs win Division then lose in Playoffs
1985- Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout.
1986 – Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
1988 – The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field,
1989 – The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region.
1990-1999 Winning Percentage = .476
1990 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV.
1992 – H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
1993 – Late Night with Conan O’Brien premieres on NBC.
1994 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections.
1995 – Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California.
1996 – The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.
1997 – The Detroit Red Wings win their first Stanley Cup championship in 42 years
1998 – Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants.
1999 – Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France.