100 Business Greats of 20th Century http://www.thestreet.com/basics/countdown/748433.html
Year	Event and Description	#
1956	Eisenhower creates the interstates	1
1971	Intel invents the single-chip microprocessor	2
1913	The Federal Reserve is formed	3
1929	The Great Crash of 1929	4
1963	Equal pay for equal work	5
1913	Ford introduces the assembly line	6
1942	Kaiser's World War II shipyards surpass all expectations of production	7
1962	The first Wal-Mart opens	8
1982	The current bull market begins	9
1915	Carrier Engineering is founded, beginning the commercialization of air conditioning	10
1980	Reagan is elected	11
1936	Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	12
1947	Kennan's 'X' letter gives birth to the peacetime military-industrial complex	13
1936	The United Auto Workers stage their first sit-down strikes	14
1961	Kroc buys McDonald's	15
1939	Hewlett and Packard put Silicon in the Valley	16
1909	Bakelite is introduced	17
1995	Netscape goes public	18
1932	The Depression-era securities laws	19
1965	President Johnson signs Medicare into law	20
1981	Microsoft is tapped to provide the IBM operating system	21
1958	Bank of America launches the first credit card	22
1939	The first commercial television broadcast	23
1979	Volcker becomes Fed chairman	24
1943	A Merck scientist synthesizes streptomycin	25
1957	The first Japanese car, a Toyota, is sold in the U.S.	26
1935	The first DC-3 flight	27
1947	Three Bell Labs scientists invent the transistor	28
1944	The Bretton Woods agreement	29
1978	Toys R Us revives employee stock options	30
1964	The Civil Rights Act	31
1970	Xerox founds its Palo Alto Research Center	32
1980	The Supreme Court allows gene patenting	33
1974	President Ford signs ERISA into law	34
1922	New York's WEAF broadcasts the first radio ad	35
1911	The Supreme Court orders the breakup of Standard Oil	36
1970	Wage stagnation starts	37				.
1989	The Berlin Wall falls, heralding the triumph of market capitalism	38
1947	The Marshall Plan	39
1973	The OPEC oil shock	40
1945	Coca-Cola becomes a global brand	41
1906	The Jungle is published	42
1944	FDR signs the GI Bill of Rights	43
1907	U.S. immigration peaks	44
1981	Reagan fires federal air traffic controllers	45
1984	AT&T is dismantled	46
1988	The savings-and-loan crisis peaks	47
1968	Hospital Corp. of America is founded	48
1947	Levittown opens	49
1933	The Agricultural Adjustment Act is signed	50
1946	The baby boom begins	51
1940	Charles Merrill re-creates Merrill Lynch	52
1962	The New Yorker serializes Silent Spring	53
1965	Watts explodes in race riots	54
1923	ADM becomes the world's largest linseed -oil maker	55
1958	Eisenhower signs the act creating NASA	56
1984	Calpers promotes shareholder activism	57
1901	Morgan consolidates U.S. Steel	58
1975	Wall Street's fixed commissions end	59
1978	The California asbestos lawsuits	60
1936	Hoover Dam is completed	61
1934	Benjamin Graham's Security Analysis is published	62
1961	Frances Kelsey blocks the U.S. approval of thalidomide	63
1984	Nasdaq gets its first blue-sky exemption	64
1980	The CCITT Group 3 recommendation for facsimile machines is adopted	65
1923	Alfred Sloan becomes president of General Motors	66
1973	Cohen and Boyer pioneer recombinant DNA techniques	67
1966	President Johnson's Texas-sized spending spurs domestic inflation	68
1980	The government bails out Chrysler	69
1973	Federal Express begins operations	70
1973	Black and Scholes introduce their options pricing model	71
1941	Women and minorities contribute to the war effort	72
1934	FDR signs the act creating the Federal Housing Administration	73
1996	AOL goes to flat-rate pricing	74
1928	The explosion of RCA's stock epitomizes market mania	75
1929	Bernays lights the 'Torches of Liberty'	76
1971	MCI is authorized to compete with AT&T	77
1987	The Black Monday crash	78
1960	Maiman unveils the first working laser	79
1965	Intelsat 1 goes into service	80
1930	The first U.S. supermarket, King Kullen, opens	81
1971	Michael Milken starts Drexel's junk-bond trading operation	82
1964	The surgeon general reports that smoking causes lung cancer in men	83
1975	HBO via satellite accelerates the fragmentation of the TV marketplace	84
1935	The Public Utility Holding Company Act is enacted	85
1914	The Panama Canal opens	86
1963	Valium is introduced	87
1914	Thomas Watson becomes president of IBM's predecessor	88
1976	Bogle launches the First Index Investment Trust	89
1993	Lou Gerstner turns IBM around	90
1971	Southwest Airlines begins flying	91
1981	Harley-Davidson adopts Japanese management techniques	92
1910	Frederick Taylor's 'scientific management' theory gains legitimacy	94
1975	Jaws ushers in the blockbuster era in Hollywood	95
1978	The University of Phoenix, a for-profit university, is accredited	96
1987	Nike's Revolution ads commodify dissent	97
1955	Disneyland opens	98
1979	The Three Mile Island disaster	99
1910	Hallmark gets its start	100