1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock. 1690 Publick Occurrences published in Boston
1790 First copyright law is passed 1791 Bill of Rights (First ten Constitutional Amendments) is ratified 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts are passed		1741 First magazine in America is published 1776 Revolutionary War
1861-1865 Press is censored during Civil War		1861-1865 American Civil War
1890 Sherman Antitrust Act is passed		1892 Thomas Edison develops the Kinetoscope
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act is passed 1914 Federal Trade Commission is established 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act is passed 1917 Espionage Act is passed (World War I prior restraint) 1918 Sedition Act is passed (World War I prior restraint)		1914-1918 World War I
1927 Radio Act of 1927 is passed		1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh gets first commercial radio license.
		1930s The Great Depression 1934 Federal Communications Act of 1934 passed.
		1939-1945 World War II 1949 First commercial electronic computer is produced
		1969 First person lands on moon.
		1970s VCR developed
		1980s CD-ROM invented 1989-1991 Cold War ends and Soviet Union dissolves
		1990s Newspapers go online