Modern Milestones
Humans first landed on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission during this decade.
What is the 1960s? (1969)
This popular British series was first published in 1997 and was immediately popular and later made into a movie in 2001.
What is Harry Potter?
This social media platform was released in 2004 and was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
What is Facebook?
Roblox came out in this year.
What is 2006?
This decade was known for their bold fashion and bright colors.
What is the 1980s?
These two people invented and flew the first successful plane in 1903.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
This famous playwright wrote famous plays in the 1500 and 1600s.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This decade revolutionized video games with the rise of Atari and the Nitnendo Entertainment System.
What is the 1980s?
This game console of the 2000s was considered the the best-selling and most manufactured video game console in history with over 160,000,000 sold.
What is the PS2?
In the early 2000s, Britney Spears made this style of pants popular.
What is low-rise jeans?
This composer was popular in the mid 1870s.
Who is Beethoven?
This famous Grimms fairy tale about two children in the woods and a gingerbread house was published in 1812.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
This mobile phone was released in 2007 and revolutionized phones.
What is the Iphone?
In 2009, this Black Eyed Peas track spent 16 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which still stands as one of the longest-running chart-toppers in music history.
What is "I've Gotta Feeling"?
This era is known for introducing bell-bottom pants.
This Apple device was introduced in 2001 and retired in 2022 and known for revolutionizing portable media players.
What is the iPod?
This author is known for his very famous children's books such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Who is Eric Carle?
The first email was sent during this year/decade.
What is 1971?
This was one of the most popular video games of the early 2000s about controlling virtual people.
What is the Sims?
Vogue, the famous fashion magazine, was founded in this era.
What is 1800s? (1892)
In 1908, Henry Ford introduced "the car of the century", using interchangeable parts and paving the way for the moving assembly line, making cars affordable to the public.
What is the Model T?
Diary Of a Wimpy Kid was published in this year.
What is 2007?
The world’s first handheld mobile phone was invented in 1973 and sold for this amount—the equivalent of about $10,000 today.
What is $4000?
This popular movie came out in 2004 with the popular phrase "on Wednesdays we wear pink."
What is "Mean Girls"?
This was originally designed for soldiers in the trenches of WWI before becoming a staple of women's fashion.
What is a trench-coat?