- August 29, 1936 - McCain born
- 1936 - electric guitar
- 1937 - jet engine
- 1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 1937 - U.S. criminalization of marijuana (at the behest of DuPont)
- 1938 - ballpoint pen
- 1938 - fiberglass
- 1938 - Superman
- 1939 - helicopter
- 1939 - View-master
- 1939 - automated teller machine
- 1939 - World War II
- 1941 - Turing complete computer
- 1941 - Citizen Kane
- 1942 - nuclear reactor
- 1945 - the Slinky
- 1945 - microwave oven
- 1945 - fission weapons
- 1945 - United Nations
- 1946 - bikini
- 1946 - mobile telephone service
- October 26, 1947 - Hillary Clinton born
- 1947 - transistor
- 1947 - Pakistan
- 1948 - Israel
- 1948 - NATO
- 1948 - House Committee’s Investigation of Un-American Activities
- 1948 - Apartheid
- 1949 - People’s Republic of China
- 1950 - U.S. approves standard for broadcasting color television
- 1951 - Nash equilibrium
- 1951 - the term “rock ’n’ roll”
- 1951 - “the pill”
- 1952 - fusion weapons
- 1953 - discovery of DNA’s structure
- 1955 - Velcro
- 1958 - integrated circuits
- 1958 - communication satellite
- 1958 - implantable pacemaker
- 1959 - statehood of Alaska and Hawaii
- 1960 - LISP
- 1960 - laser
- 1960 - Psycho
- 1961 - ICBM
- August 4, 1961 - Obama born
Most dates from Wikipedia.