- 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.