Wall street has a "prosperity panic;" the American League is formed, Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic message, and Orville and Wilbur Wright defy gravity. -More.

Haley's Comet appears, Mark Twain dies, Standard Oil found guilty, L.L. Bean founded, Titanic sinks, Charlie Chaplin is big, World War I, Red Sox Ruth hits first homer, Ouija Boards, war ends . -More.

Prohibition, women get right to vote, jazz is hot, Time and New Yorker magazine established, 'Annie' debuts, "The Great Gatsby," Lidbergh is lucky, Oscar is born, Mickey Mouse and Popeye born. -More.

Stalin rising, Garbo speaks, Empire State building, depression a drag, New Deal, Nazis rising, Mao marching, Bonnie and Clyde, Earhart lost, Pot outlawed, War of Worlds, Germany invades Poland. -More.

Nazis take Paris, Citizen Kane, Pearl Harbor, FDR again, Jewish extermination, Nagasaki and Hiroshima obliterated, war ends, atomic age begins, Ghandi slain, cold war. -More.

McCarthy spreads fear, Korean War, Elvis is king, hello Charlie Brown, TV replacing radio, Playboy established, Everest ascended, James Dean dies, Polio cure, Rosa Parks stands up, Sputnik orbits Earth, Castro empowered. -More.

JFK elected, cosmonauts in space, Hemingway dead, Cuban missile crisis, 'I Have a Dream', JFK his brother Bobby and MLK Jr. are slain, Beatles conquer America, Muhamed Ali thrills, Vietnam war protested, "The Graduate" screens, Rolling Stone established, Man on the moon, Chappaquiddick, Woodstock, Manson murders. -More.

More Vietnam unrest. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin die. Beatles disband, Dow hits 1,000, Roe vs. Wade, Watergate hearing, Nixon resigns, Fall of Saigon, Microsoft and Apple founded, Star Wars, Elvis dies, killing fields, punk and disco rising. -More.

Trickle-down economics, Michael Jackson, Lennon shot, royal wedding, MTV, Oprah's hot, space shuttle Challenger explodes, Chernobyl catastrophe, AIDS scare, Berlin Wall falls. -More.

Bombings terrorize the heartland and the heart of New York. Sex almost brings down a president. And the promise of a new millennium brings fear and hope in the final decade of the 20th century. -More.

As we count down the last 100 days of the 1900s, we will feature each day one of the Globe's top 100 New England sports figures.