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Dutch scientist von Leeuwenhoek develops the microscope. (1674)
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| 1725 |  |  Casanova born. (2 April 1725)
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French explorer and mathematician La Condamine brings back caoutchouc (raw rubber) from Amazon trip. (1736)
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 Jacques de Vaucanson builds automaton duck (Spring 1739)
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| 1740 | |  Marquis de Sade born. (2 June 1740)
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| 1758 | | S. A. Tissot publishes On Onanism, or a Physical Dissertation on the Ills Produced by Masturbation. (1758)
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 Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)
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| 1834 | | Sylvester Graham writes Lecture to Young Men on Chastity. (1834)
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| 1836 | |  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch born. (27 January 1836)
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The Daugerrotype is the first commercially available photographic reproduction. (1839)
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| 1844 | | Anthony Comstock, moral entrepreneur, born. (7 March 1844)
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Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber. (24 June 1844)
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| 1848 | | John Humphrey Noyes founds the Oneida Community in New York. (1848)
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Kingdom of Denmark reorganized as a constitutional monarchy. (1849)
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 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origins of Species. (1859)
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Jules Verne publishes Journey to the Center of the Earth (1863)
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 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born. (2 October 1869)
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 A.M. Ward sends his first mail order catalog. (1873)
| | 1873 | | US Congress passes Comstock Act, prohibiting mailing of immoral, obscene, and indecent materials. (1873)
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Albert Einstein, German expatriat physicist, (and noted lover) is born. (1879)
| | 1879 | |  German physician Albert Neisser discovers bacterium that causes gonorrhea. (1879)
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| 1880 | |  Marie Stopes, world famous pioneer for family planning, is born. (15 October 1880)
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Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, uses hypnosis to treat hysteria. (1882)
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| 1885 | | Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes The Arabian Nights. (1885)
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Granville Stanley Hall founds the American Journal of Psychology. (1885)
| | 1886 | |  Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis. (1886)
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H.W. Goodwin invents celluloid film. (1887)
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Christopher Lathan Sholes patents the QWERTY typewriter. (1898)
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Booker T. Washington publishes 'Up from Slavery.' (1901)
| | 1901 | | Henry Havelock Ellis publishes first volumes of his work Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
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| 1903 | | Viennese author Otto Weininger pens "Sex and Character." (1903)
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| 1908 | |  Iwan Bloch publishes Sexual Life of Our Time, coins the term 'Sexology.' (1908)
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| 1915 | |  A Free Ride, considered the first stag film. (1915)
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 Sideshows, medicine shows, snake oil shows travel America. (1920s)
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| 1925 | | The state of Tennessee forbits sex education in public schools. (1925)
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Margaret Mead publishes 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' an anthropological study of teens in other cultures. (1928)
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 USA stock market crash, starting on Black Friday, leads to the great depression. (29 October 1929)
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| 1930 | |  Tijuana Bibles begin circulating in the US. (1930s)
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Carl Gustav Jung pens "Modern man in Search of a Soul" (1933)
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Hitler takes power in Germany after the burning of the Reichstag. (3 May 1933)
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| 1933 | |  Nazis burn Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sex Research, including its archive, in Berlin. (6 May 1933)
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| 1933 | |  Hugo Gernsback begins publishing Sexology magazine. (Summer 1933)
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| 1936 | | Young's Rubber Company starts selling Trojans condoms. (1936)
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| 1936 | | US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies remainder of Comstock act. (1936)
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Tampax begins distribution of menstrual tampons in the United States. (1938)
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into World War II. (7 December 1941)
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Stanley Penska on Yonkers, NY, patents the "reservoir tip" condom. (1948)
| | 1948 | |  Alfred C. Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. (1948)
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage against the US. (1951)
| | 1951 | | Beate Uhse opens her first Sexual Supermarket in West Germany. (1951)
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Norman Vincent Peale publishes The Power of Positive Thinking. (1952)
| | 1952 | |  George becomes Christine Jorgensen. (1952)
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scale mount Everest. (1953)
| | 1953 | |  Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. (1953)
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| 1953 | |  Hugh Hefner publishes Playboy no. 1. (December 1953)
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| 1956 | |  Wilhelm Reich's publications burned by the U.S. FDA (August 1956)
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Supreme Court rules in 'Roth vs. US' that pornography must be utterly without redeeming social importance. (1957)
| | 1957 | | SSSS: Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality founded (1957)
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| 1957 | |  Searle releases Enovid birth control pill. (1957)
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Hawaii becomes 50th state of the U.S. (1958)
| | 1958 | | U.S. Postmaster General Summerfield bans D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from the mails on grounds of obscenity. (1958)
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Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees in the wild using tools. (1960)
| | 1960 | | Ira Reiss publishes Premarital Sexual Standards in America. (1960)
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Instant color film introduced by the Polaroid Land Company. (1963)
| | 1963 | | Betty Friedan pens The Feminine Mystique. (1963)
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John F. Kennedy assassinated. (22 November 1963)
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| 1965 | | COLOR CLIMAX in Copenhagen starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
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| 1965 | | PRIVATE in Sweden starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
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NOW, the National Organization for Women, founded. (1966)
| | 1966 | | Researchers Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response (1966)
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US Supreme court rules against pandering in 'Ginzburg v. US'. (1966)
| | 1966 | | Ted Marche starts manufacturing and selling rubber dildos and other prosthetic sex devices. (1966)
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| 1966 | |  Adam Film Quarterly premier issue (1966)
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| 1967 | | AASECT, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists is founded (1967)
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| 1968 | |  Al Goldstein and Jim Buckley start SCREW magazine in New York (November 1968)
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| 1969 | | Alan Ginsburg gets naked in Golden Gate Park (August 1969)
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| 1969 | | Police raid Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, setting off days of rioting. (1969)
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Summer of Love culminates with Woodstock festival of love and music. (1969)
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Intel releases the 4004 chip. (1971)
| | 1971 | |  Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography published. (1971)
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Atari releases home video game PONG. (1972)
| | 1972 | |  Gerard Damiano releases film DEEP THROAT (1972)
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| 1972 | |  OUI, from Playboy pubilshing, premier issue. (1972)
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 The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from the DSM. (1973)
| | 1973 | | Supreme Court ruling says that individual states may not stop abortions during the first six monts of pregnancy. (1973)
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President Richard Nixon resigns from office. (9 August 1974)
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Sony introduces the Betamax video format, doomed to failure. (1975)
| | 1975 | | Ivan Stormgart comes to the United States. (1975)
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JVC introduces VHS format for video tape. (1976)
| | 1976 | | Reuben Sturman's company buys Doc Johnson, maker of erotic contrivances. (1976)
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 The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life moves to its present home. (1976)
| | 1976 | |  You premier issue (1976)
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| 1976 | |  Unique premier issue (March 1976)
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| 1976 | |  New Dawn premier issue (May 1976)
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| 1976 | |  High Society premier issue (May 1976)
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| 1976 | |  Fun! premier issue (1976)
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| 1976 | |  Cheri premier issue (1976)
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| 1976 | |  National Screw premier issue. (1976)
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates found Microsoft. (1977)
| | 1977 | |  Joani Blank founds Good Vibrations in San Francisco, CA. (1977)
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| 1977 | |  At Home premier issue (1977)
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| 1977 | |  New Pink premier issue, (1977)
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| 1977 | |  Eve premier issue (1977)
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| 1977 | |  Touch of Velvet premier issue (September 1977)
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| 1977 | |  Jock premier issue (1977)
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Mt. St. Helens erupts. (1980)
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| 1980 | |  Playbirds premier issue (May 1980)
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US Centers for Disease Control first recognizes AIDS. (1981)
| | 1981 | |  Patrick J. Kearney publishes The Private Case, a study of the erotic collection at the British Library. (1981)
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| 1983 | |  Platinum premiere issue. (1983)
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| 1986 | |  Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986)
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| 1987 | |  Tail Ends premier issue (1987)
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| 1988 | |  T&A premier issue (February 1988)
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 bOING bOING issue #2 (1990)
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| 1991 | |  Thigh High premier issue (Spring 1991)
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| 1997 | |  Tight premiere issue (June 1997)
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| 1997 | |  Carnal Knowledge premier issue (September/October 1997)
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Terrorists hijack 2 planes and fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City (11 September 2001)
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| 2001 | | Alta-Glamour.com launches Web site (September 2001)
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| 2002 | | Earl Kemp, longtime porn pulp editor, begins publishing e*I* Fanzine (January 2002)
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| 2003 | |  Sheryl Straight starts The Erotica Bibliophile. (2003)
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 George W. Bush re-elected to a second term as US President. (November 2004)
| | 2004 | |  Kinsey, the Movie, opens in Los Angeles and New York. (12 November 2004)
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| 2005 | |  Editors William J. Taverner and Elizabeth Schroeder begin American Journal of Sexuality Education. (2005)
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