1945 United Nations Established (The U.N. Charter ) Ho Chi Minh progulemates Vietnamese declaration of Independence. Soviet Union/United States occupy North/South Korea. The Cold
War begins; Founding of International
Monetary Fund and World
Bank
1946 Qazi Muhammad (founder of PDKI) establishes Republic of Mahabad; ENIAC unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; Juan Peron, husband of Evita Peron elected president of Argentina; Ho chi
Minh signs agreement with France recognizing Vietnam; League of Nations disbands; formation of National Basketball Association;
UNICEF founded
1947 Polaroid Land Camera introduced; the Truman Doctrine proclaimed;
The Texas City Disaster; the first Men in Black encounter reported, the Roswell UFO incident; Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as first Prime
Minister in India; The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 begins; Citation issued against the Hollywood 10 ; Palestine partitioned between Arabs and Jews; the Transistor and
the Frisbee invented. Raytheon produces first commercial microwave oven; Jackie Robinson plays for the Dodgers
1948 Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel; Mahatma Gandhi murdered; World
Health Organization established; Israel is declared as an independent state; The
Berlin Blockade; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by U.N.; 1948 Arab-Israeli
War; Babe Ruth dies
1949 B.B. King records with RPM Records;
the Volkswagen Beetle arrives in U.S.; The first Emmy Awards presented; Founding of the Tokyo Stock Exchange; The Red
Scare; George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four; Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb; Nationalist Chinese complete
evacuation to Taiwan, Birth of the People's Republic of China.
1950 the Great Brinks Robbery; Albert Einstein warns against the dangers of nuclear war; Soviet Union claims to have the bomb; californium the
98 element created; Jordan Annexes the West Bank; the Group Areas Act passed in South African Apartheid government;
the Schuman declaration begins formation of European Union; The Korean War begins; Peanuts, Beetle Bailey
first published; The Chinese invasion of Tibet; The first jet-to-jet dogfight in Korea, The Mattachine Society founded; Antihistamine
discovered; L. Ron Hubbard publishes Dianetics
1951 United Nations headquarters
officially opens, Dennis the Menace appears in newspapers; The U.S. begins closed door hearings to dismiss General Douglas MacArthur; NATO accepts Greece, Turkey; Bobby Thomson hits game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth to win national
league pennant (the "Shot Heard 'Round the World") Audrey Hepburn stars in Broadway play Gigi
1952 The Honeymooners, American Bandstand,
The Today Show, The Guiding Light debut; The Old Man and the Sea; East
of Eden published; John Dewey dies; Singin' in the Rain
released, Bill Haley and His Comets play rock-n-roll, Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England; The Diary of Anne Frank published; The first Miss
Universe pageant; Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens; the first successful sexual
reassignment operation; Charles Chaplin expelled from U.S. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Founded
1953 President
Harry S. Truman announces hydrogen bomb; James D. Watson, Francis Crick determine the chemical structure of DNA; Joseph Stalin dies; The first Chevrolet Corvette built; The Korean War ends; First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous,
US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address; The FCC approves color television; The War of the Worlds released; Frank Sinatra begins
recording at Capitol; Elvis Presley begins to record, Your Cheatin' Heart released by Hank Williams; Rocky Marciano
retains World Heavyweight title
1954 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio; The National Negro Network established; the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched; The first mass vaccination of children against polio;
Eisenhower gives his domino theory speech, Joseph McCarthy begins senate hearings against communism; Brown v. Board of Education decided by Supreme Court in regards to segregation.The world's first atomic power station opens near Moscow; Elvis
Presley broadcasted in Memphis; Maiden flight of Boeing 707; The First Indochina War; First Miss America Pageant broadcast on TV; Joseph McCarthy condemned for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into
dishonor and disrepute."; The first organ transplants; The Tonight Show begins
1955 Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs, McDonald's chain started; The Salk polio vaccine
introduced; The Warsaw Pact formed; Disneyland opens; Gunsmoke, Mickey Mouse Club, The Lawrence Welk
Show, The Benny Hill Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Captain Kangaroo debut;
Oklahoma! released; The Lord of the Rings trilogy completed; First issue of the Guinness Book of
Records published. Johnny Cash's musical career begins
1956 the cult of personality speech, February 25, denounces actions of Stalin, Eisenhower authorizes the Interstate Highway System; Eisenhower
adopts "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto; Suez Crisis begins; Buddy Holly's first recording sessions
for Decca Records; Roy Orbison signs with Sun Records; Willie Nelson's musical career begins; Chrysler Corporation provides
an in-car turntable; Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean debuts
1957 the Mad Bomber is arrested; Ku Klux
Klan members force truck driver Willie
Edwards to jump off a bridge; The
FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa; the European
Economic Community established; Egypt reopens Suez Canal; The International Atomic Energy Agency is established;
the Little Rock Crisis in Arkansas; The Edsel introduced;
The Sputnik I launched;
Jailhouse Rock opens nationally;
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook; "Great Balls Of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis
1958 Bobby Fischer wins the US Chess Championship; Explorer I launched into orbit; Van Allen
radiation belt discovered; Bertrand
Russell, February 25, launches the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament; the Iraqi
Revolution; The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA); The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
becomes the first ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility ; Elvis Presley enters the U.S. Army
1959 Fidel Castro siezes power in Cuba; The Day the Music Died; the 14th
Dalai Lama, flees Tibet; The
St. Lawrence Seaway opens; Castro launches 3 front revolutoinary invasion on Dominican
Republic; Explorer VI sends
the first picture of Earth
from space; Russian probe Luna 3
sends back first photos from the dark side of the Moon; Malpasset
dam collapses; The first known human with HIV dies in Congo.
1960 Particle accelerator of CERN inaugurated; US announces 3,500 soldiers to be sent to Vietnam; The Food and Drug Administration approves sale
of the birth control pill;
Theodore Maiman operates the
first laser. The Great Chilean Earthquake; OPEC formed; Richard M. Nixon and John
F. Kennedy, participate in the first televised presidential debate. Michael Woodruff performs the first successful
kidney transplant; John F. Kennedy
announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
To Kill A Mockingbird
published, Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho debut
1961 Musician Bob Dylan hitch-hikes to New York
City, Ham the chimp rocketed
to space; Peace Corps established;
the Bay of Pigs Invasion;
The Man on the Moon project initiated, Iraqi
president Abdul Karim Kassem announces he is going to annex Kuwait; Construction of the Berlin Wall begins; the "Battle of Paris"; Vietnam War officially begins; The Beatles perform at the legendary Cavern Club; The Rolling Stones,
The Beach Boys begin;
The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres, The Alamo released
1962 European Space Agency
formed; The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon ; Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel; Inmates escape from Alcatraz Island; Marilyn Monroe is found dead; Nelson Mandela arrested in South Africa; John Lennon
secretly marries Cynthia Powell;
the end of the Golden Age of Radio;
the First Personal computer
invented; U.N. passes resolution against South Africa; the Cuban Missile Crisis ends; Dr. No launches the James Bond film series
1963 The Whisky A Go-Go opens in L.A.; Female suffrage in Iran; 70,000 protestors march
in London to demonstrate against nuclear weapons, TaB cola introduced; ZIP Codes introduced in the USA; I Have A Dream Martin Luther King Jr August 28, 1963; The 16th street Church bombing in Birmingham AL, The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens; John F. Kennedy
assassination; Doctor Who first broadcast; Second Vatican Council closed; Full deployment of SAGE; Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA) is founded; Roger Staubach wins Heisman Trophy; Jack Nicklaus wins The Masters, PGA Championship; The Longest Day 3rd top grossing film; General Hospital premiers; the remote control is authorized by the FCC
1964 Martyr's Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civillians; Luther
Leonidas Terry (surgeon general)reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health; Plans to build the World Trade
Center announced; The Beatles land in New York; Jimmy Hoffa convicted; Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam;
The military overthrows Brazilian President João Goulart; IBM announces the System/360; the Ford Mustang unvieled; The Vatican condemns the female contraceptive pill; Operation
Pierce Arrow initiated in response to the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam; the Berkeley Free Speech Movement;
Frank Zappa's musical career begins
1965 Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society; Vietnam War begins; Malcolm X
assassinated; Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama; activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma to Montgomery, Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500; the Battle of Dong Xoai; War on Poverty,
establishment of Medicare
and Medicaid; Watts Riots in LA, Jefferson Airplane debut at the Matrix; Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game, Pakistani troops march on Lahore, Yale presents the Vinland map; Martial law announced in Rhodesia. Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United
Nations to protest Vietnam War; Tokyo becomes the largest city of the world; Grateful
Dead's musical career begins
1966 Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa siezes control of Central African Republic, Milatary Coup in
Nigeria overturned; Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev dies; Fidel Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda; Military coupin Syria replaces the previous government
with a Ba'athist regime.
An IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar; Charles De Gaulle states that French troops
will be taken out of NATO;
ZANU rebellion begins in Rhodesia;
Mutesa II of Buganda arrested;
Martin Luther King leads a
civil rights march in Chicago; China begins Cultural Revolution, Earthquake in Turkey kills 2934 people, another destroy entire cities; The Beatles play their last concert; Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed
to death in South Africa; Star Trek premiers;
United States Department of Transportation
formed; Martin Richards designs
the BCPL programming language;
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly starring
Clint Eastwood released; Batman
debuts
1967 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved; Etienne Eyadema leads military coup in Tongo; Super Bowl I Green Bay defeats Kansas City, Bart
Starr Awarded MVP; Outer Space
Treaty signed ("United
Nations Treaties and Principles on Space Law") Martin Luther King, Jr denounces Vietnam
War; Six-Day War in Israel;
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley marry; The Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;
The People's Republic of China
tests its first hydrogen bomb;
Israel declares annexation
of East Jerusalem; widespread
race riots across US, 12th Street Riot;
Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The
Ed Sullivan Show; British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash near
Hong Kong
1968 The Tet Offensive begins; the My Lai massacre; the Civil Rights
Act of 1968; The May of 68 in France; U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot; Martin
Luther King, Jr assassinated. Humanae Vitae issued by Pope denouncing birth control; Saddam Hussein becomes
the Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq; 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia;
the Rodney Riots in Jamaica; US spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the moon; David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd; Cream
plays their farewell concert; Led Zeppelin formed; Planet of the Apes debuts
1969 Martial law declared in Madrid; Yasser Arafat is appointed leader of Palestinian Liberation
Organization; Mickey Mantle announces his retirement; John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform Give Peace a Chance; Apollo program:
First man on the moon; cult led by Charles Manson murder people; The Woodstock Festival, The Soviet Union and Peoples Republic
of China have a serious border clash; Wal-Mart incorporates; Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia; Creation of ARPANET,
the predecessor of the Internet; Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story; Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged
a peaceful demonstration against the war; The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut; Monty Python's Flying Circus,
Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, The Brady Bunch, and Sesame Street premier.
1970 the Beatles disband; First Earth Day
celebrated; The Kent State shootings in Ohio claim the lives of 4 students; US Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
The Isle of Wight Festival 1970; The Ford Pinto introduced; US Congress gives president Richard Nixon authority to sell
arms to Israel; Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose; Jimi Hendrix dies from drug overdose; Lieutenant William Calley goes
on trial for the My Lai massacre; The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations; M*A*S*H,
the movie released
1971 cigarette advertisements banned on TV in US; Charles Manson and three female "family members" are convicted; Apollo 14 lands on the Moon;
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player voted into the Baseball Hall of
Fame; US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed
Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. Decimalisation Day in UK/Ireland; Sean Astin, American actor born; Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan, start massive killings, East Pakistan declares
independence, form Bangladesh, make official Delaration of Independence; US Supreme Court rules busing students to achieve
racial segregation; Amtrak begins operation of inter-city rail passenger service; Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Efraim Elrom, found dead in Istanbul; Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace speak against war protests;
USA ends trade embargo of China. Doors musician Jim Morrison is found dead; The four billionth baby was born. (see World Population). Trucial States formed in the Persian Gulf; 162 deaths in air collision, Japan; the Bretton Woods system halted
by President Richard Nixon; The Attica Prison riots; The UNIX Programmer's Manual published;Led Zeppelin IV (untitled fourth album)
- Led Zeppelin; American Pie - Don McLean; Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail; Johnny Cash writes The
Man in Black.
