1936 - 1952
Reign of King George VI (Windsor)
1945 - 1952
Harry S. Truman president of US
1946 - 1989
The Cold War
1950 - 1953
Korean War
1950 - 1954
McCarthyism
1950
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize
1950
World population est. at 2.4 billion
1951
Electricity from Atomic Power
1952
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated
1952 - present
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor)
1953 - 1960
Dwight D. Eisenhower President of US
1954
Racial Segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional
1955
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine
1955
Invention of Velcro
1955
Warsaw pact formed
1955
Fiber Optics (by Kapany)
1956
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm and sinks
1957
Sputnik launched - 1st (artificial) satellite
1958
Stereo LP recordings come into use
1958
FM Stereo Broadcasts
1958
US space agency (NASA) established
1958
Integrated Circuit
1959
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah
1959
Alaska enters the union - 49th state
1959
Hawaii enteres the union - 50th state
1959 to April 30, 1975
Vietnam War
1960
Laser
1960
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton
1960
1st weather satellite (Tiros I)
1960
Pantyhose
1961
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin
1961 - 1963
John F. Kennedy president of US
1961
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard
1961 - 1970
7th Cholera pandemic
1962 - 1965
Vatican II
1962
Cuban missle crisis
1963
Compact Cassette Recordings
1963 - 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson president of US
1963
1st artificial heart
1963
Pres. Kennedy assassinated
1964
US civil rights bill
1965
1st spacewalks (US, USSR)
1965
Black riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles
1966
8-track tape players
1966
1st soft landings on the moon (US, USSR)
1967 - 1970
Nigerian civil war
1967
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole
1967
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice
1967
1st human heart transplant
1967
Six day wat: Israel-Arabs
1968
Martin Luther King assassinated
1968
Robert Kennedy assassinated
1969
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
1969-1974
Richard M. Nixon president of US
1969
Woodstock Music Festival
1970
Nat. Guard murders 4 students of Kent State
1970
Microprocessor
1971
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004
1971
Pakistani civil war
1973
The Internet
1974
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace
1974 - 1976
Gerald R. Ford president of US
1975
Byte Magazine, issue #1
1975
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a
1975
Ebola virus appears - 90% lethal
1976
American Bicentennial
1976
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa
1976
VHS Video Recordings
1976
Television begins satellite delivery
1977
Neutron bomb
1977 - 1981
James Earl Carter Jr. president of US
1978
Laserdisc video recordings
1978
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die
1978
1st test-tube baby
1979 - 1990
Margaret Thatcher 1st woman Prine Minister in UK
1979
Three Mile Island muclear event
1980
Mount St. Helens erupts
1981 - 1988
Ronald Reagan presidnet of US
1981
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia
1981
IBM PC ships
1981
1st female supreme court justice - Sandra Day O'Connor
1982
1st Genetically engineered product - insulin
1983
Compact disks
1983
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system
1983
Guion "Guy" Bluford - 1st african american in space
1984
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs
1984
Apple Macintosh Ships
1985
Amiga computer ships
1986
Chernobyl power plant melts down
1986
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
1986
Mir space station deployed
1986
Halley's comet
1987
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos
1988
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax
1989
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion
1989
Colin Powel is 1st African American chairman joint US chiefs of staff
1989
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989
Breakup of the Soviet Union
1989
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega
1989 - 1992
George Herbert Walker Bush president of US
1990
Hubble space telescope deployed
1990
World Wide Web
1991 - 2003
8th Cholera pandemic
1991
Iraw attacks Kuwait, US attacks Iraw
1992
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles
1993 - 2000
William Jefferson Clinton president of US
1993
Catholic church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's
1993
Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center
1994
South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system
1995
American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City
1996
DVD video recordings
1997
Mars pathfinder lands
1997
Cloning living beings
1998
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19
1998
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Aplha CPU
1998
US attacks Iraq
1999
US Attacks Bosnia
2000
Working draft of human genome completed
2000
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August
2000
Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date
2000
2nd Coming Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled
2001
Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers
2001 - 2009
George Walker Bush president of US
2001
Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center September 11th
2001
US attacks Afghanistan October 7th
2001
Wikipedia goes online
2001
X-Box console released
2001
Earthquake in Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths
2001
Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid
2002
10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar
2002
Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali
2002
Euro currency introduced
2003
Space Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry, February 1
2003
28,000 die in Itan earthquake
2004
Huge trans-neptunian object, Sedna, discovered
2004
Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - December 26
2004
Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight
2004
Water verified present on mars by Odyssey lander
2004
10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain
2005
Microsoft ships Xbox 360
2005
Space Shuttle reutrns to flight July 26th...August 10th
2005
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastate New Orleans - August, September
2005
Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered
2005
Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th
2005
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1
2006
Wii ships from Nintendo
2006
PS3 ships from Sony
2006
Americans lose habeas corpus
2006
Israel attacks Lebanon
2007
Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright
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