1945

1945 To Present

By rachelblock
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    1945 to Present

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues

  • Mao Tse Tung leads communist revolution in China

  • Ghandi founds modern nations of India

  • Sen. Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists

  • First color tv show

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Rosenbergs are executed for spying

  • Treaty signed ending Korean War

  • Bill Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"

  • Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S. Senate

  • Albert Einstein dies

  • First microwave oven

  • Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

  • Buddy Holly dies in plane crash

  • U.S. leaves Vietnam

  • Pres. Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the "military-industrial complex"

  • Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth

  • Alan Shepard goes into space

  • Berlin Wall goes up

  • John Glenn orbits the earth

  • Marilyn Monroe commits suicide

  • James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama

  • Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully

  • Dr. Martin Luther King says "I have a dream"

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered

  • Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show

  • MLK assassinated

  • My dad's birthday

  • Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California

  • Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of Women

  • First Super Bowl played

  • My mom's birthday

  • Muhammed Ali goes to jail

  • Elvis dies

  • Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War

  • Robert F. Kennedy is assasinated

  • Richard Nixon elected for his first term in office

  • President Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office

  • Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

  • Ho Chi Minh dies

  • Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of "MS" Magazine

  • Nixon visits Red China

  • Israeli athletes slaughered at Olympics

  • Watergate Hotel broken into

  • Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office

  • Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record

  • President Nixon resigns

  • Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president in history

  • First Apple computer sold

  • Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords

  • Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide

  • Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran

  • Lee Iacoca takes over Chrysler

  • John Lennon murdered

  • Ronald Reagan becomes president

  • Britain wins Falklands War

  • U.S. invasion of Dominican Republic/ Grenada/ Panama/ Iraq

  • Berlin Wall taken down

  • My birthday

  • Christa McAuliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle