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Senator Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists
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First color TV show
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Joseph Stalin Dies
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Rosenbergs executed for spying
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Treaty signed ending Korean War
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Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record
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Bill Haley records rock around the clock
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Albert Einstein Dies
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First Microwave oven
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Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
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Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash
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President Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the military industrial complex
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Berlin Wall goes up/ comes down
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth
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Alan Shepard goes into space
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John Glenn orbits earth
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Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully
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Marilyn Monroe commits suicide
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James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama
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Dr. Martin Luther King says "I have a dream"
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JFK Assassinated
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Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered
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Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show
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US invasion of Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama and Iraq
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Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of Women
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First Super Bowl is played
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Muhammad Ali goes to prison
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Senator Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War
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President Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office
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MLK Assassinated
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Robert F. Kennedy is Assassinated
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Richard Nixon is elected for his first term of office
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Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon
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Ho Chi Minh dies
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Dads birthday
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Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of MS Magazine
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Moms Birthday
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Nixon visits Red China
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Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics
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Watergate hotel broken into
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US leaves Vietnam
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Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns from office
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Jackie Robinson became the first black to play in the Major Leagues
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Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California
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President Nixon Resigns
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Gerald Ford Became the first unelected president in history
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First Apple computer sold
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Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China
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Elvis Dies
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Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords
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Lee Iacocca takes over Chrysler
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Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide
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Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran
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John Lennon Dies
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Ronald Reagan becomes president
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Britain wins Falklands War
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Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride the space shuttle
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My Birthday
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Today