1945 to Present Timeline Assignment By ClayeEliason Feb 9, 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists Jun 25, 1951 First color TV show Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Dies Jun 19, 1953 Rosenbergs executed for spying Jul 27, 1953 Treaty signed ending Korean War Mar 11, 1954 Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record Apr 12, 1955 Bill Haley records rock around the clock Apr 18, 1955 Albert Einstein Dies Oct 25, 1955 First Microwave oven Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama Feb 3, 1959 Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash Mar 11, 1960 President Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the military industrial complex Mar 11, 1961 Berlin Wall goes up/ comes down Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard goes into space Feb 20, 1962 John Glenn orbits earth Mar 11, 1962 Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully Aug 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe commits suicide Oct 1, 1962 James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama Aug 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King says "I have a dream" Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassinated Nov 24, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered Feb 9, 1964 Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show Apr 28, 1965 US invasion of Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama and Iraq Jun 30, 1966 Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of Women Jan 15, 1967 First Super Bowl is played Mar 11, 1967 Muhammad Ali goes to prison Nov 11, 1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War Mar 11, 1968 President Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assassinated Jun 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy is Assassinated Jan 20, 1969 Richard Nixon is elected for his first term of office Jul 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon Sep 2, 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies Aug 19, 1970 Dads birthday Dec 11, 1971 Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of MS Magazine Jan 2, 1972 Moms Birthday Feb 21, 1972 Nixon visits Red China Mar 11, 1972 Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics Jun 17, 1972 Watergate hotel broken into Mar 29, 1973 US leaves Vietnam Oct 10, 1973 Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns from office Mar 11, 1974 Jackie Robinson became the first black to play in the Major Leagues Mar 11, 1974 Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California Aug 9, 1974 President Nixon Resigns Aug 10, 1974 Gerald Ford Became the first unelected president in history Jul 11, 1976 First Apple computer sold Sep 10, 1976 Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China Aug 16, 1977 Elvis Dies Sep 17, 1978 Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords Sep 20, 1978 Lee Iacocca takes over Chrysler Nov 11, 1978 Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide Mar 11, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran Dec 8, 1980 John Lennon Dies Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes president Jun 14, 1982 Britain wins Falklands War Jul 19, 1985 Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride the space shuttle Jan 28, 1997 My Birthday Mar 11, 2013 Today