Grandma's History

  • Grandma Is Born

    Grandma Is Born
    This is the date my grandma was born and she was named Evelyn Amill Arzola.
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    Grandmas History

  • Little Rock High School

    Little Rock High School
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    The National Guard was called for duty by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attending previously all White Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He gave up his troops on September 21 and the students were allowed entrance to class two days later. Violence caused President Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to Little Rock on September 24 to enforce the edict.
  • Space Satellite Launch,

    Space Satellite Launch,
    http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1950.html
    Russia's first satellite launch, known as Spuntnik, took place in 0ctober 4 1957. The U.S reacted by freaking out, and starting building rockets and satellites. From then on The Soviet space launch created the Space Race. The Sputnik however daceyed on the 4th of january 1958. For your information we won the space race and we put a man on the moon.
  • Daytona 500, First Opening

    Daytona 500, First Opening
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    The Daytona 500 stock car race is run for the first time, with Lee Petty taking first place.
  • Urban Riots

    Urban Riots
    http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1960.html
    Urban riots plague U.S. cities. In Newark, New Jersey, twenty-six are killed, fifteen hundred injured and one thousand arrested from July 12 to 17. One week later, forty are killed, two thousand injured, and five thousand left homeless after rioting in Detroit, known as the 12th Street Riots. The riots eventually stopped by over 12,500 Federal troopers and National Guardsmen.
  • Middle School

    Middle School
    Gram first attended middle school in 1965. She couldn't attend earlier because she was poor and was doing small jobs to ger money.
  • Moving To The Big Apple

    Grandma moved from Puertor Rico to New York city in 1970.
  • First Kid Born

    This was the exact date when my father was born, but grandma wasn't his mother until 1988. But it was her first born child when she recived him in 88.
  • Top Secret Info About Vietnam In The Papers

    Top Secret Info About Vietnam In The Papers
    http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1970.html
    The United States Supreme Court lets the New York times and the Washington Post write top secret information about the Vietnam War, under the articles of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The New York Times had begun the Pentagon Papers on June 13.
  • Atari

    Atari
    video game commercial
    Atari company had purchased an engineering think tank in 1973 called Cyan Engineering to research next generation video game systems. They had been working on a prototype known as Stella for some time. Unlike other machines, this used custom logic to play a small number of games.
  • Porsche 930 Is First Produced

    Porsche 930 Is First Produced
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    Porsche began experimenting with turbocharging technology on their race cars during the late 1950s, and in 1972 began development on a turbocharged version of the 911. Porsche originally needed to produce the car in order to work with government regulations and had intended on marketing it as a street legal race vehicle like the 1973 Carrera 2.7 RS.
  • Grandma Learned How To Drive

    Grandma Learned How To Drive
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCb_6mO6CmE
    Grandma was taught how to drive, by her M.A.T.C driving teacher. Then my grandma got her drivers license. (By the way she used to drive like this)
  • Gram Gets Married

    Grandma got married when she was only 25, and she lived a happy marriage.
  • Moving To Wisconson

    Grandma moved from New York to Wisconson when she was 27.
  • Gram Votes For Regan.

    My grandmother voted for Ronald Regan in 1984 when he was running for office again.
  • Going To MATC

    She went to M.A.T.C when she was 21 years old.
  • The Soviet And The U.S Reach An Agreement

    The Soviet And The U.S Reach An Agreement
    http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1980.html
    The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, to dismantle all U.S. and Soviet missiles in the 300-3,400 mile range.
  • Iraq Invades

    Iraq Invades
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    Iraq invades its neighbor, Kuwait, setting the beginning of U.S. involvement in the Gulf War. Four days later, the United Nations begins a global trade against Iraq. On November 29, the United Nations passes a resolution, stating that Iraq must give up its forces from Kuwait by January 15, 1991 or face military intervention.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Interview
    The World Wide Web and Internet protocol and WWW language was invenred by Tim Berners-Lee. This was the start of the modern Internet
  • First Son's Marriage

    In 1999 grandma attended my fathers wedding in 1999.