Family oral history project

By denton_alexandria
  • Period: to

    garrys life

  • first money astronot

  • Indonesia is recognised

  • Soviet union claims to have an atomic bomb

  • i love lucy first debut on CBS

  • The Battle of Nanri island takes place.

  • Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)

  • US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established

  • West Germany joins NATO

  • 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM

  • Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

  • Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits

  • "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV

  • Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die

  • President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp

  • K-Mart opens

  • Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

  • - Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)

  • Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala

  • 12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway

  • The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty

  • North Korea seizes US Navy ship Pueblo; holds 83 on board as spies

  • Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US

  • •Earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Peru

  • Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China.

  • Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invades Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed

  • US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia

  • Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed. A collective military dictatorship assumes power

  • Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica

  • US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

  • 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show

  • 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy

  • Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord

  • Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die

  • US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages

  • Mr. Jackson was born

  • Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks

  • 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq

  • US approves screening test for AIDS

  • Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos

  • Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US

  • US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children

  • - 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states

  • Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78

  • 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR

  • Bush is 1st US pres to address Australian Parliament

  • Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

  • Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"

  • "Glass Menagerie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 57 perfs

  • Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured

  • Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships

  • - All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free

  • - Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001

  • German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.

  • Jennifer Lopez scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing.'

  • US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.

  • final communication

  • Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

  • Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory

  • Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity

  • The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens

  • A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.

  • US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.

  • Suicide car bomb detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100

  • Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Mubarak regime in demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"

  • Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11