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The Birth of Linda Kay Barnett
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South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
They were told they had to carry one to identify if they were african american or white or mexican or that kind of racial background. -
The Great Smog of 1952
A thick fog settled on London. This fog mixed with trapped black smoke to create a deadly layer of smog. Although there was no great panic at the time, the smog proved deadly. In the five days it hovered over London, the smog killed 4,000 people. In the following weeks, another 8,000 people died from exposure to the Great Smog of 1952. -
Joeseph Stalin dies
1953, he fell into a coma after four days, Stalin briefly gained consciousness. While they watched him struggling for his life, he raised his left arm. His nurse and his daughter took the view that he was pointing at a picture showing a small girl feeding a lamb. His daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who was also at his bedside, later claimed that he appeared to be "bringing a curse on them all". Stalin stopped breathing and although attempts were made to revive him,his doctors eventually gave up. -
Segregation Rulled Illegal In U.S.
Across the country, blacks and whites were legally forced to use separate train cars, separate drinking fountains, separate schools, separate entrances into buildings, and much more. Segregation was the law. -
Rosa Parks Refuses To Give Up Her Seat To The Whites.
A 42-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. For doing this, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation. Rosa Parks' refusal to leave her seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. -
Suez Crisis
It has come to be regarded as the end of Britain's role as one of the world powers and as the beginning of the end for the British Empire.This special online exhibition has been developed to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Crisis. -
The Cat In The Hat was written by Dr.Suess
Spaulding supplied Geisel with a list of 348 words that every six year old should know, and insisted that the book's vocabulary be limited to 225 words. Nine months later Dr. Seuss finished The Cat in the Hat, which used 223 words that appeared on the list plus 13 words that did not. -
NASA Founded
It first officialy opened on October 1, 1958. -
The Sound Of Music opens on Broadway
It was a Western film to star the Trapp family and explanded it to a Broadway show. -
Alfred Hitchcock's PHYSCO released
It is a good horror film in the 1960's and remade in 2007. -
Berlin Wall built
Was to seperate west and east Germany after World War II. They were not allowed to cross or death is taken forth. The deaths were about 100 to 200. -
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
She was found liying on her bed with a phone in one hand and a empty bottle of pills in the other. Police think it is a drug overdose. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island. -Martin Luther King Jr. -
The Beatles
The Beatles shaped not only music but also an entire generation. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm frequently received death threats and faced attempts on his life from Nation of Islam members. He knew that his life was in danger. -
Black Panther Party Established
With their black berets and leather jackets and their commitment to armed self defense, the Panthers became role models to some while scaring others. -
First Heart Transplant
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky. The surgery was a success. -
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Sirhan in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. All three television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) began coverage at the scene just minutes after the shooting. -
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
Opened the hatch and then Once at the bottom of the ladder, Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon and became the very first man on the moon. A few minutes later, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin followed him. -
Kent State Shootings
All of these protests led up to the deadly interaction between Kent State students and the National Guard on May 4, 1970 which is known as the Kent State Shootings or the Kent State Massacre. -
VCRs Introduced
The first VCR introduced is a SONY. -
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
The Black September members raided the building housing the Israeli athletes. Two Israeli athletes were killed during the raid and nine others were taken hostage. -
Abortion Legalized in U.S.
Roe Vs. Wade case made it official. -
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
There was a knock on the door of apartment #4 at 2603 Benvenue Street in Berkeley, California. In burst a group of men and women with their guns drawn. They grabbed a surprised 19-year-old college student named Patty Hearst, beat up her fiancé, threw her in the trunk of their car and drove off. -
Microsoft Founded
Bill Gates Found it. -
Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
Early in the morning of July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the Chinese city of Tangshan -
South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
Died from brain damage. -
Jonestown Massacre
Jim Jones died the same day from a gunshot wound to the head. -
Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress. -
Mt. St. Helens
The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 was the worst volcanic disaster in U.S. history -
Reagan Assassination Attempt
On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on U.S. President Ronald Reagan just outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. President Reagan was hit by one bullet, which punctured his lung. Three others were also injured in the shooting. -
E.T. Released
Third promotional season released. -
U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
Killed over 60 people. -
Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India
During the night of December 2-3, 1984, a storage tank containing methyl isocyanate (MIC) at the Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked gas into the densely populated city of Bhopal, India. It was one of the worst industrial accidents in history. -
Titanic Wreckage was found
Dr.Robert had been interested in finding the titanic since 1973. -
Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes
Killed all 7 people aboard. -
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"
The average dropped of percent of 22.6 -
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie
270 people were killed from the plane or the debris itself. -
Berlin Wall Falls
In the evening of November 9, 1989, East German government official Günter Schabowski stated during a press conference that travel through the border to the West was open. -
Nelson Mandela Freed
Spent 27 years in prison. -
Otzi the Iceman
Two German tourists were hiking in the Otzal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border when they discovered Europe's oldest known mummy sticking out of the ice. Otzi, as the Iceman is now known, had been naturally mummified by the ice and kept in amazing condition for approximately 5,300 years. -
Official End of the Cold War
The economies of nations behind the Iron Curtain were in trouble -
Lorena Bobbitt Takes Brutal Revenge
On the night of June 23, 1993, 26-year-old John Wayne Bobbitt came home to his Manassas, Virginia apartment after a night out partying and drinking. According to his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, John then raped her. -
O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were brutally murdered outside Nicole's apartment on June 12, 1994. Both victims were repeatedly stabbed and both had defensive wounds, attesting to their struggle in the attack. -
Yitzhak Rabin Assassination
On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed by Jewish radical Yigal Amir at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv. -
Two Royal Divorces
Charles and Diana divorce.
Andrew and Sarah divorce. -
Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash
Dodi Al Fayed and Henri Paul were pronounced dead at the scene. Diana and Trevor Rees-Jones were taken to the hospital. Diana had suffered major injuries, including to her head and chest. Diana died on the operating table. Trevor, though severely injured, survived the accident. -
India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons
Tessed for their effectiveness. -
Killing Spree at Columbine High School
On April 20, 1999, two students of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado planted bombs and opened fire on students within their school. The boys, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, planned on killing hundreds during their killing spree and didn't succeed in killing such large numbers only because their bombs did not explode. -
The Russian Submarine That Sank in the Barents Sea
On August 12, 2000, the Russian Oscar-II class nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea during naval exercises. The world watched and waited to find out if any of the 118 crew were still alive. -
Terrorist attack
On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing everyone on board, along with many others working in the buildings. -
The deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia
The attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia, killing 202 people, 152 of whom were foreign nationals (including 88 Australians), and 38 Indonesian citizens. A further 240 people were injured -
The invasion of Iraq
The invasion of Iraq was led by the United States, alongside the United Kingdom and smaller contingents from other countries. The initial invasion phase lasted from 20th March to 1st May and involved troops from the US (248,000), UK (45,000), Australia (2,000) and Poland (194). 36 other countries were involved in its aftermath. -
Facebook is launched
Launched in 2004, Facebook later became the most popular social networking site on the web – overtaking its main competitor, MySpace, in April 2008. It also became the most popular site for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily. By 2010, it had over 350 million members – or about one-fifth of all users on the Internet. -
Hurricane Katrina floods New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. -
Saddam Hussein is executed
He was sentenced to death by hanging, after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. -
Multiple suicide bombings kill 796 people in Kahtaniya, northern Iraq
Iraqi Red Crescent's estimates stated that 796 were killed and 1,562 wounded, making it the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of American combat operations. It was also the second deadliest act of terrorism in the world - following only behind the 9/11 attacks on the United States which killed 3,000 people. -
Flood Of 2008
It ended around July 1st. -
Africa's population reaches one billion
The continent’s population has doubled in the last 27 years. It will double again by the 2050s. The main reason for this explosive growth has been the lack of access to contraception and family planning centres. -
Haiti is struck by a devastating earthquake
A 7.0-magnitude quake occurred in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a death toll of more than 230,000, it was one of the deadliest on record. Many notable landmark buildings were damaged or destroyed. -
The death of Osama bin Laden
During this time, however, the CIA had been working to identify any possible couriers of bin Laden, and, in 2007, one was positively identified and then tracked. In 2010, a wire-tapped conversation between the courier - commonly referred to as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and another man - helped the CIA to deduce the location of bin Laden's compound, which was located in Abbottabad, Pakistan. -
Tornado in Alabama
Trussville Police Chief Don Sivley said the main areas affected by the storm were the Pilgrim's Rest and Twin Lakes subdivisions in the area around Trussville-Clay Road and Deerfoot Parkway near Old Springville Road. Several people have been injured and taken to the hospital, Sivley said, though officials are still trying to gather numbers.
