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the tv was invented
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco.The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14. -
Gemini 8
was the sixth manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission conducted the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S. spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and required immediate abort of the mission. -
Rolling Stone
The very first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was released.Created by Jann Wenner in San Francisco, the magazine was intended to reflect the youth’s perspective on music, politics, and popular culture, while maintaining a more professional journalistic standard than many other similar publication of the time.The magazine became known for its iconic covers, with John Lennon gracing the first issue. Rolling Stone magazine has since remained popular in modern times, publishing over 1,000 issues. -
MLK Jr. assassination
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at 6:05 p.m. -
World Trade Center
The world trade Center started its construction. The south tower construction was started in 1969. the construction was finished of December of 1970 and the south tower construction was finished January of 1972 -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It also set the history of the first man on the moon(Neil Armstrong). it lasted till July 24, 1969. -
The first MRI scanner
nearly five hours after the start of the first MRI test, the first human scan was made as the first MRI prototype. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a medical diagnostic technique that creates images of the human body using the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance. -
New York City Blackout
was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977.The only neighborhoods in the city that were not affected were in southern Queens, neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system and the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn which operated its own historic power generator. This Blackout was caused by many strikes of lightning on Major power plants in the city -
Garfield
The very first “Garfield” comic strip is published in 41 U.S. Newspapers.Created by cartoonist Jim Davis, the comic strip focused on the life of a lazy and often sarcastic cat named “Garfield.” The comic quickly grew in popularity and was featured in 100 newspapers only a year after its debut. Featuring several other characters including Garfield’s owner John and the cat’s rival pet, a dog named Odie. -
Gemini 10
It carried astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott into space where they became the first mission to dock two spacecraft while in orbit. Unfortunately, soon after they completed the docking the two spacecraft began to violently tumble in what was also the first catastrophic failure during a U.S. Space mission that potentially threatened the lives of the astronauts on board. Armstrong and Scott were able to stabilize the craft but had to abort the rest of their mission. -
American Airlines Flight 191
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 used for this flight on May 25, 1979, crashed moments after takeoff from Chicago.All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with 2 people on the ground. It is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States. -
Pac-Man
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan. It was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani. -
assassination of John Lennon
Member of the Beatles. He was assassinated by Mark David Chapman -
The First CD player
The CD player is commercialized and made by Sony. -
Michael Jackson
MJ released his album Thriller and it became the biggest selling album of all time. -
The Macintosh
Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh computer. It was the company's first mass-market personal computer featuring an integral graphical user interface and mouse. -
The Cosby show
The Cosby show first airs on NBC.The sitcom is widely considered the most popular show of the 1980s. -
Rout 66
Also known as the Will Rogers Highway and also known as the Main Street of America. was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System. This famous highway had been decommissioned. -
Nintendo Entertainment System(NES)
This system is finally released and available in the U.S. It was released in Japan in 1983 and then came to the U.S. -
The Challenger Space Shuttle
The space shuttle explodes on its 10th flight. It exploded 73 seconds after lift off -
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jefferey was a an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys. he was arrested after the finding of remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee,Wisconsin apartment -
Univ. of Iowa Shooting
the gunman of the shooting was a 28 year old graduate student by the name of Gang Lu.He killed four members of the university faculty and one student, and seriously wounded another student, before taking his own life. -
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing destroyed one-third of the building, killed 168 people,[1] and injured more than 680 others.[2] The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings -
Garrisen Almanson
On this day Garrisen sterling Almanson was born -
Playstation 2
The playstation 2 was released. It sold over 155 million units worldwide -
9-11
On this date terrorist from Saudi Arabia had made several terrorist attacks in the U.S. American airlines flight 77 had crashed into the pentagon. 2 planes from American airlines had crashed into both towers of the world trade center -
Mars Odyssey
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft reaches Mars.It's Mission was to answer the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. -
George W. Bush
George Bush started his 2nd term -
YouTube
YouTube is launched. It became popular rapidly, it reached 100,000 million views per day within the year of being launched -
Pluto
the International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of "dwarf planet." This means that Pluto is not declared as a planet -
E.coli
A break out of E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach. It affected 500 people throughout the U.S.
