forbes timeline

Joe McCarthy

Mar 28, 1950

Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention
and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.

roy cohn

Mar 28, 1955

Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters
private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs,
mentioned earlier in verse.

lebanon

Mar 28, 1958

Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves
U.S. intervention.Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth
Republic following the Algerian Crisis.

U-2

Mar 28, 1960

U-2: An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down
over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.

Lawrence

Mar 28, 1962

Lawrence of Arabia: The Academy Award-winning film based on the
life of T. E. Lawrence starring Peter O'Toole premieres in America on December 16.

Birth control

Mar 28, 1965

Birth control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut
in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a
papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.

Richard nixon

Mar 28, 1968

Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential
election of the United States

sex pistols

Mar 28, 1970

Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era. With Sid and Nancey.

aytollah

Mar 28, 1979

Ayatollah's in Iran: During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the West-backed and U.S.-installed
Shah is overthrown as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gains power after years in exile.

China

Mar 28, 1988

China's under martial law: On May 20, China declares martial law, enabling them
to use force of arms against protesting students to end the Tiananmen Square protests