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Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues
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Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California
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Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China
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First color TV show
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Joseph Stalin dies
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Rosenbergs are executed for spying
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Treaty signed ending Korean War
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Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in montgomery, Alabama
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Albert Einstein dies
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First Microwave oven
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Bill Haley records "Rock around the clock"
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Buddy Holly dies in plane crash
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John Glenn orbits the earth
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My fathers birthday
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth
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Berlin wall goes up
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James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama
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Cuban Missile crisis resolved peacefully
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Marilyn Monroe commits suicide
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Dr. Martin Luther King saya "I have a dream"
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered
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Beatles appear on the Ed SUllivan Show
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Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of women
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Muhammed Ali goes to jail
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Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam war
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First Super Bowl is played
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Pres. Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office
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Richard NIxon is elected for his first term of office
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Dr. MArtin Luther King is assassinated
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Robert F Kennedy is assassinated
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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
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Ho Chi Minh dies
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Gloria Steinem publishes the first adition of "MS" magazine
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Nixon visits Red China
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Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics
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Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office
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Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record
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Pres. Nixon resigns
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Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president
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Elvis dies
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Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide
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Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran
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Jhon Lennon murdered
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Ronald Reagan becomes president
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First Apple computer solde
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Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle
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Berlin Wall goes down
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My birthday