MADISON HOUSMAN TIMELINE AMERICAN STUDIES

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues

  • Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California

  • Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China

  • First color TV show

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Rosenbergs are executed for spying

  • Treaty signed ending Korean War

  • Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in montgomery, Alabama

  • Albert Einstein dies

  • First Microwave oven

  • Bill Haley records "Rock around the clock"

  • Buddy Holly dies in plane crash

  • John Glenn orbits the earth

  • My fathers birthday

  • Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth

  • Berlin wall goes up

  • James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama

  • Cuban Missile crisis resolved peacefully

  • Marilyn Monroe commits suicide

  • Dr. Martin Luther King saya "I have a dream"

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered

  • Beatles appear on the Ed SUllivan Show

  • Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of women

  • Muhammed Ali goes to jail

  • Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam war

  • First Super Bowl is played

  • Pres. Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office

  • Richard NIxon is elected for his first term of office

  • Dr. MArtin Luther King is assassinated

  • Robert F Kennedy is assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

  • Ho Chi Minh dies

  • Gloria Steinem publishes the first adition of "MS" magazine

  • Nixon visits Red China

  • Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics

  • Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office

  • Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record

  • Pres. Nixon resigns

  • Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president

  • Elvis dies

  • Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide

  • Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran

  • Jhon Lennon murdered

  • Ronald Reagan becomes president

  • First Apple computer solde

  • Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle

  • Berlin Wall goes down

  • My birthday