MADISON HOUSMAN TIMELINE AMERICAN STUDIES By facebooker_100000100343655 Mar 11, 1945 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues Mar 11, 1949 Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California Oct 22, 1949 Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China Apr 23, 1951 First color TV show Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies Jun 19, 1953 Rosenbergs are executed for spying Dec 13, 1953 Treaty signed ending Korean War Mar 11, 1955 Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in montgomery, Alabama Apr 18, 1955 Albert Einstein dies Sep 18, 1955 First Microwave oven Mar 21, 1956 Bill Haley records "Rock around the clock" Feb 3, 1959 Buddy Holly dies in plane crash Mar 11, 1959 John Glenn orbits the earth Mar 21, 1961 My fathers birthday Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth May 30, 1961 Berlin wall goes up Mar 11, 1962 James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama Jun 12, 1962 Cuban Missile crisis resolved peacefully Aug 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe commits suicide Aug 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King saya "I have a dream" Nov 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated Nov 24, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered Feb 9, 1964 Beatles appear on the Ed SUllivan Show Mar 10, 1966 Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of women Jan 14, 1967 Muhammed Ali goes to jail Oct 21, 1967 Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam war Nov 20, 1967 First Super Bowl is played Mar 11, 1968 Pres. Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office Mar 11, 1968 Richard NIxon is elected for his first term of office Apr 4, 1968 Dr. MArtin Luther King is assassinated Jun 6, 1968 Robert F Kennedy is assassinated Mar 11, 1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Sep 2, 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies Jan 11, 1972 Gloria Steinem publishes the first adition of "MS" magazine Mar 11, 1972 Nixon visits Red China Nov 11, 1972 Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics Oct 10, 1973 Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office Apr 8, 1974 Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record Aug 9, 1974 Pres. Nixon resigns Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president Aug 16, 1977 Elvis dies Jun 9, 1978 Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide Mar 11, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran Dec 8, 1980 Jhon Lennon murdered Jan 28, 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes president May 23, 1983 First Apple computer solde Mar 11, 1985 Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle May 29, 1989 Berlin Wall goes down Apr 22, 1997 My birthday