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Born May 4, 1922 in New York City -
The US Supreme Court rules that organized baseball is a sport and not a business. -
Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana causing 689 deaths.
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In 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed.
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The Pentagon is completed and becomes the largest office building in the world.
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She went to the Pacific Ocean as a research assistant in 1947.
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Finished school with her Ph.D. in Zoology from New York University in 1950.
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Wrote a book called Lady with a Spear which was published in 1953. -
Became a director of a marine biology laboratory in Florida in 1954.
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The laboratory moved to Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida in 1960.
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Started teaching marine biology at the University of Maryland in 1967.
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Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign the next day, the first President to do so.
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Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard -
Retired from her job in 1992.
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Mad cow disease makes an appearance in Europe.
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Florida continuously gets hit with hurricanes.
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California's Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry.
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Osama Bin Laden is pronounced dead in 2011.
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Her last research project about mysterious deepwater triggerfish was published in 2015.
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Eugenie Clark was pronounced dead on February 25, 2015 from complications from lung cancer.