Uncle Ron interview timeline

By KMartin1

  • I was born

  • In Moscow, seventeen leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders

  • Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military.

  • Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the Royal Navy by 1944.

  • Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the Royal Navy by 1944

  • WWII: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.

  • The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT).

    On the next day, Canada does the same as the U.S. and declares war on Japan.

  • WWII: The Battle of Rabaul begins.

    The Battle of Rabaul, also known by the Japanese as Operation R, was fought on the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea, in January and February 1942. It was a strategically significant defeat of Allied forces by Japan in the Pacific campaign of World War II. Following the capture of the port of Rabaul, Japanese forces turned it into a major base and proceeded to land on mainland New Guinea, advancing toward Port Moresby and Australia. Hostilities on the neighbouring i

  • Iraq declares war on the Axis

  • WWII – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest a

  • A United States B-29 Bomber, Bockscar, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on Nagasaki, Japan, at 11:02 a.m. (local time).

  • WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands

  • US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

  • Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

  • 1st color newsreel filmed (Pasadena, California)

  • Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth

  • The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 men rob $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities from armored car company Brink's offices in Boston, Massachusetts

  • Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament

  • University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student

  • Salk Polio vaccine announced

  • US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established

  • Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance

  • US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

  • Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published.

  • Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

  • Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from orbit

  • The nuclear submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth codenamed Operation Sandblast.

  • John F. Kennedy succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States of America.

  • The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart (which is still the corporate name), opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

  • John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President.

  • At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC is eventually included on m

  • Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.

  • Go Dai massacre: Vietnam War.

    The Go Dai massacre was a massacre conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army on 26 February 1966 of unarmed citizens in Go Dai hamlet

  • An explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.

  • U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.

  • Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.

  • The first episode of US soap opera All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network

  • Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.

  • Bloody Sunday

    The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.

  • Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, is released in the US. It is released in the UK on March 24.

  • Vice President Gerald Rudolph Ford succeeds Richard Milhous Nixon as the 38th President of the United States of America.

  • Altair 8800 is released, sparking the microcomputer revolution.

  • U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

  • Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated

  • The U.S. scientific satellite Seasat is launched.

  • The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin

  • The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.

  • The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit

  • A ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.

  • The Ash Wednesday fires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 76 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfires ever

  • The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

  • In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

  • Pixar Animation Studios is opened.

  • The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.

  • Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.

  • George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.

  • Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

  • Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq.

  • The Russian Federation is officially formed

  • World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000.

  • The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; 1 tornado hits a Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22 people.

  • In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport, the largest in the United States.

  • One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia, PA receives a record 30.7 inches (78 cm) of snowfall, New York City's public schools close for the first time in 18 years and the federal

  • My nephew was born

  • U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.

  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters. It becomes the highest grossing Star Wars film.May 26

  • The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan, and in North America several months later. It becomes the best-selling game console of all time.

  • 9/11

    Nearly 3,000 are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into grassland in Shanksville.

  • In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.

  • Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.

  • The last Oldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line.

  • Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old British man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.

  • NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.[6]

  • Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.

  • At 19:04:39 UTC, the MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury

  • The International Olympic Committee awards the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.

  • The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened

  • U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan

  • A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo with 213 people dead