William Dale Kottka1949 through 1983
1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor)
1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US
1946-1989 The Cold War
1948-1955 Multiple polio epidemics in the USA
1949 Apartheid policy in South Africa
1949 Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb
1949 45 rpm musical recordings
1950-1954 McCarthyism
1950-1953 Korean War
1950 World pop. est. at 2.4 billion
1950 Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize
1951 Electricity from Atomic Power
1952 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated
1952-2022 Reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England
1953-1960 Dwight D Eisenhower president of US
1954 Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional
1954 Womans right to vote (UN Suffrage)
1955 Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine
1955 Warsaw pact formed
1955 Invention of Velcro
1955 Fiber Optics (by Kapany)
1956 Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks
1957 Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite
1958 Stereo LP recordings come into usage
1958 FM Stereo Broadcasts
1958 Integrated Circuit
1958 US space agency (NASA) established
1958 Neural Network invented
1959 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah
1959 Alaska enters the union - 49th
1959 Hawaii enters the union - 50th
1960 1st weather satellite (Tiros I)
1960 Laser
1960 World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton
1960 Pantyhose
1961 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard
1961 First human in space - Yuri Gagarin
1961-1963 John F Kennedy president of US
1961-1989 Berlin Wall
1961-1991 7th Cholera Pandemic
1962-1965 Vatican II
1962 Cuban missile crisis
1963 Compact Cassette Recordings
1963 Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
1963 1st artificial heart
1963-1968 Lyndon B Johnson president of US
1963 Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space
1964-1975 Vietnam War
1964 US civil rights bill
1965 Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles
1965 1st spacewalks (US, USSR)
1966 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR)
1966 8-track tape players
1967-1970 Nigerian civil war
1967 Six day war: Israel-Arabs
1967 Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole
1967 Marshall 1st black supreme court justice
1967 1st human heart transplant
1968 Martin Luther King assassinated
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1969 Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon president of US
1969 Woodstock Music Festival
1969 ARPANET begins (Internet's precursor)
1970 Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State
1971 Pakistani civil war
1971 Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004
1972 North Atlantic trash patch discovered
1972 8008 Microprocessor ships (Intel)
1973 The Internet begins
1973 October war (Israel-Arabic nations)
1973 Invention of the cellphone
1974 Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace
1974-1976 Gerald Ford president of US
1974 8080 Microprocessor ships (Intel)
1974 6800 Microprocessor ships (Motorola)
1974 CP/M operating system released
1975 Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September
1975 Altair 8800a - the 1st home computer
1975 SWTPC 6800 computer
1975 IMSAI 8080 computer
1975 Ebola virus appears - 90% lethal
1975 6502 Microprocessor ships (MOS Technology)
1976 US Bicentennial
1976 Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa
1976 VHS Video Recordings
1976 Television begins satellite delivery
1976 Z80 Microprocessor ships (Zilog)
1976 Apple releases first computer
1976 FLEX operating system released
1977-1980 James Earl Carter Jr president of US
1977 Neutron bomb
1977 Kilobaud Magazine, issue #1 - January
1978 Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die
1978 1st test-tube baby
1978 Laserdisc video recordings
1978 6809 Microprocessor ships (Motorola)
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear event
1979 Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK
1979 OS-9 operating system released
1980 Mount St. Helens Erupts
1981 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia
1981 1st female supreme court justice
1981-1988 Ronald Reagan president of US
1981 IBM PC ships
1981 Anwar Sadat, Pres. of Egypt, assasinated
1982 1st genetically engineered product - insulin
1983 Compact Disks
1983 Bluford 1st black in space
1983 Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system
1983-1985 Famine in Ethiopia, 1.2m dead
1983 Cellphones come into use
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