1945 To Present By rachelblock Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Mar 8, 2013 1945 to Present Apr 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues Oct 1, 1949 Mao Tse Tung leads communist revolution in China Jan 15, 1950 Ghandi founds modern nations of India Feb 9, 1950 Sen. Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists Jun 25, 1951 First color tv show Mar 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies Jun 19, 1953 Rosenbergs are executed for spying Jul 27, 1953 Treaty signed ending Korean War Apr 12, 1954 Bill Haley records "Rock Around the Clock" Apr 22, 1954 Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S. Senate Apr 18, 1955 Albert Einstein dies Oct 25, 1955 First microwave oven Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama Feb 3, 1959 Buddy Holly dies in plane crash Jul 8, 1959 U.S. leaves Vietnam Jan 17, 1961 Pres. Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the "military-industrial complex" Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard goes into space Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall goes up Feb 20, 1962 John Glenn orbits the earth Aug 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe commits suicide Sep 7, 1962 James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama Oct 8, 1962 Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully Aug 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King says "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 Apr 4, 1964 MLK assassinated Dec 10, 1964 My dad's birthday Mar 7, 1965 Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California Jun 30, 1966 Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of Women Jan 15, 1967 First Super Bowl played Jan 22, 1967 My mom's birthday Jun 20, 1967 Muhammed Ali goes to jail Aug 16, 1967 Elvis dies Mar 7, 1968 Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War Jun 5, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy is assasinated Nov 5, 1968 Richard Nixon elected for his first term in office Nov 8, 1968 President Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office Jul 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Sep 2, 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies Jan 7, 1972 Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of "MS" Magazine Feb 21, 1972 Nixon visits Red China Mar 8, 1972 Israeli athletes slaughered at Olympics Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Hotel broken into Oct 10, 1973 Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office Apr 8, 1974 Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record Aug 8, 1974 President Nixon resigns Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president in history Jul 8, 1976 First Apple computer sold Sep 8, 1978 Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords Nov 18, 1978 Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide Feb 1, 1979 Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran Sep 20, 1979 Lee Iacoca takes over Chrysler Dec 8, 1980 John Lennon murdered Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes president Mar 8, 1982 Britain wins Falklands War Mar 8, 1983 U.S. invasion of Dominican Republic/ Grenada/ Panama/ Iraq Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall taken down Jun 5, 1997 My birthday Jan 28, 2013 Christa McAuliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle
