Dangerous World

By s8626408

  • Richard Skonecki is born

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    Dangerous World Timeline

  • Richard begins first day at school at St.Stanisluas

  • Eugene Brody's work at Yale was interrupted

    "in 1946, when he became a captain in the Army Medical Corps, serving as chief of the neuropsychiatric service in hospitals of the European command. He was also the psychiatric consultant to the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg."

  • Richard begins hisfreshmanyear at boys Tech High School

  • Richard begins his career at Sorgel Electric

  • The murder of Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois,

    "whilst visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi."

  • First Presidential TV debate in USA: John F.Kennedy versus Richard Nixon.

    JFK won the election against Richard Nixon

  • Ricard marries Rose Dykas

  • Richards son David Skonecki, is born

  • Richards daughter Dianne Skonecki, is born

  • Charles Manson sentenced to death.

    "Execution not carried out because, in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates was commuted to life imprisonment."

  • Howard and Helen Geld moved back to New York City, where they started the Mental Patients' Liberation Project.

    "He was Coordinator of the Storefront Project of MPLP, a storefront crisis center for present and former mental patients."

  • Richard begins his first football coaching job at St. Roman School

  • Richard goes on hisfirst trip to Las Vegas

  • President Carter issued an executive order creating the President's Commission on Mental Health.

    Membership included Priscilla Allen, 47, is a former patient from San Francisco, who has been effectively involved in the passage of legislation to benefit the mentally ill in California. She serves on the National Patients Rights Committee of the Mental Health Association. She served on a panel at the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law on "The Role of Consumer in Mental Health Service Advocacy" in 1976, and is the author of an important article published in Psychiatry Quarterly called "Con

  • Cable News Network launched.

    Birth of 24/7 news (USA)

  • First commercial wireless call on a DynaTAC cell phone.

    "The illustration is a reeactment in 2007 by Martin Cooper of his first call on a prototype DynaTAC model on 4.4.1973. The brick-like cell phone featured in the US Comedy series Saved by the Bell from 1989 to 1993."

  • Richard retires from the Square D company