English Project By hmoore28 Period: Dec 1, 1948 to Nov 28, 2011 Life of Lana Thies Dec 5, 1948 Birthday Jan 1, 1949 First non-stop flight around the world Jan 1, 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt Jan 1, 1951 Color TV introduced Jan 1, 1952 Polio Vaccine Created Jan 1, 1953 DNA Discovered Jan 1, 1954 Roger Bannister breaks four minute mile Jan 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus Jan 1, 1956 Elvis gyrates on Ed Sullivan's show Jan 1, 1957 Dr. Suess publishes Cat in the Hat Jan 1, 1958 Hula Hoops become popular Jan 1, 1959 US quiz shows found to be fixed Jan 1, 1960 First Televised Presidential Debates Jan 1, 1961 Peace Corps Founded Jan 1, 1962 First Person Killed Trying to Climb Berlin Wall Jan 1, 1963 JFK Assassinated Dec 5, 1964 16th Birthday Jan 1, 1965 Los Angeles Riots Jan 1, 1966 Mass Draft Protests in US Jan 1, 1967 Graduated High School Jan 1, 1968 Robert Kennedy Assassinated May 15, 1970 Son, Marc, Born Jan 1, 1971 VCRs Introduced Jan 1, 1972 Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals Jan 1, 1973 US Pulls Out of Vietnam Jan 1, 1974 Patty Hearst Kidnapped Jan 1, 1975 Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon Jan 1, 1976 Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens Jan 1, 1977 Elvis found dead Jan 1, 1978 Jonestown Massacre Jan 1, 1979 Margaret Thatcher first woman Prime Minister Jan 1, 1980 John Lennon Assassinated Jan 1, 1981 First woman in Supreme Court Jan 1, 1982 Married Gary Jan 1, 1983 Sally Ride first American woman in space Jan 1, 1984 ndira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards Jan 1, 1985 Titanic found Jan 1, 1986 Challenger space shuttle explodes Jan 1, 1987 New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday" Jan 1, 1988 Moved to Cedar Rapids Jan 1, 1989 Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square Jan 1, 1990 Nelson Mandel Freed Jan 1, 1991 Operation Desert Storm Jan 1, 1992 Riots after Rodney King Verdict Jan 1, 1993 Cult compound raided in Waco, Texas Jan 1, 1994 OJ Simpson arrested Jan 1, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing Nov 28, 1996 Hailey Born Jan 1, 1997 Princess Diana dies in car crash Apr 11, 1998 Jake born Jan 1, 1999 JFK Jr. dies Jan 1, 2000 Unclear winner in US Presidential election Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Attacks Jan 1, 2002 Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan Jan 1, 2003 A female suicide bomber blows up explosives strapped to her waist in a crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in Chechnya Jan 1, 2004 Gary had stroke Jan 1, 2005 Bought house in Florida Jan 1, 2006 An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast Jan 1, 2007 British toddler Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal Jan 1, 2008 Cedar Rapids flood Jan 1, 2009 Present at the Orange Bowl when Hawkeyes won Jan 1, 2010 Lake Delhi flooded Nov 24, 2011 Thanksgiving trip to Florida