Family History Project By sdrysdale@ccsdstudent.org Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins Period: Aug 8, 1950 to Mar 6, 2012 My life Sep 20, 1951 Color T.V. Introduced Mar 6, 1954 Reports Say Cigaretts Cause Cancer May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact Signed Mar 18, 1956 Khrushchev Denounces Stalin Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age Sep 11, 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard sent to space on Freedom 7 Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis Aug 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech Nov 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy Assinated Jul 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act Nov 1, 1965 Vietnam War Begins Dec 16, 1966 Walt Disney dies of cancer Dec 3, 1967 First Heart Transplant Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Lands on Moon May 31, 1970 Peru Earthquake Jan 1, 1971 Cigarete Advirtisements Banned During T.V. Aug 15, 1973 Vietnam War Ends Aug 8, 1974 Richard Nixon Resigns Apr 4, 1975 Microsoft Founded Jul 27, 1976 Tangshan Earthquake Nov 18, 1978 Jonestown Massacare Mar 28, 1979 Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island Dec 8, 1980 John Lennon Assassinated Jun 16, 1981 AIDs Identified Jun 11, 1982 Movie E.T. is Released Sep 1, 1983 Soviets Shoot Down Korean Airline Mar 6, 1984 PG-13 Movie Rating Created Sep 1, 1985 Titanic Wreck is Found Jul 3, 1988 USA Shoots Down Iranian Airliner Aug 13, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls Apr 14, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope Launched Feb 28, 1991 Operation Dessert Storm Ends Mar 6, 1992 Cold War Ends Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombed Mar 6, 1996 Mad Cow Disease Hits Britian Feb 22, 1997 Scientist Clone Sheep Jan 26, 1998 Clinton Impeached Jul 16, 1999 JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Crash