Family Oral History Project By agibson Mar 2, 1953 DNA Discovered Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Ends Mar 2, 1954 Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S. Mar 2, 1955 McDonald's Corporation is Founded Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Begins Mar 2, 1958 NASA Founded Mar 2, 1961 Berlin Wall Built Mar 2, 1963 JFK Assassinated Mar 2, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech Jul 16, 1964 1st Child Born Jan 15, 1967 First Super Bowl Jun 2, 1967 2nd Child Born Mar 2, 1968 •Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated •My Lai Massacre Mar 2, 1969 Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon Mar 6, 1971 VCRs Introduced Mar 6, 1972 Pocket Calculators Introduced Mar 6, 1973 Abortion Legalized in U.S. Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Ends Mar 6, 1976 North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Mar 6, 1977 Star Wars Movie Released Mar 6, 1981 Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan Mar 6, 1981 Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM Mar 6, 1985 Wreck of the Titanic Found Feb 25, 1987 1st Grandchild Born Mar 6, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls Mar 6, 1990 Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space Mar 6, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union Sep 27, 1991 2nd Grandchild Born Mar 6, 1992 End of the Cold War Mar 6, 1993 Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially Apr 6, 1993 World Trade Center Bombed Aug 27, 1996 3rd Grandchild Born Mar 6, 1997 Hong Kong Returned to China Mar 6, 1998 U.S. President Clinton Impeached Mar 6, 1999 Panama Canal Returns to Panama Mar 6, 1999 The Euro is Introduced (The New European Currency) Mar 6, 2000 George W. Bush is elected President of the United States Apr 6, 2001 Afghan War begins May 6, 2001 Wikipedia founded Sep 11, 2001 9/11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York Mar 6, 2003 Iraq War begins Mar 6, 2005 Hurricane Katrina kills nearly 2000 people in the Gulf of Mexico Mar 6, 2006 Saddam Hussein is executed in Iraq Mar 6, 2008 Barack Obama is elected President of the United States Mar 6, 2010 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000 Mar 6, 2010 The largest oil spill in US history occurs in the Gulf of Mexico Mar 6, 2011 9.0 earthquake near Tohoku, Japan May 6, 2011 Osama bin Laden is Killed Jun 18, 2011 1st Great Grandchild Born Feb 19, 2012 Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France
