Johnnies life

  • Johnnie is born

  • First Jeep is produced

  • Martha Stewart is born

  • Camp Majdanek opens in Poland

    the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people were killed in the camp.
  • Jesse Jackson is born

  • Mount Rushmore Completed

  • Pearl Harbor is attacked

  • First African Americans accepted into US Navy

  • 13yr old Anne Frank makes first entry in her Diary

  • Elvis Presley Dies at Graceland

  • Casablanca Movie premiers in Hollywood Theater in NYC

  • Race Riots in LA

  • Race Riots in Harlem NYC

  • Batman and Robin first appear in comics

  • United Negro College fund is incorporated

  • D DAY - 150,000 Allied troops land in Normandy France

  • Race Riots in Athens Alabama

  • 1st Rocket is launched

  • Japanese Surrender - WWII Ends

  • Women in France allowed to vote

  • Congress officially acknowledges "The Pledge of Allegiance"

  • President Truman officially declares end of WW II

  • 1st 45 RPM record released

  • Women of Greece given right to vote

  • First TV dinner put on sale

  • Disneyland Opens

  • Rosa Parks arrested for not going to the back of the bus

  • Rosa Parks starts Historic Bus Boycott

  • Congress ends race segregation on buses

  • Postage Stamp was $.03

  • NASA is Created

  • Alaska becomes 49th state

  • Fidel Castro takes over Power in Cuba

  • Hawaii becomes 50th state

  • US Supreme Court declares AR schools must integrate

  • John F Kennedy wins election

  • First US Astronaut - Alan B Shepard into space

  • JFK Shot and Killed

  • Lee Harvey Oswald Shot and killed

  • Nelson Mandelia sentenced to Life in Prison

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

  • Dr Martin Luther King Jr and 2600 protestors arrested in Alabama

  • Malcolm X shot to death at Harlem Ralley

  • 190,000 US Troops are in Vietnam

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Blacks Riot for 4 days in LA

  • Thurgood Marshall sworn in as First Black Supreme Court Justice

  • Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

  • Martin Luther King Jr is murdered in Memphis

  • Richard Nixon sworn in as President

  • Neil Armstrong is the first Man to walk on the moon

  • 4 Kent State students are slain by National Gruardsmen for Protesting Vietnam War

  • Beatles Break up

  • US involvement in VIetnam War ends

  • First Class stamp is 13 cents

  • IBM introduces the first personal computer

  • Michael Jackson releases Thriller Album

  • US postage stamp is 22 cents

  • Oprah Winfrey Show first hits National TV

  • Berlin wall comes down

  • Nelson Mandelia is freed after 27yrs

  • Persian Gulf War ends

  • LA Riots over aquittal of officers in Rodney King Beating

  • OJ Simpson arrested for killing Nicole and Rodman

  • Million Man March

  • US Postage Stamp 33 cents

  • 12 students and one teacher killed at Columbine High School

  • Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center - 9-11

  • Space Shuttle Columbia explodes

  • Barack Obama is elected as first Black President of the United States

  • Michael Jackson dies at age 50

  • US Postage Stamp 44 cents