Naritive

  • JFK Assassinated

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    TImeline

  • Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.

  • Los Angeles Riots

  • Mass Draft Protests in U.S

  • First Super Bowl

  • Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

  • Beatles Break Up

  • VCRs Introduced

  • Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich

  • U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam

  • U.S. President Nixon Resigns

  • Civil War in Lebanon

  • North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

  • South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death

  • John Paul II Becomes Pope

  • Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran

  • John Lennon Assassinated

  • Assassination Attempt on the Pope

  • ietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC

  • Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space

  • ndira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards

  • •Windows program invented by Microsoft

  • •Windows program invented by Microsoft

  • •Disposable contact lenses invented

  • •Disposable contact lenses invented

  • •High-definition television invented

  • •The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee

  • •The digital answering machine invented

  • •The smart pill invented.

  • •The pentium processor invented.

  • •HIV protease inhibitor invented

  • •DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented

  • •Web TV invented.

  • •The gas-powered fuel cell invented.

  • •Viagra invented

  • •Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph).

  • •Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils invented by T.V. Oommen.

  • 9-11

  • •Birth control patch invented by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical

  • •New Toy Robots Max the robotic cat invented by Omron, LUCKY, THE ROVING ROBO

  • •Popular Science Best of What's New 2004

  • Youtube INvented

  • •Popular Science Best of What's New 2006

  • •Popular Science Best of What's New 2007

  • •Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2008

  • New inventions of 2009 include: a new computer interface called the sixth sense, and a retinal implant for the blind.