Oral History Timeline

Born

Feb 15, 1917

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Daylight Savings time/Time Zones Approved

Mar 19, 1918

18th Amendment ratified

Jan 16, 1919

Women get right to vote

Aug 26, 1920

Lie Detector Invented

Mar 5, 1921

King Tut's tomb discovered

Mar 5, 1922

Winter Olympics first held

Jan 25, 1924

Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

Jul 18, 1925

Harry Houdini dies

Oct 31, 1926

Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean

May 20, 1927

First appearance of Mickey and Minnie mouse in a cartoon

May 15, 1928

Stock Market Crashes

Oct 1, 1929

Star-Spangled Banner adopted as American National Anthem

Mar 3, 1931

Talking movies invented

Apr 5, 1932

Graduated High school

Mar 6, 1936

World War 2 Begins

Sep 1, 1939

Japanese Bomb pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Became Iowa Badminton Champion

Mar 6, 1942

Married Carlson

Mar 6, 1945

Went camping for their honeymoon

Ghandi Assasinated

Jan 30, 1948

Vietnam War Begins

Nov 1, 1955

Dr. Seuss Publishes "The Cat in the Hat"

Mar 12, 1957

First televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Sep 26, 1960

Berlin Wall begins construction

Aug 13, 1961

Marilyn Monroe found dead

Aug 5, 1962

JFK assasinated

Nov 22, 1963

First episode of Star Trek airs

Sep 8, 1966

First Super Bowl held

Jan 15, 1967

Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated

Apr 4, 1968

First Humans Walk on Moon

Jul 20, 1969

First episode of Sesame Street airs

Nov 10, 1969

Microsoft Founded

Apr 4, 1975

Star Wars movie released

May 25, 1977

John Lennon assasinated

Dec 8, 1980

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Built

Nov 13, 1982

Coca-Cola changed formula to "New Coke"

Apr 23, 1985

Berlin Wall allowed to be crossed and torn down

Nov 9, 1989

Gulf War Starts

Aug 2, 1990

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Dec 26, 1991