Oral History Timeline By cwong Feb 15, 1917 Born Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mar 19, 1918 Daylight Savings time/Time Zones Approved Jan 16, 1919 18th Amendment ratified Aug 26, 1920 Women get right to vote Mar 5, 1921 Lie Detector Invented Mar 5, 1922 King Tut's tomb discovered Jan 25, 1924 Winter Olympics first held Jul 18, 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf Oct 31, 1926 Harry Houdini dies May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean May 15, 1928 First appearance of Mickey and Minnie mouse in a cartoon Oct 1, 1929 Stock Market Crashes Mar 3, 1931 Star-Spangled Banner adopted as American National Anthem Apr 5, 1932 Talking movies invented Mar 6, 1936 Graduated High school Sep 1, 1939 World War 2 Begins Dec 7, 1941 Japanese Bomb pearl Harbor Mar 6, 1942 Became Iowa Badminton Champion Mar 6, 1945 Married Carlson Went camping for their honeymoon Jan 30, 1948 Ghandi Assasinated Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Begins Mar 12, 1957 Dr. Seuss Publishes "The Cat in the Hat" Sep 26, 1960 First televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall begins construction Aug 5, 1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead Nov 22, 1963 JFK assasinated Sep 8, 1966 First episode of Star Trek airs Jan 15, 1967 First Super Bowl held Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated Jul 20, 1969 First Humans Walk on Moon Nov 10, 1969 First episode of Sesame Street airs Apr 4, 1975 Microsoft Founded May 25, 1977 Star Wars movie released Dec 8, 1980 John Lennon assasinated Nov 13, 1982 Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Built Apr 23, 1985 Coca-Cola changed formula to "New Coke" Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall allowed to be crossed and torn down Aug 2, 1990 Gulf War Starts Dec 26, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union
