Phyllis Jones

By amosbeck

  • Hoover Dam Built

  • Period: to

    Phyllis's Life

  • Hindenburg Crashes

  • 'War of The Worlds' causes panic.

  • WWII begins

  • Stone age cave paintings found in France.

  • Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese.

  • Anne Frank goes into hiding.

  • French resistance leader Jean Mouln killed

  • D-Day

  • U.S. drops atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Nuremberg trials

  • Dead Sea Scrolls discovered

  • 'Dewey Defeats Truman' in newspaper

  • Forst non-stop flight around the world

  • First "Peanuts" cartoon strip

  • Truman signs treaty with Japan, ending WWII

  • Polio vaccine created

  • Hillart and Norgay climb Mt. Everest

  • Seggregation ruled illegal in the United States

  • Roda Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus

  • Velcro introduced

  • Dr. Seuss publishes "The Cat In The Hat"

  • Bris Pasturak refuses Nobel Prize

  • 'The Sound of Music' hits broadway

  • Laser invented

  • Bay of Pigs occurs

  • Cuban missle crisis

  • John F Kennedy is assassinated

  • Beatled become popular in the United States

  • United States sends troops to Vietnam

  • Mass draft protests in the United States

  • First heart transplant

  • Martin Luther King Junior assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon

  • Kent State shootings

  • VCR's introduced

  • Watergate scandal begins

  • Abortion is legalized in the United States

  • President Nixon resigns

  • Microsoft founded

  • Nadia Comaneci gets seven perfect 10's at the Olympics

  • Elvis found dead

  • First test tube baby

  • 3 mile island nuclear accident

  • Mt. St. Helens erupts

  • Personal Computers introduced by IBM

  • Reverend Sum Myung Moon married 1075 couples at Madison Square Garden

  • Cabbage Patch Kids become popular

  • PG-13 movie rating is created

  • Famine in Ethiopia

  • Challenger space shuttle explodes

  • New York stock ecchange suffers huge drop on 'Black Monday'

  • Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie

  • Berlin wall falls

  • Hubble launched into space

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

  • Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict

  • World Trade Centers were bombed

  • OJ Simpson arrested for double murder

  • Oklahoma City bombings

  • Mad cow disease hits Britain

  • Princess Diana dies in car crash

  • President Clinton impeached

  • Killing spree at Columbine

  • Unclear winner to United States presidential election

  • Attack and collapse of the World Trade Centers

  • 'No Child Left Behind' begins

  • Saddam Hussan regime ends

  • Massive 9.3 earthquake hits Indian Ocean

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Nporth Korea claims to have done first nuclear testing

  • Final Harry Potter book published

  • Housing market collapse

  • Swine flu pandemic

  • Massive Haiti earthquake

  • Osama Bin Laden is announced dead