Phyllis Jones By amosbeck Aug 30, 1936 Hoover Dam Built Period: Oct 5, 1936 to Nov 30, 2011 Phyllis's Life Nov 30, 1937 Hindenburg Crashes Nov 30, 1938 'War of The Worlds' causes panic. Nov 30, 1939 WWII begins Nov 30, 1940 Stone age cave paintings found in France. Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Nov 30, 1942 Anne Frank goes into hiding. Nov 30, 1943 French resistance leader Jean Mouln killed Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Nov 30, 1945 U.S. drops atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nov 30, 1946 Nuremberg trials Nov 30, 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls discovered Nov 30, 1948 'Dewey Defeats Truman' in newspaper Nov 30, 1949 Forst non-stop flight around the world Nov 30, 1950 First "Peanuts" cartoon strip Nov 30, 1951 Truman signs treaty with Japan, ending WWII Nov 30, 1952 Polio vaccine created Nov 30, 1953 Hillart and Norgay climb Mt. Everest Nov 30, 1954 Seggregation ruled illegal in the United States Nov 30, 1955 Roda Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus Nov 30, 1956 Velcro introduced Nov 30, 1957 Dr. Seuss publishes "The Cat In The Hat" Nov 30, 1958 Bris Pasturak refuses Nobel Prize Nov 30, 1959 'The Sound of Music' hits broadway Nov 30, 1960 Laser invented Nov 30, 1961 Bay of Pigs occurs Nov 30, 1962 Cuban missle crisis Nov 30, 1963 John F Kennedy is assassinated Nov 30, 1964 Beatled become popular in the United States Nov 30, 1965 United States sends troops to Vietnam Nov 30, 1966 Mass draft protests in the United States Nov 30, 1967 First heart transplant Nov 30, 1968 Martin Luther King Junior assassinated Nov 30, 1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon Nov 30, 1970 Kent State shootings Nov 30, 1971 VCR's introduced Nov 30, 1972 Watergate scandal begins Nov 30, 1973 Abortion is legalized in the United States Nov 30, 1974 President Nixon resigns Nov 30, 1975 Microsoft founded Nov 30, 1976 Nadia Comaneci gets seven perfect 10's at the Olympics Nov 30, 1977 Elvis found dead Nov 30, 1978 First test tube baby Nov 30, 1979 3 mile island nuclear accident Nov 30, 1980 Mt. St. Helens erupts Nov 30, 1981 Personal Computers introduced by IBM Nov 30, 1982 Reverend Sum Myung Moon married 1075 couples at Madison Square Garden Nov 30, 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids become popular Nov 30, 1984 PG-13 movie rating is created Nov 30, 1985 Famine in Ethiopia Nov 30, 1986 Challenger space shuttle explodes Nov 30, 1987 New York stock ecchange suffers huge drop on 'Black Monday' Nov 30, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombed over Lockerbie Nov 30, 1989 Berlin wall falls Nov 30, 1990 Hubble launched into space Nov 30, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union Nov 30, 1992 Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King verdict Nov 30, 1993 World Trade Centers were bombed Nov 30, 1994 OJ Simpson arrested for double murder Nov 30, 1995 Oklahoma City bombings Nov 30, 1996 Mad cow disease hits Britain Nov 30, 1997 Princess Diana dies in car crash Nov 30, 1998 President Clinton impeached Nov 30, 1999 Killing spree at Columbine Nov 30, 2000 Unclear winner to United States presidential election Sep 9, 2001 Attack and collapse of the World Trade Centers Nov 30, 2002 'No Child Left Behind' begins Nov 30, 2003 Saddam Hussan regime ends Nov 30, 2004 Massive 9.3 earthquake hits Indian Ocean Nov 30, 2005 Hurricane Katrina Nov 30, 2006 Nporth Korea claims to have done first nuclear testing Nov 30, 2007 Final Harry Potter book published Nov 30, 2008 Housing market collapse Nov 30, 2009 Swine flu pandemic Nov 30, 2010 Massive Haiti earthquake May 1, 2011 Osama Bin Laden is announced dead