-
In October 1962, the United States caught the Soviet Union building nuclear installations on Cuba. President Kennedy ordered a blockade.
-
In November 1963, John Kennedy made a campaign swing through Texas. On November 22, 1963, he visited Dallas and was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was rushed to the nearest hospital.
-
Thomas is born in Marshfield. At St. Joesph Hospital in Marshfield.
-
On April 4, 1968, an assassin murdered Martin Luther King Jr. King
-
On July 20, 1969, man landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11
-
Tom gets first dog, named snoopy, he was a collie.
-
Five men arrested for the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
-
Arab terrorists with ties to Yasser Arafat murdered the 1972 Israeli Olympic team.
-
Thomas starts kindergarten at Pittsville Elementary School.
-
Apollo 17 flies to the Moon, and becomes the last manned mission there. On board was Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
-
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter in a landslide.
-
Thomas starts high school at Pittsville High School
-
-
Thoms first job was to work on a farm. (Yes he got paid)
-
Thomas starts college at UW La Crosse to study business
-
The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its launch. All seven crew members died and the shuttle fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
-
Thomas graduates UW LaCrosse, and gets a finance degree.
-
On November 9, 1989, people began tearing the wall down. East Germany officially began dismantling the wall the following June.
-
Thomas finds grey hair looking in a mirror, at 27.
-
Thomas marries Kristi at St. Romans church.