To Kill a Mockingbird Timeline By eva_barnhart Mar 14, 1955 Disneyland Opened! Mar 14, 1955 Rosa Parks Refused to Give Up Her Seat on Bus Period: Mar 14, 1955 to Mar 14, 1965 To Kill a Mockingbird Timeline Mar 17, 1956 Hungarian Revolution Mar 17, 1957 Dr. Seuss Released "The Cat in the Hat" Mar 17, 1958 Peace Symbol Created Mar 17, 1958 NASA Founded Mar 17, 1959 "Sound of Music" Performed on Broadway Mar 17, 1960 Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird Mar 17, 1960 First Televised Presidential Debates Mar 17, 1961 Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust Mar 17, 1961 Peace Corps Founded Mar 17, 1962 Marilyn Monroe Found Dead Mar 17, 1962 JFK Assassinated Mar 17, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech Mar 17, 1964 Civil Rights Act Passed in US Mar 17, 1965 Malcolm X Assassinated