Timeline: We Didn't Start the Fire Timeline- Jenna

Jan 1, 1950

Television

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelevisionTelevision is becoming widespread (in black and white format) and becomes the most popular means of advertising.

Jan 1, 1952

Polio Vaccine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.

Jan 1, 1953

Winthrop Rockefeller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement.

Jan 1, 1955

Albert Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_EinsteinAlbert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76

Jan 1, 1957

Sputnik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, marking the start of the space race

Jan 1, 1958

California baseball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball
California baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.

Jan 1, 1959

Mafia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia
Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.

Jan 1, 1961

Ernest Hemingway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression

Jan 1, 1969

Woodstock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival
Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement