1900-Now

[Bugman]

April 15 1947.



Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1948 November 12 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences 7 Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1949: January 11 - Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded snowfall.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1950 September 15 - Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.

 

[Bugman]

April 5 1951.


Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1952 April 15 - The United States B-52 Stratofortress flies for the first time.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1953: January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1954 March 25 - The Soviet Union recognizes the sovereignty of East Germany but Soviet troops remain in the country.

 

[Bugman]

December 1 1955.



American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1956: June 14 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the phrase "under God" to be added to the Pledge of Allegiance.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1957 January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

 

[Bugman]

Janurary 28 1958.


Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1959 June 9 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

 

[Bugman]

Feburary 1 1960.



Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1961 July 21 - Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). Upon splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the capsule sinks.

 

[NukeLaloosh]

1962 - The Beatles fire Pete Best and hire Richard Starkey.

 

[Bugman]

October 14 1962.


Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1963November 22 - Kennedy assassination

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1964: July 2 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.

 

[Bugman]

April 14 1965.



In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering four members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary For Men in Lansing, Kansas.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1966 March 22 - In Washington, D.C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.

 

[Bugman]

May 23 1967.


Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1968 January 13 - Johnny Cash records Live at Folsom Prison.

 

[Bugman]

August 15 1969.


The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1970: March 6 - A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization.