...Date... AGE Event
1939/--/-- -1 - American author Nathanael West publishes The Day of the Locust.
1939/--/-- -1 - American novelist John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath.
1939/--/-- -1 - An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo in England.
1939/--/-- -1 - Britain and France declare war on Germany but are unable to aid Poland.
1939/--/-- -1 - Child film actress Judy Garland stars in the musical The Wizard of Oz.
1939/--/-- -1 - Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in the film Gone With the Wind.
1939/--/-- -1 - English author Christopher Isherwood publishes Goodbye to Berlin.
1939/--/-- -1 - Foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- -1 - General Franco's forces capture Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
1939/--/-- -1 - Germany and Italy form the Pact of Steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- -1 - Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
1939/--/-- -1 - Igor Sikorsky develops America's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- -1 - Italian forces occupy Albania; King Zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- -1 - Physical chemist Linus Pauling publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
1939/--/-- -1 - President Roosevelt (prompted by Einstein) orders a U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- -1 - President Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality in World War II.
1939/--/-- -1 - Robert Gordon Menzies succeeds Joseph Lyons as prime minister of Australia.
1939/--/-- -1 - Soviet troops invade Poland; Germany and the USSR partition the country.
1939/--/-- -1 - Swiss chemist Paul Muller discovers the chemical insecticide DDT.
1939/--/-- -1 - The He 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in Germany.
1939/--/-- -1 - The Russo-Finnish War begins with the Soviet invasion of Finland.
1939/--/-- -1 - The first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- -1 - World War II begins
1939/01/18 -1 *** Benson, Glendon Lucile [Mother] & Stack, Edward Paul [Father] - Married
1939/07/04 0 *** Stack, Thomas Edward - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Akron, Summit, Ohio
1939/10/-- 0 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1940/--/-- 0 - American novelist Carson McCullers publishes The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
1940/--/-- 0 - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour star in the film Road to Singapore.
1940/--/-- 0 - British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevents the German invasion of England.
1940/--/-- 0 - Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in the film The Philadelphia Story.
1940/--/-- 0 - Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls.
1940/--/-- 0 - Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico on Stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 0 - General Charles de Gaulle rallies Free French resistance in London.
1940/--/-- 0 - German forces reach Paris; Vichy France under Marshal Petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 0 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway; Allied forces aid Norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 0 - Italian forces invade Egypt but are repulsed; the British invade Libya.
1940/--/-- 0 - Italy declares war on the Allies and invades southern France.
1940/--/-- 0 - Japan joins the Axis alliance and occupies northern French Indochina (Vietnam).
1940/--/-- 0 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates; Romania and Hungary join the Axis forces.
1940/--/-- 0 - Prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at Lascaux in France.
1940/--/-- 0 - Radar wins Battle of Britian
1940/--/-- 0 - Raymond Chandler publishes the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely.
1940/--/-- 0 - The British expeditionary force is evacuated from Dunkerque in France.
1940/--/-- 0 - The German army begins a blitzkrieg attack on Holland, Belgium, and France.
1940/--/-- 0 - The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
1940/--/-- 0 - The Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 0 - Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister after Chamberlain resigns.
1940/10/-- 1 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (4) AL DETROIT (3)
1941/--/-- 1 - A British task force sinks the German pocket battleship Bismarck.
1941/--/-- 1 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 1 - Benchley Park computers sabotage German Enigma
1941/--/-- 1 - Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 1 - German U-boats inflict heavy losses on British shipping in the Battle of the Atlantic.
1941/--/-- 1 - German paratroopers land on Crete and capture the island from the British.
1941/--/-- 1 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes Mother Courage and Her Children.
1941/--/-- 1 - Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece; British forces are evacuated to Crete.
1941/--/-- 1 - Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1941/--/-- 1 - Gutzon Borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at Mount Rushmore.
1941/--/-- 1 - Ho Chi Minh organizes the Viet Minh to combat the Japanese in Indochina.
1941/--/-- 1 - Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the Philippines.
1941/--/-- 1 - Karsh's photographic portrait of Churchill becomes a symbol of British resistance.
1941/--/-- 1 - Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to England on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 1 - Orson Welles directs the film Citizen Kane.
1941/--/-- 1 - President Roosevelt talks of Four Freedoms in his State of the Union speech.
1941/--/-- 1 - Swedish film actress Greta Garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 1 - The German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel begins an offensive in North Africa.
1941/--/-- 1 - The German Blitz, the nighttime bombing of London, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 1 - The German advance on Moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 1 - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; America enters World War II.
1941/--/-- 1 - The Japanese occupy Indochina and move into Cambodia (Kampuchea) and Thailand.
1941/--/-- 1 - The Lend-Lease Act allows the transfer of U.S. war materials to Britain and China.
1941/--/-- 1 - The U.S. freezes Japanese assets in retaliation for Japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 1 - U.S. troops occupy Iceland to forestall its occupation by Germany.
1941/09/11 2 *** Benson, Richard Oscar [Uncle] - Died Seagraves, Terry, Texas Seagraves, Terry, Texas Old Brownfield Cemetery, Terry, Texas
1941/10/-- 2 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1942/--/-- 2 - A Russian counterattack isolates the Sixth Army at Stalingrad; Hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 2 - A U.S. fleet defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Midway.
1942/--/-- 2 - Actor James Cagney wins an Academy Award for the film Yankee Doodle Dandie.
1942/--/-- 2 - American B-25 bombers make the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
1942/--/-- 2 - American and Filipino forces retreat to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1942/--/-- 2 - American crooner Bing Crosby records the hit song White Christmas.
1942/--/-- 2 - American forces in the Philippines surrender; the Bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 2 - American humorist James Thurber publishes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
1942/--/-- 2 - French writer Albert Camus publishes The Stranger.
1942/--/-- 2 - Gandhi is arrested after the Quit India movement demands a British withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 2 - General MacArthur is ordered to the leave the Philippines; he vows I shall return.
1942/--/-- 2 - German forces occupy Vichy France; the French fleet is scuttled in Toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 2 - Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the Holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 2 - Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the classic film Casablanca.
1942/--/-- 2 - Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti directs his first film Ossessione.
1942/--/-- 2 - Manhattan Project scientists under Fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 2 - Rommel's Africa Corps capture Tobruk and drive the British back to Egypt.
1942/--/-- 2 - The British Eighth Army under Montgomery begins a new drive into Libya.
1942/--/-- 2 - The German advance in the Caucasus is halted at Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
1942/--/-- 2 - The German advance on Egypt is halted at the Battle of El-Alamein.
1942/--/-- 2 - The Japanese conquer Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Burma.
1942/--/-- 2 - The RAF makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the German city of Cologne.
1942/--/-- 2 - The Soviet southern offensive is halted; the Germans advance on the Caucasus.
1942/--/-- 2 - The U.S. government transfers 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 2 - U.S. Marines invade Guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 2 - U.S. forces under General Eisenhower invade Morocco and Algeria.
1942/--/-- 2 - V-2 (Vengeance Weapon 2) rockets are tested at Peenemunde in Germany.
1942/10/-- 3 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL NEW YORK (1)
1942/12/29 3 *** Benson, Eliza Frances [Great Aunt] - Died Lived there about 7 years. Lived there about 7 years. Tenn.
1943/--/-- 3 - American aircraft join the RAF in round the clock bombing of Germany.
1943/--/-- 3 - American author Carson McCullers publishes The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
1943/--/-- 3 - American writer Ayn Rand publishes The Fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 3 - Churchill and Roosevelt meet at Casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 3 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference.
1943/--/-- 3 - French existentialist writer Jean Paul Sartre publishes Being and Nothingness.
1943/--/-- 3 - French writer and feminist Simone de Beauvoir publishes She Came to Stay.
1943/--/-- 3 - German paratroopers rescue Mussolini.
1943/--/-- 3 - Marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents the Aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 3 - Marshal Badoglio signs an armistice with the Allies; Italy declares war on Germany.
1943/--/-- 3 - Mussolini is deposed; Marshal Badoglio assumes power in Italy.
1943/--/-- 3 - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 3 - Robert Oppenheimer establishes the Los Alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 3 - Singer Paul Robeson stars in the title role of the Broadway production of Othello.
1943/--/-- 3 - The Allied armies invade Sicily.
1943/--/-- 3 - The Allies invade the southern tip of Italy.
1943/--/-- 3 - The British and American armies link up in Africa; 250,000 Axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 3 - The German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 3 - The Germans suppress a revolt by Polish Jews; the Warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 3 - The Russian offensive reaches the Dnepr River; Kiev and Smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 3 - The Russians defeat the Germans at Kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/01/14 3 *** Stack, Richard Glenn [Brother] - Born to Stack, Edward Paul and Benson, Glendon Lucile Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1943/10/-- 4 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1944/--/-- 4 - A British airborne landing at Arnhem in the Netherlands is repulsed by the Germans.
1944/--/-- 4 - Aaron Copland composes the ballet Appalachian Spring.
1944/--/-- 4 - Allied D-Day invasion forces land at Normandy in northern France.
1944/--/-- 4 - Allied forces break out from the Normandy enclave and liberate Paris.
1944/--/-- 4 - Allied forces in Italy land behind the German Gustav Line at Anzio.
1944/--/-- 4 - American aircraft from the Marianas begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1944/--/-- 4 - American forces under General Mark Clark occupy Rome.
1944/--/-- 4 - An Allied invasion force lands in southern France.
1944/--/-- 4 - British forces begin the reconquest of Burma from the Japanese.
1944/--/-- 4 - British forces occupy Athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 4 - Child film actors Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor star in National Velvet.
1944/--/-- 4 - Communist resistance fighters under Josip Broz-Tito liberate Yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 4 - English writer Somerset Maugham publishes The Razor's Edge.
1944/--/-- 4 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 4 - French novelist Colette writes Gigi.
1944/--/-- 4 - German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1944/--/-- 4 - Normandy landings
1944/--/-- 4 - Oswald Avery determines that DNA is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 4 - Polish resistance fighters are defeated by the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising.
1944/--/-- 4 - Romania and Bulgaria sign an armistice with the Allies and declare war on Germany.
1944/--/-- 4 - Roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; Truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 4 - Soviet forces cross the Romanian border and reconquer the Crimea.
1944/--/-- 4 - Soviet forces reach the suburbs of Warsaw in Poland.
1944/--/-- 4 - Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 4 - The G.I. Bill of Rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 4 - The German army launches the Battle of the Bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 4 - The Soviet's relieve the city of Leningrad after a German siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 4 - The U.S. First Army occupies Aachen -- the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1944/--/-- 4 - The World Bank is established to assist European postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 4 - U.S. Marines invade Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.
1944/--/-- 4 - U.S. forces under Admiral Nimitz defeat a Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1944/--/-- 4 - V-1 (and later the V-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against London.
1944/05/25 4 *** Benson, Nancy Sue [1st cousin] - Born to Benson, Roy Lee and Sumners, Nancy Nurline Akron, Summit, Ohio
1944/10/-- 5 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL ST. LOUIS (2)
1945/--/-- 5 - Advancing Allied armies discover Nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 5 - Allied forces cross the Rhine and begin the final assault on Germany.
1945/--/-- 5 - British actor Laurence Olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of Richard III.
1945/--/-- 5 - British author George Orwell publishes the satirical fable Animal Farm.
1945/--/-- 5 - Charlie "Bird" Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 5 - Churchill is defeated in the British elections by Labour leader Clement Attlee.
1945/--/-- 5 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference.
1945/--/-- 5 - Churchill, Truman and Stalin hold the last wartime conference at Potsdam.
1945/--/-- 5 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen form the Arab League.
1945/--/-- 5 - French dramatist Jean Giraudoux writes the play The Madwoman of Chaillot.
1945/--/-- 5 - General MacArthur heads the U.S. occupation forces in Japan.
1945/--/-- 5 - German jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass Allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 5 - German playwright Bertholt Brecht writes The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
1945/--/-- 5 - German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun continues his research in the U.S.
1945/--/-- 5 - Germany and Austria are divided between the Allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 5 - Harry S. Truman (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1945/--/-- 5 - Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrenders to the Allies.
1945/--/-- 5 - Ho Chi Minh proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1945/--/-- 5 - Indonesian nationalists led by Sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 5 - Japan signs an armistice with the Allies, ending World War II.
1945/--/-- 5 - Korea is divided between U.S. and Soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 5 - Marshal Zhukov's Soviet troops launch the final attack on Berlin.
1945/--/-- 5 - Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 5 - Nationalists and Communist forces resume their civil war in China.
1945/--/-- 5 - Roberto Rosselini's neorealist "Open City"
1945/--/-- 5 - Romulo Betancourt becomes president of Venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 5 - Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd U.S. president.
1945/--/-- 5 - Singer Frank Sinatra stars in the film musical Anchors Aweigh.
1945/--/-- 5 - Suicide attacks by Japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the U.S. advances.
1945/--/-- 5 - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
1945/--/-- 5 - The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 5 - The United Nations is formed; Trygve Halvdan Lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 5 - The trial of Nazi war criminals begins at Nuremberg in Germany.
1945/--/-- 5 - Tito becomes head of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 5 - U.S. A-bombs Japan
1945/--/-- 5 - U.S. Marines invade the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
1945/--/-- 5 - U.S. forces under MacArthur liberate the Philippines.
1945/--/-- 5 - United Nations formed
1945/--/-- 5 - World War II ends
1945/10/-- 6 - World Series NL CHICAGO (3) AL DETROIT (4)
1946/--/-- 6 - American author Robert Penn Warren publishes All the King's Men.
1946/--/-- 6 - Communists abolish the monarchy in Bulgaria; Georgi Dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 6 - Dr. Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care.
1946/--/-- 6 - ELAS communist forces begin a civil war in Greece.
1946/--/-- 6 - ENIAC, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 6 - Elections in Italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 6 - General De Gaulle resigns as president of France; the Fourth Republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 6 - Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis publishes Zorba the Greek.
1946/--/-- 6 - Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
1946/--/-- 6 - MacArthur promotes Japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 6 - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 6 - Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier designs Unite d'Habitation in Marseilles.
1946/--/-- 6 - Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 6 - The Philippines are granted independence with Manuel Roxas y Acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 6 - The Viet Minh begin a guerrilla war against the French in Indochina (Vietnam).
1946/--/-- 6 - Winston Churchill describes the Iron Curtain created in Europe by the Soviets.
1946/09/14 7 *** Benson, Clyde Little [2nd cousin] & Simpson, Mary Evelyn - Married
1946/10/-- 7 - World Series NL ST. LOUIS (4) AL BOSTON (3)
1947/--/-- 7 - American pilot Kenneth Arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 7 - Artist Jackson Pollock produces Full Fathom Five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 7 - Artist Mark Rothko begins experimenting with Color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 7 - Baseball player Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 7 - British & French Empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 7 - British India becomes Pakistan & India
1947/--/-- 7 - British atomic bomb scientist Klaus Fuchs is arrested for giving information to the USSR.
1947/--/-- 7 - Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an X-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 7 - Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham forms the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
1947/--/-- 7 - Dennis Gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 7 - Edwin Land demonstrates the single-step Polaroid Land Camera.
1947/--/-- 7 - English composer Benjamin Britten writes the opera Peter Grimes.
1947/--/-- 7 - French fashion designer Christian Dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 7 - French literary figure Andre Gide wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 7 - Gheorghiu-Dej heads the Romanian Communist party; King Michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 7 - India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of India and Pakistan.
1947/--/-- 7 - Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first prime minister of India.
1947/--/-- 7 - Marshall Plan
1947/--/-- 7 - Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft Kon Tiki from Peru to Polynesia.
1947/--/-- 7 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 7 - The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 7 - The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is established.
1947/--/-- 7 - The United Nations elect to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
1947/--/-- 7 - The first India-Pakistan War begins when Pakistani tribesmen invade Kashmir.
1947/--/-- 7 - The story of a Jewish victim of the Nazis, The Diary of Anne Frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 7 - Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, captured from Japan, administered by U.S.
1947/--/-- 7 - U.S. contains spread of communism
1947/06/21 7 *** Benson, Glendon Ora [2nd cousin] & Overholt, Paul Kenneth - Married
1947/10/-- 8 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1947/11/01 8 *** Benson, Richard Edgar [2nd cousin] & Marion, Phyllis June - Married
1948/--/-- 8 - Alec Guinness stars as Fagin in the film of Dicken's Oliver Twist.
1948/--/-- 8 - Alfred Kinsey publishes his report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
1948/--/-- 8 - American opera singer Beverly Sills debuts in Bizet's Carmen.
1948/--/-- 8 - American writer Norman Mailer publishes the war novel The Naked and the Dead.
1948/--/-- 8 - Arab armies invade Israel in the first Arab-Israeli War.
1948/--/-- 8 - Bell Labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 8 - Britain grants independence to Burma.
1948/--/-- 8 - Communism quashed in US
1948/--/-- 8 - Communist leader Kim Il Sung establishes the People's Republic of Korea (N. Korea).
1948/--/-- 8 - Dutch track star Fanny Blankers-Koen wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games.
1948/--/-- 8 - George Balanchine's Ballet Society is renamed the New York City Ballet.
1948/--/-- 8 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 8 - Israel created
1948/--/-- 8 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs The Bicycle Thieves.
1948/--/-- 8 - NATO formed; Cold War begins
1948/--/-- 8 - Palestinian Jews proclaim the independent state of Israel.
1948/--/-- 8 - Stalin expels Yugoslavia from the Communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 8 - The Communist party assumes power in Hungary under Matyas Rakosi.
1948/--/-- 8 - The Malayan Communist party begins an insurrection against British rule.
1948/--/-- 8 - The Republic of Korea (S. Korea) is inaugurated, Syngman Rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 8 - The Soviets blockade West Berlin; Britain and the U.S. begin the Berlin Airlift.
1948/--/-- 8 - The U.S. Air Force begins the Project Blue Book study of the UFO phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 8 - The apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in South Africa.
1948/--/-- 8 - The transistor is invented at Bell Laboratories in the U.S.
1948/10/-- 9 - World Series NL BOSTON (2) AL CLEVELAND (4)
1949/--/-- 9 - Abstract artist Robert Motherwell begins his series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
1949/--/-- 9 - Abstract-Expressionism breaks out in NYC
1949/--/-- 9 - Architect Philip Johnson designs the Glass House in New Caanan, Conn.
1949/--/-- 9 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 9 - British abstract sculptor Henry Moore completes the bronze Family Group.
1949/--/-- 9 - British author George Orwell publishes the futuristic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1949/--/-- 9 - Civil war ends in Greece with the defeat of the Communist forces.
1949/--/-- 9 - Communists under Mao defeat the Nationalists and form the People's Republic of China.
1949/--/-- 9 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first chancellor of West Germany.
1949/--/-- 9 - Kurchatov develops first Soviet A-bomb
1949/--/-- 9 - Miles Davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 9 - Nationalist Chinese forces under Chiang Kai-shek flee to the island of Taiwan.
1949/--/-- 9 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical South Pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 9 - The Hashimite Kingdom of Transjordan is renamed as Jordan.
1949/--/-- 9 - The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies).
1949/--/-- 9 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to deter Soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 9 - The Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established by the Western powers.
1949/--/-- 9 - The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 9 - The Soviets establish the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1949/--/-- 9 - The first India-Pakistan War ends with the partition of Kashmir.
1949/10/-- 10 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
1950/--/-- 10 - Adnan Menderes replaces Ismet Inonu as prime minister of Turkey.
1950/--/-- 10 - Bette Davis stars in the film All About Eve.
1950/--/-- 10 - Cartoonist Charles Schulz creates the Peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 10 - Chinese forces invade Tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 10 - Communist North Korean forces invade South Korea.
1950/--/-- 10 - George Burns and Gracie Allen star in The Burns and Allen Show television series.
1950/--/-- 10 - Isaac Asimov publishes the science-fiction classic I Robot.
1950/--/-- 10 - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa achieves recognition with Rashomon.
1950/--/-- 10 - Korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 10 - President Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 10 - Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his inquiry into un-American activities.
1950/--/-- 10 - The UN sanctions military aid for South Korea; MacArthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 10 - U.S. official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a Soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 10 - UN forces cross into North Korea but are repulsed by the Chinese army.
1950/--/-- 10 - UN forces land at Inchon and drive the North Koreans out of South Korea.
1950/10/-- 11 - World Series NL PHILADELPHIA (0) AL NEW YORK (4)
1951/--/-- 11 - A frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in Korea; peace negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1951/--/-- 11 - American novelist Kurt Vonnegut publishes Player Piano.
1951/--/-- 11 - American poet Marianne Moore publishes her Collected Poems.
1951/--/-- 11 - American writer J.D. Salinger publishes The Catcher in the Rye.
1951/--/-- 11 - American writer James Jones publishes the war novel From Here to Eternity.
1951/--/-- 11 - Artist Stuart Davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting Visa.
1951/--/-- 11 - Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. sign the mutual defense Anzus Treaty.
1951/--/-- 11 - Auto racer Juan Fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 11 - Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake La Motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 11 - British Conservatives win a general election with Winston Churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 11 - British spies Burgess and Maclean escape to the Soviet Union.
1951/--/-- 11 - Comedian Lucille Ball stars in the television series I Love Lucy.
1951/--/-- 11 - Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 11 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
1951/--/-- 11 - King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 11 - Leopold III of Belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 11 - President Truman dismisses MacArthur as commander in Korea.
1951/--/-- 11 - Prime minister Muhammad Mosaddeq nationalizes Iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 11 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The King and I is produced.
1951/--/-- 11 - Teller tests H-bomb
1951/--/-- 11 - Ten million television receivers have been installed in U.S. homes.
1951/--/-- 11 - The 22nd Amendment restricts U.S. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 11 - The UN General Assembly brands Communist China an aggressor in the Korean War.
1951/--/-- 11 - The first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 11 - UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
1951/10/-- 12 - World Series NL NEW YORK (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1952/--/-- 12 - A bloodless coup returns Fulgencio Batista to power in Cuba.
1952/--/-- 12 - Agatha Christie's record-breaking play The Mouse Trap opens in London.
1952/--/-- 12 - American sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs two bridges for the Peace Park at Hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 12 - American writer E.B. White publishes the children's book Charlotte's Web.
1952/--/-- 12 - British architect Michael Ventris deciphers the ancient Greek Linear B script.
1952/--/-- 12 - Chuck Yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the X-1A research plane.
1952/--/-- 12 - Communist POW riots in South Korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 12 - Czech runner Emil Zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the Helsinki Olympic Games.
1952/--/-- 12 - Dancer Gene Kelly stars in the film Singin' in the Rain.
1952/--/-- 12 - Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, dies in Argentina.
1952/--/-- 12 - Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly star in the Western film High Noon.
1952/--/-- 12 - Gordon Bunshaft designs the Lever House, an early International Style building.
1952/--/-- 12 - Hostilities continue in Korea with increased UN air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 12 - King Farouk of Egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by Gen. Muhammad Naguib.
1952/--/-- 12 - Kwame Nkrumah is elected prime minister of the Gold Coast (Ghana).
1952/--/-- 12 - Medical missionary Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1952/--/-- 12 - Opera singer Maria Callas debuts at London's Covent Garden.
1952/--/-- 12 - Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the British throne on the death of her father George VI.
1952/--/-- 12 - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is produced in Paris.
1952/--/-- 12 - The British de Havilland Comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 12 - The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is formed with Luis Munoz Marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 12 - The Mau Mau uprising begins in Kenya; Jomo Kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 12 - The U.S. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific.
1952/--/-- 12 - The first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1952/--/-- 12 - Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1952/--/-- 12 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 12 - Elizabeth II succeeds as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
1952/10/-- 13 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1953/--/-- 13 - A Redstone rocket (based on the German V-2) is tested at Cape Canaveral.
1953/--/-- 13 - American physicist Charles H. Townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 13 - American tennis player Maureen Connolly (Little Mo) wins the Grand Slam.
1953/--/-- 13 - American writer Saul Bellow publishes The Adventures of Augie March.
1953/--/-- 13 - An armistice ends the Korean War; the country remains divided into North and South.
1953/--/-- 13 - Arthur Miller writes The Crucible, a play about the Salem Witch Trials.
1953/--/-- 13 - Black writer James Baldwin publishes his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
1953/--/-- 13 - Communist statesman Imre Nagy becomes premier of Hungary.
1953/--/-- 13 - Dag Hammarskjold succeeds Trygve Lie as secretary-general of the UN.
1953/--/-- 13 - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) becomes president of the United States
1953/--/-- 13 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to climb Mount Everest.
1953/--/-- 13 - Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th U.S. president; Nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 13 - Fidel Castro leads an attack on an army barracks in Cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 13 - Golfer Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open, Masters, and British Open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 13 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 13 - Hussein I succeeds his father as king of Jordan.
1953/--/-- 13 - Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion retires; he is succeeded by Moshe Sharett.
1953/--/-- 13 - Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe the Trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 13 - James Watson and Francis Crick propose the double helix structure of DNA.
1953/--/-- 13 - John Foster Dulles is selected as the U.S. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 13 - Laos, formerly a part of French Indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 13 - Lavrenti Beria, head of the Soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 13 - Marilyn Monroe stars in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
1953/--/-- 13 - Murray Gell-Mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 13 - Physicist Donald Glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 13 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies; Georgy M. Malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 13 - The first heart-lung machine is developed by Dr. John Gibbon.
1953/--/-- 13 - The fossil remains of Piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 13 - Watson & Crick DNA=double helix
1953/06/-- 13 - Elizabeth II crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Westminster
1953/10/-- 14 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (2) AL NEW YORK (4)
1954/--/-- 14 - A Supreme Court decision prohibits racial segregation in U.S. public schools.
1954/--/-- 14 - American novelist Evan Hunter publishes The Blackboard Jungle.
1954/--/-- 14 - British artist Francis Bacon begins his Portrait of Pope Innocent X series.
1954/--/-- 14 - British novelist William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
1954/--/-- 14 - Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 14 - English runner Roger Bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 14 - French forces are defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam.
1954/--/-- 14 - Gamal Abdel Nasser ousts Gen. Muhammad Naguib as president of Egypt.
1954/--/-- 14 - Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond thriller Casino Royale.
1954/--/-- 14 - Italian film-maker Federico Fellini directs La Strada.
1954/--/-- 14 - Kingsley Amis, one of England's angry young men, publishes Lucky Jim.
1954/--/-- 14 - Marlon Brando stars in Elia Kazan's film On the Waterfront.
1954/--/-- 14 - National Liberation Front (FLN) raids on French property spark the Algerian War.
1954/--/-- 14 - Senator McCarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 14 - Television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 14 - The Geneva Conference establishes the partition of Vietnam into North and South.
1954/--/-- 14 - The U.S. and Canada begin construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1954/--/-- 14 - The U.S. nuclear submarine the Nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 14 - U.S. "Nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 15 - World Series NL NEW YORK (4) AL CLEVELAND (0)
1955/--/-- 15 - A military coup in Argentina deposes president Juan Peron.
1955/--/-- 15 - AFL and CIO merge
1955/--/-- 15 - American artist Jasper Johns begins his paintings of American flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 15 - American artist Larry Rivers paints Double Portrait of Birdie.
1955/--/-- 15 - American rock 'n' roll musician Bill Haley records Rock Around the Clock.
1955/--/-- 15 - Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain.
1955/--/-- 15 - Austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 15 - Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery
1955/--/-- 15 - British writer Graham Greene publishes The Quiet American.
1955/--/-- 15 - British writer and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien completes The Lord of the Rings.
1955/--/-- 15 - David Ben-Gurion returns as prime minister of Israel.
1955/--/-- 15 - Film star James Dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 15 - Jonas Salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 15 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1955/--/-- 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 15 - Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov publishes the novel Lolita.
1955/--/-- 15 - Satyajit Ray directs Pather Panchali, the first film in a trilogy on Bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 15 - Supreme Court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 15 - The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO.
1955/--/-- 15 - The Warsaw Pact establishes a military alliance of European Communist nations.
1955/--/-- 15 - Theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin publishes The Phenomenon of Man.
1955/10/-- 16 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1956/--/-- 16 - American beat poet Allen Ginsberg publishes Howl and Other Poems.
1956/--/-- 16 - American television news show The Huntley-Brinkley Report begins.
1956/--/-- 16 - American writer Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place.
1956/--/-- 16 - Anglo-French forces invade Egypt but withdraw after protests from the U.S.
1956/--/-- 16 - Archbishop Makarios III is deported from Cyprus by the British.
1956/--/-- 16 - Brendan Behan's play The Quare Fellow opens in London.
1956/--/-- 16 - Britain, France and Israel agree on a secret joint action against Egypt.
1956/--/-- 16 - British artist Richard Hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 16 - David Niven stars in the film Around the World in Eighty Days.
1956/--/-- 16 - Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced.
1956/--/-- 16 - Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land in Cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 16 - Film actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1956/--/-- 16 - Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 16 - Israeli forces under Moshe Dayan seize the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
1956/--/-- 16 - John Osborne's first play Look Back In Anger is produced in London.
1956/--/-- 16 - Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady opens in New York.
1956/--/-- 16 - President Anastasio Somoza Garcia is assassinated in Nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 16 - President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal before the British lease expires.
1956/--/-- 16 - President Ngo Dinh Diem refuses to hold elections in South Vietnam.
1956/--/-- 16 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit Heartbreak Hotel.
1956/--/-- 16 - Soviet first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the crimes of the Stalin era.
1956/--/-- 16 - Sudan gains independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 16 - The Hungarian Uprising is suppressed by Soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 16 - The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sinks off the U.S. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 16 - Tunisia and Morocco are granted independence by France.
1956/10/-- 17 - World Series NL BROOKLYN (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1957/--/-- 17 - Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac publishes On The Road.
1957/--/-- 17 - Black tennis player Althea Gibson wins the U.S. Open and Wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 17 - British philosopher A.J. Ayer publishes The Problem of Knowledge.
1957/--/-- 17 - British prime minister Anthony Eden resigns; is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
1957/--/-- 17 - Dr. Seuss publishes the children's book The Cat in the Hat.
1957/--/-- 17 - Francois Duvalier (known as Papa Doc) is elected president of Haiti.
1957/--/-- 17 - Ghana gains independence; Kwame Nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 17 - Jack Kerouac "On the Road"
1957/--/-- 17 - Jerome Robbins is director-choreographer of the musical West Side Story.
1957/--/-- 17 - John G. Diefenbaker succeeds Louis St. Laurent as prime minister of Canada.
1957/--/-- 17 - Lawrence Durrell publishes Justine, the first of The Alexandria Quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 17 - Scientists from 67 nations work together during the International Geophysical Year.
1957/--/-- 17 - Soviet leaders Malenkov and Molotov fail in an attempt to oust Khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 17 - Soviets launch "Sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 17 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs The Seventh Seal.
1957/--/-- 17 - The Israeli army withdraws from Egypt; the Gaza Strip is policed by UN forces.
1957/--/-- 17 - The USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 17 - The Viet Cong begin acts of rebellion in South Vietnam.
1957/--/-- 17 - Tunku Abdul Rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya (Malaysia).
1957/06/15 17 *** Booher, Doris Evangeline & Benson, Roy Lee [2nd cousin] - Married
1957/10/-- 18 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1958/--/-- 18 - American economist J.K. Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society.
1958/--/-- 18 - American golfer Arnold Palmer wins the Masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 18 - American playwright Edward Albee writes The Zoo Story.
1958/--/-- 18 - American writer Truman Capote publishes the novella Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 18 - Bertrand Russell founds the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain.
1958/--/-- 18 - Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; it is ended when U.S. Marines land at Beirut.
1958/--/-- 18 - Egypt and Syria form the United Arab Republic.
1958/--/-- 18 - Gen. Muhammad Ayub Khan seizes control in Pakistan.
1958/--/-- 18 - Leonard Bernstein becomes the conductor of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 18 - Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as Soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 18 - Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd extends South Africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 18 - Russian writer Boris Pasternak publishes the novel Doctor Zhivago.
1958/--/-- 18 - Soccer player Pele leads Brazil to victory in the World Cup.
1958/--/-- 18 - The Algerian crisis prompts the recall of Charles de Gaulle as president of France.
1958/--/-- 18 - The European Economic Community (EEC) is established.
1958/--/-- 18 - The French army and settlers in Algiers revolt over the Algerian War stalemate.
1958/--/-- 18 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded.
1958/--/-- 18 - The U.S. launches the Explorer I and Vanguard I scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 18 - The first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched in the U.S.
1958/--/-- 18 - The nuclear submarine Nautilus reaches the North Pole under the Polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 18 - Wilson Greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 19 - World Series NL MILWAUKEE (3) AL NEW YORK (4)
1959/--/-- 19 - Alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 19 - American writer Leon Uris publishes Exodus, a novel on the founding of Israel.
1959/--/-- 19 - American writer William Burroughs publishes The Naked Lunch.
1959/--/-- 19 - Anthropologists Richard and Mary Leakey discover an Australopithecus skull in Africa.
1959/--/-- 19 - Artist Robert Rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage Monogram.
1959/--/-- 19 - Cyprus gains independence from Britain; Archbishop Makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 19 - Fidel Castro ousts Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 19 - Film actor Charlton Heston wins the Academy Award for his role in Ben-Hur.
1959/--/-- 19 - French New Wave filmmaker Jean Luc Godard directs Breathless.
1959/--/-- 19 - French filmmaker Alain Resnais directs Hiroshima Mon Amour.
1959/--/-- 19 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs The 400 Blows.
1959/--/-- 19 - German writer Gunter Grass publishes his first novel The Tin Drum.
1959/--/-- 19 - Hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the Union.
1959/--/-- 19 - Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe star in the film Some Like it Hot.
1959/--/-- 19 - Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave "Breathless"
1959/--/-- 19 - Lee Kuan Yew becomes prime minister of Singapore.
1959/--/-- 19 - Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is the first Broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 19 - NASA selects the first seven U.S. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 19 - Rock 'n roll star Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 19 - Rod Serling hosts the Twilight Zone television series.
1959/--/-- 19 - Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music is produced.
1959/--/-- 19 - Sir Christopher Cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 19 - The Boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 19 - The Dalai Lama flees to India after China crushes an uprising in Tibet.
1959/--/-- 19 - The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York City.
1959/--/-- 19 - The Soviet Union sends a series of Luna space probes to the Moon.
1959/--/-- 19 - The first flight is made by the X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 20 - World Series NL LOS ANGELES (4) AL CHICAGO (2)
1960/--/-- 20 - 69 Africans are killed in the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.
1960/--/-- 20 - A military coup takes place in Turkey; prime minister Adnan Menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 20 - A student uprising forces the resignation of Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea.
1960/--/-- 20 - American author John Updike publishes the novel Rabbit Run.
1960/--/-- 20 - American physicist Theodore H. Maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 20 - American track star Wilma Rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the Rome Olympic Games.
1960/--/-- 20 - An earthquake kills 15,000 at Agadir in Morocco.
1960/--/-- 20 - Belgium grants independence to the Congo (Zaire); Patrice Lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 20 - Britain grants independence to Nigeria; Abubakar Balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 20 - Civil Rights movement
1960/--/-- 20 - Congo (Zaire) premier Patrice Lumumba is ousted by Joseph Mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 20 - Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock directs the suspense thriller Psycho.
1960/--/-- 20 - Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is abducted to Israel.
1960/--/-- 20 - France grants independence to the Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, and Gabon.
1960/--/-- 20 - Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 20 - Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni directs La Notte (The Night).
1960/--/-- 20 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe Trieste.
1960/--/-- 20 - Maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 20 - NASA launches the first TIROS weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 20 - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson founds the Christian Broadcasting Network.
1960/--/-- 20 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
1960/--/-- 20 - South African civil rights leader Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1960/--/-- 20 - The Congo crisis begins with the secession of Katanga province under Moise Tshombe.
1960/--/-- 20 - The Echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 20 - The Motown record company is founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy.
1960/--/-- 20 - The South African government bans the African National Congress (ANC).
1960/--/-- 20 - The Soviets shoot down a U-2 spy plane; U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 20 - The first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 20 - The first submerged firing is made of a Polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 20 - The planned city of Brasilia becomes the new capital of Brazil.
1960/--/-- 20 - The presidential debates of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 20 - Viet Cong groups unite into the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLFSV).
1960/--/-- 20 - Walter Ulbricht becomes head of East Germany.
1960/10/-- 21 - World Series NL PITTSBURGH (4) AL NEW YORK (3)
1961/--/-- 21 - Agostinho Neto and Holden Roberto lead insurrections in Portuguese Angola.
1961/--/-- 21 - American writer Joseph Heller publishes the anti-war novel Catch-22.
1961/--/-- 21 - American-aided Cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 21 - Astronaut Alan Shepard makes the first U.S. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 21 - Britain grants independence to Tanganyika (Tanzania) with Julius Nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 21 - British novelist Iris Murdoch publishes A Severed Head.
1961/--/-- 21 - English writer Muriel Spark publishes The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
1961/--/-- 21 - French filmmaker Francois Truffaut directs Jeanne Moreau in Jules and Jim.
1961/--/-- 21 - India annexes the Portugese territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu.
1961/--/-- 21 - Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica directs Sophia Loren in Alberto Moravia's Two Women.
1961/--/-- 21 - Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti debuts in Puccini's La Boheme.
1961/--/-- 21 - John F. Kennedy (Democrat) becomes president of the United States
1961/--/-- 21 - Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th U.S. president; Johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 21 - Kennedy launches "Apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 21 - Peace Corps
1961/--/-- 21 - President Kennedy begins to increase the U.S. military presence in Vietnam.
1961/--/-- 21 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961/--/-- 21 - President Kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the Moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 21 - President Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in the Dominican Republic.
1961/--/-- 21 - Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 21 - Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein publishes Stranger in a Strange Land.
1961/--/-- 21 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West.
1961/--/-- 21 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 21 - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman directs Max Von Sydow in Through a Glass Darkly.
1961/--/-- 21 - The Berlin Wall is constructed, separating East and West Berlin.
1961/--/-- 21 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 21 - The Kurds begin a guerrilla war against Iraq to gain independence for Kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 21 - The drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 21 - UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the Congo (Zaire).
1961/--/-- 21 - V.S. Naipaul writes about West Indian life in A House for Mr. Biswas.
1961/04/28 21 *** Stack, Thomas Edward - Died Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
1961/06/08 21 *** Benson, Roy Lee [Uncle] - Died Akron, Summit, Ohio Akron, Summit, Ohio Hillside Mem. Park, Akron, Summit, Ohio
1961/10/-- 22 - World Series NL CINCINNATI (1) AL NEW YORK (4)
In 1939 Transportation was by:
Foot
Bicycle
Train
Steamboat
Car & Bus
Diesel ship
Propeller airplane
By 1961 Transportation was by:
Helicopter
Jet
nuclear ship
in addition.
By 1961 Transportation by:
Steamboat
had been discontinued.
In 1939 Communications was by:
Word of Mouth
Post Office
Telegraph
Telephone
By 1961 Communications by:
Telegraph
had been discontinued.
In 1939 Food Preparation was by:
Wood
Gas
Refrigeration
By 1961 Food Preparation was by:
Electric
Dish washer
in addition.
By 1961 Food Preparation by:
Wood
had been discontinued.
In 1939 Entertainment was by:
Social Intercourse
Organized Sports
Travel
Professional Sports
Movies
Radio
Television
Theme parks
Computer
In 1939 Health Care was by:
Operations
Anesthetic
X-Rays
MRI
In 1939 War Making was by:
gun
Artillery
Machine guns
tank
Submarine
Iron Clad ships
TNT
Mines
Chemical agents
Aeroplane
By 1961 War Making was by:
Assault rifle
Biological agents
Helicopter
Missiles
Atomic Bomb
Satellites
in addition.
In 1939 Navigation was by:
Stars & Maps
Compass
Radio Signals
By 1961 Navigation was by:
Radar
in addition.
from the SFHR database of Duane Bristow 03-13-2021 19:54:54