What history have you seen in the makeing??? (page 3)

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I've been paying very close attention to everything since June 15th, 1961 ... although I do admit the first couple of years are a bit fuzzy!

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I should watch more news?

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History can be small and seemingly insignificant.

Terry

1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism (1950-1954) begins
1950 - Korean War begins
1950 - The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published
1951 - 22nd Amendment, establishing term limits for President.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman for comments about using nuclear weapons on China
1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. One month later, the situation comedy I Love Lucy premieres on CBS, sparking the rise of television in the American home and the Golden Age of Television.
1951 - See It Now, an American newsmagazine and documentary series broadcast by CBS from 1951 to 1958. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show.
1952 - The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television.
1952 - Immigration and Nationality Act
1952 - United States presidential election, 1952 (Dwight D. Eisenhower elected)
1953 - Rosenbergs executed
1953 - Armistice in Korea
1953 - Shah of Iran returns to power in CIA-orchestrated coup known as Operation Ajax
1954 - The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event televised nationally in color
1954 - Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings
1954 - The CIA organizes the overthrow of Guatemala's democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (Operation PBSUCCESS)
1954 - Saint Lawrence Seaway Act, permitting the construction of the system of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, is approved
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark decision of the Supreme Court, declares state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional
1954 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 382.74, the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929
1954 - NBC airs the The Tonight Show the first late-night talk show is originally hosted by Steve Allen
1955 - Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant and, after purchasing the franchise from its original owners, oversees its national (and later, worldwide) expansion
1955 - Rosa Parks incites the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955 - AFL and CIO merge in America's largest labor union
1955 - Warsaw Pact, which establishes a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR)
1955 - Disneyland opens at Anaheim, California
1955 - Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
1955 - Rock and roll music enters the mainstream, with "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets becoming the first record to top the Billboard magazine pop charts. Elvis Presley also begins his rise to fame around this same time.
1955 - Actor James Dean is killed in a highway collision on his way to a racetrack in Salinas, California, while driving his racing Porsche 550 Spyder.
1956 - Interstate Highway Act, which would provide the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System over a 20-year period
1956 - The U.S. refuses to support the Hungarian Revolution
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1956 - Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller.
1956 - Jackson Pollock dies in a car crash in Springs, New York
1956 - United States presidential election, 1956 (Eisenhower re-elected)
1957 - Eisenhower Doctrine, wherein a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state
1957 - Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
1957 - Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins
1957 - Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S., goes into service
1957 - Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregation
1958 - National Defense Education Act
1958 - NASA formed as the U.S. begins ramping up efforts to explore space
1958 - Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit
1959 - The NBC western Bonanza becomes the first drama to be broadcast in color
1959 - Cuban Revolution
1959 - Landrum-Griffin Act, a labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers, becomes law
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th U.S. states; to date, they are the final two states admitted to the union.

1960 - U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace
1960 - Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, spurs similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
1960 - Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
1960 - United States presidential election, 1960 (John F. Kennedy elected president)
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961 - Eisenhower gives celebrated " military–industrial complex " farewell address
1961 - John F. Kennedy becomes President
1961 - Peace Corps established.
1961 - Alliance for Progress
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961 - Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space
1961 - Trade embargo on Cuba
1961 - Berlin Crisis of 1961
1961 - Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
1961 - OPEC formed
1962 - Trade Expansion Act
1962 - John Glenn orbits the Earth, becoming the first American to do so
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis, which becomes the closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR
1962 - Engel v. Vitale, which determines that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools
1962 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
1962 - Marilyn Monroe dies of an apparent overdose from acute barbiturate poisoning at 36.

Kennedy's motorcade on November 22, 1963

1963 - Bob Dylan and Columbia Records release The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (his second studio album), which becomes a classic
1963 - Atomic Test Ban Treaty
1963 - March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech
1963 - "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan published, sparking the women's liberation movement
1963 - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks.
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the British Invasion (or, an increased number of rock and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular around the world, including the U.S.)
1964 - Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 - 24th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
1964 - President Johnson proposes the Great Society, whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s.
1964 - Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States
1964 - Panama Canal Zone riots
1964 - United States presidential election, 1964
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson escalates the United States military involvement in the Vietnam War
1965 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D.C., with about 25,000 protesters
1965 - Immigration Act of 1965
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1965 - Medicaid and Medicare enacted
1965 - Higher Education Act of 1965
1965 - Malcolm X an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York
1965 - Watts Riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, lasts six days and is the first of several major urban riots due to racial issues.
1966 - Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
1966 - Department of Transportation created
1966 - National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
1966 - Miranda v. Arizona establishes "Miranda rights" for suspects
1966 - Feminist group National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
1966 – The three major American television networks—NBC, CBS and ABC—have full color lineups in their prime-time schedules.
1966- Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay) declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war. According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting" and the governor of Maine said that Ali "should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American." [ 1 ] In 1967 Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on appeal. In addition, he was stripped of his title and banned from professional boxing for more than three years.
1967 - Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played, with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1967 – Detroit race riot precipitates the "long hot summer", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide.
1967 - The "Summer of Love" embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" among the highlights.
1967 - 25th Amendment establishes succession to the Presidency and procedures for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President
1967 - American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assassinated two months apart
1968 - The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive
1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act
1968 - Shirley Chisholm becomes first black woman elected to U.S. Congress
1968 - Police clashes with anti-war protesters in Chicago, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 - U.S. signs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968 - United States presidential election, 1968 (Richard Nixon elected president)
1969 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President
1969 - "Vietnamization" begins
1969 - Stonewall riots in New York City marks the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
1969 - Chappaquiddick incident, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon
1969 - The Woodstock Festival in White Lake, New York becomes an enormously successful musical and cultural gathering; a milestone for the baby-boom generation
1969 - Warren E. Burger appointed Chief Justice of the United States to replace Earl Warren
1969 - U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in Cambodia and Laos
1969 - Sesame Street premieres on National Educational Television.

00DAD

Wow, Terry, nice list!! I especially liked:

1969 - Sesame Street premieres on National Educational Television.

That was a SURE sign of the End Times. But what happened to you after 1969? Did you die? Are you now posting from beyond the grave?

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Evidently, I am in the same generation NEWCHAPTER.

Non-overlapping.

I lived and worked in both NY and DC so I saw plenty unfold. First, I participated in every major antiwar demonstration in both NY and DC. Kent State was the worst. Kent/Jackson State to be accurate. People wrote at the time it happened that only Kent State would be remember. I was listening to commercial free format rock in NYC. The DJ broke in and screamed the revolution was here, everyone in the streets NOW. I was so upset I could not stay home so I drove to Rutgers New Brunswick for a mass rally. The commercial station kept posting info from the ACLU and organized car pooling from Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. There was no permit for DC so the ACLU begged people not to come unless they were willing to be arrested and bring $20. bail money. Normally, the mere fear of being excluded from law school quenched my ardor. I was so upset I wanted to be arrested.

I attended the mass funeral of the NY student murdered at Kent State. It was such a different mood from a normal demo. DC gave a permit at the last moment. I decided that it was long bus ride down so why not sight see and demonstrate. When we approached the White House, I left the march for a short time for the best view. It was completely engulfed by school buses, many deep in a circle. If I peered beyond the buses, I saw tanks and military personnel on the lawn. Some anarchists came by and started to try to turn the buses over. I never ran so fast in my entire life.

I was present when John and Paul came to NY to promote Apple. Saw most rock acts at the Filmore East on a high school lstudent salary. Very small venue. I was watching the moon landing at Central Park on immense screens. This eccentric rock group called DAvid Peel and the Lower East Side came by to perform their only song"Legal Marijuana." Legalize Marijuana Now, repeat, repeat, repeat....They told the crowd about Woodstock. The next day I was the local head shop purchasing tickets. Woodstock was mindblowing -- in both great and sordid ways. I believe it is overly romanticized.

I was present at both Bangladesh Concerts by George Harrison at the Garden. I stayed up all night at the box office. The NYPD saved my life when the box office opened. It was something seeing George in real life. He threatened to leave and not perform if we were rude to Ravi shankar so we sat in silence, bored out of our minds. John Lennon, in contratst, performed for a mentally challenged charity. There was an all star lineup. Roberta Flack performed her pop mega hit. People started to scream out loud "We want John." She kept performing and the heckling was unb elievable. Everyone stood up and started jum ping in unison so Lennon would appear. A single word from John would have stopped it. I was present for the Central Park memorial service for John. It was very sad but the crowd was awesome. It was the first glimmer of my generation taking control b/c almost everyone brought young children and the networks covered it live for the entire time.

I routinely saw U.S. Senators and Congresspersons doing their work or not.

September 11 was the absolute worst and most riveting. Seeing it on local NY Tv and seeing it in person were so different. My home became a police state and I was eager for even more military personnel. My dry cleaners were wiped out. The place where I bought CDs was covered in so much dust it was unrecognizable. I flinched at every little thing b/fore I was conscious of hearing it or seeing it. We were the walking wounded.

I've seen most historic art exhibits. My favorite was the Picasso Retrospective at MoMA. All his museum works were available in one place before distribution to his heirs. It will never happen again.

I also saw many historic free rock and opera concerts in Central Park. The festival like atmosphere was gone for rock concerts b/c of younger people. I will never attend another one after Paul Simon. I was likely to exit the park alive. Maybe I will not go in the crowd but sit at an angle to the main crowd. There is plenty of room and you see more than in the crowd.

I saw Bobby Kennedy's coffin in state at St. Patrick's. Saw Obama last election cycle. Much more handsome in person.

I was fortunate to live in NY mostly. If I lived someplace else, nothing would have happened. Of course, 9/11 was the exception to the rule.

What history have you seen in the makeing???

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