1966
March 23 - Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. :angel:
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1966
March 23 - Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches. :angel:
1965 : T.S. Eliot, born 1888, in St. Louis, dies on January 4 in London.
1964 January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). :brow:
1963: May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9
1962 - John Steinbeck receives the Nobel prize in literature
1961 - The year Virgil was born!!!! What could be more important than that to me?
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide.
1960 March 6 — Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to Vietnam.
And on Thanksgiving Day, in Womack Army Hospital, Fort Brag, NC, a baby boy is born who will one day be known around the globe as "Pendragon".
1959: Rock stars Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper die when the Beechcraft Bonanza they are traveling in crashes during a snow storm in Iowa.
Agfa introduces the first fully automatic camera, the Optima.
In New York City, Ingemar Johansson scored a 3rd round TKO over Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship
...and finally: Yours truly was born on Christmas Day
1958: January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
March 11 - U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.
August 3 - The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water
1957:
October 4 - Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite:
November 3 - Launch of Sputnik 2, with a dog called Laika on board, the first living thing sent into space.
December 6 - US attempt launch of Vanguard TV3 which fails after just two seconds in the air. This is why children of many US engineers learned to count in a new way: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..... Oh, S##t! ;)
1976- March 26 - Queen Elizabeth II, Sent the first royal e-mail
Sorry, wrong date
1956
January 8 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them
April 19 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
June 14 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the phrase "under God" should be added to the Pledge of Allegiance
December 2 - Fidel Castro and his followers land on Cuba in the boat Granma.
1955
March 20 - Blackboard Jungle opens in theaters featuring the song Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets, thus propelling Rock and Roll as a musical genre. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.
July 17 - Disneyland opens.
September 30 - Actor James Dean killed in car accident near Cholame, California.
1954: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." Church of Scientology founded in California.
1953- New Zealander Edmund Hilary and his sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1952 It was leap year!
February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
April 28 - The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the occupation of Japan
September 2 - Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis perform first open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota
1951 - United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York. Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
1950
June 24, 1950 -
North Korea Invades the South. The Korean War began with an attack made by North Korean forces across the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea. The attack was a complete surprise to the American administration. It was feared that this attack heralded the beginning of World War III.
1949 - January 17 - The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought over to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America. that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
1948:
January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
June 24 - Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.
June 26 - the Berlin Airlift begins, with USAF, Royal Air Force, and British civil transport aircraft carrying supplies into West Berlin
1947 (Since the movie came out this year...) January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is found murdered
March 21 - Homer Collyer of the Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in Harlem, New York City. His brother is found April 8 (Interesting because the brothers lived like rats in a trash filled house but were actually fairly wealthy)
July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President
November 20- The Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London
1946
ENIAC, the first non-classified all-electronic computer, becomes operational.
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1945-- February 23 - World War II: Following the American victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal will later win a Pulitzer Prize.
April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan.
April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as Red Army approaches Führerbunker in Berlin. Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany. Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
May 8 - World War II: V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II in Europe.
July 28 - An Army Air Forces B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people
August 6 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 AM (local time)
August 9 - World War II: The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan at 11:02 AM (local time).
August 15 - World War II: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio. The United States called this day V-J Day (Victory in Japan). This ends the period of Japanese expansionism and begins the period of Occupied Japan.
So much sorrow in one year... remember always that freedom is never free...
1944
June 6 - D-Day
Allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy
1943-- February 3 - World War II: The death of the Four Chaplains when their ship was struck by a torpedo. (Four very brave men, of various faiths stood together and united in prayer and song as the ship went under.)
March 13 - Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków (Hell comes to earth...)
May 24 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes Chief Medical Officer in Auschwitz (And with it, the Devil...)
April 22 - Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938. (Meanwhile, people try other means of seeing visions of bad things!)
September 8 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies and the USAAF bombed the German General Headquarter for the Mediterranean zone Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943.
1942
February 9 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the U. S.
1941 May 27 - World War II: German battleship Bismarck is sunk in North Atlantic killing 2,300.
July 31 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
(Plans for hell take shape.)
December 7, December 8 (in Japan standard time) - Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack consisting of two full regiments on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. (Roosevelt 's "Day of Imfamy")
December 8 - World War II: The United States officially declares war on Japan.
December 8 - World War II: China officially declares war on Japan
December 8 - World War II: The Netherlands declares war on Japan
December 8 - World War II: Japan launches an invasion of Malaya.
December 11 - World War II: Germany declares war on the United States
1940 - August
Soviet Union annexes Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
1939 - End of the Spanish Civil War. The Luftwaffe is primed for disillusionment in the Battle of Britain the next year.
1938
November 1 - Horse Racing
Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral
1937:
July 7 - The Second Sino-Japanese War begins, and keeps going until 1945!
December 21 - Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon, opens and becomes a smash hit.
1936 - August 1
The Summer Olympics begin in Berlin, Germany
1935.
January 11-12 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight across the Pacific from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
March 22 - Germany begin regular television service in Berlin using an 180 line electronic television system. It is seen only in public viewing rooms seating 30 people each.
March 28 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.
April 26 - France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower
September 11 - Final transmission of John Logie Baird’s 30-line television system by the BBC. The BBC begins preparations for a regular high definition broadcasting service from Alexandra Palace.
1934 - December 9
British actress Judi Dench is born
1933:
January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.
February 27 - Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire (see: Reichstag fire).
March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
April 26 - Gestapo established.
May 2 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
June 21 - All non-Nazi parties forbidden in Germany
July 14 - Forming new political parties forbidden in Germany.
September 12 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
October 16 - Germany announces intention to leave the League of Nations - officially
Busy year...
Indeed, Hitler moves fast.
1932 - Total Solar Eclipse!
1931 - Deuterium discovered.
March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5
July 26 - Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles - driving 11 555 km using only a reverse gear. The trip lasts the next 42 days
August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage. (This is interesting, because it was claimed to have been witnessed by a psychic, who lead authorites to the downed craft.)
1929 - May 16
First Academy Awards