...date... age event
1920/--/-- -1 - 18th amendment prohibits alcohol
1920/--/-- -1 - 19th amendment gives women right to vote
1920/--/-- -1 - a home rule bill establishes parliaments for northern and southern ireland.
1920/--/-- -1 - admiral miklos horthy is appointed regent of hungary.
1920/--/-- -1 - adolf hitler forms the national socialist german workers' (nazi) party.
1920/--/-- -1 - american novelist sinclair lewis publishes main street.
1920/--/-- -1 - american tennis star bill tilden wins the wimbledon tournament for the first time.
1920/--/-- -1 - arturo alessandri becomes president of chile.
1920/--/-- -1 - british east africa becomes a crown colony as kenya.
1920/--/-- -1 - chaim weizmann is named president of the world zionist organization.
1920/--/-- -1 - dutch artist piet mondrian paints the composition with red, yellow and blue.
1920/--/-- -1 - french art deco glassmaker rene lalique opens a glass factory.
1920/--/-- -1 - german east africa is transferred to british control as tanganyika (now tanzania).
1920/--/-- -1 - mahatma gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against british rule in india.
1920/--/-- -1 - mexican president venustiano carranza is deposed and killed by alvaro obregon.
1920/--/-- -1 - mystery writer agatha christie publishes her first hercule poirot story.
1920/--/-- -1 - russian artist aleksandr rodchenko designs the first mobile.
1920/--/-- -1 - the 18th amendment institutes the prohibition of alcohol throughout the u.s.
1920/--/-- -1 - the 19th amendment to the u.s. constitution gives women the right to vote.
1920/--/-- -1 - the russian civil war ends with victory for the bolsheviks.
1920/--/-- -1 - the u.s. senate votes against joining the league of nations.
1920/03/26 0 *** allen, james thomas - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1920/10/-- 0 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al cleveland (5)
1920/10/31 0 *** cummings, margaret nell (claborn) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1920/10/31 0 *** cummings, margaret nell (claborn) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1921/--/-- 0 - alexander rules the new kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes.
1921/--/-- 0 - american anarchists nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti are found guilty of murder.
1921/--/-- 0 - berber tribes under abd el-krim attack garrisons in spanish morocco.
1921/--/-- 0 - french cubist artist fernand leger paints three women.
1921/--/-- 0 - german surrealist artist max ernst paints l'elephant celebes.
1921/--/-- 0 - harding is inaugurated as the 29th u.s. president; coolidge becomes vice-president.
1921/--/-- 0 - japanese premier hara takashi is assassinated.
1921/--/-- 0 - latin lover rudolph valentino stars in the silent film the sheik.
1921/--/-- 0 - luigi pirandello's play six characters in search of an author is produced.
1921/--/-- 0 - mexican artist diego rivera begins painting murals depicting contemporary mexican life.
1921/--/-- 0 - the british broadcasting corporation (bbc) is created by royal charter.
1921/--/-- 0 - the irish free state becomes a self-governing dominion of britain.
1921/--/-- 0 - the reparations commission fixes germany's liability at 132 billion gold marks.
1921/--/-- 0 - w. l. mackenzie king is elected prime minister of canada for the first time.
1921/--/-- 0 - warren g. harding (republican) becomes president of the united states
1921/08/12 1 *** harlan, nora (dishon) [1st cousin once removed] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan)
1921/10/-- 1 - world series nl new york (5) al new york (3)
1921/10/02 1 *** zachary, velma marie (sanders) [1st cousin once removed] - born to zachary, thomas marion and griffin, sarah lou ella (zachary)
1922/--/-- 1 - anglo-american poet t.s. eliot writes the waste land.
1922/--/-- 1 - constantine i abdicates as king of greece; is succeeded by george ii.
1922/--/-- 1 - dewitt wallace launches reader's digest magazine.
1922/--/-- 1 - egypt achieves independence from britain and becomes a monarchy under fuad i.
1922/--/-- 1 - emily post publishes etiquette in society, in business, in politics, and at home.
1922/--/-- 1 - english egyptologist howard carter excavates tutankhamen's tomb.
1922/--/-- 1 - english composer william walton composes facade.
1922/--/-- 1 - explorer roy chapman andrews discovers the first fossil dinosaur eggs in the gobi desert.
1922/--/-- 1 - irish poet and novelist james joyce publishes ulysses.
1922/--/-- 1 - irish revolutionary statesman michael collins is assassinated.
1922/--/-- 1 - kemal ataturk's attempts to restore turkish territory leads to the chanak crisis.
1922/--/-- 1 - mahatma gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in india.
1922/--/-- 1 - robert flaherty produces the first major film documentary nanook of the north.
1922/--/-- 1 - the fascists march on rome; king victor emmanuel iii names mussolini prime minister.
1922/--/-- 1 - william t. cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the irish free state.
1922/02/01 1 *** griffin, john henry [great grandfather] - died albany, kentucky peolia cemetery
1922/10/-- 2 - world series nl new york (4) al new york (0)
1923/--/-- 2 - "king" oliver's creole jazz band is the first black band to be recorded.
1923/--/-- 2 - adolf hitler's coup d'etat in munich fails; he is captured and imprisoned.
1923/--/-- 2 - aircraft designer willy messerschmitt opens a factory in germany.
1923/--/-- 2 - american poet e. e. cummings writes the novel the enormous room.
1923/--/-- 2 - briton hadden and henry r. luce found the weekly newsmagazine time.
1923/--/-- 2 - calvin coolidge (republican) becomes president of the united states
1923/--/-- 2 - child violinist yehudi menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923/--/-- 2 - filmmaker cecil b. de mille directs the biblical epic the ten commandments.
1923/--/-- 2 - french and belgian troops occupy the ruhr to enforce german war reparations.
1923/--/-- 2 - general miguel primo de rivera rules as dictator of spain.
1923/--/-- 2 - irish poet william butler yeats wins the nobel prize for literature.
1923/--/-- 2 - italy becomes first fascist state
1923/--/-- 2 - jewish philosopher martin buber publishes ich und du (i and thou).
1923/--/-- 2 - physicist hermann oberth publishes the rocket into planetary space.
1923/--/-- 2 - spanish engineer juan de la cierva invents the autogiro.
1923/--/-- 2 - stanley baldwin becomes conservative prime minister of britain for the first time.
1923/--/-- 2 - the treaty of lausanne establishes the boundaries of modern turkey.
1923/--/-- 2 - tokyo and yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake; 100,000 are killed.
1923/--/-- 2 - turkey is declared a republic; ataturk kemal becomes the first president.
1923/--/-- 2 - vladimir zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
1923/--/-- 2 - warren g. harding dies; calvin coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th u.s. president.
1923/01/09 2 *** cummings, joe frank [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1923/10/-- 3 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1924/--/-- 3 - adolf hitler publishes his nazi political tract mein kampf (my battle).
1924/--/-- 3 - arab leader ibn saud drives the hashimites from mecca.
1924/--/-- 3 - english novelist e.m. forster publishes a passage to india.
1924/--/-- 3 - french physicist louis de broglie proposes the wavelength nature of particles.
1924/--/-- 3 - german novelist thomas mann publishes the magic mountain.
1924/--/-- 3 - j. edgar hoover is appointed director of the bureau of investigation (renamed the fbi).
1924/--/-- 3 - ramsay macdonald forms the first labour government in britain.
1924/--/-- 3 - schrodinger proposes wave mechanics
1924/--/-- 3 - soviet leader lenin dies; new leader joseph stalin begins a purge of his opponents.
1924/--/-- 3 - the boston bruins become the first professional ice hockey team.
1924/--/-- 3 - the military declare a republic in greece; king george ii is exiled.
1924/--/-- 3 - u.s. congress investigates suspicious dealings in the teapot dome scandal.
1924/08/25 4 *** allen, geneva mae (davis) [sister] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1924/09/14 4 *** cummings, mary elizabeth (rogers) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1924/10/-- 4 - world series nl new york (3) al washington (4)
1925/--/-- 4 - ahmed zogu proclaims albania a monarchy and rules as king zog.
1925/--/-- 4 - american writer f. scott fitzgerald publishes the great gatsby.
1925/--/-- 4 - american writer john dos passos publishes manhattan transfer.
1925/--/-- 4 - astronomer edwin hubble composes a classification scheme for galaxies.
1925/--/-- 4 - automaker walter p. chrysler founds the chrysler corporation.
1925/--/-- 4 - black american dancer josephine baker stars in la revue negre in paris.
1925/--/-- 4 - clarence birdseye begins marketing his quick-frozen food packages.
1925/--/-- 4 - friedrich ebert dies; paul von hindenburg becomes president of the german republic.
1925/--/-- 4 - john t. scopes is tried in tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution.
1925/--/-- 4 - reza shah pahlavi rules as shah of iran.
1925/--/-- 4 - russian filmmaker sergei eisenstein directs the battleship potemkin.
1925/--/-- 4 - swiss-born artist paul klee paints fish magic.
1925/--/-- 4 - the locarno pact finalizes the treaties between the world war i protagonists.
1925/--/-- 4 - the new yorker magazine is founded in new york city.
1925/--/-- 4 - the all-black revue runnin' wild introduces the charleston dance craze.
1925/06/25 5 *** harlan, dora elsie (upchurch) [1st cousin once removed] - born to harlan, john thomas and griffin, ada ermon (harlan) born in clinton county kentucky on the 25th or maybe 21st june 1925
1925/10/-- 5 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al washington (3)
1925/10/19 5 *** ewing, annie (harlan) & harlan, arthur [1st cousin once removed] - married
1926/--/-- 5 - american artist georgia o'keeffe paints her flower portrait black iris.
1926/--/-- 5 - american golfer bobby jones wins the u.s. open and the british open tournaments.
1926/--/-- 5 - american physicist robert goddard launches the first liquid-propellant rocket.
1926/--/-- 5 - antonio oscar de fragoso carmona becomes president after a military coup in portugal.
1926/--/-- 5 - chiang kai-shek organizes the northern expedition to unite china.
1926/--/-- 5 - eamon de valera organizes the fianna fail party in the republic of ireland.
1926/--/-- 5 - english author a.a. milne writes the children's book winnie-the-pooh.
1926/--/-- 5 - french troops in morocco subdue a tribal rebellion led by abd el-krim.
1926/--/-- 5 - germany is admitted to the league of nations.
1926/--/-- 5 - hirohito becomes emperor of japan.
1926/--/-- 5 - nobile, amundsen and ellsworth pilot the airship norge over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 5 - richard e. byrd and floyd bennett make the first airplane flight over the north pole.
1926/--/-- 5 - russian composer dmitry shostakovich premiers his first symphony.
1926/--/-- 5 - the general strike breaks out in britain involving 3 million workers.
1926/--/-- 5 - the harlem globetrotters basketball team is organized in chicago.
1926/--/-- 5 - u.s. marines land in nicaragua to suppress a revolution (they depart in 1933).
1926/02/11 5 *** cummings, johnny anselum [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1926/09/27 6 *** harlan, arthur david [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1926/10/-- 6 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1927/--/-- 6 - american dancer isadora duncan is killed in a tragic car accident.
1927/--/-- 6 - american writer thornton wilder publishes the bridge of san luis rey.
1927/--/-- 6 - baseball player babe ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the new york yankees.
1927/--/-- 6 - blackface singer al jolson appears in the first sound motion picture the jazz singer.
1927/--/-- 6 - charles lindbergh flies solo nonstop from new york to paris in 33.5 hours.
1927/--/-- 6 - civil war in china
1927/--/-- 6 - comedy team laurel and hardy appear in their first film putting pants on philip.
1927/--/-- 6 - dancer martha graham opens her first dance studio in new york city.
1927/--/-- 6 - duke ellington's jazz band stars at harlem's cotton club in new york city.
1927/--/-- 6 - english novelist virginia woolf writes to the lighthouse.
1927/--/-- 6 - finnish architect alvar aalto designs the turun sanomat newspaper building.
1927/--/-- 6 - georges lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of the universe.
1927/--/-- 6 - german filmmaker fritz lang directs the futuristic film metropolis.
1927/--/-- 6 - german-swiss author hermann hesse publishes steppenwolf.
1927/--/-- 6 - helen newington wills wins the wimbledon tennis championship.
1927/--/-- 6 - lindbergh crosses atlantic non-stop
1927/--/-- 6 - the iron guard fascist organization is founded in romania.
1927/10/-- 7 - world series nl pittsburgh (0) al new york (4)
1927/11/16 7 *** cummings, eula mae sloan "poodle" (norris) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1928/--/-- 7 - amelia earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the atlantic.
1928/--/-- 7 - american anthropologist margaret mead publishes coming of age in samoa.
1928/--/-- 7 - american comedy team amos 'n' andy produce their first radio show.
1928/--/-- 7 - american composer virgil thomson writes the opera four saints in three acts.
1928/--/-- 7 - arturo toscanini is made conductor of the new york philharmonic.
1928/--/-- 7 - ben hecht and charles macarthur's play the front page is produced.
1928/--/-- 7 - bertolt brecht and kurt weill collaborate on the play the threepenny opera.
1928/--/-- 7 - british bacteriologist alexander fleming discovers penicillin.
1928/--/-- 7 - chiang kai-shek captures peking; the kuomintang government is established.
1928/--/-- 7 - english novelist evelyn waugh publishes decline and fall.
1928/--/-- 7 - english physicist paul dirac formulates a mathematical description of elementary particles.
1928/--/-- 7 - french composer maurice ravel composes the ballet bolero.
1928/--/-- 7 - heisenberg's uncertainty principle
1928/--/-- 7 - luis bunuel and salvador dali collaborate on the surrealist film un chien andalou.
1928/--/-- 7 - spanish poet federico garcia lorca publishes gypsy ballads.
1928/--/-- 7 - the chaco war breaks out between bolivia and paraguay over territorial disputes.
1928/--/-- 7 - the kellog-briand pact outlawing war is signed by 15 nations.
1928/--/-- 7 - the first five-year plan for economic reform begins in the soviet union.
1928/--/-- 7 - walt disney's mickey mouse appears in steamboat willie, the first sound cartoon.
1928/07/14 8 *** harlan, john howard [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan) born at home in clinton co., kentucky
1928/10/-- 8 - world series nl st. louis (0) al new york (4)
1929/--/-- 8 - alexander institutes absolute rule as king of yugoslavia.
1929/--/-- 8 - american explorer richard e. byrd flies over the south pole.
1929/--/-- 8 - american novelist william faulkner publishes the sound and the fury.
1929/--/-- 8 - british poet robert graves publishes his war memoir goodbye to all that.
1929/--/-- 8 - erich maria remarque publishes his war novel all quiet on the western front.
1929/--/-- 8 - ernest hemingway writes the war novel a farewell to arms.
1929/--/-- 8 - french artist and writer jean cocteau publishes les enfants terribles.
1929/--/-- 8 - heinrich himmler is appointed head of the ss, hitler's blackshirted elite guard.
1929/--/-- 8 - herbert c. hoover (republican) becomes president of the united states
1929/--/-- 8 - hoover is inaugurated as the 31st u.s. president; curtis becomes vice-president.
1929/--/-- 8 - jews and arabs clash at the wailing wall in jerusalem.
1929/--/-- 8 - seven chicago gangsters are machine-gunned in the st. valentine's day massacre.
1929/--/-- 8 - soviet leader joseph stalin exiles leon trotsky.
1929/--/-- 8 - stock market crashes
1929/--/-- 8 - the lateran treaty creates the independent state of the vatican city.
1929/--/-- 8 - the museum of modern art (moma) is founded in new york city.
1929/--/-- 8 - the wall street crash leads to a world-wide economic depression.
1929/--/-- 8 - the workers party of america is renamed the communist party of the united states.
1929/--/-- 8 - the first academy awards are presented; wings wins best-picture prize.
1929/10/-- 9 - world series nl chicago (1) al philadelphia (4)
1930/--/-- 9 - american artist edward hopper paints early sunday morning.
1930/--/-- 9 - american astronomer clyde w. tombaugh discovers the planet pluto.
1930/--/-- 9 - american poet hart crane publishes the bridge.
1930/--/-- 9 - artist grant wood paints american gothic.
1930/--/-- 9 - british engineer frank whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930/--/-- 9 - carol ii is proclaimed king of romania.
1930/--/-- 9 - dashiell hammett publishes the detective novel the maltese falcon.
1930/--/-- 9 - english-born american writer w. h. auden publishes his poems.
1930/--/-- 9 - getulio vargas is appointed president of brazil after a military coup.
1930/--/-- 9 - haile selassie is declared emperor of ethiopia.
1930/--/-- 9 - marlene dietrich stars in josef von sternberg's film the blue angel.
1930/--/-- 9 - noel coward's play private lives is produced in london.
1930/--/-- 9 - the british airship r101 crashes in france.
1930/--/-- 9 - the city of constantinople is re-named istanbul.
1930/--/-- 9 - vannevar bush develops a differential analyzer, an early type of analog computer.
1930/--/-- 9 - worldwide depression begins
1930/04/22 10 *** cummings, bruce tartar [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1930/10/-- 10 - world series nl st. louis (2) al philadelphia (4)
1930/11/01 10 *** cross, ermon (harlan) & harlan, floyd [1st cousin once removed] - married albany, ky
1930/11/01 10 *** lawson, ruby ermon (harlan) & harlan, luther [1st cousin once removed] - married albany, ky
1931/--/-- 10 - american cartoonist chester gould creates the adventure comic strip dick tracy.
1931/--/-- 10 - american journalist and writer damon runyon publishes guys and dolls.
1931/--/-- 10 - american writer pearl buck publishes the good earth.
1931/--/-- 10 - auguste piccard makes the first manned balloon flight into the stratosphere.
1931/--/-- 10 - ben shahn begins a series of paintings inspired by the sacco-vanzetti case.
1931/--/-- 10 - chicago gangster al capone is jailed for income tax evasion.
1931/--/-- 10 - explorer george hubert wilkins makes a submarine voyage under the arctic ice.
1931/--/-- 10 - japanese forces occupy manchuria.
1931/--/-- 10 - lawrence invents cyclotron
1931/--/-- 10 - organic chemist w. h. carothers invents nylon, the first successful synthetic fiber.
1931/--/-- 10 - radio astronomy begins when karl jansky detects radio waves from space.
1931/--/-- 10 - spain is declared a republic; king alfonso xiii abdicates.
1931/--/-- 10 - the empire state building becomes the tallest building in the world.
1931/--/-- 10 - the star-spangled banner becomes the u.s. national anthem.
1931/09/08 11 *** harlan, mary josephine (lowhorn) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, floyd and cross, ermon (harlan)
1931/09/24 11 *** zachary, wille clyde [1st cousin once removed] - died glenwood cem. liberty - casey co. ky
1931/10/-- 11 - world series nl st. louis (4) al philadelphia (3)
1932/--/-- 11 - american physicist carl d. anderson discovers the positron.
1932/--/-- 11 - american sculptor alexander calder creates his first mobile.
1932/--/-- 11 - american southern author erskine caldwell publishes tobacco road.
1932/--/-- 11 - antonio de oliveira salazar assumes dictatorial powers as premier of portugal.
1932/--/-- 11 - arab leader ibn saud founds the kingdom of saudi arabia.
1932/--/-- 11 - british author aldous huxley publishes brave new world.
1932/--/-- 11 - charles lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped.
1932/--/-- 11 - eamon de valera is elected president of the republic of ireland.
1932/--/-- 11 - engelbert dollfuss is elected chancellor of austria.
1932/--/-- 11 - english physicist james chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932/--/-- 11 - presidential nominee franklin d. roosevelt pledges a new deal.
1932/--/-- 11 - radio city music hall opens in new york city's rockefeller center.
1932/--/-- 11 - revolution in siam (thailand) replaces the monarchy with a constitutional government.
1932/--/-- 11 - sir oswald mosley founds the british union of fascists.
1932/--/-- 11 - the bonus army of war veterans is dispersed by troops in washington, d.c.
1932/--/-- 11 - the royal shakespeare theater opens at stratford-on-avon, england.
1932/--/-- 11 - the first particle accelerator is built at the cavendish laboratory in england.
1932/03/29 12 *** cummings, billy odell [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1932/10/-- 12 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1933/--/-- 12 - a fossilized skull of the prehistoric steinheim man is found in germany.
1933/--/-- 12 - actor charles laughton stars in the film the private life of henry viii.
1933/--/-- 12 - busby berkeley choreographs the dances for the film gold diggers of 1933.
1933/--/-- 12 - dancers fred astaire and ginger rogers star in the film flying down to rio.
1933/--/-- 12 - edwin armstrong invents frequency modulation (fm) to eliminate radio static.
1933/--/-- 12 - fiorello la guardia is elected mayor of new york city for the first time.
1933/--/-- 12 - frances perkins becomes the first woman cabinet member in u.s. history.
1933/--/-- 12 - franklin d. roosevelt (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1933/--/-- 12 - french novelist and political activist andre malraux publishes man's fate.
1933/--/-- 12 - fulgencio batista leads a military coup against gerardo machado y morales in cuba.
1933/--/-- 12 - jimmy and tommy dorsey found their first swing band.
1933/--/-- 12 - joseph goebbels is appointed as minister of propaganda for the nazi party.
1933/--/-- 12 - mae west stars in the films she done him wrong and i'm no angel.
1933/--/-- 12 - norwegian fascist vidkun quisling founds the national unity party.
1933/--/-- 12 - president paul von hindenburg names adolf hitler as chancellor of germany.
1933/--/-- 12 - roosevelt begins "new deal"
1933/--/-- 12 - roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd u.s. president; garner becomes vice-president.
1933/--/-- 12 - the 21st amendment ends the prohibition era in the u.s.
1933/--/-- 12 - the marx brothers star in the classic comedy film duck soup.
1933/--/-- 12 - the national recovery administration (nra) is launched by president roosevelt.
1933/--/-- 12 - the nazis erect the first concentration camps in germany.
1933/--/-- 12 - the public works administration (pwa) is formed to fund public construction projects.
1933/--/-- 12 - the reichstag fire gives the nazis a pretext for outlawing the german communist party.
1933/--/-- 12 - the stavisky affair causes a financial scandal in france.
1933/10/-- 13 - world series nl new york (4) al washington (1)
1934/--/-- 13 - adolf hitler becomes "fueher" of germany
1934/--/-- 13 - alexander, king of yugoslavia, is assassinated; his son peter ii succeeds him.
1934/--/-- 13 - american cartoonist al capp begins the comic strip li'l abner.
1934/--/-- 13 - chancellor engelbert dollfuss is murdered by austrian nazis.
1934/--/-- 13 - cole porter writes the score for the broadway musical anything goes.
1934/--/-- 13 - drought leads to severe dust storms in the dust bowl region of the great plains.
1934/--/-- 13 - elijah muhammad becomes leader of the nation of islam (the black muslims).
1934/--/-- 13 - fermi creates plutonium
1934/--/-- 13 - george balanchine and lincoln kirstein found the school of american ballet.
1934/--/-- 13 - henry miller publishes the tropic of cancer. (it is banned in the u.s. until 1961.)
1934/--/-- 13 - hitler becomes fuhrer (leader) of germany after hindenburg's death.
1934/--/-- 13 - john dillinger, public enemy number one, is killed by the fbi.
1934/--/-- 13 - lazaro cardenas is chosen by plutarco calles as president of mexico.
1934/--/-- 13 - lillian hellman's play the children's hour is produced.
1934/--/-- 13 - mao tse-tung leads the chinese communists on the long march.
1934/--/-- 13 - naturalist charles w. beebe makes a record dive of 3,028 ft in a bathyscaphe.
1934/--/-- 13 - sa leader ernst roehm is assassinated on the orders of hitler.
1934/--/-- 13 - surrealist artist rene magritte paints the human condition.
1934/--/-- 13 - the british ocean liner queen mary is launched.
1934/--/-- 13 - the federal communications commission (fcc) is formed to regulate broadcasting.
1934/--/-- 13 - the securities and exchange commission (sec) is formed to protect u.s. investors.
1934/03/15 13 *** griffin, delia ann (crabtree) [great aunt] - died peolia cemetery
1934/07/30 14 *** harlan, baylos eugene [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1934/08/25 14 *** cummings, peggy jane (creekmore) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1934/09/15 14 *** harlan, doris adajeome (lewis) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, luther and lawson, ruby ermon (harlan)
1934/10/-- 14 - world series nl st. louis (4) al detroit (3)
1935/--/-- 14 - american writer thomas wolfe publishes of time and the river.
1935/--/-- 14 - arthur dempster discovers u-235, the isotope of uranium used in atomic bombs.
1935/--/-- 14 - child film actress shirley temple stars in the little colonel.
1935/--/-- 14 - controversial louisiana senator huey p. long is assassinated.
1935/--/-- 14 - eduard benes succeeds tomas masaryk as president of czechoslovakia.
1935/--/-- 14 - errol flynn stars in the swashbuckling adventure film captain blood.
1935/--/-- 14 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the 39 steps.
1935/--/-- 14 - george gershwin composes the modern american opera porgy and bess.
1935/--/-- 14 - hitler announces german rearmament in violation of the treaty of versailles.
1935/--/-- 14 - italy invades abyssinia (now ethiopia).
1935/--/-- 14 - king of swing benny goodman forms the benny goodman trio.
1935/--/-- 14 - leni riefenstahl directs the nazi propaganda film triumph of the will.
1935/--/-- 14 - physicist hideki yukawa predicts the existence of the meson subatomic particle.
1935/--/-- 14 - robert sherwood's play the petrified forest is produced.
1935/--/-- 14 - scottish physicist robert watson-watt patents the first practical radar system.
1935/--/-- 14 - social security act provides retirement insurance
1935/--/-- 14 - swedish film actress greta garbo stars in anna karenina.
1935/--/-- 14 - the monopoly board game is patented in the u.s.
1935/--/-- 14 - the moscow subway is opened.
1935/--/-- 14 - the nuremberg racial laws deprive german jews of their citizenship.
1935/--/-- 14 - the monarchy is restored in greece under george ii.
1935/05/20 15 *** allen, howard g. [brother] - born to griffin, nora lorene (allen)
1935/05/20 15 *** allen, howard g. [brother] - died
1935/10/-- 15 - world series nl chicago (2) al detroit (4)
1935/11/14 15 *** cummings, donald lee [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1936/--/-- 15 - black athlete jesse owens wins 4 gold medals at the berlin olympic games.
1936/--/-- 15 - boulder dam is completed in arizona (it is renamed hoover dam in 1947).
1936/--/-- 15 - edward viii abdicates as king of great britain; he is succeeded by george vi.
1936/--/-- 15 - hitler and mussolini announce the rome-berlin axis (alliance).
1936/--/-- 15 - henry r. luce begins publishing life magazine.
1936/--/-- 15 - ioannis metaxas establishes a dictatorship in greece.
1936/--/-- 15 - italy and germany send military forces and aid to support franco in spain.
1936/--/-- 15 - italy annexes abyssinia (ethiopia); emperor haile selassie is exiled.
1936/--/-- 15 - japan concludes the anti-comintern pact with germany.
1936/--/-- 15 - john maynard keynes writes the general theory of employment, interest and money.
1936/--/-- 15 - margaret mitchell publishes her only novel gone with the wind.
1936/--/-- 15 - olympic ice skater sonja henie turns professional.
1936/--/-- 15 - spanish civil war
1936/--/-- 15 - stalin begins the great purge of soviet russia's political and military leadership.
1936/--/-- 15 - the british broadcasting service (bbc) begins the first public television service.
1936/--/-- 15 - the soviet union and the international brigades support the nationalists in spain.
1936/--/-- 15 - the spanish civil war begins when general franco leads a military revolt.
1936/--/-- 15 - the works of the composer dmitry shostakovich are denounced in russia.
1936/01/-- 15 - edward viii succeeds as king of great britain and ireland.
1936/10/-- 16 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1936/12/10 16 - george vi succeeds as king of great britain and ireland upon the abdication of e
1937/--/-- 16 - american author john steinbeck publishes of mice and men.
1937/--/-- 16 - anastasio somoza garcia becomes president of nicaragua.
1937/--/-- 16 - aviatrix amelia earhart is lost during a flight across the pacific.
1937/--/-- 16 - ballet dancer margot fonteyn debuts in giselle at sadler's wells, london.
1937/--/-- 16 - danish author isak dinesen publishes her autobiography out of africa.
1937/--/-- 16 - dow chemical develops plastics
1937/--/-- 16 - english writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien publishes the fantasy novel the hobbit.
1937/--/-- 16 - farouk succeeds fuad i as king of egypt.
1937/--/-- 16 - frank lloyd wright begins building the taliesin west complex in arizona.
1937/--/-- 16 - french filmmaker jean renoir directs grand illusion.
1937/--/-- 16 - german aircraft supporting franco's forces destroy the town of guernica in spain.
1937/--/-- 16 - joe louis the brown bomber wins the heavyweight boxing championship.
1937/--/-- 16 - nationalist and communist forces unite to combat the japanese in china.
1937/--/-- 16 - neville chamberlain succeeds stanley baldwin as prime minister of britain.
1937/--/-- 16 - swing bandleader artie shaw records begin the beguine.
1937/--/-- 16 - the duke of windsor (former king edward viii) marries the divorcee mrs. simpson.
1937/--/-- 16 - the german airship hindenburg is destroyed by fire at lakehurst, n.j.
1937/--/-- 16 - the golden gate bridge is opened in san francisco.
1937/--/-- 16 - the japanese invasion of china begins the second sino-japanese war.
1937/05/02 17 - george vi crowned king of great britain and ireland at westminster abbey by cosm
1937/06/29 17 *** harlan, norman ewing [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1937/10/-- 17 - world series nl new york (1) al new york (4)
1937/12/22 17 *** cummings, carolyn ann (hutchison) [1st cousin] - born to cummings, odell ansolem and griffin, rosa jane (cummings)
1938/--/-- 17 - a coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 65 million years, is caught off the cost of africa.
1938/--/-- 17 - american composer aaron copland writes the ballet score for billy the kid.
1938/--/-- 17 - american singer ella fitzgerald records a-tisket, a-tasket.
1938/--/-- 17 - british prime minister neville chamberlain declares "peace for our time."
1938/--/-- 17 - chamberlain and daladier appease hitler at the munich conference.
1938/--/-- 17 - chester carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic dry-copying process.
1938/--/-- 17 - don budge becomes the first player to win the grand slam (4 tennis championships).
1938/--/-- 17 - general franco isolates the republican forces in spain and attacks catalonia.
1938/--/-- 17 - german chemist otto hahn discovers the principles of nuclear fission.
1938/--/-- 17 - germany occupies the sudetenland in western czechoslovakia.
1938/--/-- 17 - hitler invades austria; a union (anschluss) of austria and germany is proclaimed.
1938/--/-- 17 - hungarian lajos biro invents the first practical ball-point pen.
1938/--/-- 17 - ismet inonu succeeds kemal atuturk as president of turkey.
1938/--/-- 17 - jewish property is attacked in germany in the kristallnacht (night of broken glass).
1938/--/-- 17 - jewish psychoanalyst sigmund freud flees to england to escape nazi persecution.
1938/--/-- 17 - orson welles' radio broadcast of war of the worlds causes panic in the u.s.
1938/--/-- 17 - swing musician glenn miller organizes his band.
1938/--/-- 17 - the house committee on un-american activities investigates u.s. subversives.
1938/--/-- 17 - the u.s. and britain send aid to the chinese in their war against japan.
1938/--/-- 17 - thornton wilder wins the pulitzer prize for his play our town.
1938/--/-- 17 - walt disney's feature-length cartoon snow white and the seven dwarfs is shown.
1938/10/-- 18 - world series nl chicago (0) al new york (4)
1939/--/-- 18 - american author nathanael west publishes the day of the locust.
1939/--/-- 18 - american novelist john steinbeck publishes the grapes of wrath.
1939/--/-- 18 - an anglo-saxon burial ship is excavated at sutton hoo in england.
1939/--/-- 18 - britain and france declare war on germany but are unable to aid poland.
1939/--/-- 18 - child film actress judy garland stars in the musical the wizard of oz.
1939/--/-- 18 - clark gable and vivien leigh star in the film gone with the wind.
1939/--/-- 18 - english author christopher isherwood publishes goodbye to berlin.
1939/--/-- 18 - foreign ministers ribbentrop and molotov sign the nazi-soviet pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- 18 - general franco's forces capture madrid, ending the spanish civil war.
1939/--/-- 18 - germany and italy form the pact of steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- 18 - germany invades poland, beginning world war ii.
1939/--/-- 18 - igor sikorsky develops america's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- 18 - italian forces occupy albania; king zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- 18 - physical chemist linus pauling publishes the nature of the chemical bond.
1939/--/-- 18 - president roosevelt (prompted by einstein) orders a u.s. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- 18 - president roosevelt declares u.s. neutrality in world war ii.
1939/--/-- 18 - robert gordon menzies succeeds joseph lyons as prime minister of australia.
1939/--/-- 18 - soviet troops invade poland; germany and the ussr partition the country.
1939/--/-- 18 - swiss chemist paul muller discovers the chemical insecticide ddt.
1939/--/-- 18 - the he 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in germany.
1939/--/-- 18 - the russo-finnish war begins with the soviet invasion of finland.
1939/--/-- 18 - the first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- 18 - world war ii begins
1939/06/19 19 *** harlan, billy gayle [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, luther and lawson, ruby ermon (harlan)
1939/10/-- 19 - world series nl cincinnati (0) al new york (4)
1940/--/-- 19 - american novelist carson mccullers publishes the heart is a lonely hunter.
1940/--/-- 19 - bing crosby, bob hope and dorothy lamour star in the film road to singapore.
1940/--/-- 19 - british air victory in the battle of britain prevents the german invasion of england.
1940/--/-- 19 - cary grant and katharine hepburn star in the film the philadelphia story.
1940/--/-- 19 - ernest hemingway publishes for whom the bell tolls.
1940/--/-- 19 - exiled revolutionary leon trotsky is assassinated in mexico on stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 19 - general charles de gaulle rallies free french resistance in london.
1940/--/-- 19 - german forces reach paris; vichy france under marshal petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 19 - germany invades denmark and norway; allied forces aid norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 19 - italian forces invade egypt but are repulsed; the british invade libya.
1940/--/-- 19 - italy declares war on the allies and invades southern france.
1940/--/-- 19 - japan joins the axis alliance and occupies northern french indochina (vietnam).
1940/--/-- 19 - king carol ii of romania abdicates; romania and hungary join the axis forces.
1940/--/-- 19 - prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at lascaux in france.
1940/--/-- 19 - radar wins battle of britian
1940/--/-- 19 - raymond chandler publishes the detective novel farewell, my lovely.
1940/--/-- 19 - the british expeditionary force is evacuated from dunkerque in france.
1940/--/-- 19 - the german army begins a blitzkrieg attack on holland, belgium, and france.
1940/--/-- 19 - the soviet union annexes the baltic states of lithuania, estonia and latvia.
1940/--/-- 19 - the tacoma narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 19 - winston churchill becomes british prime minister after chamberlain resigns.
1940/05/23 20 *** harlan, ernestine (von holle) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, luther and lawson, ruby ermon (harlan)
1940/10/-- 20 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al detroit (3)
1941/--/-- 20 - a british task force sinks the german pocket battleship bismarck.
1941/--/-- 20 - baseball player joe dimaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 20 - benchley park computers sabotage german enigma
1941/--/-- 20 - churchill and roosevelt's atlantic charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 20 - german u-boats inflict heavy losses on british shipping in the battle of the atlantic.
1941/--/-- 20 - german paratroopers land on crete and capture the island from the british.
1941/--/-- 20 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes mother courage and her children.
1941/--/-- 20 - germany invades yugoslavia and greece; british forces are evacuated to crete.
1941/--/-- 20 - germany invades the soviet union.
1941/--/-- 20 - gutzon borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at mount rushmore.
1941/--/-- 20 - ho chi minh organizes the viet minh to combat the japanese in indochina.
1941/--/-- 20 - japanese forces capture hong kong and invade malaya and the philippines.
1941/--/-- 20 - karsh's photographic portrait of churchill becomes a symbol of british resistance.
1941/--/-- 20 - nazi leader rudolf hess flies to england on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 20 - orson welles directs the film citizen kane.
1941/--/-- 20 - president roosevelt talks of four freedoms in his state of the union speech.
1941/--/-- 20 - swedish film actress greta garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 20 - the german africa corps under erwin rommel begins an offensive in north africa.
1941/--/-- 20 - the german blitz, the nighttime bombing of london, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 20 - the german advance on moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 20 - the japanese bomb pearl harbor; america enters world war ii.
1941/--/-- 20 - the japanese occupy indochina and move into cambodia (kampuchea) and thailand.
1941/--/-- 20 - the lend-lease act allows the transfer of u.s. war materials to britain and china.
1941/--/-- 20 - the u.s. freezes japanese assets in retaliation for japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 20 - u.s. troops occupy iceland to forestall its occupation by germany.
1941/10/-- 21 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1942/--/-- 21 - a russian counterattack isolates the sixth army at stalingrad; hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 21 - a u.s. fleet defeats the japanese at the battle of midway.
1942/--/-- 21 - actor james cagney wins an academy award for the film yankee doodle dandie.
1942/--/-- 21 - american b-25 bombers make the doolittle raid on tokyo.
1942/--/-- 21 - american and filipino forces retreat to the bataan peninsula in the philippines.
1942/--/-- 21 - american crooner bing crosby records the hit song white christmas.
1942/--/-- 21 - american forces in the philippines surrender; the bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 21 - american humorist james thurber publishes the secret life of walter mitty.
1942/--/-- 21 - french writer albert camus publishes the stranger.
1942/--/-- 21 - gandhi is arrested after the quit india movement demands a british withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 21 - general macarthur is ordered to the leave the philippines; he vows i shall return.
1942/--/-- 21 - german forces occupy vichy france; the french fleet is scuttled in toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 21 - hitler proposes the final solution of the jewish question; the holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 21 - humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman star in the classic film casablanca.
1942/--/-- 21 - italian filmmaker luchino visconti directs his first film ossessione.
1942/--/-- 21 - manhattan project scientists under fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 21 - rommel's africa corps capture tobruk and drive the british back to egypt.
1942/--/-- 21 - the british eighth army under montgomery begins a new drive into libya.
1942/--/-- 21 - the german advance in the caucasus is halted at stalingrad (now volgograd).
1942/--/-- 21 - the german advance on egypt is halted at the battle of el-alamein.
1942/--/-- 21 - the japanese conquer malaya, singapore, indonesia and burma.
1942/--/-- 21 - the raf makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the german city of cologne.
1942/--/-- 21 - the soviet southern offensive is halted; the germans advance on the caucasus.
1942/--/-- 21 - the u.s. government transfers 110,000 japanese americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 21 - u.s. marines invade guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 21 - u.s. forces under general eisenhower invade morocco and algeria.
1942/--/-- 21 - v-2 (vengeance weapon 2) rockets are tested at peenemunde in germany.
1942/02/22 21 *** harlan, mary ermon (flowers) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan)
1942/10/-- 22 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (1)
1943/--/-- 22 - american aircraft join the raf in round the clock bombing of germany.
1943/--/-- 22 - american author carson mccullers publishes the ballad of the sad cafe.
1943/--/-- 22 - american writer ayn rand publishes the fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 22 - churchill and roosevelt meet at casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 22 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the tehran conference.
1943/--/-- 22 - french existentialist writer jean paul sartre publishes being and nothingness.
1943/--/-- 22 - french writer and feminist simone de beauvoir publishes she came to stay.
1943/--/-- 22 - german paratroopers rescue mussolini.
1943/--/-- 22 - marine explorer jacques-yves cousteau invents the aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 22 - marshal badoglio signs an armistice with the allies; italy declares war on germany.
1943/--/-- 22 - mussolini is deposed; marshal badoglio assumes power in italy.
1943/--/-- 22 - richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein's musical oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 22 - robert oppenheimer establishes the los alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 22 - singer paul robeson stars in the title role of the broadway production of othello.
1943/--/-- 22 - the allied armies invade sicily.
1943/--/-- 22 - the allies invade the southern tip of italy.
1943/--/-- 22 - the british and american armies link up in africa; 250,000 axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 22 - the german sixth army surrenders at stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 22 - the germans suppress a revolt by polish jews; the warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 22 - the russian offensive reaches the dnepr river; kiev and smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 22 - the russians defeat the germans at kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/10/-- 23 - world series nl st. louis (1) al new york (4)
1944/--/-- 23 - a british airborne landing at arnhem in the netherlands is repulsed by the germans.
1944/--/-- 23 - aaron copland composes the ballet appalachian spring.
1944/--/-- 23 - allied d-day invasion forces land at normandy in northern france.
1944/--/-- 23 - allied forces break out from the normandy enclave and liberate paris.
1944/--/-- 23 - allied forces in italy land behind the german gustav line at anzio.
1944/--/-- 23 - american aircraft from the marianas begin the strategic bombing of japan.
1944/--/-- 23 - american forces under general mark clark occupy rome.
1944/--/-- 23 - an allied invasion force lands in southern france.
1944/--/-- 23 - british forces begin the reconquest of burma from the japanese.
1944/--/-- 23 - british forces occupy athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 23 - child film actors mickey rooney and elizabeth taylor star in national velvet.
1944/--/-- 23 - communist resistance fighters under josip broz-tito liberate yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 23 - english writer somerset maugham publishes the razor's edge.
1944/--/-- 23 - evangelist aimee semple mcpherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 23 - french novelist colette writes gigi.
1944/--/-- 23 - german officers attempt to assassinate hitler.
1944/--/-- 23 - normandy landings
1944/--/-- 23 - oswald avery determines that dna is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 23 - polish resistance fighters are defeated by the germans in the warsaw uprising.
1944/--/-- 23 - romania and bulgaria sign an armistice with the allies and declare war on germany.
1944/--/-- 23 - roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 23 - soviet forces cross the romanian border and reconquer the crimea.
1944/--/-- 23 - soviet forces reach the suburbs of warsaw in poland.
1944/--/-- 23 - tennessee williams' play the glass menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 23 - the g.i. bill of rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 23 - the german army launches the battle of the bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 23 - the soviet's relieve the city of leningrad after a german siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 23 - the u.s. first army occupies aachen -- the first german city to fall to the allies.
1944/--/-- 23 - the world bank is established to assist european postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 23 - u.s. marines invade guam and saipan in the marianas.
1944/--/-- 23 - u.s. forces under admiral nimitz defeat a japanese fleet in the battle of the philippine sea.
1944/--/-- 23 - v-1 (and later the v-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against london.
1944/10/-- 24 - world series nl st. louis (4) al st. louis (2)
1945/--/-- 24 - advancing allied armies discover nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 24 - allied forces cross the rhine and begin the final assault on germany.
1945/--/-- 24 - british actor laurence olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of richard iii.
1945/--/-- 24 - british author george orwell publishes the satirical fable animal farm.
1945/--/-- 24 - charlie "bird" parker and dizzy gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 24 - churchill is defeated in the british elections by labour leader clement attlee.
1945/--/-- 24 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the yalta conference.
1945/--/-- 24 - churchill, truman and stalin hold the last wartime conference at potsdam.
1945/--/-- 24 - egypt, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, iraq, jordan and yemen form the arab league.
1945/--/-- 24 - french dramatist jean giraudoux writes the play the madwoman of chaillot.
1945/--/-- 24 - general macarthur heads the u.s. occupation forces in japan.
1945/--/-- 24 - german jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 24 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes the caucasian chalk circle.
1945/--/-- 24 - german rocket engineer wernher von braun continues his research in the u.s.
1945/--/-- 24 - germany and austria are divided between the allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 24 - harry s. truman (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1945/--/-- 24 - hitler commits suicide in his berlin bunker; germany surrenders to the allies.
1945/--/-- 24 - ho chi minh proclaims the independence of the democratic republic of vietnam.
1945/--/-- 24 - indonesian nationalists led by sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 24 - japan signs an armistice with the allies, ending world war ii.
1945/--/-- 24 - korea is divided between u.s. and soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 24 - marshal zhukov's soviet troops launch the final attack on berlin.
1945/--/-- 24 - mussolini is killed by italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 24 - nationalists and communist forces resume their civil war in china.
1945/--/-- 24 - roberto rosselini's neorealist "open city"
1945/--/-- 24 - romulo betancourt becomes president of venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 24 - roosevelt dies; harry s. truman is inaugurated as the 33rd u.s. president.
1945/--/-- 24 - singer frank sinatra stars in the film musical anchors aweigh.
1945/--/-- 24 - suicide attacks by japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the u.s. advances.
1945/--/-- 24 - the soviet union declares war on japan.
1945/--/-- 24 - the u.s. drops atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 24 - the united nations is formed; trygve halvdan lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 24 - the trial of nazi war criminals begins at nuremberg in germany.
1945/--/-- 24 - tito becomes head of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 24 - u.s. a-bombs japan
1945/--/-- 24 - u.s. marines invade the japanese islands of iwo jima and okinawa.
1945/--/-- 24 - u.s. forces under macarthur liberate the philippines.
1945/--/-- 24 - united nations formed
1945/--/-- 24 - world war ii ends
1945/10/-- 25 - world series nl chicago (3) al detroit (4)
1946/--/-- 25 - american author robert penn warren publishes all the king's men.
1946/--/-- 25 - communists abolish the monarchy in bulgaria; georgi dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 25 - dr. spock publishes the commonsense book of baby and child care.
1946/--/-- 25 - elas communist forces begin a civil war in greece.
1946/--/-- 25 - eniac, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 25 - elections in italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 25 - general de gaulle resigns as president of france; the fourth republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 25 - greek author nikos kazantzakis publishes zorba the greek.
1946/--/-- 25 - juan peron is elected president of argentina.
1946/--/-- 25 - macarthur promotes japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 25 - saint frances xavier cabrini becomes the first u.s. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 25 - swiss-french architect le corbusier designs unite d'habitation in marseilles.
1946/--/-- 25 - terence rattigan's play the winslow boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 25 - the philippines are granted independence with manuel roxas y acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 25 - the viet minh begin a guerrilla war against the french in indochina (vietnam).
1946/--/-- 25 - winston churchill describes the iron curtain created in europe by the soviets.
1946/10/-- 26 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1946/11/09 26 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan) albany, kentucky
1947/--/-- 26 - american pilot kenneth arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 26 - artist jackson pollock produces full fathom five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 26 - artist mark rothko begins experimenting with color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 26 - baseball player jackie robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 26 - british & french empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 26 - british india becomes pakistan & india
1947/--/-- 26 - british atomic bomb scientist klaus fuchs is arrested for giving information to the ussr.
1947/--/-- 26 - chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an x-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 26 - conductor sir thomas beecham forms the royal philharmonic orchestra in london.
1947/--/-- 26 - dennis gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 26 - edwin land demonstrates the single-step polaroid land camera.
1947/--/-- 26 - english composer benjamin britten writes the opera peter grimes.
1947/--/-- 26 - french fashion designer christian dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 26 - french literary figure andre gide wins the nobel prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 26 - gheorghiu-dej heads the romanian communist party; king michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 26 - india becomes independent and is divided into the nations of india and pakistan.
1947/--/-- 26 - jawaharlal nehru becomes the first prime minister of india.
1947/--/-- 26 - marshall plan
1947/--/-- 26 - norwegian explorer thor heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft kon tiki from peru to polynesia.
1947/--/-- 26 - tennessee williams' play a streetcar named desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 26 - the dead sea scrolls, a collection of ancient hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 26 - the u.s. marshall plan for economic recovery in europe is established.
1947/--/-- 26 - the united nations elect to partition palestine into arab and jewish states.
1947/--/-- 26 - the first india-pakistan war begins when pakistani tribesmen invade kashmir.
1947/--/-- 26 - the story of a jewish victim of the nazis, the diary of anne frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 26 - trust territory of the pacific islands, captured from japan, administered by u.s.
1947/--/-- 26 - u.s. contains spread of communism
1947/10/-- 27 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1947/12/12 27 *** huddleston, betty alois (harlan) & harlan, john howard [2nd cousin] - married married in rossville, ga
1948/--/-- 27 - alec guinness stars as fagin in the film of dicken's oliver twist.
1948/--/-- 27 - alfred kinsey publishes his report on sexual behavior in the human male.
1948/--/-- 27 - american opera singer beverly sills debuts in bizet's carmen.
1948/--/-- 27 - american writer norman mailer publishes the war novel the naked and the dead.
1948/--/-- 27 - arab armies invade israel in the first arab-israeli war.
1948/--/-- 27 - bell labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 27 - britain grants independence to burma.
1948/--/-- 27 - communism quashed in us
1948/--/-- 27 - communist leader kim il sung establishes the people's republic of korea (n. korea).
1948/--/-- 27 - dutch track star fanny blankers-koen wins four gold medals in the olympic games.
1948/--/-- 27 - george balanchine's ballet society is renamed the new york city ballet.
1948/--/-- 27 - indian leader mahatma gandhi is assassinated by a hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 27 - israel created
1948/--/-- 27 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs the bicycle thieves.
1948/--/-- 27 - nato formed; cold war begins
1948/--/-- 27 - palestinian jews proclaim the independent state of israel.
1948/--/-- 27 - stalin expels yugoslavia from the communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 27 - the communist party assumes power in hungary under matyas rakosi.
1948/--/-- 27 - the malayan communist party begins an insurrection against british rule.
1948/--/-- 27 - the republic of korea (s. korea) is inaugurated, syngman rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 27 - the soviets blockade west berlin; britain and the u.s. begin the berlin airlift.
1948/--/-- 27 - the u.s. air force begins the project blue book study of the ufo phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 27 - the apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in south africa.
1948/--/-- 27 - the transistor is invented at bell laboratories in the u.s.
1948/01/15 27 *** upchurch, virginia sue [2nd cousin] - born to upchurch, clarence abraham and harlan, dora elsie (upchurch)
1948/01/15 27 *** upchurch, virginia sue [2nd cousin] - died albany, kentucky peolia cemetery
1948/10/-- 28 - world series nl boston (2) al cleveland (4)
1949/--/-- 28 *** armstrong, wilma jewell (harlan) "jay" & harlan, arthur david [2nd cousin] - married
1949/--/-- 28 - abstract artist robert motherwell begins his series elegy to the spanish republic.
1949/--/-- 28 - abstract-expressionism breaks out in nyc
1949/--/-- 28 - architect philip johnson designs the glass house in new caanan, conn.
1949/--/-- 28 - arthur miller's play death of a salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 28 - british abstract sculptor henry moore completes the bronze family group.
1949/--/-- 28 - british author george orwell publishes the futuristic novel nineteen eighty-four.
1949/--/-- 28 - civil war ends in greece with the defeat of the communist forces.
1949/--/-- 28 - communists under mao defeat the nationalists and form the people's republic of china.
1949/--/-- 28 - konrad adenauer becomes the first chancellor of west germany.
1949/--/-- 28 - kurchatov develops first soviet a-bomb
1949/--/-- 28 - miles davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 28 - nationalist chinese forces under chiang kai-shek flee to the island of taiwan.
1949/--/-- 28 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical south pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 28 - the hashimite kingdom of transjordan is renamed as jordan.
1949/--/-- 28 - the netherlands grants independence to indonesia (formerly the dutch east indies).
1949/--/-- 28 - the north atlantic treaty organization is formed to deter soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 28 - the republic of germany (west germany) is established by the western powers.
1949/--/-- 28 - the soviet union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 28 - the soviets establish the german democratic republic (east germany).
1949/--/-- 28 - the first india-pakistan war ends with the partition of kashmir.
1949/10/-- 29 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1950/--/-- 29 - adnan menderes replaces ismet inonu as prime minister of turkey.
1950/--/-- 29 - bette davis stars in the film all about eve.
1950/--/-- 29 - cartoonist charles schulz creates the peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 29 - chinese forces invade tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 29 - communist north korean forces invade south korea.
1950/--/-- 29 - george burns and gracie allen star in the burns and allen show television series.
1950/--/-- 29 - isaac asimov publishes the science-fiction classic i robot.
1950/--/-- 29 - japanese film director akira kurosawa achieves recognition with rashomon.
1950/--/-- 29 - korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 29 - president truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 29 - senator joseph mccarthy begins his inquiry into un-american activities.
1950/--/-- 29 - the un sanctions military aid for south korea; macarthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 29 - u.s. official alger hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 29 - un forces cross into north korea but are repulsed by the chinese army.
1950/--/-- 29 - un forces land at inchon and drive the north koreans out of south korea.
1950/10/-- 30 - world series nl philadelphia (0) al new york (4)
1951/--/-- 30 - a frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in korea; peace negotiations begin at kaesong.
1951/--/-- 30 - american novelist kurt vonnegut publishes player piano.
1951/--/-- 30 - american poet marianne moore publishes her collected poems.
1951/--/-- 30 - american writer j.d. salinger publishes the catcher in the rye.
1951/--/-- 30 - american writer james jones publishes the war novel from here to eternity.
1951/--/-- 30 - artist stuart davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting visa.
1951/--/-- 30 - australia, new zealand, and the u.s. sign the mutual defense anzus treaty.
1951/--/-- 30 - auto racer juan fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 30 - boxer sugar ray robinson defeats jake la motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 30 - british conservatives win a general election with winston churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 30 - british spies burgess and maclean escape to the soviet union.
1951/--/-- 30 - comedian lucille ball stars in the television series i love lucy.
1951/--/-- 30 - igor stravinsky's opera the rake's progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 30 - julius and ethel rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the u.s.
1951/--/-- 30 - king abdullah of jordan is assassinated by a palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 30 - leopold iii of belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 30 - president truman dismisses macarthur as commander in korea.
1951/--/-- 30 - prime minister muhammad mosaddeq nationalizes iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 30 - rodgers and hammerstein's broadway musical the king and i is produced.
1951/--/-- 30 - teller tests h-bomb
1951/--/-- 30 - ten million television receivers have been installed in u.s. homes.
1951/--/-- 30 - the 22nd amendment restricts u.s. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 30 - the un general assembly brands communist china an aggressor in the korean war.
1951/--/-- 30 - the first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 30 - univac i, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the u.s. bureau of the census.
1951/10/-- 31 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1952/--/-- 31 - a bloodless coup returns fulgencio batista to power in cuba.
1952/--/-- 31 - agatha christie's record-breaking play the mouse trap opens in london.
1952/--/-- 31 - american sculptor isamu noguchi designs two bridges for the peace park at hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 31 - american writer e.b. white publishes the children's book charlotte's web.
1952/--/-- 31 - british architect michael ventris deciphers the ancient greek linear b script.
1952/--/-- 31 - chuck yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the x-1a research plane.
1952/--/-- 31 - communist pow riots in south korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 31 - czech runner emil zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the helsinki olympic games.
1952/--/-- 31 - dancer gene kelly stars in the film singin' in the rain.
1952/--/-- 31 - eva peron, popularly known as evita, dies in argentina.
1952/--/-- 31 - gary cooper and grace kelly star in the western film high noon.
1952/--/-- 31 - gordon bunshaft designs the lever house, an early international style building.
1952/--/-- 31 - hostilities continue in korea with increased un air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 31 - king farouk of egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by gen. muhammad naguib.
1952/--/-- 31 - kwame nkrumah is elected prime minister of the gold coast (ghana).
1952/--/-- 31 - medical missionary albert schweitzer is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1952/--/-- 31 - opera singer maria callas debuts at london's covent garden.
1952/--/-- 31 - queen elizabeth ii ascends to the british throne on the death of her father george vi.
1952/--/-- 31 - samuel beckett's play waiting for godot is produced in paris.
1952/--/-- 31 - the british de havilland comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 31 - the commonwealth of puerto rico is formed with luis munoz marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 31 - the mau mau uprising begins in kenya; jomo kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 31 - the u.s. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the pacific.
1952/--/-- 31 - the first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in brooklyn, n.y.
1952/--/-- 31 - turkey joins the north atlantic treaty organization (nato).
1952/--/-- 31 - vice-presidential candidate richard nixon makes his checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 31 - elizabeth ii succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1952/09/-- 32 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - started grade school at ewing one room school in clinton county kentucky
1952/10/-- 32 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1953/--/-- 32 - a redstone rocket (based on the german v-2) is tested at cape canaveral.
1953/--/-- 32 - american physicist charles h. townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 32 - american tennis player maureen connolly (little mo) wins the grand slam.
1953/--/-- 32 - american writer saul bellow publishes the adventures of augie march.
1953/--/-- 32 - an armistice ends the korean war; the country remains divided into north and south.
1953/--/-- 32 - arthur miller writes the crucible, a play about the salem witch trials.
1953/--/-- 32 - black writer james baldwin publishes his first novel go tell it on the mountain.
1953/--/-- 32 - communist statesman imre nagy becomes premier of hungary.
1953/--/-- 32 - dag hammarskjold succeeds trygve lie as secretary-general of the un.
1953/--/-- 32 - dwight d. eisenhower (republican) becomes president of the united states
1953/--/-- 32 - edmund hillary and tenzing norgay are the first to climb mount everest.
1953/--/-- 32 - eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th u.s. president; nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 32 - fidel castro leads an attack on an army barracks in cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 32 - golfer ben hogan wins the u.s. open, masters, and british open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 32 - hugh hefner publishes the first issue of playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 32 - hussein i succeeds his father as king of jordan.
1953/--/-- 32 - israeli prime minister ben-gurion retires; he is succeeded by moshe sharett.
1953/--/-- 32 - jacques piccard's bathyscaphe the trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 32 - james watson and francis crick propose the double helix structure of dna.
1953/--/-- 32 - john foster dulles is selected as the u.s. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 32 - laos, formerly a part of french indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 32 - lavrenti beria, head of the soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 32 - marilyn monroe stars in the film gentlemen prefer blondes.
1953/--/-- 32 - murray gell-mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 32 - physicist donald glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 32 - soviet dictator joseph stalin dies; georgy m. malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 32 - the first heart-lung machine is developed by dr. john gibbon.
1953/--/-- 32 - the fossil remains of piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 32 - watson & crick dna=double helix
1953/05/10 33 *** harlan, ruth ann (meeks) [2nd cousin] - born to harlan, arthur and ewing, annie (harlan) albany, kentucky
1953/06/-- 33 - elizabeth ii crowned queen of great britain and northern ireland at westminster
1953/10/-- 33 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al new york (4)
1954/--/-- 33 - a supreme court decision prohibits racial segregation in u.s. public schools.
1954/--/-- 33 - american novelist evan hunter publishes the blackboard jungle.
1954/--/-- 33 - british artist francis bacon begins his portrait of pope innocent x series.
1954/--/-- 33 - british novelist william golding publishes lord of the flies.
1954/--/-- 33 - dylan thomas' radio play under milk wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 33 - english runner roger bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 33 - french forces are defeated at the battle of dien bien phu in north vietnam.
1954/--/-- 33 - gamal abdel nasser ousts gen. muhammad naguib as president of egypt.
1954/--/-- 33 - ian fleming publishes the first james bond thriller casino royale.
1954/--/-- 33 - italian film-maker federico fellini directs la strada.
1954/--/-- 33 - kingsley amis, one of england's angry young men, publishes lucky jim.
1954/--/-- 33 - marlon brando stars in elia kazan's film on the waterfront.
1954/--/-- 33 - national liberation front (fln) raids on french property spark the algerian war.
1954/--/-- 33 - senator mccarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 33 - television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 33 - the geneva conference establishes the partition of vietnam into north and south.
1954/--/-- 33 - the u.s. and canada begin construction of the st. lawrence seaway.
1954/--/-- 33 - the u.s. nuclear submarine the nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 33 - u.s. "nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 34 - world series nl new york (4) al cleveland (0)
1955/--/-- 34 - a military coup in argentina deposes president juan peron.
1955/--/-- 34 - afl and cio merge
1955/--/-- 34 - american artist jasper johns begins his paintings of american flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 34 - american artist larry rivers paints double portrait of birdie.
1955/--/-- 34 - american rock 'n' roll musician bill haley records rock around the clock.
1955/--/-- 34 - anthony eden succeeds winston churchill as prime minister of great britain.
1955/--/-- 34 - austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 34 - blacks boycott buses in montgomery
1955/--/-- 34 - british writer graham greene publishes the quiet american.
1955/--/-- 34 - british writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien completes the lord of the rings.
1955/--/-- 34 - david ben-gurion returns as prime minister of israel.
1955/--/-- 34 - film star james dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 34 - jonas salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 34 - marian anderson becomes the first black to perform at the metropolitan opera house.
1955/--/-- 34 - martin luther king, jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 34 - russian writer vladimir nabokov publishes the novel lolita.
1955/--/-- 34 - satyajit ray directs pather panchali, the first film in a trilogy on bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 34 - supreme court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 34 - the federal republic of germany joins nato.
1955/--/-- 34 - the warsaw pact establishes a military alliance of european communist nations.
1955/--/-- 34 - theologian pierre teilhard de chardin publishes the phenomenon of man.
1955/10/-- 35 - world series nl brooklyn (4) al new york (3)
1956/--/-- 35 - american beat poet allen ginsberg publishes howl and other poems.
1956/--/-- 35 - american television news show the huntley-brinkley report begins.
1956/--/-- 35 - american writer grace metalious publishes peyton place.
1956/--/-- 35 - anglo-french forces invade egypt but withdraw after protests from the u.s.
1956/--/-- 35 - archbishop makarios iii is deported from cyprus by the british.
1956/--/-- 35 - brendan behan's play the quare fellow opens in london.
1956/--/-- 35 - britain, france and israel agree on a secret joint action against egypt.
1956/--/-- 35 - british artist richard hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 35 - david niven stars in the film around the world in eighty days.
1956/--/-- 35 - eugene o'neill's play long day's journey into night is produced.
1956/--/-- 35 - fidel castro and che guevara land in cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 35 - film actress grace kelly marries prince rainier iii of monaco.
1956/--/-- 35 - heavyweight boxing champion rocky marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 35 - israeli forces under moshe dayan seize the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula.
1956/--/-- 35 - john osborne's first play look back in anger is produced in london.
1956/--/-- 35 - lerner and loewe's musical my fair lady opens in new york.
1956/--/-- 35 - president anastasio somoza garcia is assassinated in nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 35 - president nasser nationalizes the suez canal before the british lease expires.
1956/--/-- 35 - president ngo dinh diem refuses to hold elections in south vietnam.
1956/--/-- 35 - rock 'n roll singer elvis presley records his first hit heartbreak hotel.
1956/--/-- 35 - soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev denounces the crimes of the stalin era.
1956/--/-- 35 - sudan gains independence from anglo-egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 35 - the hungarian uprising is suppressed by soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 35 - the italian ocean liner andrea doria sinks off the u.s. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 35 - tunisia and morocco are granted independence by france.
1956/06/28 36 *** lee, mabel gay (harlan) & harlan, baylos eugene [2nd cousin] - married
1956/10/-- 36 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1957/--/-- 36 - beat generation writer jack kerouac publishes on the road.
1957/--/-- 36 - black tennis player althea gibson wins the u.s. open and wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 36 - british philosopher a.j. ayer publishes the problem of knowledge.
1957/--/-- 36 - british prime minister anthony eden resigns; is succeeded by harold macmillan.
1957/--/-- 36 - dr. seuss publishes the children's book the cat in the hat.
1957/--/-- 36 - francois duvalier (known as papa doc) is elected president of haiti.
1957/--/-- 36 - ghana gains independence; kwame nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 36 - jack kerouac "on the road"
1957/--/-- 36 - jerome robbins is director-choreographer of the musical west side story.
1957/--/-- 36 - john g. diefenbaker succeeds louis st. laurent as prime minister of canada.
1957/--/-- 36 - lawrence durrell publishes justine, the first of the alexandria quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 36 - scientists from 67 nations work together during the international geophysical year.
1957/--/-- 36 - soviet leaders malenkov and molotov fail in an attempt to oust khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 36 - soviets launch "sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 36 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs the seventh seal.
1957/--/-- 36 - the israeli army withdraws from egypt; the gaza strip is policed by un forces.
1957/--/-- 36 - the ussr launches sputnik i, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 36 - the viet cong begin acts of rebellion in south vietnam.
1957/--/-- 36 - tunku abdul rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent malaya (malaysia).
1957/04/11 37 *** griffin, mary alice elizabeth (groce) [great aunt] - died albany, kentucky peolia cemetery
1957/10/-- 37 - world series nl milwaukee (4) al new york (3)
1958/--/-- 37 - american economist j.k. galbraith publishes the affluent society.
1958/--/-- 37 - american golfer arnold palmer wins the masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 37 - american playwright edward albee writes the zoo story.
1958/--/-- 37 - american writer truman capote publishes the novella breakfast at tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 37 - bertrand russell founds the campaign for nuclear disarmament (cnd) in britain.
1958/--/-- 37 - civil war breaks out in lebanon; it is ended when u.s. marines land at beirut.
1958/--/-- 37 - egypt and syria form the united arab republic.
1958/--/-- 37 - gen. muhammad ayub khan seizes control in pakistan.
1958/--/-- 37 - leonard bernstein becomes the conductor of the new york philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 37 - nikita khrushchev replaces nikolai bulganin as soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 37 - prime minister hendrik verwoerd extends south africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 37 - russian writer boris pasternak publishes the novel doctor zhivago.
1958/--/-- 37 - soccer player pele leads brazil to victory in the world cup.
1958/--/-- 37 - the algerian crisis prompts the recall of charles de gaulle as president of france.
1958/--/-- 37 - the european economic community (eec) is established.
1958/--/-- 37 - the french army and settlers in algiers revolt over the algerian war stalemate.
1958/--/-- 37 - the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) is founded.
1958/--/-- 37 - the u.s. launches the explorer i and vanguard i scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 37 - the first intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm) is launched in the u.s.
1958/--/-- 37 - the nuclear submarine nautilus reaches the north pole under the polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 37 - wilson greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 38 - world series nl milwaukee (3) al new york (4)
1959/--/-- 38 - alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 38 - american writer leon uris publishes exodus, a novel on the founding of israel.
1959/--/-- 38 - american writer william burroughs publishes the naked lunch.
1959/--/-- 38 - anthropologists richard and mary leakey discover an australopithecus skull in africa.
1959/--/-- 38 - artist robert rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage monogram.
1959/--/-- 38 - cyprus gains independence from britain; archbishop makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 38 - fidel castro ousts cuban leader fulgencio batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 38 - film actor charlton heston wins the academy award for his role in ben-hur.
1959/--/-- 38 - french new wave filmmaker jean luc godard directs breathless.
1959/--/-- 38 - french filmmaker alain resnais directs hiroshima mon amour.
1959/--/-- 38 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs the 400 blows.
1959/--/-- 38 - german writer gunter grass publishes his first novel the tin drum.
1959/--/-- 38 - hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 38 - jack lemon, tony curtis and marilyn monroe star in the film some like it hot.
1959/--/-- 38 - jean-luc godard's new wave "breathless"
1959/--/-- 38 - lee kuan yew becomes prime minister of singapore.
1959/--/-- 38 - lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun is the first broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 38 - nasa selects the first seven u.s. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 38 - rock 'n roll star buddy holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 38 - rod serling hosts the twilight zone television series.
1959/--/-- 38 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical the sound of music is produced.
1959/--/-- 38 - sir christopher cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 38 - the boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 38 - the dalai lama flees to india after china crushes an uprising in tibet.
1959/--/-- 38 - the guggenheim museum, designed by frank lloyd wright, opens in new york city.
1959/--/-- 38 - the soviet union sends a series of luna space probes to the moon.
1959/--/-- 38 - the first flight is made by the x-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/06/13 39 *** huber, doris mae (harlan) & harlan, norman ewing [2nd cousin] - married
1959/10/-- 39 - world series nl los angeles (4) al chicago (2)
1960/--/-- 39 - 69 africans are killed in the sharpeville massacre in south africa.
1960/--/-- 39 - a military coup takes place in turkey; prime minister adnan menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 39 - a student uprising forces the resignation of syngman rhee, president of south korea.
1960/--/-- 39 - american author john updike publishes the novel rabbit run.
1960/--/-- 39 - american physicist theodore h. maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 39 - american track star wilma rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the rome olympic games.
1960/--/-- 39 - an earthquake kills 15,000 at agadir in morocco.
1960/--/-- 39 - belgium grants independence to the congo (zaire); patrice lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 39 - britain grants independence to nigeria; abubakar balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 39 - civil rights movement
1960/--/-- 39 - congo (zaire) premier patrice lumumba is ousted by joseph mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 39 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the suspense thriller psycho.
1960/--/-- 39 - former nazi official adolf eichmann is abducted to israel.
1960/--/-- 39 - france grants independence to the congo, chad, central african republic, and gabon.
1960/--/-- 39 - harold pinter's play the caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 39 - italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni directs la notte (the night).
1960/--/-- 39 - jacques piccard and don walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe trieste.
1960/--/-- 39 - maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 39 - nasa launches the first tiros weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 39 - religious broadcaster pat robertson founds the christian broadcasting network.
1960/--/-- 39 - sirimavo bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in ceylon (sri lanka).
1960/--/-- 39 - south african civil rights leader albert luthuli wins the nobel peace prize.
1960/--/-- 39 - the congo crisis begins with the secession of katanga province under moise tshombe.
1960/--/-- 39 - the echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 39 - the motown record company is founded in detroit by berry gordy.
1960/--/-- 39 - the south african government bans the african national congress (anc).
1960/--/-- 39 - the soviets shoot down a u-2 spy plane; u.s. pilot francis gary powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 39 - the first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 39 - the first submerged firing is made of a polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 39 - the planned city of brasilia becomes the new capital of brazil.
1960/--/-- 39 - the presidential debates of john f. kennedy and richard nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 39 - viet cong groups unite into the national liberation front of south vietnam (nlfsv).
1960/--/-- 39 - walter ulbricht becomes head of east germany.
1960/06/08 40 *** lee, mary etta (griffin) [grandmother] - died peolia cem. clinton county kentucky
1960/08/-- 40 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - started high school at clinton county high
1960/10/-- 40 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al new york (3)
1961/--/-- 40 - agostinho neto and holden roberto lead insurrections in portuguese angola.
1961/--/-- 40 - american writer joseph heller publishes the anti-war novel catch-22.
1961/--/-- 40 - american-aided cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful bay of pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 40 - astronaut alan shepard makes the first u.s. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 40 - britain grants independence to tanganyika (tanzania) with julius nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 40 - british novelist iris murdoch publishes a severed head.
1961/--/-- 40 - english writer muriel spark publishes the prime of miss jean brodie.
1961/--/-- 40 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs jeanne moreau in jules and jim.
1961/--/-- 40 - india annexes the portugese territories of goa, daman, and diu.
1961/--/-- 40 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs sophia loren in alberto moravia's two women.
1961/--/-- 40 - italian opera singer luciano pavarotti debuts in puccini's la boheme.
1961/--/-- 40 - john f. kennedy (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1961/--/-- 40 - kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 40 - kennedy launches "apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 40 - peace corps
1961/--/-- 40 - president kennedy begins to increase the u.s. military presence in vietnam.
1961/--/-- 40 - president kennedy establishes the peace corps.
1961/--/-- 40 - president kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 40 - president rafael trujillo is assassinated in the dominican republic.
1961/--/-- 40 - roger maris breaks babe ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 40 - science fiction writer robert heinlein publishes stranger in a strange land.
1961/--/-- 40 - soviet ballet dancer rudolf nureyev defects to the west.
1961/--/-- 40 - soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 40 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs max von sydow in through a glass darkly.
1961/--/-- 40 - the berlin wall is constructed, separating east and west berlin.
1961/--/-- 40 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 40 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 40 - the drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 40 - un secretary-general dag hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the congo (zaire).
1961/--/-- 40 - v.s. naipaul writes about west indian life in a house for mr. biswas.
1961/10/-- 41 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al new york (4)
1962/--/-- 41 - actor laurence olivier becomes the first director of the national theatre in london.
1962/--/-- 41 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes one day in the life of ivan denisovich.
1962/--/-- 41 - algeria gains independence from france; ahmed ben bella becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 41 - american artist jim dine paints the pop art subject black saw.
1962/--/-- 41 - american film actress marilyn monroe dies from a drug overdose.
1962/--/-- 41 - american historian barbara tuchman publishes the guns of august.
1962/--/-- 41 - american writer katherine anne porter publishes the novel ship of fools.
1962/--/-- 41 - american writer ken kesey publishes one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1962/--/-- 41 - astronaut john glenn becomes the first american to orbit the earth.
1962/--/-- 41 - basketball player wilt chamberlain scores a record 100 points in one game.
1962/--/-- 41 - britain grants independence to trinidad and tobago with eric williams as chief minister.
1962/--/-- 41 - britain grants independence to uganda; milton obote becomes prime minister.
1962/--/-- 41 - british filmmaker david lean directs lawrence of arabia.
1962/--/-- 41 - british writer anthony burgess publishes the futuristic novel a clockwork orange.
1962/--/-- 41 - burmese diplomat u thant becomes the first asian secretary general of the un.
1962/--/-- 41 - cuban missile crisis
1962/--/-- 41 - edward albee's play who's afraid of virginia woolf is produced on broadway.
1962/--/-- 41 - fashion designer yves saint laurent opens his parisian fashion house.
1962/--/-- 41 - folk-rock singer and composer bob dylan writes blowin' in the wind.
1962/--/-- 41 - georges pompidou becomes premier of france's fifth republic.
1962/--/-- 41 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs his first film knife in the water.
1962/--/-- 41 - pop art
1962/--/-- 41 - pop artist andy warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
1962/--/-- 41 - rachel carson criticizes indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book silent spring.
1962/--/-- 41 - richard burton and elizabeth taylor star in cleopatra, the most expensive film to date.
1962/--/-- 41 - science fiction writer j.g. ballard publishes the drowned world.
1962/--/-- 41 - sonny liston defeats floyd patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
1962/--/-- 41 - television journalist walter cronkite is made anchorman of cbs evening news.
1962/--/-- 41 - the british pop group the beatles make their first recordings.
1962/--/-- 41 - the cuban missile crisis begins; soviet missiles are withdrawn from cuba.
1962/--/-- 41 - the mariner 2 spacecraft passes within 21,598 miles of venus.
1962/--/-- 41 - the u.s. supreme court rules that school prayers are a violation of the 1st amendment.
1962/--/-- 41 - the u.s. launches telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
1962/--/-- 41 - the university of mississippi is forced to admit black student james meredith.
1962/10/-- 42 - world series nl san francisco (3) al new york (4)
1963/--/-- 42 - a un peace keeping force ends the secession attempt of katanga province (shaba).
1963/--/-- 42 - a limited nuclear test ban treaty is signed by britain, the u.s., and the ussr.
1963/--/-- 42 - american pop vocal group the beach boys release the record surfin' u.s.a.
1963/--/-- 42 - american writer mary mccarthy publishes the group.
1963/--/-- 42 - arecibo observatory begins observations with a 1,000-ft wide radio telescope.
1963/--/-- 42 - black nationalist joshua nkomo is imprisoned in rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1963/--/-- 42 - britain's entry to the european economic community is blocked by france.
1963/--/-- 42 - british filmmaker joseph losey directs the servant.
1963/--/-- 42 - british spy harold (kim) philby defects to the ussr.
1963/--/-- 42 - czech dissident playwright vaclav havel writes the garden party.
1963/--/-- 42 - english writer john le carre publishes the spy who came in from the cold.
1963/--/-- 42 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs the anti-war film dr. strangelove.
1963/--/-- 42 - football running back jim brown sets a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
1963/--/-- 42 - jack nicklaus becomes the youngest golfer to win the masters tournament.
1963/--/-- 42 - john f. kennedy assassin lee harvey oswald is shot and killed by jack ruby.
1963/--/-- 42 - kennedy assassinated
1963/--/-- 42 - kenya gains independence from britain; jomo kenyatta becomes prime minister.
1963/--/-- 42 - levi eshkol succeeds david ben-gurion as prime minister of israel.
1963/--/-- 42 - ludwig erhard succeeds konrad adenauer as chancellor of west germany.
1963/--/-- 42 - lyndon b. johnson (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1963/--/-- 42 - lyndon b. johnson is inaugurated as the 36th president of the u.s.
1963/--/-- 42 - malaya, singapore, sarawak and sabah form the federation of malaysia.
1963/--/-- 42 - martin luther king, jr. makes his "i have a dream" speech in washington, d.c.
1963/--/-- 42 - peter sellers stars as inspector clouseau in the film the pink panther.
1963/--/-- 42 - pop artist claes oldenburg creates the kapok-filled sculpture soft typewriter.
1963/--/-- 42 - pop artist roy lichtenstein completes the comic strip painting whaam.
1963/--/-- 42 - president kennedy is assassinated in dallas, texas.
1963/--/-- 42 - president ngo dinh diem of south vietnam is assassinated.
1963/--/-- 42 - race-car driver jim clark wins seven grand prix events and the world title.
1963/--/-- 42 - sir alec douglas-home succeeds harold macmillan as british prime minister.
1963/--/-- 42 - soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963/--/-- 42 - sylvia plath's novel the bell jar is published in the year of her death.
1963/--/-- 42 - the american x-15 research aircraft establishes an altitude record of 67 miles.
1963/--/-- 42 - the organization of african unity (oau) is established in addis ababa, ethiopia.
1963/--/-- 42 - the profumo sex scandal undermines the conservative government in britain.
1963/--/-- 42 - the rolling stones rock band is formed in britain.
1963/--/-- 42 - the first james bond film dr. no is produced.
1963/06/14 43 *** griffin, leo r [great uncle] - died peolia cem. clinton county kentucky
1963/10/-- 43 - world series nl los angeles (4) al new york (0)
1963/10/01 43 *** griffin, joseph william [grandfather] - died clinton county kentucky albany cem. - albany - clinton county ky
1963/12/15 43 *** griffin, john issac [great uncle] - died
1964/--/-- 43 - anc leader nelson mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in south africa.
1964/--/-- 43 - an earthquake in alaska causes extensive damage and 114 fatalities.
1964/--/-- 43 - architect eero saarinen's st. louis arch memorial is completed.
1964/--/-- 43 - arno penzias and robert wilson discover the existence of background radiation.
1964/--/-- 43 - beatlemania develops during the first u.s. tour of the beatles pop group.
1964/--/-- 43 - black female group the supremes record the hit song where did our love go.
1964/--/-- 43 - britain grants independence to malawi; h. kamuzu banda becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 43 - britain grants independence to zambia; kenneth d. kaunda becomes president.
1964/--/-- 43 - britain grants independence to zanzibar.
1964/--/-- 43 - clint eastwood stars in sergio leone's "spaghetti western" a fistful of dollars.
1964/--/-- 43 - comedian lenny bruce is convicted for giving an obscene performance.
1964/--/-- 43 - craig breedlove sets a land speed record of 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle.
1964/--/-- 43 - frelimo begins a war of independence against the portuguese in mozambique.
1964/--/-- 43 - faisal succeeds his brother saud as king of saudi arabia.
1964/--/-- 43 - fighting breaks out on cyprus between greek and turkish cypriots.
1964/--/-- 43 - general westmoreland is appointed to command the u.s. forces in south vietnam.
1964/--/-- 43 - gulf of tonkin incident
1964/--/-- 43 - gustavo diaz ordaz becomes president of mexico.
1964/--/-- 43 - ian smith becomes prime minister of rhodesia (now zimbabwe).
1964/--/-- 43 - illustrator maurice sendak wins a caldecott medal for where the wild things are.
1964/--/-- 43 - indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru dies; he is succeeded by lal bahadur shastri.
1964/--/-- 43 - johnson is reeelected as u.s. president; humphrey becomes vice-president (1965).
1964/--/-- 43 - julie andrews and dick van dyke star in the film mary poppins.
1964/--/-- 43 - muhammad ali defeats sonny liston for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1964/--/-- 43 - north vietnam allegedly attacks u.s. vessels in the gulf of tonkin.
1964/--/-- 43 - peter weiss' play marat/ sade is produced by british director peter brook.
1964/--/-- 43 - physicists murray gell-mann and george zweig propose the quark theory.
1964/--/-- 43 - soviet leader nikitakhrushchev is forced from office; aleksei kosygin becomes premier.
1964/--/-- 43 - tanganyika joins with zanzibar to form the united republic of tanzania.
1964/--/-- 43 - the american ranger 7 spacecraft transmits photos of the surface of the moon.
1964/--/-- 43 - the labour party is elected to power in britain; harold wilson becomes prime minister.
1964/--/-- 43 - the palestine liberation organization (plo) is formed to represent palestinians.
1964/--/-- 43 - the sr-71 blackbird reconnaissance aircraft is flown for the first time.
1964/--/-- 43 - the soviet voskhod 1 spacecraft is launched with a three-man crew.
1964/--/-- 43 - the tonkin gulf resolution escalates the use of u.s. personnel in vietnam.
1964/--/-- 43 - the u.s. civil rights act prohibits discrimination in employment.
1964/--/-- 43 - the u.s. surgeon general reports that cigarette smoking is a health hazard.
1964/--/-- 43 - the verrazano-narrows bridge opens in new york.
1964/--/-- 43 - the warren commission decides that oswald was the sole assassin of john f. kennedy.
1964/05/-- 44 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - graduated clinton county high school as salutatorian of the senior class
1964/09/-- 44 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - begin attending secretarial school with her sister, mary, at western kentucky state college in bowling green
1964/10/-- 44 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (3)
1965/--/-- 44 - actress and singer barbara streisand stars in the broadway musical funny girl.
1965/--/-- 44 - american pop artist james rosenquist paints f-111.
1965/--/-- 44 - american writer norman mailer publishes an american dream.
1965/--/-- 44 - an attempted communist coup leads to military rule in indonesia under suharto.
1965/--/-- 44 - an electrical blackout in the northeastern u.s. affects 30 million people.
1965/--/-- 44 - astronaut edward h. white becomes the first american to walk in space.
1965/--/-- 44 - astronauts virgil grissom and john young orbit the earth in the first gemini spacecraft.
1965/--/-- 44 - bob dylan "like a rolling stone"
1965/--/-- 44 - british fashion designer mary quant introduces the miniskirt.
1965/--/-- 44 - civil war breaks out in the dominican republic; u.s. troops restore order.
1965/--/-- 44 - demonstrations against vietnam war
1965/--/-- 44 - gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft make the first rendezvous in space.
1965/--/-- 44 - houari boumedienne deposes president ahmed ben bella of algeria.
1965/--/-- 44 - irish writer edna o'brien publishes august is a wicked month.
1965/--/-- 44 - martin luther king, jr. leads a civil rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama.
1965/--/-- 44 - mobutu sese seko seizes control in the congo (zaire) for the second time.
1965/--/-- 44 - more than 180,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam by the end of the year.
1965/--/-- 44 - neil simon's play the odd couple opens on broadway starring walter matthau.
1965/--/-- 44 - nicolae ceausescu succeeds gheorghe gheorghiu-dej as romanian leader.
1965/--/-- 44 - north vietnamese army units are in action in south vietnam for the first time.
1965/--/-- 44 - race riots begin in the watts section of los angeles.
1965/--/-- 44 - rhodesia (zimbabwe) makes a unilateral declaration of independence from britain.
1965/--/-- 44 - singapore secedes from malaysia; lee kuan yew remains as prime minister.
1965/--/-- 44 - soviet cosmonaut aleksei leonov makes the first space walk.
1965/--/-- 44 - the black muslim leader malcolm x is assassinated in new york city.
1965/--/-- 44 - the houston astrodome, the first covered stadium, is completed in texas.
1965/--/-- 44 - the mariner 4 spacecraft passes within 6,118 miles of the planet mars.
1965/--/-- 44 - the second india-pakistan war begins in kashmir.
1965/--/-- 44 - the u.s. government establishes medicare and medicaid health programs.
1965/--/-- 44 - the vietnam war escalates as the u.s. begins bombing north vietnam.
1965/04/17 45 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] & bristow, roy duane - married - married in gainesboro, tn
1965/06/05 45 *** flowers, dan & harlan, mary ermon (flowers) [2nd cousin] - married married in somerset, kentucky
1965/10/-- 45 - world series nl los angeles (4) al minnesota (3)
1966/--/-- 45 - american writer bernard malamud publishes the fixer.
1966/--/-- 45 - american writer truman capote publishes in cold blood.
1966/--/-- 45 - art treasures are ruined during severe floods in florence, italy.
1966/--/-- 45 - gen. yakubu gowon heads a military government after a countercoup in nigeria.
1966/--/-- 45 - hippie movement
1966/--/-- 45 - indian prime minister lal bahadur shastri dies; he is succeeded by indira gandhi.
1966/--/-- 45 - john jack lynch becomes prime minister of ireland.
1966/--/-- 45 - john v. lindsay becomes mayor of new york city.
1966/--/-- 45 - mao tse-tung begins china's cultural revolution.
1966/--/-- 45 - nigerian prime minister abubakar tafawa balewa is killed in a military coup.
1966/--/-- 45 - president de gaulle withdraws french forces from nato.
1966/--/-- 45 - president kwame nkrumah is ousted in a military coup in ghana.
1966/--/-- 45 - realist sculptor george segal completes the direct-cast plaster group the diner.
1966/--/-- 45 - south african prime minister hendrik verwoerd is assassinated.
1966/--/-- 45 - the american surveyor 1 spacecraft achieves the first soft-landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 45 - the british hawker harrier becomes the first vtol (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft.
1966/--/-- 45 - the soviet luna 9 space probe makes the first landing on the moon.
1966/--/-- 45 - the soviets mediate to end the india-pakistan war.
1966/--/-- 45 - the first major rally against the vietnam war takes place in washington, d.c.
1966/--/-- 45 - tom stoppard's play rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is produced.
1966/09/-- 46 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - began work at a garment factory in athens georgia and worked for two years to help put husband, duane, through college.
1966/10/-- 46 - world series nl los angeles (0) al baltimore (4)
1967/--/-- 46 - a civil war breaks out in nigeria after the secession of the state of biafra.
1967/--/-- 46 - a fire kills u.s. astronauts white, grissom and chaffee during a launch test.
1967/--/-- 46 - a military junta seizes control in greece; king constantine ii is exiled.
1967/--/-- 46 - american writer joyce carol oates publishes a garden of earthly delights.
1967/--/-- 46 - britain grants aden independence as the people's democratic republic of yemen.
1967/--/-- 46 - colombian writer gabriel garcia marquez publishes one hundred years of solitude.
1967/--/-- 46 - dr. christiaan barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant.
1967/--/-- 46 - dustin hoffman stars in mike nichols' film the graduate.
1967/--/-- 46 - gen. anastasio somoza debayle is elected president of nicaragua.
1967/--/-- 46 - israeli 6-day war
1967/--/-- 46 - latin american guerrilla leader che guevara is killed in bolivia.
1967/--/-- 46 - nguyen van thieu becomes president of south vietnam.
1967/--/-- 46 - peter fonda and dennis hopper star in the motorcycle film easy rider.
1967/--/-- 46 - quarterback joe namath sets a one-season record by passing for 4,007 yards.
1967/--/-- 46 - r. buckminster fuller designs a geodesic dome for the u.s. pavilion at expo '67.
1967/--/-- 46 - radio astronomers jocelyn bell burnell and antony hewish discover the first pulsar.
1967/--/-- 46 - sidney poitier and rod steiger star in the film in the heat of the night.
1967/--/-- 46 - soviet cosmonaut vladimir komarov is killed during the landing of soyuz 1.
1967/--/-- 46 - tennis player billie jean king wins the u.s. open championship for the first time.
1967/--/-- 46 - the beatles "sgt. pepper"
1967/--/-- 46 - the north american soccer league (nasl) is formed.
1967/--/-- 46 - the six-day war between israel and the arab states ends with israeli victory.
1967/--/-- 46 - the x-15 research aircraft establishes a speed record of mach 6.7 (4,520 mph).
1967/--/-- 46 - the hippie musical revue hair is produced.
1967/--/-- 46 - the residents of gibraltar vote to remain a british crown colony.
1967/--/-- 46 - thurgood marshall becomes the first black member of the u.s. supreme court.
1967/--/-- 46 - warren beaty and faye dunaway star in arthur penn's film bonnie and clyde.
1967/--/-- 46 - yachtsman francis chichester completes the first solo voyage around the world.
1967/10/-- 47 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1968/--/-- 47 - american skater peggy fleming wins the singles title at the winter olympic games.
1968/--/-- 47 - american track star bob beamon beats the olympic long jump record by almost 2 feet.
1968/--/-- 47 - american writer tom wolfe publishes the electric kool-aid acid test.
1968/--/-- 47 - anti-war demonstrators clash with police at the democratic convention in chicago.
1968/--/-- 47 - arthur ashe becomes the first black player to win a major men's tennis title.
1968/--/-- 47 - carlos castaneda publishes the teachings of don juan: a yaqui way of knowledge.
1968/--/-- 47 - civil rights leader martin luther king, jr. is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 47 - dick fosbury uses the fosbury flop to win the olympic gold medal for the high jump.
1968/--/-- 47 - filmmaker mel brooks directs, produces and appears in the producers.
1968/--/-- 47 - filmmaker stanley kubrick directs 2001: a space odyssey.
1968/--/-- 47 - french downhill skier jean claude killy wins three olympic gold medals.
1968/--/-- 47 - french filmmaker henri costa-gavras directs z.
1968/--/-- 47 - jacqueline kennedy marries the greek shipping millionaire aristotle onassis.
1968/--/-- 47 - kubrick "2001"
1968/--/-- 47 - may days mini-revolution
1968/--/-- 47 - more than 500,000 u.s. troops are deployed in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 47 - oceanographic ship glomar challenger begins the deep-sea drilling project.
1968/--/-- 47 - omar torrijos herrera overthrows the government of arnulfo arias in panama.
1968/--/-- 47 - pierre trudeau succeeds lester pearson as prime minister of canada.
1968/--/-- 47 - polish filmmaker roman polanski directs rosemary's baby.
1968/--/-- 47 - portuguese dictator antonio de oliveira salazar is succeeded by marcello caetano.
1968/--/-- 47 - president johnson announces he will not seek a second term of office.
1968/--/-- 47 - presidential candidate robert f. kennedy is assassinated.
1968/--/-- 47 - spain grants independence to equatorial guinea.
1968/--/-- 47 - spanish operatic tenor placido domingo debuts at the metropolitan opera.
1968/--/-- 47 - student-worker revolts almost topple the goverment of charles de gaulle in france.
1968/--/-- 47 - the apollo 8 spacecraft makes the first manned orbit of the moon.
1968/--/-- 47 - the catholic minority in northern ireland demonstrate for british rights.
1968/--/-- 47 - the federal gun control act regulates the interstate commerce in firearms.
1968/--/-- 47 - the saturn rocket lifts the apollo 7 spacecraft into low earth orbit.
1968/--/-- 47 - the u.s. navy intelligence gathering ship pueblo is seized by north korea.
1968/--/-- 47 - the viet cong launch the tet offensive in vietnam.
1968/--/-- 47 - u.s. troops massacre vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1968/--/-- 47 - vietnam war begins
1968/--/-- 47 - warsaw pact forces invade czechoslovakia to counter increasing liberalization.
1968/05/02 48 *** griffin, ada ermon (harlan) [great aunt] - died clinton county kentucky peolia cemetery, albany, ky
1968/06/-- 48 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - began living in pineville, kentucky
1968/10/-- 48 - world series nl st. louis (3) al detroit (4)
1969/--/-- 48 - a rock-music festival at woodstock, n.y, attracts a crowd of 500,000.
1969/--/-- 48 - american astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin land on the moon.
1969/--/-- 48 - american writer kurt vonnegut, jr. publishes slaughterhouse-five.
1969/--/-- 48 - australian rod laver becomes the only tennis player to win the grand slam twice.
1969/--/-- 48 - british filmmaker ken russell directs glenda jackson in women in love.
1969/--/-- 48 - british writer john fowles publishes the french lieutenant's woman.
1969/--/-- 48 - catholics and protestants clash in northern ireland; british troops restore order.
1969/--/-- 48 - charles manson and his followers kill actress sharon tate and six of her friends.
1969/--/-- 48 - col. muammar al-qaddafi seizes control in libya; king idris is deposed.
1969/--/-- 48 - dustin hoffman and jon voight star in john schlesinger's film midnight cowboy.
1969/--/-- 48 - edward kennedy's female companion dies in a car accident off the chappaquiddick bridge.
1969/--/-- 48 - gen. gaafar al-nimeiry seizes power in sudan.
1969/--/-- 48 - general de gaulle resigns; georges pompidou becomes president of france.
1969/--/-- 48 - golda meir becomes prime minister of israel after the death of levi eshkol.
1969/--/-- 48 - ira provisionals launch a terrorist campaign against british troops in ireland.
1969/--/-- 48 - liberal czech leader alexander dubcek is replaced by gustav husak.
1969/--/-- 48 - nixon is inaugurated as the 37th u.s. president; agnew becomes vice-president.
1969/--/-- 48 - nudity shocks audiences in kenneth tynan's broadway revue oh! calcutta!.
1969/--/-- 48 - paul newman and robert redford star in butch cassidy and the sundance kid.
1969/--/-- 48 - president ayub khan is deposed by gen. muhammad yahya khan in pakistan.
1969/--/-- 48 - president nixon begins to withdraw u.s. forces from vietnam.
1969/--/-- 48 - richard m. nixon (republican) becomes president of the united states
1969/--/-- 48 - the anglo-french supersonic transport concorde makes its first flight.
1969/--/-- 48 - the children's television workshop series sesame street is first shown.
1969/--/-- 48 - the monty python's flying circus television program premiers in britain.
1969/--/-- 48 - the immigration of salvadorans into honduras leads to a brief border war.
1969/--/-- 48 - willy brandt succeeds kurt kiesinger as chancellor of west germany.
1969/--/-- 48 - yasir arafat becomes chairman of the palestine liberation organization (plo).
1969/10/-- 49 - world series nl new york (4) al baltimore (1)
1970/--/-- 49 - american writer maya angelou publishes i know why the caged bird sings.
1970/--/-- 49 - australian tennis player margaret smith court wins the grand slam.
1970/--/-- 49 - britain grants independence to fiji.
1970/--/-- 49 - bruno kreisky succeeds josef klaus as chancellor of austria.
1970/--/-- 49 - cartoonist garry trudeau begins satirizing public figures and politics in doonesbury.
1970/--/-- 49 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 49 - civil war begins in jordan between government forces and palestinian guerrillas.
1970/--/-- 49 - donald sutherland stars in robert altman's anti-war film m*a*s*h.
1970/--/-- 49 - epa established to enforce clean air act
1970/--/-- 49 - edward heath becomes conservative prime minister of britain.
1970/--/-- 49 - egyptian president gamal abdel nasser dies; he is succeeded by anwar al-sadat.
1970/--/-- 49 - former defense minister hafez al-assad seizes power in syria.
1970/--/-- 49 - french filmmaker eric rohmer directs claire's knee.
1970/--/-- 49 - george c. scott stars in the academy award winning film patton.
1970/--/-- 49 - marxist leader salvadore allende is elected president of chile.
1970/--/-- 49 - norman borlaug wins the nobel peace prize for breeding miracle wheat strains.
1970/--/-- 49 - ohio national guardsmen kill four kent state students during an anti-war protest.
1970/--/-- 49 - president nixon orders an incursion into cambodia to combat the khmer rouge.
1970/--/-- 49 - riots in poland force wladyslaw gomulka to resign in favor of edward gierek.
1970/--/-- 49 - rock music guitarist jimi hendrix dies from a drug overdose.
1970/--/-- 49 - sihanouk is deposed in cambodia; khmer rouge seize the western provinces.
1970/--/-- 49 - sixties energy wins smaller battles: feminism, ecology...
1970/--/-- 49 - songwriting duo simon and garfunkel record bridge over troubled water.
1970/--/-- 49 - the amtrak intercity rail passenger service is created by act of congress.
1970/--/-- 49 - the apollo 13 crew return to earth after an explosion aboard their command module.
1970/--/-- 49 - the beatles pop group is disbanded.
1970/--/-- 49 - the boeing 747 jumbo jet airliner enters service.
1970/--/-- 49 - the environmental protection agency (epa) is established in the u.s.
1970/--/-- 49 - the soviet space probe venera 7 transmits the first data from the surface of venus.
1970/--/-- 49 - the building of the aswan high dam is completed in egypt.
1970/--/-- 49 - the civil war ends between nigeria and the breakaway state of biafra.
1970/--/-- 49 - u.s. invades cambodia
1970/--/-- 49 - writer and feminist germaine greer publishes the female eunuch.
1970/10/-- 50 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al baltimore (4)
1971/--/-- 50 - alistair cooke begins hosting the pbs television series masterpiece theatre.
1971/--/-- 50 - american film actor and director clint eastwood stars in dirty harry.
1971/--/-- 50 - andrew lloyd webber's rock-opera jesus christ superstar opens on broadway.
1971/--/-- 50 - austrian kurt waldheim succeeds u thant as un secretary general.
1971/--/-- 50 - british actor dirk bogard stars in luchino visconti's film death in venice.
1971/--/-- 50 - chilean poet pablo neruda wins the nobel prize for literature.
1971/--/-- 50 - col. hugo banzer suarez seizes power in bolivia in a military coup.
1971/--/-- 50 - daniel ellsberg releases copies of the pentagon papers to the new york times.
1971/--/-- 50 - east pakistan declares its independence from west pakistan, beginning a civil war.
1971/--/-- 50 - erich honecker becomes the head of state for east germany.
1971/--/-- 50 - ice hockey player phil esposito scores a record 76 goals in 78 games.
1971/--/-- 50 - jean claude duvalier succeeds his father as president of haiti.
1971/--/-- 50 - joe frazier defeats muhammad ali for the heavyweight boxing title.
1971/--/-- 50 - lt. william calley is found guilty of killing vietnamese civilians at my lai.
1971/--/-- 50 - prime minister brian faulkner begins the internment of ira suspects in northern ireland.
1971/--/-- 50 - prime minister milton obote is ousted by idi amin dada in uganda.
1971/--/-- 50 - south vietnamese troops and u.s. aircraft combat communist forces in laos.
1971/--/-- 50 - soviet "salyut 1" space station
1971/--/-- 50 - soyuz 11 docks with salyut 1; three cosmonauts die during the return to earth.
1971/--/-- 50 - the congo is renamed as the republic of zaire.
1971/--/-- 50 - the lunar rover explores the moon's surface during the apollo 15 mission.
1971/--/-- 50 - the republic of china (taiwan) loses its un seat; communist china is admitted.
1971/--/-- 50 - the support of india wins independence for east pakistan (renamed as bangladesh).
1971/01/27 50 *** allen, william paul [brother] - died
1971/10/-- 51 *** harlan, eva pearl (bristow) [2nd cousin] - began living at rockholds, kentucky in a log house.
1971/10/-- 51 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al baltimore (3)
1972/--/-- 51 - alabama governor george wallace is shot in an assassination attempt.
1972/--/-- 51 - american b-52 aircraft bomb hanoi and haiphong in north vietnam.
1972/--/-- 51 - american bobby fischer defeats russian world chess champion boris spassky.
1972/--/-- 51 - american feminist gloria steinem founds ms. magazine.
1972/--/-- 51 - american swimmer mark spitz wins a record seven olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 51 - an earthquake kills 10,000 in the nicaraguan capital of managua.
1972/--/-- 51 - apollo 17 makes the last manned moon landing.
1972/--/-- 51 - ceylon changes its name to sri lanka (meaning beautiful island).
1972/--/-- 51 - ddt insecticide is banned in the u.s.
1972/--/-- 51 - ddt is banned
1972/--/-- 51 - filmmaker francis ford coppola directs marlon brando in the godfather.
1972/--/-- 51 - german writer heinrich boll receives the nobel prize for literature.
1972/--/-- 51 - japanese novelist kawabata yasunari commits suicide.
1972/--/-- 51 - liza minnelli stars in bob fosse's film cabaret.
1972/--/-- 51 - marlon brando stars in bernardo bertolucci's film last tango in paris.
1972/--/-- 51 - mujibur rahman becomes prime minister of bangladesh.
1972/--/-- 51 - palestinian terrorists kill 11 israeli athletes at the munich olympics.
1972/--/-- 51 - president ferdinand marcos imposes martial law in the philippines.
1972/--/-- 51 - president nixon authorizes the space shuttle program.
1972/--/-- 51 - president nixon makes his historic trip to peking to meet mao tse-tung.
1972/--/-- 51 - richard leakey discovers a hominid skull 2.6 million years old in northern kenya.
1972/--/-- 51 - soviet gymnast olga korbut wins three olympic gold medals.
1972/--/-- 51 - the british government assumes direct rule of northern ireland.
1972/--/-- 51 - the labor party is elected in australia with gough whitlam as prime minister.
1972/--/-- 51 - the viet cong and north vietnamese renew their offensive in south vietnam.
1972/--/-- 51 - the watergate affair begins with the arrest of five burglars at democratic party headquarters.
1972/10/-- 52 - world series nl cincinnati (3) al oakland (4)
1973/--/-- 52 - a right-wing military coup in chile overthrows allende's marxist government.
1973/--/-- 52 - aleksandr solzhenitsyn publishes the first volume of the gulag archipelago.
1973/--/-- 52 - american novelist thomas pynchon publishes gravity's rainbow.
1973/--/-- 52 - american playwright thornton wilder publishes the novel theophilus north.
1973/--/-- 52 - animal behavioralists lorenz, tinbergen and von frisch share the nobel prize.
1973/--/-- 52 - billy friedkin "the exorcist"
1973/--/-- 52 - britain grants independence to the bahama islands.
1973/--/-- 52 - charles xvi gustav succeeds gustav vi adolf as king of sweden.
1973/--/-- 52 - congress passes the endangered species act.
1973/--/-- 52 - egypt and syria attack israel on yom kippur (a jewish religious holiday).
1973/--/-- 52 - endangered species act
1973/--/-- 52 - film actor al pacino stars as an undercover policeman in serpico.
1973/--/-- 52 - great britain, denmark and ireland become full-fledged members of the eec.
1973/--/-- 52 - henry kissinger and le duc tho share the nobel peace prize.
1973/--/-- 52 - juan d. peron returns to power as president of argentina.
1973/--/-- 52 - nixon resigns over watergate
1973/--/-- 52 - novelist, poet, and feminist erica jong publishes fear of flying.
1973/--/-- 52 - opec begins an oil embargo against europe, the u.s. and japan.
1973/--/-- 52 - pop recording artist billy joel releases his first album piano man.
1973/--/-- 52 - senator sam ervin, jr. heads a committee to investigate the watergate break-in.
1973/--/-- 52 - solzhenitsyn "gulag archipelago"
1973/--/-- 52 - swedish actor max von sydow stars in the supernatural film the exorcist.
1973/--/-- 52 - the american indian movement occupy the site of wounded knee in a political protest.
1973/--/-- 52 - the arab-israeli war ends after 18 days with a un negotiated cease-fire.
1973/--/-- 52 - the paris peace accords end the vietnam war.
1973/--/-- 52 - the pioneer 10 spacecraft makes a rendezvous with the planet jupiter.
1973/--/-- 52 - the skylab manned orbiting laboratory is launched.
1973/--/-- 52 - the u.s. begins a total military withdrawal from south vietnam.
1973/--/-- 52 - the washington post receives the pulitzer prize for reporting the watergate scandal.
1973/--/-- 52 - the world trade center in new york city becomes the tallest building in the world.
1973/--/-- 52 - vice-president spiro agnew resigns after he is charged with accepting bribes.
1973/--/-- 52 - vietnam war ends
1973/--/-- 52 - war powers act
1973/--/-- 52 - watergate prosecutor archibald cox is dismissed for demanding the nixon tapes.
1973/06/21 53 *** harlan, walter t. [1st cousin once removed] - died
1973/07/03 53 *** griffin, nora lorene (allen) [mother] - died
1973/10/-- 53 - world series nl new york (3) al oakland (4)
1973/11/30 53 *** meeks, nathan & harlan, ruth ann (meeks) [2nd cousin] - married married at jellico, tennessee
1974/--/-- 53 - a military coup in portugal leads to democratic reforms.
1974/--/-- 53 - american tennis player chris evert wins a record 56 consecutive matches.
1974/--/-- 53 - american tennis player jimmy connors wins the u.s. open tournament for the first time.
1974/--/-- 53 - american writer stephen king publishes the horror novel carrie.
1974/--/-- 53 - an army of life-size pottery figures is discovered in a ch'in dynasty tomb in china.
1974/--/-- 53 - archbishop makarios is deposed, prompting a turkish invasion of cyprus.
1974/--/-- 53 - baseball player hank aaron breaks babe ruth's record of 714 home-runs.
1974/--/-- 53 - emperor haile selassie is deposed in a military coup in ethiopia.
1974/--/-- 53 - former astronaut john glenn is elected to the u.s. senate.
1974/--/-- 53 - general augusto pinochet ugarte becomes president of chile.
1974/--/-- 53 - gerald r. ford (republican) becomes president of the united states
1974/--/-- 53 - helmut schmidt becomes chancellor of west germany.
1974/--/-- 53 - isabel peron becomes president of argentina after the death of her husband.
1974/--/-- 53 - james michener publishes centennial, a historical novel of the american west.
1974/--/-- 53 - konstantinos g. karamanlis becomes prime minister of greece.
1974/--/-- 53 - patricia hearst is abducted by members of the symbionese liberation army (sla).
1974/--/-- 53 - portugal recognizes the independence of guinea-bissau.
1974/--/-- 53 - president ford grants richard nixon a pardon for any crimes committed in office.
1974/--/-- 53 - president giscard d'estaing appoints jacques chirac prime minister of france.
1974/--/-- 53 - president nixon resigns; gerald r. ford is inaugurated as the 38th u.s. president.
1974/--/-- 53 - reiner werner fassbinder "ali-- fear eats the soul"
1974/--/-- 53 - south african golfer gary player achieves the grand slam.
1974/--/-- 53 - soviet ballet dancer mikhail baryshnikov defects to the west.
1974/--/-- 53 - the house judiciary committee votes to impeach president nixon.
1974/--/-- 53 - the mariner 10 spacecraft passes within 438 miles of the planet mercury.
1974/--/-- 53 - the sears tower in chicago surpasses the world trade center as the tallest building.
1974/--/-- 53 - the crisis on cyprus causes the collapse of the military regime in greece.
1974/--/-- 53 - willy brandt is forced to resign after an east german spy is discovered on his staff.
1974/--/-- 53 - yitzhak rabin succeeds golda meir as prime minister of israel.
1974/10/-- 54 - world series nl los angeles (1) al oakland (4)
1975/--/-- 54 - american novelist saul bellow publishes humboldt's gift.
1975/--/-- 54 - american writer e.l. doctorow publishes ragtime.
1975/--/-- 54 - bobby fischer refuses to defend his chess title; anatoly karpov is made champion.
1975/--/-- 54 - brazilian soccer star pele ends his retirement to play for the new york cosmos.
1975/--/-- 54 - civil war breaks out after the portuguese withdraw from angola.
1975/--/-- 54 - civil war breaks out in lebanon between muslim and christian forces.
1975/--/-- 54 - communist pathet lao declare laos the people's democratic republic.
1975/--/-- 54 - cyprus is partitioned into greek and turkish zones.
1975/--/-- 54 - czech tennis star martina navratilova defects to the u.s.
1975/--/-- 54 - dutch guiana gains its independence as the republic of suriname.
1975/--/-- 54 - eritrean rebels begin their fight for independence in ethiopia.
1975/--/-- 54 - football player o.j. simpson scores a record 23 touchdowns in one season.
1975/--/-- 54 - gen. yakubu gowon is deposed in a military coup in nigeria.
1975/--/-- 54 - juan carlos i becomes king of spain after the death of general francisco franco.
1975/--/-- 54 - michael bennett directs and choreographs the broadway musical a chorus line.
1975/--/-- 54 - mozambique wins independence from portugal; samora machel becomes the president.
1975/--/-- 54 - north vietnamese forces overrun saigon, which is renamed as ho chi minh city.
1975/--/-- 54 - papua new guinea becomes independent from australian administration.
1975/--/-- 54 - president mujibur rahman is killed in a military coup in bangladesh.
1975/--/-- 54 - president n'garta tombalbaye of chad is killed in a coup d'etat.
1975/--/-- 54 - prime minister pol pot begins a reign of terror in kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 54 - robert macneil and jim lehrer begin the pbs macneil/lehrer news analysis program.
1975/--/-- 54 - saudi king faisal is assassinated; he is succeeded by his brother khalid.
1975/--/-- 54 - singer-songwriter bruce springsteen releases the rock album born to run.
1975/--/-- 54 - south vietnam capitulates; a mass exodus of boat people begins.
1975/--/-- 54 - south vietnam surrenders to north vietnam
1975/--/-- 54 - soviet dissident andrei sakharov wins the nobel peace prize.
1975/--/-- 54 - steven spielberg's film jaws sets new box-office records.
1975/--/-- 54 - taiwanese leader chiang kai-shek dies; he is succeeded by chiang ching-kuo.
1975/--/-- 54 - the helsinki accords pledge the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1975/--/-- 54 - the khmer rouge win control of cambodia and rename the country kampuchea.
1975/--/-- 54 - the republic of comoros declares its independence from france.
1975/--/-- 54 - the suez canal reopens after being closed to shipping for eight years.
1975/--/-- 54 - u.s. marines recapture the u.s. freighter mayaguez from kampuchean forces.
1975/--/-- 54 - u.s. astronauts and soviet cosmonauts linkup during the apollo-soyuz mission.
1975/02/14 54 *** griffin, sarah lou ella (zachary) [great aunt] - died casey county kentucky glenwood cem. liberty - casey co. ky
1975/09/09 55 *** griffin, edna e. (parrigin, harlan) [great aunt] - died peolia cemetery
1975/10/-- 55 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al boston (3)
1976/--/-- 55 - a severe earthquake in china kills over 600,000.
1976/--/-- 55 - actor jack nicholson wins the academy award for one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
1976/--/-- 55 - artist christo completes running fence, a curtain spanning 24 miles of countryside.
1976/--/-- 55 - black american writer alex haley publishes roots: the saga of an american family.
1976/--/-- 55 - black student protestors are massacred at soweto in south africa.
1976/--/-- 55 - chinese leaders chou en-lai and mao tse-tung die; hua kuo-feng assumes power.
1976/--/-- 55 - finnish runner lasse viren wins the olympic 5,000- and 10,000-m races for the second time.
1976/--/-- 55 - isabel peron is deposed; jorge rafael videla becomes president of argentina.
1976/--/-- 55 - israeli commandos rescue hijacked airplane passengers at entebbe, uganda.
1976/--/-- 55 - james callaghan succeeds harold wilson as prime minister of britain.
1976/--/-- 55 - jim henson's muppet show debuts on television.
1976/--/-- 55 - jose lopez portillo y pacheco is elected president of mexico.
1976/--/-- 55 - mario soares is elected prime minister of portugal for the first time.
1976/--/-- 55 - robert de niro stars in martin scorcese's film taxi driver.
1976/--/-- 55 - romanian gymnast nadia comaneci wins three gold medals at the montreal olympics.
1976/--/-- 55 - separatist leader rene levesque becomes premier of quebec.
1976/--/-- 55 - suarez gonzalez becomes prime minister of spain after the first election in 41 years.
1976/--/-- 55 - swedish tennis star bjorn borg wins the first of five wimbledon championships.
1976/--/-- 55 - sylvester stallone's film rocky wins the academy award as best picture.
1976/--/-- 55 - the sex pistols punk rock group is formed in england.
1976/--/-- 55 - the south african homeland of transkei becomes independent.
1976/--/-- 55 - the u.s. celebrates its bicentennial.
1976/--/-- 55 - the first outbreak of legionnaires' disease occurs in philadelphia.
1976/--/-- 55 - the pro-soviet mpla government seizes power in angola aided by cuban troops.
1976/--/-- 55 - u.s. viking spacecraft land on mars.
1976/--/-- 55 - viking 1 & 2 land on mars
1976/10/-- 56 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al new york (0)
1977/--/-- 56 - american golfer tom watson wins the masters and british open tournaments.
1977/--/-- 56 - american hurdler edwin moses begins a winning streak of 90 consecutive races.
1977/--/-- 56 - american poet and novelist wendell berry, publishes the unsettling of america.
1977/--/-- 56 - black politician andrew young is appointed as u.s. ambassador to the un.
1977/--/-- 56 - carter is inaugurated as the 39th u.s. president; mondale becomes vice-presicent.
1977/--/-- 56 - comedian and filmmaker woody allen directs diane keaton in annie hall.
1977/--/-- 56 - edward (ed) koch becomes mayor of new york city for the first time.
1977/--/-- 56 - general zia ul-haq deposes prime minister zulfikar ali bhutto in pakistan.
1977/--/-- 56 - george lucas "star wars"
1977/--/-- 56 - george lucas directs the first star wars space fantasy film.
1977/--/-- 56 - james e. carter, jr. (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1977/--/-- 56 - jean bedel bokassa is crowned emperor bokassa i of the central african empire.
1977/--/-- 56 - john travolta stars in the disco film saturday night fever.
1977/--/-- 56 - menachem begin succeeds yitzhak rabin as prime minister of israel.
1977/--/-- 56 - morarji randchhadji desai succeeds indira gandhi as prime minister of india.
1977/--/-- 56 - rock 'n roll performer elvis presley dies.
1977/--/-- 56 - seveteen-year old american jockey steve cauthen rides a record 487 winners.
1977/--/-- 56 - south africa grants independence to the african homeland of bophuthatswana.
1977/--/-- 56 - the fianna fail party returns to power under john lynch in the republic of ireland.
1977/--/-- 56 - the french territory of the afars and the issas becomes independent as djibouti.
1977/--/-- 56 - the first apple ii personal computer is marketed in the u.s.
1977/10/-- 57 - world series nl los angeles (2) al new york (4)
1977/10/08 57 *** allen, james thomas - died
in 1920 transportation was by:
foot
horse
bicycle
train
steamboat
balloon
propeller airplane
by 1977 transportation was by:
car & bus
diesel ship
helicopter
jet
nuclear ship
space travel
in addition.
by 1977 transportation by:
horse
steamboat
balloon
had been discontinued.
in 1920 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
telephone
by 1977 communications by:
telegraph
had been discontinued.
in 1920 food preparation was by:
wood
by 1977 food preparation was by:
gas
electric
refrigeration
dish washer
garbage disposal
in addition.
by 1977 food preparation by:
wood
had been discontinued.
in 1920 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1920 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1920 war making was by:
gun
artillery
machine guns
tank
submarine
iron clad ships
tnt
mines
chemical agents
aeroplane
by 1977 war making was by:
assault rifle
biological agents
helicopter
missiles
atomic bomb
satellites
in addition.
in 1920 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
by 1977 navigation was by:
radio signals
radar
in addition.
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