...date... age event
1939/--/-- -1 - american author nathanael west publishes the day of the locust.
1939/--/-- -1 - american novelist john steinbeck publishes the grapes of wrath.
1939/--/-- -1 - an anglo-saxon burial ship is excavated at sutton hoo in england.
1939/--/-- -1 - britain and france declare war on germany but are unable to aid poland.
1939/--/-- -1 - child film actress judy garland stars in the musical the wizard of oz.
1939/--/-- -1 - clark gable and vivien leigh star in the film gone with the wind.
1939/--/-- -1 - english author christopher isherwood publishes goodbye to berlin.
1939/--/-- -1 - foreign ministers ribbentrop and molotov sign the nazi-soviet pact of nonaggression.
1939/--/-- -1 - general franco's forces capture madrid, ending the spanish civil war.
1939/--/-- -1 - germany and italy form the pact of steel military alliance.
1939/--/-- -1 - germany invades poland, beginning world war ii.
1939/--/-- -1 - igor sikorsky develops america's first successful helicopter.
1939/--/-- -1 - italian forces occupy albania; king zog is forced into exile.
1939/--/-- -1 - physical chemist linus pauling publishes the nature of the chemical bond.
1939/--/-- -1 - president roosevelt (prompted by einstein) orders a u.s. effort to build an atomic bomb.
1939/--/-- -1 - president roosevelt declares u.s. neutrality in world war ii.
1939/--/-- -1 - robert gordon menzies succeeds joseph lyons as prime minister of australia.
1939/--/-- -1 - soviet troops invade poland; germany and the ussr partition the country.
1939/--/-- -1 - swiss chemist paul muller discovers the chemical insecticide ddt.
1939/--/-- -1 - the he 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in germany.
1939/--/-- -1 - the russo-finnish war begins with the soviet invasion of finland.
1939/--/-- -1 - the first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939/--/-- -1 - world war ii begins
1939/01/18 -1 *** benson, glendon lucile [mother] & stack, edward paul [father] - married
1939/07/04 0 *** stack, thomas edward - born to stack, edward paul and benson, glendon lucile akron, summit, ohio
1939/10/-- 0 - world series nl cincinnati (0) al new york (4)
1940/--/-- 0 - american novelist carson mccullers publishes the heart is a lonely hunter.
1940/--/-- 0 - bing crosby, bob hope and dorothy lamour star in the film road to singapore.
1940/--/-- 0 - british air victory in the battle of britain prevents the german invasion of england.
1940/--/-- 0 - cary grant and katharine hepburn star in the film the philadelphia story.
1940/--/-- 0 - ernest hemingway publishes for whom the bell tolls.
1940/--/-- 0 - exiled revolutionary leon trotsky is assassinated in mexico on stalin's orders.
1940/--/-- 0 - general charles de gaulle rallies free french resistance in london.
1940/--/-- 0 - german forces reach paris; vichy france under marshal petain signs an armistice.
1940/--/-- 0 - germany invades denmark and norway; allied forces aid norway but are defeated.
1940/--/-- 0 - italian forces invade egypt but are repulsed; the british invade libya.
1940/--/-- 0 - italy declares war on the allies and invades southern france.
1940/--/-- 0 - japan joins the axis alliance and occupies northern french indochina (vietnam).
1940/--/-- 0 - king carol ii of romania abdicates; romania and hungary join the axis forces.
1940/--/-- 0 - prehistoric cave paintings are discovered at lascaux in france.
1940/--/-- 0 - radar wins battle of britian
1940/--/-- 0 - raymond chandler publishes the detective novel farewell, my lovely.
1940/--/-- 0 - the british expeditionary force is evacuated from dunkerque in france.
1940/--/-- 0 - the german army begins a blitzkrieg attack on holland, belgium, and france.
1940/--/-- 0 - the soviet union annexes the baltic states of lithuania, estonia and latvia.
1940/--/-- 0 - the tacoma narrows bridge collapses because of oscillations caused by the wind.
1940/--/-- 0 - winston churchill becomes british prime minister after chamberlain resigns.
1940/10/-- 1 - world series nl cincinnati (4) al detroit (3)
1941/--/-- 1 - a british task force sinks the german pocket battleship bismarck.
1941/--/-- 1 - baseball player joe dimaggio sets a new record for hitting in 56 consecutive games.
1941/--/-- 1 - benchley park computers sabotage german enigma
1941/--/-- 1 - churchill and roosevelt's atlantic charter meeting establishes war and peace aims.
1941/--/-- 1 - german u-boats inflict heavy losses on british shipping in the battle of the atlantic.
1941/--/-- 1 - german paratroopers land on crete and capture the island from the british.
1941/--/-- 1 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes mother courage and her children.
1941/--/-- 1 - germany invades yugoslavia and greece; british forces are evacuated to crete.
1941/--/-- 1 - germany invades the soviet union.
1941/--/-- 1 - gutzon borglum completes the sculptured heads of four presidents at mount rushmore.
1941/--/-- 1 - ho chi minh organizes the viet minh to combat the japanese in indochina.
1941/--/-- 1 - japanese forces capture hong kong and invade malaya and the philippines.
1941/--/-- 1 - karsh's photographic portrait of churchill becomes a symbol of british resistance.
1941/--/-- 1 - nazi leader rudolf hess flies to england on a quixotic peace mission.
1941/--/-- 1 - orson welles directs the film citizen kane.
1941/--/-- 1 - president roosevelt talks of four freedoms in his state of the union speech.
1941/--/-- 1 - swedish film actress greta garbo retires.
1941/--/-- 1 - the german africa corps under erwin rommel begins an offensive in north africa.
1941/--/-- 1 - the german blitz, the nighttime bombing of london, is at its height.
1941/--/-- 1 - the german advance on moscow is halted by the winter weather.
1941/--/-- 1 - the japanese bomb pearl harbor; america enters world war ii.
1941/--/-- 1 - the japanese occupy indochina and move into cambodia (kampuchea) and thailand.
1941/--/-- 1 - the lend-lease act allows the transfer of u.s. war materials to britain and china.
1941/--/-- 1 - the u.s. freezes japanese assets in retaliation for japan's territorial aggression.
1941/--/-- 1 - u.s. troops occupy iceland to forestall its occupation by germany.
1941/09/11 2 *** benson, richard oscar [uncle] - died seagraves, terry, texas seagraves, terry, texas old brownfield cemetery, terry, texas
1941/10/-- 2 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1942/--/-- 2 - a russian counterattack isolates the sixth army at stalingrad; hitler orders no retreat.
1942/--/-- 2 - a u.s. fleet defeats the japanese at the battle of midway.
1942/--/-- 2 - actor james cagney wins an academy award for the film yankee doodle dandie.
1942/--/-- 2 - american b-25 bombers make the doolittle raid on tokyo.
1942/--/-- 2 - american and filipino forces retreat to the bataan peninsula in the philippines.
1942/--/-- 2 - american crooner bing crosby records the hit song white christmas.
1942/--/-- 2 - american forces in the philippines surrender; the bataan death march begins.
1942/--/-- 2 - american humorist james thurber publishes the secret life of walter mitty.
1942/--/-- 2 - french writer albert camus publishes the stranger.
1942/--/-- 2 - gandhi is arrested after the quit india movement demands a british withdrawal.
1942/--/-- 2 - general macarthur is ordered to the leave the philippines; he vows i shall return.
1942/--/-- 2 - german forces occupy vichy france; the french fleet is scuttled in toulon harbor.
1942/--/-- 2 - hitler proposes the final solution of the jewish question; the holocaust begins.
1942/--/-- 2 - humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman star in the classic film casablanca.
1942/--/-- 2 - italian filmmaker luchino visconti directs his first film ossessione.
1942/--/-- 2 - manhattan project scientists under fermi produce the first controlled chain reaction.
1942/--/-- 2 - rommel's africa corps capture tobruk and drive the british back to egypt.
1942/--/-- 2 - the british eighth army under montgomery begins a new drive into libya.
1942/--/-- 2 - the german advance in the caucasus is halted at stalingrad (now volgograd).
1942/--/-- 2 - the german advance on egypt is halted at the battle of el-alamein.
1942/--/-- 2 - the japanese conquer malaya, singapore, indonesia and burma.
1942/--/-- 2 - the raf makes the first 1,000 bomber raid on the german city of cologne.
1942/--/-- 2 - the soviet southern offensive is halted; the germans advance on the caucasus.
1942/--/-- 2 - the u.s. government transfers 110,000 japanese americans to internment camps.
1942/--/-- 2 - u.s. marines invade guadalcanal, beginning the campaign of re-conquest.
1942/--/-- 2 - u.s. forces under general eisenhower invade morocco and algeria.
1942/--/-- 2 - v-2 (vengeance weapon 2) rockets are tested at peenemunde in germany.
1942/10/-- 3 - world series nl st. louis (4) al new york (1)
1942/12/29 3 *** benson, eliza frances [great aunt] - died lived there about 7 years. lived there about 7 years. tenn.
1943/--/-- 3 - american aircraft join the raf in round the clock bombing of germany.
1943/--/-- 3 - american author carson mccullers publishes the ballad of the sad cafe.
1943/--/-- 3 - american writer ayn rand publishes the fountainhead.
1943/--/-- 3 - churchill and roosevelt meet at casablanca to plan their war strategy.
1943/--/-- 3 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the tehran conference.
1943/--/-- 3 - french existentialist writer jean paul sartre publishes being and nothingness.
1943/--/-- 3 - french writer and feminist simone de beauvoir publishes she came to stay.
1943/--/-- 3 - german paratroopers rescue mussolini.
1943/--/-- 3 - marine explorer jacques-yves cousteau invents the aqualung (scuba).
1943/--/-- 3 - marshal badoglio signs an armistice with the allies; italy declares war on germany.
1943/--/-- 3 - mussolini is deposed; marshal badoglio assumes power in italy.
1943/--/-- 3 - richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein's musical oklahoma! is produced.
1943/--/-- 3 - robert oppenheimer establishes the los alamos laboratory to build the atomic bomb.
1943/--/-- 3 - singer paul robeson stars in the title role of the broadway production of othello.
1943/--/-- 3 - the allied armies invade sicily.
1943/--/-- 3 - the allies invade the southern tip of italy.
1943/--/-- 3 - the british and american armies link up in africa; 250,000 axis prisoners are taken.
1943/--/-- 3 - the german sixth army surrenders at stalingrad; 100,000 are taken prisoner.
1943/--/-- 3 - the germans suppress a revolt by polish jews; the warsaw ghetto is destroyed.
1943/--/-- 3 - the russian offensive reaches the dnepr river; kiev and smolensk are recaptured.
1943/--/-- 3 - the russians defeat the germans at kursk in the largest tank battle in history.
1943/01/14 3 *** stack, richard glenn [brother] - born to stack, edward paul and benson, glendon lucile cleveland, cuyahoga, ohio
1943/10/-- 4 - world series nl st. louis (1) al new york (4)
1944/--/-- 4 - a british airborne landing at arnhem in the netherlands is repulsed by the germans.
1944/--/-- 4 - aaron copland composes the ballet appalachian spring.
1944/--/-- 4 - allied d-day invasion forces land at normandy in northern france.
1944/--/-- 4 - allied forces break out from the normandy enclave and liberate paris.
1944/--/-- 4 - allied forces in italy land behind the german gustav line at anzio.
1944/--/-- 4 - american aircraft from the marianas begin the strategic bombing of japan.
1944/--/-- 4 - american forces under general mark clark occupy rome.
1944/--/-- 4 - an allied invasion force lands in southern france.
1944/--/-- 4 - british forces begin the reconquest of burma from the japanese.
1944/--/-- 4 - british forces occupy athens and intervene in a communist inspired civil war.
1944/--/-- 4 - child film actors mickey rooney and elizabeth taylor star in national velvet.
1944/--/-- 4 - communist resistance fighters under josip broz-tito liberate yugoslavia.
1944/--/-- 4 - english writer somerset maugham publishes the razor's edge.
1944/--/-- 4 - evangelist aimee semple mcpherson dies from an accidental drug overdose.
1944/--/-- 4 - french novelist colette writes gigi.
1944/--/-- 4 - german officers attempt to assassinate hitler.
1944/--/-- 4 - normandy landings
1944/--/-- 4 - oswald avery determines that dna is the hereditary material of the cell.
1944/--/-- 4 - polish resistance fighters are defeated by the germans in the warsaw uprising.
1944/--/-- 4 - romania and bulgaria sign an armistice with the allies and declare war on germany.
1944/--/-- 4 - roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term; truman becomes vice-president.
1944/--/-- 4 - soviet forces cross the romanian border and reconquer the crimea.
1944/--/-- 4 - soviet forces reach the suburbs of warsaw in poland.
1944/--/-- 4 - tennessee williams' play the glass menagerie is produced.
1944/--/-- 4 - the g.i. bill of rights is established to provide assistance to war veterans.
1944/--/-- 4 - the german army launches the battle of the bulge, its last counteroffensive.
1944/--/-- 4 - the soviet's relieve the city of leningrad after a german siege lasting 890 days.
1944/--/-- 4 - the u.s. first army occupies aachen -- the first german city to fall to the allies.
1944/--/-- 4 - the world bank is established to assist european postwar recovery.
1944/--/-- 4 - u.s. marines invade guam and saipan in the marianas.
1944/--/-- 4 - u.s. forces under admiral nimitz defeat a japanese fleet in the battle of the philippine sea.
1944/--/-- 4 - v-1 (and later the v-2) weapons of vengeance are launched against london.
1944/05/25 4 *** benson, nancy sue [1st cousin] - born to benson, roy lee and sumners, nancy nurline akron, summit, ohio
1944/10/-- 5 - world series nl st. louis (4) al st. louis (2)
1945/--/-- 5 - advancing allied armies discover nazi extermination camps.
1945/--/-- 5 - allied forces cross the rhine and begin the final assault on germany.
1945/--/-- 5 - british actor laurence olivier wins critical acclaim for his portrayal of richard iii.
1945/--/-- 5 - british author george orwell publishes the satirical fable animal farm.
1945/--/-- 5 - charlie "bird" parker and dizzy gillespie make the first bebop recordings.
1945/--/-- 5 - churchill is defeated in the british elections by labour leader clement attlee.
1945/--/-- 5 - churchill, roosevelt and stalin meet at the yalta conference.
1945/--/-- 5 - churchill, truman and stalin hold the last wartime conference at potsdam.
1945/--/-- 5 - egypt, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, iraq, jordan and yemen form the arab league.
1945/--/-- 5 - french dramatist jean giraudoux writes the play the madwoman of chaillot.
1945/--/-- 5 - general macarthur heads the u.s. occupation forces in japan.
1945/--/-- 5 - german jet aircraft are unable to prevent mass allied air attacks.
1945/--/-- 5 - german playwright bertholt brecht writes the caucasian chalk circle.
1945/--/-- 5 - german rocket engineer wernher von braun continues his research in the u.s.
1945/--/-- 5 - germany and austria are divided between the allies into 4 zones of occupation.
1945/--/-- 5 - harry s. truman (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1945/--/-- 5 - hitler commits suicide in his berlin bunker; germany surrenders to the allies.
1945/--/-- 5 - ho chi minh proclaims the independence of the democratic republic of vietnam.
1945/--/-- 5 - indonesian nationalists led by sukarno proclaim the nation independent.
1945/--/-- 5 - japan signs an armistice with the allies, ending world war ii.
1945/--/-- 5 - korea is divided between u.s. and soviet occupation forces along the 38th parallel.
1945/--/-- 5 - marshal zhukov's soviet troops launch the final attack on berlin.
1945/--/-- 5 - mussolini is killed by italian partisans.
1945/--/-- 5 - nationalists and communist forces resume their civil war in china.
1945/--/-- 5 - roberto rosselini's neorealist "open city"
1945/--/-- 5 - romulo betancourt becomes president of venezuela for the first time.
1945/--/-- 5 - roosevelt dies; harry s. truman is inaugurated as the 33rd u.s. president.
1945/--/-- 5 - singer frank sinatra stars in the film musical anchors aweigh.
1945/--/-- 5 - suicide attacks by japanese kamikaze pilots are unable to stem the u.s. advances.
1945/--/-- 5 - the soviet union declares war on japan.
1945/--/-- 5 - the u.s. drops atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki.
1945/--/-- 5 - the united nations is formed; trygve halvdan lie becomes secretary-general (1946).
1945/--/-- 5 - the trial of nazi war criminals begins at nuremberg in germany.
1945/--/-- 5 - tito becomes head of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia.
1945/--/-- 5 - u.s. a-bombs japan
1945/--/-- 5 - u.s. marines invade the japanese islands of iwo jima and okinawa.
1945/--/-- 5 - u.s. forces under macarthur liberate the philippines.
1945/--/-- 5 - united nations formed
1945/--/-- 5 - world war ii ends
1945/10/-- 6 - world series nl chicago (3) al detroit (4)
1946/--/-- 6 - american author robert penn warren publishes all the king's men.
1946/--/-- 6 - communists abolish the monarchy in bulgaria; georgi dimitrov becomes premier.
1946/--/-- 6 - dr. spock publishes the commonsense book of baby and child care.
1946/--/-- 6 - elas communist forces begin a civil war in greece.
1946/--/-- 6 - eniac, the first successful electronic digital computer, becomes operational.
1946/--/-- 6 - elections in italy abolish the monarchy in favor of a republic.
1946/--/-- 6 - general de gaulle resigns as president of france; the fourth republic is formed.
1946/--/-- 6 - greek author nikos kazantzakis publishes zorba the greek.
1946/--/-- 6 - juan peron is elected president of argentina.
1946/--/-- 6 - macarthur promotes japanese democracy with the emperor as constitutional monarch.
1946/--/-- 6 - saint frances xavier cabrini becomes the first u.s. citizen to be canonized.
1946/--/-- 6 - swiss-french architect le corbusier designs unite d'habitation in marseilles.
1946/--/-- 6 - terence rattigan's play the winslow boy is produced.
1946/--/-- 6 - the philippines are granted independence with manuel roxas y acuna as president.
1946/--/-- 6 - the viet minh begin a guerrilla war against the french in indochina (vietnam).
1946/--/-- 6 - winston churchill describes the iron curtain created in europe by the soviets.
1946/09/14 7 *** benson, clyde little [2nd cousin] & simpson, mary evelyn - married
1946/10/-- 7 - world series nl st. louis (4) al boston (3)
1947/--/-- 7 - american pilot kenneth arnold makes the first alleged sighting of flying saucers.
1947/--/-- 7 - artist jackson pollock produces full fathom five using drip paint techniques.
1947/--/-- 7 - artist mark rothko begins experimenting with color-field painting.
1947/--/-- 7 - baseball player jackie robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues.
1947/--/-- 7 - british & french empires fracture into new 3rd world nations
1947/--/-- 7 - british india becomes pakistan & india
1947/--/-- 7 - british atomic bomb scientist klaus fuchs is arrested for giving information to the ussr.
1947/--/-- 7 - chuck yeager breaks the sound barrier for the first time in an x-1 rocket plane.
1947/--/-- 7 - conductor sir thomas beecham forms the royal philharmonic orchestra in london.
1947/--/-- 7 - dennis gabor invents holography, a means of producing a three-dimensional image.
1947/--/-- 7 - edwin land demonstrates the single-step polaroid land camera.
1947/--/-- 7 - english composer benjamin britten writes the opera peter grimes.
1947/--/-- 7 - french fashion designer christian dior opens his own couture house.
1947/--/-- 7 - french literary figure andre gide wins the nobel prize for literature.
1947/--/-- 7 - gheorghiu-dej heads the romanian communist party; king michael abdicates.
1947/--/-- 7 - india becomes independent and is divided into the nations of india and pakistan.
1947/--/-- 7 - jawaharlal nehru becomes the first prime minister of india.
1947/--/-- 7 - marshall plan
1947/--/-- 7 - norwegian explorer thor heyerdahl sails on the balsa raft kon tiki from peru to polynesia.
1947/--/-- 7 - tennessee williams' play a streetcar named desire is produced.
1947/--/-- 7 - the dead sea scrolls, a collection of ancient hebrew documents, are discovered.
1947/--/-- 7 - the u.s. marshall plan for economic recovery in europe is established.
1947/--/-- 7 - the united nations elect to partition palestine into arab and jewish states.
1947/--/-- 7 - the first india-pakistan war begins when pakistani tribesmen invade kashmir.
1947/--/-- 7 - the story of a jewish victim of the nazis, the diary of anne frank, is published.
1947/--/-- 7 - trust territory of the pacific islands, captured from japan, administered by u.s.
1947/--/-- 7 - u.s. contains spread of communism
1947/06/21 7 *** benson, glendon ora [2nd cousin] & overholt, paul kenneth - married
1947/10/-- 8 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1947/11/01 8 *** benson, richard edgar [2nd cousin] & marion, phyllis june - married
1948/--/-- 8 - alec guinness stars as fagin in the film of dicken's oliver twist.
1948/--/-- 8 - alfred kinsey publishes his report on sexual behavior in the human male.
1948/--/-- 8 - american opera singer beverly sills debuts in bizet's carmen.
1948/--/-- 8 - american writer norman mailer publishes the war novel the naked and the dead.
1948/--/-- 8 - arab armies invade israel in the first arab-israeli war.
1948/--/-- 8 - bell labs invent transistor
1948/--/-- 8 - britain grants independence to burma.
1948/--/-- 8 - communism quashed in us
1948/--/-- 8 - communist leader kim il sung establishes the people's republic of korea (n. korea).
1948/--/-- 8 - dutch track star fanny blankers-koen wins four gold medals in the olympic games.
1948/--/-- 8 - george balanchine's ballet society is renamed the new york city ballet.
1948/--/-- 8 - indian leader mahatma gandhi is assassinated by a hindu fanatic.
1948/--/-- 8 - israel created
1948/--/-- 8 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs the bicycle thieves.
1948/--/-- 8 - nato formed; cold war begins
1948/--/-- 8 - palestinian jews proclaim the independent state of israel.
1948/--/-- 8 - stalin expels yugoslavia from the communist bloc.
1948/--/-- 8 - the communist party assumes power in hungary under matyas rakosi.
1948/--/-- 8 - the malayan communist party begins an insurrection against british rule.
1948/--/-- 8 - the republic of korea (s. korea) is inaugurated, syngman rhee becomes president.
1948/--/-- 8 - the soviets blockade west berlin; britain and the u.s. begin the berlin airlift.
1948/--/-- 8 - the u.s. air force begins the project blue book study of the ufo phenomenon.
1948/--/-- 8 - the apartheid policy of racial segregation is made official in south africa.
1948/--/-- 8 - the transistor is invented at bell laboratories in the u.s.
1948/10/-- 9 - world series nl boston (2) al cleveland (4)
1949/--/-- 9 - abstract artist robert motherwell begins his series elegy to the spanish republic.
1949/--/-- 9 - abstract-expressionism breaks out in nyc
1949/--/-- 9 - architect philip johnson designs the glass house in new caanan, conn.
1949/--/-- 9 - arthur miller's play death of a salesman is produced.
1949/--/-- 9 - british abstract sculptor henry moore completes the bronze family group.
1949/--/-- 9 - british author george orwell publishes the futuristic novel nineteen eighty-four.
1949/--/-- 9 - civil war ends in greece with the defeat of the communist forces.
1949/--/-- 9 - communists under mao defeat the nationalists and form the people's republic of china.
1949/--/-- 9 - konrad adenauer becomes the first chancellor of west germany.
1949/--/-- 9 - kurchatov develops first soviet a-bomb
1949/--/-- 9 - miles davis makes the first "cool" jazz records.
1949/--/-- 9 - nationalist chinese forces under chiang kai-shek flee to the island of taiwan.
1949/--/-- 9 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical south pacific is produced.
1949/--/-- 9 - the hashimite kingdom of transjordan is renamed as jordan.
1949/--/-- 9 - the netherlands grants independence to indonesia (formerly the dutch east indies).
1949/--/-- 9 - the north atlantic treaty organization is formed to deter soviet aggression.
1949/--/-- 9 - the republic of germany (west germany) is established by the western powers.
1949/--/-- 9 - the soviet union detonates its first atomic bomb.
1949/--/-- 9 - the soviets establish the german democratic republic (east germany).
1949/--/-- 9 - the first india-pakistan war ends with the partition of kashmir.
1949/10/-- 10 - world series nl brooklyn (1) al new york (4)
1950/--/-- 10 - adnan menderes replaces ismet inonu as prime minister of turkey.
1950/--/-- 10 - bette davis stars in the film all about eve.
1950/--/-- 10 - cartoonist charles schulz creates the peanuts comic strip.
1950/--/-- 10 - chinese forces invade tibet, which is officially annexed in 1951.
1950/--/-- 10 - communist north korean forces invade south korea.
1950/--/-- 10 - george burns and gracie allen star in the burns and allen show television series.
1950/--/-- 10 - isaac asimov publishes the science-fiction classic i robot.
1950/--/-- 10 - japanese film director akira kurosawa achieves recognition with rashomon.
1950/--/-- 10 - korean "engagement"
1950/--/-- 10 - president truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
1950/--/-- 10 - senator joseph mccarthy begins his inquiry into un-american activities.
1950/--/-- 10 - the un sanctions military aid for south korea; macarthur is appointed commander.
1950/--/-- 10 - u.s. official alger hiss is convicted of perjury for denying that he knew a soviet agent.
1950/--/-- 10 - un forces cross into north korea but are repulsed by the chinese army.
1950/--/-- 10 - un forces land at inchon and drive the north koreans out of south korea.
1950/10/-- 11 - world series nl philadelphia (0) al new york (4)
1951/--/-- 11 - a frontline is stabilized at the 38th parallel in korea; peace negotiations begin at kaesong.
1951/--/-- 11 - american novelist kurt vonnegut publishes player piano.
1951/--/-- 11 - american poet marianne moore publishes her collected poems.
1951/--/-- 11 - american writer j.d. salinger publishes the catcher in the rye.
1951/--/-- 11 - american writer james jones publishes the war novel from here to eternity.
1951/--/-- 11 - artist stuart davis uses words to function as abstract shapes in his painting visa.
1951/--/-- 11 - australia, new zealand, and the u.s. sign the mutual defense anzus treaty.
1951/--/-- 11 - auto racer juan fangio wins the world driving championship for the first time.
1951/--/-- 11 - boxer sugar ray robinson defeats jake la motta for the middleweight title.
1951/--/-- 11 - british conservatives win a general election with winston churchill as leader.
1951/--/-- 11 - british spies burgess and maclean escape to the soviet union.
1951/--/-- 11 - comedian lucille ball stars in the television series i love lucy.
1951/--/-- 11 - igor stravinsky's opera the rake's progress is premiered.
1951/--/-- 11 - julius and ethel rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage against the u.s.
1951/--/-- 11 - king abdullah of jordan is assassinated by a palestinian nationalist.
1951/--/-- 11 - leopold iii of belgium is forced to abdicate because of his wartime conduct.
1951/--/-- 11 - president truman dismisses macarthur as commander in korea.
1951/--/-- 11 - prime minister muhammad mosaddeq nationalizes iran's oil resources.
1951/--/-- 11 - rodgers and hammerstein's broadway musical the king and i is produced.
1951/--/-- 11 - teller tests h-bomb
1951/--/-- 11 - ten million television receivers have been installed in u.s. homes.
1951/--/-- 11 - the 22nd amendment restricts u.s. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
1951/--/-- 11 - the un general assembly brands communist china an aggressor in the korean war.
1951/--/-- 11 - the first successful videotape for recording television images is demonstrated.
1951/--/-- 11 - univac i, the first commercial computer, is accepted by the u.s. bureau of the census.
1951/10/-- 12 - world series nl new york (2) al new york (4)
1952/--/-- 12 - a bloodless coup returns fulgencio batista to power in cuba.
1952/--/-- 12 - agatha christie's record-breaking play the mouse trap opens in london.
1952/--/-- 12 - american sculptor isamu noguchi designs two bridges for the peace park at hiroshima.
1952/--/-- 12 - american writer e.b. white publishes the children's book charlotte's web.
1952/--/-- 12 - british architect michael ventris deciphers the ancient greek linear b script.
1952/--/-- 12 - chuck yaeger sets a new air speed record of 1,650 mph in the x-1a research plane.
1952/--/-- 12 - communist pow riots in south korea delay peace negotiations.
1952/--/-- 12 - czech runner emil zatopek wins 3 gold medals in the helsinki olympic games.
1952/--/-- 12 - dancer gene kelly stars in the film singin' in the rain.
1952/--/-- 12 - eva peron, popularly known as evita, dies in argentina.
1952/--/-- 12 - gary cooper and grace kelly star in the western film high noon.
1952/--/-- 12 - gordon bunshaft designs the lever house, an early international style building.
1952/--/-- 12 - hostilities continue in korea with increased un air strikes against the north.
1952/--/-- 12 - king farouk of egypt is overthrown in a revolution led by gen. muhammad naguib.
1952/--/-- 12 - kwame nkrumah is elected prime minister of the gold coast (ghana).
1952/--/-- 12 - medical missionary albert schweitzer is awarded the nobel peace prize.
1952/--/-- 12 - opera singer maria callas debuts at london's covent garden.
1952/--/-- 12 - queen elizabeth ii ascends to the british throne on the death of her father george vi.
1952/--/-- 12 - samuel beckett's play waiting for godot is produced in paris.
1952/--/-- 12 - the british de havilland comet becomes the first jet airliner to enter service.
1952/--/-- 12 - the commonwealth of puerto rico is formed with luis munoz marin as governor.
1952/--/-- 12 - the mau mau uprising begins in kenya; jomo kenyatta is imprisoned.
1952/--/-- 12 - the u.s. tests the first hydrogen bomb in the pacific.
1952/--/-- 12 - the first automatic pinsetter is installed in a bowling alley in brooklyn, n.y.
1952/--/-- 12 - turkey joins the north atlantic treaty organization (nato).
1952/--/-- 12 - vice-presidential candidate richard nixon makes his checkers speech.
1952/02/-- 12 - elizabeth ii succeeds as queen of great britain and ireland.
1952/10/-- 13 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1953/--/-- 13 - a redstone rocket (based on the german v-2) is tested at cape canaveral.
1953/--/-- 13 - american physicist charles h. townes invents the maser.
1953/--/-- 13 - american tennis player maureen connolly (little mo) wins the grand slam.
1953/--/-- 13 - american writer saul bellow publishes the adventures of augie march.
1953/--/-- 13 - an armistice ends the korean war; the country remains divided into north and south.
1953/--/-- 13 - arthur miller writes the crucible, a play about the salem witch trials.
1953/--/-- 13 - black writer james baldwin publishes his first novel go tell it on the mountain.
1953/--/-- 13 - communist statesman imre nagy becomes premier of hungary.
1953/--/-- 13 - dag hammarskjold succeeds trygve lie as secretary-general of the un.
1953/--/-- 13 - dwight d. eisenhower (republican) becomes president of the united states
1953/--/-- 13 - edmund hillary and tenzing norgay are the first to climb mount everest.
1953/--/-- 13 - eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th u.s. president; nixon becomes vice-president.
1953/--/-- 13 - fidel castro leads an attack on an army barracks in cuba; he is captured and imprisoned.
1953/--/-- 13 - golfer ben hogan wins the u.s. open, masters, and british open tournaments.
1953/--/-- 13 - hugh hefner publishes the first issue of playboy magazine.
1953/--/-- 13 - hussein i succeeds his father as king of jordan.
1953/--/-- 13 - israeli prime minister ben-gurion retires; he is succeeded by moshe sharett.
1953/--/-- 13 - jacques piccard's bathyscaphe the trieste descends to a depth of 10,330 ft.
1953/--/-- 13 - james watson and francis crick propose the double helix structure of dna.
1953/--/-- 13 - john foster dulles is selected as the u.s. secretary of state.
1953/--/-- 13 - laos, formerly a part of french indochina, is granted independence.
1953/--/-- 13 - lavrenti beria, head of the soviet security service, is arrested and executed.
1953/--/-- 13 - marilyn monroe stars in the film gentlemen prefer blondes.
1953/--/-- 13 - murray gell-mann proposes the strangeness property of some subatomic particles.
1953/--/-- 13 - physicist donald glaser invents the bubble chamber to detect subnuclear particles.
1953/--/-- 13 - soviet dictator joseph stalin dies; georgy m. malenkov becomes the new premier.
1953/--/-- 13 - the first heart-lung machine is developed by dr. john gibbon.
1953/--/-- 13 - the fossil remains of piltdown man are proved a hoax 41 years after their discovery.
1953/--/-- 13 - watson & crick dna=double helix
1953/06/-- 13 - elizabeth ii crowned queen of great britain and northern ireland at westminster
1953/10/-- 14 - world series nl brooklyn (2) al new york (4)
1954/--/-- 14 - a supreme court decision prohibits racial segregation in u.s. public schools.
1954/--/-- 14 - american novelist evan hunter publishes the blackboard jungle.
1954/--/-- 14 - british artist francis bacon begins his portrait of pope innocent x series.
1954/--/-- 14 - british novelist william golding publishes lord of the flies.
1954/--/-- 14 - dylan thomas' radio play under milk wood is performed posthumously.
1954/--/-- 14 - english runner roger bannister is first to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
1954/--/-- 14 - french forces are defeated at the battle of dien bien phu in north vietnam.
1954/--/-- 14 - gamal abdel nasser ousts gen. muhammad naguib as president of egypt.
1954/--/-- 14 - ian fleming publishes the first james bond thriller casino royale.
1954/--/-- 14 - italian film-maker federico fellini directs la strada.
1954/--/-- 14 - kingsley amis, one of england's angry young men, publishes lucky jim.
1954/--/-- 14 - marlon brando stars in elia kazan's film on the waterfront.
1954/--/-- 14 - national liberation front (fln) raids on french property spark the algerian war.
1954/--/-- 14 - senator mccarthy is discredited for failing to prove claims of communist penetration.
1954/--/-- 14 - television thrives; radio switches to music
1954/--/-- 14 - the geneva conference establishes the partition of vietnam into north and south.
1954/--/-- 14 - the u.s. and canada begin construction of the st. lawrence seaway.
1954/--/-- 14 - the u.s. nuclear submarine the nautilus is launched.
1954/--/-- 14 - u.s. "nautilus" first nuclear submarine
1954/10/-- 15 - world series nl new york (4) al cleveland (0)
1955/--/-- 15 - a military coup in argentina deposes president juan peron.
1955/--/-- 15 - afl and cio merge
1955/--/-- 15 - american artist jasper johns begins his paintings of american flags and targets.
1955/--/-- 15 - american artist larry rivers paints double portrait of birdie.
1955/--/-- 15 - american rock 'n' roll musician bill haley records rock around the clock.
1955/--/-- 15 - anthony eden succeeds winston churchill as prime minister of great britain.
1955/--/-- 15 - austria achieves independence; the four-power occupation is terminated.
1955/--/-- 15 - blacks boycott buses in montgomery
1955/--/-- 15 - british writer graham greene publishes the quiet american.
1955/--/-- 15 - british writer and scholar j.r.r. tolkien completes the lord of the rings.
1955/--/-- 15 - david ben-gurion returns as prime minister of israel.
1955/--/-- 15 - film star james dean is killed in a car crash.
1955/--/-- 15 - jonas salk's vaccine against polio comes into widespread use.
1955/--/-- 15 - marian anderson becomes the first black to perform at the metropolitan opera house.
1955/--/-- 15 - martin luther king, jr. leads a boycott against racial segregation on buses.
1955/--/-- 15 - russian writer vladimir nabokov publishes the novel lolita.
1955/--/-- 15 - satyajit ray directs pather panchali, the first film in a trilogy on bengali family life.
1955/--/-- 15 - supreme court orders school desegregation
1955/--/-- 15 - the federal republic of germany joins nato.
1955/--/-- 15 - the warsaw pact establishes a military alliance of european communist nations.
1955/--/-- 15 - theologian pierre teilhard de chardin publishes the phenomenon of man.
1955/10/-- 16 - world series nl brooklyn (4) al new york (3)
1956/--/-- 16 - american beat poet allen ginsberg publishes howl and other poems.
1956/--/-- 16 - american television news show the huntley-brinkley report begins.
1956/--/-- 16 - american writer grace metalious publishes peyton place.
1956/--/-- 16 - anglo-french forces invade egypt but withdraw after protests from the u.s.
1956/--/-- 16 - archbishop makarios iii is deported from cyprus by the british.
1956/--/-- 16 - brendan behan's play the quare fellow opens in london.
1956/--/-- 16 - britain, france and israel agree on a secret joint action against egypt.
1956/--/-- 16 - british artist richard hamilton produces the first pop art work.
1956/--/-- 16 - david niven stars in the film around the world in eighty days.
1956/--/-- 16 - eugene o'neill's play long day's journey into night is produced.
1956/--/-- 16 - fidel castro and che guevara land in cuba and begin a guerrilla war.
1956/--/-- 16 - film actress grace kelly marries prince rainier iii of monaco.
1956/--/-- 16 - heavyweight boxing champion rocky marciano retires without being defeated.
1956/--/-- 16 - israeli forces under moshe dayan seize the gaza strip and the sinai peninsula.
1956/--/-- 16 - john osborne's first play look back in anger is produced in london.
1956/--/-- 16 - lerner and loewe's musical my fair lady opens in new york.
1956/--/-- 16 - president anastasio somoza garcia is assassinated in nicaragua.
1956/--/-- 16 - president nasser nationalizes the suez canal before the british lease expires.
1956/--/-- 16 - president ngo dinh diem refuses to hold elections in south vietnam.
1956/--/-- 16 - rock 'n roll singer elvis presley records his first hit heartbreak hotel.
1956/--/-- 16 - soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev denounces the crimes of the stalin era.
1956/--/-- 16 - sudan gains independence from anglo-egyptian rule.
1956/--/-- 16 - the hungarian uprising is suppressed by soviet troops.
1956/--/-- 16 - the italian ocean liner andrea doria sinks off the u.s. coast after a collision in fog.
1956/--/-- 16 - tunisia and morocco are granted independence by france.
1956/10/-- 17 - world series nl brooklyn (3) al new york (4)
1957/--/-- 17 - beat generation writer jack kerouac publishes on the road.
1957/--/-- 17 - black tennis player althea gibson wins the u.s. open and wimbledon championships.
1957/--/-- 17 - british philosopher a.j. ayer publishes the problem of knowledge.
1957/--/-- 17 - british prime minister anthony eden resigns; is succeeded by harold macmillan.
1957/--/-- 17 - dr. seuss publishes the children's book the cat in the hat.
1957/--/-- 17 - francois duvalier (known as papa doc) is elected president of haiti.
1957/--/-- 17 - ghana gains independence; kwame nkrumah becomes the first prime minister.
1957/--/-- 17 - jack kerouac "on the road"
1957/--/-- 17 - jerome robbins is director-choreographer of the musical west side story.
1957/--/-- 17 - john g. diefenbaker succeeds louis st. laurent as prime minister of canada.
1957/--/-- 17 - lawrence durrell publishes justine, the first of the alexandria quartet novels.
1957/--/-- 17 - scientists from 67 nations work together during the international geophysical year.
1957/--/-- 17 - soviet leaders malenkov and molotov fail in an attempt to oust khrushchev from power.
1957/--/-- 17 - soviets launch "sputnik", first artificial satellite
1957/--/-- 17 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs the seventh seal.
1957/--/-- 17 - the israeli army withdraws from egypt; the gaza strip is policed by un forces.
1957/--/-- 17 - the ussr launches sputnik i, the first artificial satellite.
1957/--/-- 17 - the viet cong begin acts of rebellion in south vietnam.
1957/--/-- 17 - tunku abdul rahman becomes the first prime minister of independent malaya (malaysia).
1957/06/15 17 *** booher, doris evangeline & benson, roy lee [2nd cousin] - married
1957/10/-- 18 - world series nl milwaukee (4) al new york (3)
1958/--/-- 18 - american economist j.k. galbraith publishes the affluent society.
1958/--/-- 18 - american golfer arnold palmer wins the masters tournament for the first time.
1958/--/-- 18 - american playwright edward albee writes the zoo story.
1958/--/-- 18 - american writer truman capote publishes the novella breakfast at tiffany's.
1958/--/-- 18 - bertrand russell founds the campaign for nuclear disarmament (cnd) in britain.
1958/--/-- 18 - civil war breaks out in lebanon; it is ended when u.s. marines land at beirut.
1958/--/-- 18 - egypt and syria form the united arab republic.
1958/--/-- 18 - gen. muhammad ayub khan seizes control in pakistan.
1958/--/-- 18 - leonard bernstein becomes the conductor of the new york philharmonic orchestra.
1958/--/-- 18 - nikita khrushchev replaces nikolai bulganin as soviet premier.
1958/--/-- 18 - prime minister hendrik verwoerd extends south africa's apartheid laws.
1958/--/-- 18 - russian writer boris pasternak publishes the novel doctor zhivago.
1958/--/-- 18 - soccer player pele leads brazil to victory in the world cup.
1958/--/-- 18 - the algerian crisis prompts the recall of charles de gaulle as president of france.
1958/--/-- 18 - the european economic community (eec) is established.
1958/--/-- 18 - the french army and settlers in algiers revolt over the algerian war stalemate.
1958/--/-- 18 - the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) is founded.
1958/--/-- 18 - the u.s. launches the explorer i and vanguard i scientific satellites.
1958/--/-- 18 - the first intercontinental ballistic missile (icbm) is launched in the u.s.
1958/--/-- 18 - the nuclear submarine nautilus reaches the north pole under the polar ice cap.
1958/--/-- 18 - wilson greatbatch invents an artificial pacemaker to control heartbeats.
1958/10/-- 19 - world series nl milwaukee (3) al new york (4)
1959/--/-- 19 - alaska is inaugurated as the 49th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 19 - american writer leon uris publishes exodus, a novel on the founding of israel.
1959/--/-- 19 - american writer william burroughs publishes the naked lunch.
1959/--/-- 19 - anthropologists richard and mary leakey discover an australopithecus skull in africa.
1959/--/-- 19 - artist robert rauschenberg creates the three-dimensional collage monogram.
1959/--/-- 19 - cyprus gains independence from britain; archbishop makarios becomes president.
1959/--/-- 19 - fidel castro ousts cuban leader fulgencio batista in a communist revolution.
1959/--/-- 19 - film actor charlton heston wins the academy award for his role in ben-hur.
1959/--/-- 19 - french new wave filmmaker jean luc godard directs breathless.
1959/--/-- 19 - french filmmaker alain resnais directs hiroshima mon amour.
1959/--/-- 19 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs the 400 blows.
1959/--/-- 19 - german writer gunter grass publishes his first novel the tin drum.
1959/--/-- 19 - hawaii is inaugurated as the 50th state of the union.
1959/--/-- 19 - jack lemon, tony curtis and marilyn monroe star in the film some like it hot.
1959/--/-- 19 - jean-luc godard's new wave "breathless"
1959/--/-- 19 - lee kuan yew becomes prime minister of singapore.
1959/--/-- 19 - lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun is the first broadway play by a black woman.
1959/--/-- 19 - nasa selects the first seven u.s. astronauts.
1959/--/-- 19 - rock 'n roll star buddy holly is killed in a plane crash.
1959/--/-- 19 - rod serling hosts the twilight zone television series.
1959/--/-- 19 - rogers and hammerstein's broadway musical the sound of music is produced.
1959/--/-- 19 - sir christopher cockerell tests the first air-cushion vehicle.
1959/--/-- 19 - the boeing 707 jet airliner enters service.
1959/--/-- 19 - the dalai lama flees to india after china crushes an uprising in tibet.
1959/--/-- 19 - the guggenheim museum, designed by frank lloyd wright, opens in new york city.
1959/--/-- 19 - the soviet union sends a series of luna space probes to the moon.
1959/--/-- 19 - the first flight is made by the x-15 rocket-powered research aircraft.
1959/10/-- 20 - world series nl los angeles (4) al chicago (2)
1960/--/-- 20 - 69 africans are killed in the sharpeville massacre in south africa.
1960/--/-- 20 - a military coup takes place in turkey; prime minister adnan menderes is executed (1961).
1960/--/-- 20 - a student uprising forces the resignation of syngman rhee, president of south korea.
1960/--/-- 20 - american author john updike publishes the novel rabbit run.
1960/--/-- 20 - american physicist theodore h. maiman demonstrates the first successful laser.
1960/--/-- 20 - american track star wilma rudolph wins 3 gold medals at the rome olympic games.
1960/--/-- 20 - an earthquake kills 15,000 at agadir in morocco.
1960/--/-- 20 - belgium grants independence to the congo (zaire); patrice lumumba becomes premier.
1960/--/-- 20 - britain grants independence to nigeria; abubakar balewa continues as prime minister.
1960/--/-- 20 - civil rights movement
1960/--/-- 20 - congo (zaire) premier patrice lumumba is ousted by joseph mobutu and murdered.
1960/--/-- 20 - filmmaker alfred hitchcock directs the suspense thriller psycho.
1960/--/-- 20 - former nazi official adolf eichmann is abducted to israel.
1960/--/-- 20 - france grants independence to the congo, chad, central african republic, and gabon.
1960/--/-- 20 - harold pinter's play the caretaker is produced.
1960/--/-- 20 - italian filmmaker michelangelo antonioni directs la notte (the night).
1960/--/-- 20 - jacques piccard and don walsh descend to 35,800 ft in the bathyscaphe trieste.
1960/--/-- 20 - maiman makes first laser
1960/--/-- 20 - nasa launches the first tiros weather satellite.
1960/--/-- 20 - religious broadcaster pat robertson founds the christian broadcasting network.
1960/--/-- 20 - sirimavo bandaranaike becomes the world's first woman prime minister in ceylon (sri lanka).
1960/--/-- 20 - south african civil rights leader albert luthuli wins the nobel peace prize.
1960/--/-- 20 - the congo crisis begins with the secession of katanga province under moise tshombe.
1960/--/-- 20 - the echo 1 experimental communications satellite is launched.
1960/--/-- 20 - the motown record company is founded in detroit by berry gordy.
1960/--/-- 20 - the south african government bans the african national congress (anc).
1960/--/-- 20 - the soviets shoot down a u-2 spy plane; u.s. pilot francis gary powers is captured.
1960/--/-- 20 - the first quasars, the most luminous known objects in the universe, are discovered.
1960/--/-- 20 - the first submerged firing is made of a polaris submarine-launched missile.
1960/--/-- 20 - the planned city of brasilia becomes the new capital of brazil.
1960/--/-- 20 - the presidential debates of john f. kennedy and richard nixon are televised.
1960/--/-- 20 - viet cong groups unite into the national liberation front of south vietnam (nlfsv).
1960/--/-- 20 - walter ulbricht becomes head of east germany.
1960/10/-- 21 - world series nl pittsburgh (4) al new york (3)
1961/--/-- 21 - agostinho neto and holden roberto lead insurrections in portuguese angola.
1961/--/-- 21 - american writer joseph heller publishes the anti-war novel catch-22.
1961/--/-- 21 - american-aided cuban exiles attempt the unsuccessful bay of pigs invasion.
1961/--/-- 21 - astronaut alan shepard makes the first u.s. suborbital space flight.
1961/--/-- 21 - britain grants independence to tanganyika (tanzania) with julius nyerere as prime minister.
1961/--/-- 21 - british novelist iris murdoch publishes a severed head.
1961/--/-- 21 - english writer muriel spark publishes the prime of miss jean brodie.
1961/--/-- 21 - french filmmaker francois truffaut directs jeanne moreau in jules and jim.
1961/--/-- 21 - india annexes the portugese territories of goa, daman, and diu.
1961/--/-- 21 - italian filmmaker vittorio de sica directs sophia loren in alberto moravia's two women.
1961/--/-- 21 - italian opera singer luciano pavarotti debuts in puccini's la boheme.
1961/--/-- 21 - john f. kennedy (democrat) becomes president of the united states
1961/--/-- 21 - kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th u.s. president; johnson becomes vice-president.
1961/--/-- 21 - kennedy launches "apollo" project; man lands on the moon
1961/--/-- 21 - peace corps
1961/--/-- 21 - president kennedy begins to increase the u.s. military presence in vietnam.
1961/--/-- 21 - president kennedy establishes the peace corps.
1961/--/-- 21 - president kennedy sets a goal for landing a man on the moon within the decade.
1961/--/-- 21 - president rafael trujillo is assassinated in the dominican republic.
1961/--/-- 21 - roger maris breaks babe ruth's home-run baseball record with a season total of 61.
1961/--/-- 21 - science fiction writer robert heinlein publishes stranger in a strange land.
1961/--/-- 21 - soviet ballet dancer rudolf nureyev defects to the west.
1961/--/-- 21 - soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin orbits the earth.
1961/--/-- 21 - swedish filmmaker ingmar bergman directs max von sydow in through a glass darkly.
1961/--/-- 21 - the berlin wall is constructed, separating east and west berlin.
1961/--/-- 21 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 21 - the kurds begin a guerrilla war against iraq to gain independence for kurdistan.
1961/--/-- 21 - the drug thalidomide is found to cause malformations in new born babies.
1961/--/-- 21 - un secretary-general dag hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash in the congo (zaire).
1961/--/-- 21 - v.s. naipaul writes about west indian life in a house for mr. biswas.
1961/04/28 21 *** stack, thomas edward - died cleveland, cuyahoga, ohio cleveland, cuyahoga, ohio cleveland, cuyahoga, ohio
1961/06/08 21 *** benson, roy lee [uncle] - died akron, summit, ohio akron, summit, ohio hillside mem. park, akron, summit, ohio
1961/10/-- 22 - world series nl cincinnati (1) al new york (4)
in 1939 transportation was by:
foot
bicycle
train
steamboat
car & bus
diesel ship
propeller airplane
by 1961 transportation was by:
helicopter
jet
nuclear ship
in addition.
by 1961 transportation by:
steamboat
had been discontinued.
in 1939 communications was by:
word of mouth
post office
telegraph
telephone
by 1961 communications by:
telegraph
had been discontinued.
in 1939 food preparation was by:
wood
gas
refrigeration
by 1961 food preparation was by:
electric
dish washer
in addition.
by 1961 food preparation by:
wood
had been discontinued.
in 1939 entertainment was by:
social intercourse
organized sports
travel
professional sports
movies
radio
television
theme parks
computer
in 1939 health care was by:
operations
anesthetic
x-rays
mri
in 1939 war making was by:
gun
artillery
machine guns
tank
submarine
iron clad ships
tnt
mines
chemical agents
aeroplane
by 1961 war making was by:
assault rifle
biological agents
helicopter
missiles
atomic bomb
satellites
in addition.
in 1939 navigation was by:
stars & maps
compass
radio signals
by 1961 navigation was by:
radar
in addition.
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