History Timeline

1951 - 1975 AD

1950 - 1953 Korean war
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of selling nuclear secrets to the    Russians
1952 First polio vaccine developed
   Birth of Douglas Adams - author of "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy"
1953 James Bond comes to the big screen
   The Rosenbergs are executed
   DNA is discovered
1954 Church of Scientology founded by L. Ron Hubbard
   First nuclear-powered reactor constructed
1955 Bill Gates is born - founder of Microsoft
   Birth of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer systems
   Military overthrow of President Peron in Argentina
   Frederick Werner completes a color television receiver
1957 First artificial satellites launched into space
   Russia launches Sputnik, dog becomes first earth-born creature in space
   Ghana becomes independent country
1958 NASA founded
1958 - 1960 Great Leap Forward under Mao Zedong in China
1959 Beatles are formed
   The integrated circuit debuts
1959 - 1975 Vietnam war
1960 Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat
   First laser is built
1961 Berlin Wall built
   Birth of Princess Diana
   Peace Corps created
   First person to space
   Amnesty International founded
   Female oral contraceptive developed
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
   Telstar, the first communications satellite is launched
   Thomas S. Kuhn talks about replacing axiomatic systems theory with paradigmatic systems theory
1960 - 1980 - People fight for ecology and environmental protection (return of the humanism of the 16th century)
1963 JFK is assassinated
   Birth of Michael Jordan
   Kenyan independence
1964 US Civil Rights Act
1965 IBM introduces the word processor
1966 Abortion legalized in the U.S.
   Foundation of the Black Panther party
1966 - 1976 Cultural revolution in China
   Beginning of Jewish occupation of the Palestinian West Bank
1968 Robert Kennedy assasinated
   Completion of Aswan High Dam in Egypt
   Beginnings of terrorism in Ireland
   Montoneros group originates in Argentina
1969 First man on the moon
   ARPANET invented by the Department of Defense
   Unix comes into existence
   Libya overthrows colonial government
1970 - 1989 Terrorism flourishes in Italy (the Red Brigade)
1971 Founding of Greenpeace
   First e-mail message sent
   Texas instruments releases first portable electronic calculator
   C.G. Abbot - astrophysicist - devises instrument to convert solar energy to    power
1972 Theft that led to Watergate scandal
   Palestinians murder several Jewish athletes at the Olympic games in Munich
   Magnavox "Odyssey" is first home video game system
1973 World Trade Center is completed
   US launches first space station: Skylab 4
1974 MIT releases the Altair - the first successful personal computer. Uses an Intel 8080 microprocessor
   Sears Tower is completed
1975 Founding of Microsoft
   Trans-Alaska pipeline built
1975 - 1979 Khmer Rouge rules Cambodia under Pol Pot