In Februrary, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconisn ignited a 2nd...
Congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Please get...
MLK Jr led the famous civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery,...
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sold 20 000 000 copies.
George Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis to become to 41st...
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the US.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream"...
The last US ground troops came home from Vietnam and the US...
Mr. Pasternak became a graduate of this high school and headed off to...
MLK Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, TN.
The US and North Vietnam signed a peace agreement in Paris and...
Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th President of the US.
President Reagan and three others were wounded in an assassination...
This was the peak of the post WWII "baby boom". There were...
The first McDonalds restaurant opened its doors in San Bernadino,...
The USSR took the lead in the "space race" when they launced...
JFK orders a sharp increase in the number of US military...
On Nov. 22nd, Pres. Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald...
Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights...
On June 25th, communist North Korean troops crossed the 38th Parallel...
The "Barbie Doll" first appeared. It was designed by a...
Republican Richard Nixon and a young Democrat from Mass. named John F....
Kennedy's VP, Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as our nation's...
Black rights millitant Malcolm X was cut down by a black gunman while...
Illegal drugs, especially LSD, came into wide use amoung American...
N. Vietnam launched the massive Tet Offensive throughout S....
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man,, and one...
The US celebrated its 200th birthday.
Ronald Regan defeated Jimmy Carter in the presidential race.
Ronald Reagan became our 40th president.
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman appointed to the...
The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launching, killing...
President Reagan submitted the nation's first trillion-dollar...
The Exxon Valdez struck a reef off the coast of Alaska and...
The Godfather, starring Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for Best...
Amidst the Watergate Scandal, Nixon became the first and only US...
Saigon fell to North Vietnam marking the end of the Vietnam War.
The Eagles released their hit song "Hotel California".
Grease made its debut on the silver screen.
A terrorist truck bomb blew apart the US Marine headquarter in Beirut,...
After defeating Democrat Walter Mondale in a landslide, Ronald Reagan...
Apple introduced the Macintosh PC during the 3rd quarter of the Super...
Workplace sexual harassment was held to be illegal by the Supreme...
In early November, the Berlin Wall came down after serving as an...
The Korean war comes to an end with both sides accomplishing very...
"Low Blow" Joe McCarthy finally met his match when his...
Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose at the...
Johnson is given Senate approval to expand the war by taking "all...
As escaltion begins, the number of US troops in Vietnam increase from...
Eisenhower takes the oath of office and begins the first of his two...
In September, President Eisenhower was forced to send troops to...
Baseball's NY Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers bolted the "Big...
LBJ defeats Rep. Barry Goldwater in the presidential election and...
Charles Manson was arrested for the murder of pregnant actress Sharon...
A Super Court ruling made it legal to use video cassette recorders to...
"We Are the World", recorded by a group of top recording...
The stock market closed on Jan. 8th above 2000 for the first time...
Pan Am flight 103 is blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb over...
Presidential candidate and brother of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy, was...
January 14th, Mr. Pasternak arrived on the scene at 6:46 PM in a...
In February, Pres. Nixon made a historic journey to China which paved...
Congress passed the War Powers Act over Nixon's veto which placed...
Gerald Ford became our nation's 38th President. He was the first...
Former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from a Detroit...
Home Video games played on TV screens first appeared.
Pink Floyd released the hit album "The Wall".
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for leaking atomic...
World War II hero Dwight D. Eisenhower, or "Ike", defeated...
The United States government announced the creation of NASA....
The "Beatnik" generation first appeared on the American...
The US-assisted Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by 1200 Cuban exiles in...
US troops in Vietnam now stand at 300 000.
On June 17th, five "CREEPS" were arrested for breaking into...
"Disco Fever" struck America with the release of John...
The US boycotted the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow because of the...
Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by an escaped Turkish murderer...
Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to be named Miss...
On Oct. 19th, "Black Monday", the leading stock market index...
The first human kidney transplant is performed in the United States.
In the landmark case Brown v. Board of Ed., the US Supreme Court...
A 21 year old heartthrob from Tupelo, Mississippi named Elvis Presley...
US Surgeon General first reported that cigarette smoke is dangerous to...
Miniskirts and paper "throwaway" clothes became popular.
In August, over 400 000 people celebrated a "summer of love"...
In DC 7 000 demonstrators were arrested for trying to close down the...
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age to 18.
The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Minnesota Vikings to win their first...
Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Democrat James Earl Carter defeated Gerald Ford in the Presidential...
A near nuclear meltdown occured at the Three-Mile Island nuclear power...
Pittsburgh became the "City of Champions" as both the...
More than 125 000 Cuban refugees (boat people) arrived in the US.
The Vietnam Wall Memorial was unveiled in Washington DC.
The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated after being ratified by only...
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in good-old Pittsburgh, PA.
The "Rock-n-Roll" Era officially begins with the first hits...
Minium wage reached a whopping $1.00/hour for the first time.
The Berlin Wall was built seperating the German city of Berlin and...
Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to be rocketed into...
Rocky Marciano won his record 43rd straight fight to capture the...
The US launched the world's first fully operational space shuttle,...
Alaska and Hawaii became to 49th and 50th states admitted to the...
During 13 days in October, the US and USSR stood on the brink of...
Richard Nixon defeated Dem. Hubert H. Humphrey in a...
The world's first human heart transplant was performed in Houston.
The Beatles released their hit album "Abbey Road".
The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles and their staff...
Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth's lifetime...
The 50-star US Flag was formally adopted on July 4th.
Charles Manson and 3 of his followers were sentenced to death for the...
The famous Iran-Contra affair broke. This involved American diplomats...
The Communist-block nations signed the Warsaw Pact of offset the...
Nixon takes the oath of office.
Gasoline prices topped $1.00/gallon for the first time ever.
Minimum wage reached $3.10/hour.
The US Census revealed that over half of the US population now lived...
The New York Yankees become the first team to capture 5 World Series...
Due to America's folicy of backing Israel against its oil-rich...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established.
The SALT II agreements were signed but never ratified by the Senate.
The college-educated black seamstress Rosa Parks made history in...
A US U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth.
Stokely Carmichael of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee...
Thurgood Marshall became the first black justice to be appointed to...
Four students were killed and several were wounded by the National...
50 US Diplomats were taken hostage and held for 444 days by the...
The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the LA Rams in the Super Bowl.
The Pittsburgh Pirates upset the heavily favored NY Yankees in the...
NY Yankee pitcher Don Larsen tossed the first ever World Series...