Timeline: SIEGEL, Richard Samuel: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

1955 - 2018 (63 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1955	1955: ITV formed 1955: Disneyland Opens 1955: James Dean Dies in Car Accident 1955: McDonald's Corporation Founded 1955: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus 1955: Warsaw Pact Signed
2	1956	1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts 1956: Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show 1956: Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco 1956: Hungarian Revolution 1956: Khrushchev Denounces Stalin 1956: Suez Crisis 1956: T.V. Remote Control Invented 1956: Velcro Introduced
3	1957	1957: The Space Age begins as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 - the first satellite 1957: Dr. Seuss Publishes 'The Cat in the Hat' 1957: European Economic Community Established 1957: Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age 1957: Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Orbit Space
4	1958	1958: UNIMATE is first industrial robot 1958: Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize 1958: Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the 'Great Leap Forward' 1958: Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian 1958: Hula Hoops Become Popular 1958: Lego Toy Bricks First Introduced 1958: NASA Founded
5	1959	1959: Beyond the Fringe' debuts in Edinburgh 1959: Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba 1959: International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve 1959: Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev 1959: The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway 1959: U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed
6	1960	1960: Launch of 'Coronation Street' 1960: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released 1960: Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City 1960: Lasers Invented
7	1961	1961: Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961: Berlin Wall Built 1961: Peace Corps Founded 1961: Soviets Launch First Man in Space
8	1962	1962: Movie Actress Marilyn Monroe dies of an overdose of sleeping pills. 1962: Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall 1962: Marilyn Monroe Found Dead 1962: Rachel Carson Publishes 'Silent Spring'
9	1963	1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. 1963: Betty Friedan Publishes 'The Feminine Mystique' 1963: JFK Assassinated 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
10	1964	1964: Beatles Become Popular in U.S. 1964: Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion 1964: Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S. 1964: Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
11	1965	1965: The United States begins air raids in Vietnam, committing 190,000 U.S. troops there by year's end. 1965: Cigarette ads banned on UK television 1965: Japan's Bullet Train Opens 1965: Los Angeles Riots 1965: U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
12	1966	1966: Private theatre clubs lose immunity from censorship 1966: World Cup won by England at Wembley (4-2 in extra time v West Germany) 1966: Aberfan disaster - slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children 1966: Black Panther Party Established 1966: Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution 1966: Mass Draft Protests in U.S. 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
13	1967	1967: Three US astronauts killed in fire during launch pad test 1967: First colour TV in Britain 1967: First human heart transplant in South Africa by Christiaan Barnard 1967: Che Guevara Killed 1967: First Heart Transplant 1967: Six-Day War in the Middle East 1967: Stalin's Daughter Defects 1967: Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
14	1968	1968: Student riots in Paris 1968: Severe flooding in England 1968: Pope encyclical condemns all artificial forms of birth control 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated 1968: Prague Spring 1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated 1968: Tet Offensive
15	1969	1969: John Lennon returns OBE due to government's support of Vietnam War 1969: America lands man on the Moon 1969: Voting age lowered from 21 to 18 in UK 1969: ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created 1969: Charles Manson and 'Family' Arrested 1969: Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon 1969: Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock 1969: Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
16	1970	1970: Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims 1970: American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians 1970: Aswan High Dam Completed 1970: Beatles Break Up 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced 1970: Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes 1970: Protesting Students at Kent State Shot
17	1971	1971: Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip" 1971: Decimalisation of coinage in Britain 1971: Bomb explodes in London's Post Office tower 1971: London Bridge sold to the U.S. 1971: United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency 1971: VCRs Introduced
18	1972	1972: First handheld calculator, from Texas Instruments 1972: Power workers strike crisis 1972: Miners call off crippling coal strike 1972: MAS*H T.V. Shows Premiers 1972: Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals 1972: Pocket Calculators Introduced 1972: Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich 1972: Watergate Scandal Begins
19	1973	1973: The Internet was originally set up by the U.S. Department of Defense 1973: Britain enters EEC Common Market with Ireland and Denmark 1973: Miners strike and oil crisis precipitate 'three-day week' until Mar 1974 to conserve power 1973: Paul Getty Kidnapped 1973: Sears Tower Built 1973: U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam 1973: U.S. Vice President Resigns
20	1974	1974: OPEC oil shock 1974: President Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal 1974: Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed 1974: Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects 1974: Terracotta Army Discovered in China 1974: U.S. President Nixon Resigns
21	1975	1975: End of Vietnam war 1975: Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into force in UK 1975: Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon 1975: Civil War in Lebanon 1975: Microsoft Founded 1975: Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia
22	1976	1976: First Apple computer 1976: Viking Lander lands on Mars 1976: NASA's Viking Lander lands on Mars, starts looking for alien life 1976: Long hot summer in UK. Parliament introduces Drought Act 1976: Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens 1976: North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1976: Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
23	1977	1977: The Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges-Pompidou (Pompidou Centre or "Beaubourg"), a Hi-Tech metal-framework building designed by Richard Rogers, is completed in Paris and proves immensely popular. 1977: UK road speed limits set at 70mph for dual roads; 60mph single 1977: Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Silver Jubilee 1977: 'Star Wars' fever invades Britain as thousands flock to cinemas to watch the long-awaited sci-fi blockbuster 1977: Elvis Found Dead 1977: Miniseries Roots Airs 1977: South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death 1977: Star Wars Movie Released
24	1978	1978: World's first 'test tube' baby, Louise Browne born in Oldham 1978: Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies after an assassin stabs him with a poisoned umbrella at a London bus stop. 1978: Pope John Paul II elected by cardinals: first non-Italian for 450 years 1978: First Test-Tube Baby Born 1978: John Paul II Becomes Pope 1978: Jonestown Massacre
25	1979	1979: Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister to 1990 (Conservative) 1979: Public sector strike paralyses UK 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman UK Prime Minister 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran 1979: Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran 1979: Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain 1979: Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1979: Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island 1979: Sony Introduces the Walkman
26	1980	1980: Arthur Fry, a chemist for 3M, invented the Post-It note 1980: Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran 1980: John Lennon Assassinated 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts 1980: Rubik's Cube Popular 1980: Ted Turner Establishes CNN 1980: Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
27	1981	1981: First US Space Shuttle (Columbia) launched 1981: Worst April blizzards of 20th century in Britain 1981: Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 1981: Assassination Attempt on the Pope 1981: Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan 1981: Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V. 1981: New Plague Identified as AIDS 1981: Pac-Man is Extremely Popular 1981: Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
28	1982	1982: Argentina invades Falkland Islands 1982: Unemployment reaches 3 million in Britain 1982: Women's peace protests against cruise missiles begin at Greenham Common 1982: E.T. Movie Released 1982: Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina 1982: King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised After 437 Years 1982: Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden
29	1983	1983: Margaret Thatcher wins landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209 1983: ?1 coin goes into circulation in Britain 1983: Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars 1983: Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner
30	1984	1984: Miners' strike in UK - High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets 1984: Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India 1984: Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards
31	1985	1985: BBC launches 'EastEnders' as soap rival to 'Coronation Street' 1985: Famine in Ethiopia 1985: Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika 1985: Wreck of the Titanic Found
32	1986	1986: US bombing of Libya 1986: Chernobyl nuclear accident in USSR 1986: LiveAid, the biggest music event staged to date 1986: Seven dead in 'Challenger' space shuttle disaster 1986: Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes 1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident 1986: Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines 1986: Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds 1986: U.S. Bombs Libya 1986: U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station
33	1987	1987: Margaret Thatcher wins record third term as UK prime minister 1987: DNA First Used to Convict Criminals 1987: Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison 1987: New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on 'Black Monday' 1987: West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square
34	1988	1988: Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie 1988: U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
35	1989	1989: Berlin Wall Falls 1989: Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline 1989: Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square
36	1990	1990: John Major Prime Minister to 1997 (Conservative) 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering first gulf war 1990: Violence flares in London Poll Tax demonstration 1990: Margaret Thatcher quits as UK prime minister 1990: Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years 1990: Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space 1990: Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland 1990: Nelson Mandela Freed
37	1991	1991: Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier 1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union 1991: Operation Desert Storm 1991: South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws
38	1992	1992: Official End of the Cold War
39	1993	1993: Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided 1993: Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially 1993: World Trade Center Bombed
40	1994	1994: Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France 1994: Lorena Bobbit Takes Brutal Revenge 1994: Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa 1994: O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder 1994: Rwandan Genocide Begins
41	1995	1995: Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire 1995: Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway 1995: Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated
42	1996	1996: Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain 1996: Two Royal Divorces
43	1997	1997: UK General Election: Labour routs Tories and Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister 1997: Hale-Bopp Comet Visible 1997: Hong Kong Returned to China 1997: Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars 1997: Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash 1997: Scientists Clone Sheep
44	1998	1998: India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons 1998: Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever 1998: U.S. President Clinton Impeached 1998: Viagra on the Market
45	1999	1999: The Euro the New European Currency 1999: Fear of Y2K Bug 1999: Killing Spree at Columbine High School 1999: NATO Attacks Serbia 1999: Panama Canal Returns to Panama
46	2000	2000: Fuel protests paralyse Britain for seven days 2000: World celebrates New Millennium: UK opens unpopular dome visitor attraction at Greenwich
47	2001	2001: 11 SEP attacks on US 2001: Outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease in UK. Millions of animals slaughtered and burned across the nation 2001: General Election - Labour returned to power in UK
48	2002	2002: The Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon dies, aged 101 years
49	2005	2005: UK General election returns Labour to power for third term under Tony Blair

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