Timeline: RUSHMORE, William H: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

1842 -

	Date	Event(s)
1	1842	1842: First Christmas card 1842: First UK public telegraph lines, from Paddington to Slough and Gosport to London
2	1843	1843: Alexander Bain (1818-1903) invented an early fax machine
3	1844	1844: Charles Darwin wrote, but didn't publish, an essay presaging the theory of the origin of species. 1844: Samuel Finley Breese Morse demonstrates a telegraph, using a code of his own invention 1844: Parliament passes the Bank Charter Act. Foundation of the Rochdale Co-Operative Society and the Royal Commission on the Health of Towns 1844: Two years of railway mania begins across Britain. Massive investment and speculation leads to the laying of 5,000 miles of track
4	1845	1845: Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people in two years 1845: Engels publishes 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' 1845: There are reckoned to be 210 accountants in London
5	1846	1846: End of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry. Whigs come to Power. Repeal of the Corn Laws
6	1847	1847: Flourens discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform 1847: Levi Strauss invents denim jeans
7	1848	1848: Major Chartist demonstration in London. Revolutions in Europe. Parliament passes the Public Health Act 1848: Karl Marx publishes 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'
8	1849	1849: Howe patents the safety-pin
9	1850	1850: American Joel Houghton invented the first dishwasher. He made it out of wood, and gave it a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on the dishes inside. It didn't really work, but it did get the first "dishwasher" patent 1850: First machine-made paper bag
10	1851	1851: The Great Exhibition is staged in Hyde Park. Thanks to Prince Albert, it is a great success 1851: Patent for Singer sewing machine issued
11	1852	1852: Death of the Duke of Wellington. Derby's first minority Conservative government. Aberdeen's coalition government is established
12	1853	1853: Potato crisps invented by a cook named George Crum. 1853: Florence Nightingale first recommended the regimen of cleanliness which dramatically reduced the death rate in hospitals 1853: Vaccination against smallpox is made compulsory. Queen Victoria uses chloroform during birth of Prince Leopold. Gladstone presents his first budget
13	1854	1854: The Northcote-Trevelyan civil service report is published; and The Crimean War begins, as Britain and France attempt to defend European interests in the Middle East against Russia
14	1855	1855: John Snow, investigating London's piped water supply, showed graphically that cholera could be transmitted by water from a particular pump. 1855: End of Aberdeen's coalition government. Palmerston's first government comes to power 1855: Yale lock invented
15	1856	1856: Crimean War comes to an end. The Victoria Cross is instituted for military bravery
16	1857	1857: Cyrus Field made his first attempt at laying a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. In 1866, his fourth attempt was successful. 1857: The Second Opium War opens China to European trade. The Indian Mutiny erupts against British Rule on the sub-continent
17	1858	1858: Derby establishes his second minority government. Parliament passes the India Act 1858: Eraser fitted to end of pencil
18	1859	1859: Darwin in 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life', asserted all life had a common ancestor and that the origin of species was natural selection 1859: End of Derby's second minority government. Palmerston brings his second Liberal government to power. 1859: Smiles' 'Self-Help' published
19	1860	1860: Joseph Wilson Swan invented the light bulb, an incandescent lamp using a carbon filament. 1860: Gladstone's budget and the Anglo-French Cobden Treaty codifies and extends the principles of free trade
20	1861	1861: Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis published his deduction that childbirth fever was transmitted on the hands of doctors during their examinations 1861: Death of Prince Albert, Prince Consort
21	1862	1862: Pasteur published the 'germ theory:': Infection is caused by self-replicating microorganisms, and that attenuated viral cultures granted immunity. These beneficent antigens he named 'vaccines' in honor of Jenner and his vaccinia virus 1862: Parliament passes the Limited Liability Act in order to provide vital stimulus to accumulation of capital in shares
22	1863	1863: Edward, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark. The Salvation Army is founded
23	1865	1865: Lister, using carbolic acid as antiseptic and sterilizing his instrument, proved the efficacy of antiseptic surgery 1865: Death of Palmerston. Russell establishes his second Liberal government 1865: Lewis Carroll publishes 'Alice's Adventure in Wonderland'
24	1866	1866: Gregor Mendel, in "Versuche ?ber Pflantenhybriden," interpreted heredity in terms of a pairing of dominant and/or recessive unit characters; that is, ones that could in practice be treated as indivisible and independent particles 1866: Alfred Nobel patented dynamite 1866: Russell and Gladstone fail to have their moderate Reform Bill passed in parliament. Derby takes power in his third minority Conservative government
25	1867	1867: Karl Marx, in Das Kapital, maintained the value, or exchange relation, of commodities is characterized by its alienation from its use-value, and thus its value as the product of human labor, which the capitalist treats as a variable and against which he accounts his surplus. 1867: Derby and Disraeli's Second Reform Bill doubles the franchise to two million. Canada becomes the first independent dominion in the British Empire under the Dominion of Canada Act
26	1868	1868: Disraeli succeeds Derby as Prime Minister. Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the first time
27	1869	1869: George M. Beard distinguished 'neurasthenia,' a nervous disease of men, from hysteria, a women's disease, as, in an earlier time, men's 'hypochondriasis' had been distinguished from women's ' vapeurs.' Subforms of neurasthenia came to be called phobias. 1869: The Irish Church is disestablished. The Suez Canal is opened
28	1870	1870: Primary education becomes compulsory in Britain through the Forster-Ripon English Elementary Education Act. Parliament also passes the Women's Property Act, extending the rights of married women, and the Irish Land Act 1870: First British postcard devised by Anthony Trollope 1870: Wheeler introduces toilet paper roll in US 1870: Inauguration of London to Calcutta telegraph line, first electronic link between Europe and India
29	1871	1871: Trade Unions are legalized
30	1872	1872: Secret voting is introduced for elections. Parliament passes the Scottish Education Act
31	1873	1873: Gladstone's government resigns after the defeat of their Irish Universities Bill. Disraeli declines to take up office instead 1873: Parmalee invents automatic fire sprinklers
32	1874	1874: Disraeli becomes Conservative Prime Minister for the second time
33	1875	1875: Disraeli purchases a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez Canal. Agricultural depression increases 1875: Parliament passes R.A. Cross's Conservative social reforms
34	1876	1876: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 1876: Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine 1876: Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India. The massacre of Christians in Turkish Bulgaria leads to anti-Turkish campaigns in Britain, led by Gladstone
35	1877	1877: Confederation of British and Boer states established in South Africa
36	1878	1878: The Congress of Berlin is held. Disraeli announces 'peace with honour' 1878: Edweard Muybridge photographs horse in motion
37	1879	1879: A trade depression emerges in Britain. The Zulu War is fought in South Africa. The British are defeated at Isandhlwana, but are victorious at Ulundi 1879: Gladstone's Midlothian campaign denounces imperialism in South Africa and Afghanistan
38	1880	1880: Gladstone establishes his second Liberal government 1880: The first Anglo-Boer War begins
39	1881	1881: Savoy Theatre introduces electric lighting 1881: Parliament passes the Irish Land and Coercion Acts 1881: Death of Billy the Kid
40	1882	1882: Britain occupies Egypt. A triple alliance is established between Germany, Austria and Italy 1882: Standard Oil controls 95% of the U.S. oil refining capacity 1882: Stillwell invents brown paper bag
41	1884	1884: Freud published a paper in which he found cocaine, an alkaloid in coca, effective against fatigue and neurasthenia. 1884: Hilaire de Chardonnet invented the first artificial textile, which was made from cellulose. It was later named rayon 1884: Parliament passes the third Reform Act which further extends the franchise
42	1885	1885: Death of General Gordon at Khartoum. Burma is annexed. Salisbury succeeds Gladstone with his first minority Conservative government. Parliament passes the Redistribution Act
43	1886	1886: Gladstone's third Liberal government fails to pass its first Irish Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons. Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister. Split in the Liberal Party. Salisbury establishes his second Conservative-Liberal-Unionist government. The Royal Niger Company is chartered. Gold is discovered in the Transvaal 1886: Statue of Liberty erected in New York Harbour 1886: Coca-Cola syrup invented
44	1887	1887: Emile Berliner patents the gramophone 1887: Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee. The Independent Labour Party is founded. The British East Africa Company is chartered 1887: UK telegraph companies control 107,000 miles of submarine cable 1887: There are estimated to be 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in 1890)
45	1888	1888: Celluloid photographic film introduced 1888: The County Councils' Act establishes representative county based authorities 1888: Kodak box camera 1888: Coin-operated public telephone
46	1889	1889: London Dockers' Strike. The British South Africa Company is chartered 1889: The Eiffel Tower, designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, is completed for the Paris Exposition. 1889: First Official Secrets Act in UK
47	1892	1892: Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera 1892: Gladstone forms his fourth Liberal government
48	1893	1893: Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zip to help a friend with a stiff back who could not bend over to do up his shoes 1893: Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords 1893: New Zealand becomes the first nation to grant women the right to vote 1893: Car number plates introduced in France
49	1894	1894: Rosebery takes power with his minority Liberal government
50	1895	1895: Oscar Wilde jailed 1895: Wilhelm Conrad R?ntgen, using a Crookes' tube, observed a new form of penetrating radiation, which he named X-rays 1895: Guglielmo Marconi sent longwave wireless telegraphic, or radio, signals over a distance of more than a mile 1895: Salisbury forms his third Unionist ministry 1895: Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale
51	1896	1896: Freud suggested analyzing childhood conflicts in the study of neuroses. He also devised a psychoanalytic technique called 'free association' which allows emotionally-charged, repressed material to be consciously recognized 1896: The British conquest of the Sudan begins 1896: Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
52	1897	1897: Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee 1897: Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
53	1898	1898: Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter. His QWERTY keyboard is still with us today. 1898: British rule over Sudan fully established. German Naval expansion begins 1898: Campbell's soups first appear with red and white labels, colors suggested by Cornell University's football uniforms.
54	1899	1899: British disasters in South Africa 1899: Boer War begins in South Africa and lasts three years
55	1900	1900: Salisbury wins the 'Khaki' election. The Labour Representation Committee is formed. Parliament passes the Commonwealth of Australia Act 1900: Max Planck proposes quantum theory 1900: There are reckoned to be 6,000 accountants in England 1900: Australia Becomes a Commonwealth 1900: Boxer Rebellion in China 1900: Italy's King Assassinated 1900: Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras 1900: Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory 1900: Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
56	1901	1901: Willis H. Carrier invented the industrial air conditioner 1901: Vacuum Cleaner invented by Hubert Cecil Booth 1901: Death of Queen Victoria. She is succeeded by her son, Prince Albert, as King Edward VII 1901: Marconi sends wireless message from Cornwall to Newfoundland 1901: First Nobel Prizes Awarded 1901: First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal 1901: U.S. President McKinley Assassinated
57	1902	1902: Invention of the Teddy Bear 1902: Boer War Ends 1902: Mount Pel?e Erupts 1902: The Teddy Bear is Introduced
58	1903	1903: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright achieved flight in a manned, gasoline power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine. 1903: First Flight at Kitty Hawk 1903: First Message to Travel Around the World 1903: First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery 1903: Plague in India
59	1904	1904: First telephone answering machine 1904: Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny' is published 1904: First Popular American Film 1904: Ground Broken on Panama Canal 1904: New York City Subway Opens 1904: Russo-Japanese War Begins 1904: Trans-Siberian Railway Completed
60	1905	1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity. 1905: Aliens Act in Britain tries to control immigration 1905: Bloody Sunday - Russian Revolution of 1905 1905: Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity 1905: Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality
61	1906	1906: Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote 1906: Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes 1906: San Francisco Earthquake 1906: Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle
62	1907	1907: Electric washing machine - The Thor - on sale 1907: Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference 1907: First Electric Washing Machine 1907: Picasso Introduces Cubism 1907: Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time
63	1908	1908: Henry Ford created the Model T automobile 1908: Electric iron and toaster patented 1908: Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000 1908: Ford Introduces the Model-T 1908: Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China 1908: Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire
64	1909	1909: French Engineer Louis Bleriot is first to cross the English Channel in an airplane 1909: Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people 1909: 800 million postcards sold in England 1909: Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated 1909: Plastic Is Invented 1909: Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
65	1910	1910: Georges Claude discovered that electricity conducted through a tube of the rare inert gas, neon, gives a bright red glow and that other gases gave off other colors, e.g., argon gives blue, helium gives yellow and white, etc. 1910: First live opera broadcast 1910: Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance 1910: The Tango Catches On
66	1911	1911: British National Insurance Act lays foundation for health and unemployment insurance 1911: The Chinese Revolution 1911: Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom 1911: Greenwich Mean Time Adopted 1911: The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered 1911: Mona Lisa Is Stolen 1911: Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole 1911: Standard Oil Company Broken Up 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire
67	1912	1912: The Sinking of the Titanic 1,515 people lose their lives. 1912: Parachutes Invented 1912: Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered (Fraud) 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal 1912: The Titanic Sinks
68	1913	1913: Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as 'formica'. 1913: First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory 1913: The "Armory Show," an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City; it arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art 1913: First Crossword Puzzle 1913: Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line 1913: Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S.
69	1914	1914: First World War starts 1914: Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated 1914: Battle of the Marne 1914: Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp 1914: First Traffic Light 1914: Panama Canal Officially Opened 1914: World War I Begins
70	1915	1915: Armenian Genocide 1915: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released 1915: Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon 1915: Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat 1915: Second Battle of Ypres
71	1916	1916: Navy employs animal trainer 'Captain' Joseph Woodward's music hall sea lions for U-boat sabotage. 1916: Coca-Cola adopts a distinctive bottle which identifies the company internationally 1916: Battle of the Somme 1916: Battle of Verdun 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland 1916: First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.
72	1917	1917: Bolshevik revolution in Russia installs a new government headed by V.I. Lennin 1917: French artist Marcel Duchamp submits a porcelain urinal, signed "R. Mutt" and titled "Fountain," to the New York Independents Exhibition; it is rejected. 1917: First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded 1917: Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy 1917: Russian Revolution 1917: U.S. Enters World War I
73	1918	1918: Influenza Epidemic 1918: Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed
74	1919	1919: Eddington and Frank W. Dyson measured the bending of starlight by the gravitational pull of the sun, thus confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity 1919: Prohibition Begins in the U.S. 1919: Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
75	1920	1920: Bubonic Plague in India 1920: League of Nations Established
76	1921	1921: Stage debut of John Gielgud 1921: Extreme Inflation in Germany 1921: Irish Free State Proclaimed 1921: Lie Detector Invented
77	1922	1922: BBC launched as limited company 1922: Kemal Atat?rk Founds Modern Turkey 1922: Tomb of King Tut Discovered 1922: Michael Collins Killed in Ambush 1922: Mussolini Marches on Rome 1922: The Reader's Digest Published
78	1923	1923: Electrolux produced the first electric refrigerator 1923: Kodak introduces home movie equipment 1923: Charleston Dance Becomes Popular 1923: Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup 1923: Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces 1923: Talking Movies Invented 1923: Teapot Dome Scandal
79	1924	1924: First Olympic Winter Games 1924: Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom 1924: V.I. Lenin Dies
80	1925	1925: Flapper Dresses in Style 1925: Hitler Publishes 'Mein Kampf'
81	1926	1926: General Strike in UK 1926: The first automatic traffic light was installed in Wolverhampton, England. It remained in service until 1968 1926: A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh 1926: Houdini Dies After Being Punched 1926: Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket 1926: A Woman Swims the English Channel
82	1927	1927: The Jazz Singer - first film talking movie released 1927: Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird demonstrate television 1927: Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record 1927: BBC Founded 1927: The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer 1927: Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic
83	1928	1928: George Eastman devises a process for color photography; it leads to the first successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers when it appears in 1935 as Kodachrome (for slides) and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942. 1928: First Mickey Mouse cartoon 1928: Bubble Gum Invented 1928: First 'Mickey Mouse' Cartoon 1928: First Oxford English Dictionary Published 1928: Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War 1928: Penicillin Discovered
84	1929	1929: First UK television broadcast 1929: Frank Whittle, combining the concepts of rocket propulsion and gas turbines, invented jet propulsion. Independently, Hans von Ohain put together the same combination in 1933 1929: Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin 1929: Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole 1929: Car Radio Invented 1929: First Academy Awards 1929: New York Stock Market Crashes 1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
85	1930	1930: Gandhi's Salt March 1930: Pluto Discovered 1930: Sliced Bread Available 1930: Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
86	1931	1931: Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion 1931: Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere 1931: Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop 1931: Empire State Building Completed 1931: U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem
87	1932	1932: Air Conditioning Invented 1932: Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic 1932: Scientists Split the Atom 1932: Zippo Lighters Introduced
88	1933	1933: First Mars bar 1933: Singing telegrams introduced 1933: Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany 1933: FDR Launches New Deal 1933: First Nazi Concentration Camp Established 1933: Loch Ness Monster First Spotted 1933: Prohibition Ends in the U.S. 1933: Wiley Post Flies Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
89	1934	1934: Konrad Zuse built a series of computers, Z1 through Z4, utilizing binary arithmetic and stored programs. Along the way he invented the first programming language and began to analyze methods by which a computer could play chess 1934: The first comic books appear on newsstands, beginning in the United States. 1934: Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police 1934: Cheeseburger Created 1934: The Dust Bowl 1934: Mao Zedong Begins the Long March 1934: Parker Brothers Sells the Game 'Monopoly'
90	1935	1935: First 'Kit Kat' sold in UK 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous Founded 1935: Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws 1935: John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
91	1936	1936: BBC starts regular TV broadcasts 1936: Carnegie Publishes 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates 1936: Nazi Olympics in Berlin 1936: Spanish Civil War Begins
92	1937	1937: German planes, aiding insurgents in the Spanish Civil War, bomb the historic Basque town of Guernica in Northern Spain, killing women and children and inflaming world opinion against facism. 1937: Hindenburg airship crash broadcast coast to coast in US 1937: Amelia Earhart Vanishes 1937: Golden Gate Bridge Opened 1937: The Hindenberg Disaster 1937: Japan Invades China
93	1938	1938: UK's first weekly radio comedy series, Band Wagon 1938: Biro brothers invent ballpoint pen 1938: Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' Causes Panic 1938: Chamberlain Announces 'Peace in Our Time' 1938: Extinct Fish Found 1938: Hitler Annexes Austria 1938: The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
94	1939	1939: Second World War starts 1939: First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic 1939: German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed 1939: Helicopter Invented 1939: Refugees on the St. Louis Refused Entry Everywhere 1939: World War II Begins
95	1940	1940: London Blitz 1940: Igor Sikorsky invented the heliocopter 1940: Disney's 'Fantasia' 1940: Battle of Britain 1940: Leon Trotsky Assassinated 1940: Nylons on the Market 1940: Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France
96	1941	1941: Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor 1941: Jeep Invented 1941: Manhattan Project Begins 1941: Mount Rushmore Completed 1941: Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission 1941: Siege of Leningrad
97	1942	1942: Battle of Midway 1942: Battle of Stalingrad 1942: Japanese-Americans Held in Camps 1942: Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death 1942: T-shirt Introduced
98	1943	1943: Autism identified 1943: French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed 1943: Italy Joins the Allies 1943: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
99	1944	1944: Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale 1944: D-Day 1944: First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired 1944: Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
100	1945	1945: Second World War ends 1945: The Atomic Age begins with atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II 1945: Allied troops liberate Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau (January 26), Buchenwald (April 11), and Dachau (April 24), providing the world with the first photographic evidence of the horrific atrocities committed there 1945: First Computer Built 1945: Germans Surrender 1945: Hitler Commits Suicide 1945: Microwave Oven Invented 1945: United Nations Founded 1945: U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
101	1946	1946: ENIAC computer makes 5,000 additions in one second 1946: Bikinis Introduced 1946: Dr. Spock Publishes 'The Common Book of Baby and Child Care' 1946: Juan Per?n Becomes President of Argentina 1946: Nuremberg Trials 1946: Winston Churchill Gives His 'Iron Curtain' Speech
102	1947	1947: Invention of transistor 1947: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier 1947: Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered 1947: Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British 1947: Marshall Plan 1947: Polaroid Cameras Invented
103	1948	1948: Life magazine makes American painter Jackson Pollock an overnight celebrity by devoting a three-page spread with color photographs to him and his paintings under the headline, "Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?"; Abstract Expressionism becomes a subject of widespread popular ridicule. 1948: Berlin Airlift 1948: Berlin Airlift 1948: Big Bang Theory Formulated 1948: Gandhi Assassinated 1948: Policy of Apartheid Begun 1948: State of Israel Founded
104	1949	1949: Mao proclaims Peoples Republic of China 1949: China Becomes Communist 1949: First Non-Stop Flight Around the World 1949: George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four 1949: NATO Established 1949: Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb
105	1950	1950: UK's longest running soap, The Archers, first airs on BBC Midlands Home Service 1950: First Modern Credit Card Introduced 1950: First Organ Transplant 1950: First Peanuts Cartoon Strip 1950: Korean War Begins 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt 1950: U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb 26 May 1950: 26 MAY: UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations Long queues have appeared at garages this evening and motorists have torn their ration books into confetti after the government announced an end to petrol rationing. The Minister of Fuel, Noel Baker, told the House of Commons rationing would be abolished because two American companies had agreed a deal to supply oil in return for buying British goods. "This is indeed VP [Victory for Petrol] day for the motor users' campaign," said a spokesman for three motoring organisations - the RAC, AA and Royal Scottish Automobile Club. "The effect on the industrial, commercial and community life will be electric. Ration books now become as obsolete as the man with the red flag."
106	1951	1951: The word 'brainwashing' is coined 1951: Color TV Introduced 1951: South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race 1951: Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII 1951: Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
107	1952	1952: The Mousetrap opens Nov 25 1952: Car Seat Belts Introduced 1952: Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship 1952: Polio Vaccine Created 1952: Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25

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