Timeline: UNKNOWN, Odile: Byrne and Asimov Genealogy and Family Histories

Abt 1950 - Abt 2005 (55 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	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."
2	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
3	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
4	1953	1953: Waiting for Godot debuts in Paris 1953: DNA Discovered 1953: Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest 1953: Joseph Stalin Dies 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage
5	1954	1954: Raymond Kroc buys McDonald's franchise rights and begins the global proliferation of golden arches. 1954: Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman 1954: First Atomic Submarine Launched 1954: Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer 1954: Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile 1954: Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
6	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
7	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
8	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
9	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
10	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
11	1960	1960: Launch of 'Coronation Street' 1960: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released 1960: Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City 1960: Lasers Invented
12	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
13	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'
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	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
20	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
21	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
22	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
23	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
24	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
25	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
26	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
27	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
28	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
29	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
30	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
31	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
32	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
33	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
34	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
35	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
36	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
37	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
38	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
39	1988	1988: Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie 1988: U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
40	1989	1989: Berlin Wall Falls 1989: Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline 1989: Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square
41	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
42	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
43	1992	1992: Official End of the Cold War
44	1993	1993: Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided 1993: Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially 1993: World Trade Center Bombed
45	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
46	1995	1995: Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire 1995: Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway 1995: Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated
47	1996	1996: Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain 1996: Two Royal Divorces
48	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
49	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
50	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
51	2000	2000: Fuel protests paralyse Britain for seven days 2000: World celebrates New Millennium: UK opens unpopular dome visitor attraction at Greenwich
52	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
53	2002	2002: The Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon dies, aged 101 years
54	2005	2005: UK General election returns Labour to power for third term under Tony Blair

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