Here's a link to a page called infoplease. If you scroll down near the box that says "04 in Review", there's a heading beside it that says "Year-By-Year Chronology 1900-2004" and type in the year you were born (or any year).
posted on January 5, 2005 04:50:32 PM new
* Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of Germany (Feb).
* Hitler commits suicide (April 30); Germany surrenders (May 7); May 8 is declared V-E Day. Background: World War II
* San Francisco Conference establishes the United Nations (April–June).
* Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) establishes basis of German reconstruction (July–Aug.).
* US drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 8). Background: nuclear weapons
* Japan signs official surrender on V-J Day (Sept. 2).
* FDR dies (April 12) and Harry S. Truman becomes president.
* Manhattan Project tests first atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico (July 16).
* A B-25 bomber flies into the Empire State Building, damaging the 78th and 79th floors and killing 13 (July 28).
posted on January 5, 2005 05:09:45 PM new
American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in a closely-fought presidential race.
Black sit-in at Greensboro, N.C., diner receives national attention.
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho terrifies movie-goers and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers.
The first working laser is built by T. H. Maiman (US).
Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched.
NASA launches Tiros I, the first weather satellite.
posted on January 6, 2005 04:29:11 AM new
tried lookin' mine up, but they don't say anything 'bout the year they invented rope....
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Dick Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11..."
posted on January 10, 2005 07:45:38 PM new
I just found out I dropped in on Monday..Those cars are ALL old junkers now. hahahaha. If any are even on the Road. Great site. Spent a while checking dates and events. I see Vietnam was on our lips waaaay back in 55,,,,those guys building those cars on those Detroit assembly lines,,, had not a clue we were sending THEIR tax dollars to THAT country....10 years later their Sons were Visiting Vietnam, upclose and personal..Ernie pyle,a Marines, Marine. bummer. Killed 45 at 45. Geo. Patton. Killed in an Auto accident? Blood and Guts, as his common Soldiers said, Yeah, his Guts, OUR Blood..Give em' Hell Harry....Africa was the place,,,,Now, I work along side them this VERY day at swapmeets....Many Africans have found their way to America.....Via a 747,,,,NOT a BOAT.....rambled,,,GREAT site, Memory Lane. fine, fine. '49. The tail END of a Memorable decade.
