President Thread Grubs for Historical Years
This list chronicles many early post numbers with their authors
and corresponding events in history using the post number as a year.
I have tried to be faithful to this task though scholars do debate
many dates. Many sites were used for this compilation. I hope the
old timers here enjoy this list as well as newer posters such
as myself who have since joined this discussion.
MKTBUZZ #14 Death of Augustus Caesar
sandintoes #20 Agrippina brings Germanicus' ashes to Rome
MKTBUZZ #25 Han Dynasty in China begins
MKTBUZZ #26 Tiberius withdraws from Rome
Dr. Stoxx #37 Roman emperor Tiberius dies
MKTBUZZ #40 Caligula orders Jerusalem temple made an Imperial shrine
TigerPaw #41 Caligula stabbed to death
TigerPaw #57 Paul is imprisoned in Caeasarea
sandintoes #70 Judea revolts against Rome, Jerusalem is burned
truedog #79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Pompeii destroyed
Dr. Stoxx #122 Hadrian begins construction on a 117 km (73 mile)
long wall between England and Scotland.
Dr. Stoxx #132 First seismoscope developed in China
rich4eagle #149 Chinese dictionary of 10,000 characters produced by Hu Shin
MKTBUZZ #154 Polycarp travels to Rome to arbitrate Christian dispute
Hawkmoon #158 Claudius Galen writes that arteries carry blood
jlallen #219 Founding of the Sura Academy in Babylon
truedog #248 Rome’s 1000th birthday celebrated under the emperor Philippus
sandintoes #250 Greek mathematician Diophantus publishes Arithmetica
sandintoes #271 First form of compass used in China
Neocon #297 Rome recaptures Armenia and Mesopotamia
Neocon #300 Church council of Elvira, Spain, prohibits intermarriage between
Jews and Christians, also forbidding them to eat together
truedog #325 Constantine the Great introduces Sunday as a holy day
Ellen #340 Battle of Aquileia / Constantine II is killed
Charleymane #381 First Council of Constantinople convenes
Ellen #383 Roman legions begin to leave Britannia
MKTBUZZ #389 The Library at Alexandria burns
Charleymane #406 Attila the Hun born
Charleymane #440 Church adopts December 25th to celebrate Christmas
chalu2 #452 Atilla sacks Patavium (Padua, Italy)
chalu2 #453 Attila the Hun dies
Charleymane #476 End of West Roman Empire
MKTBUZZ #500 Scriptures have now been translated into more than 500 languages /
Clovis conquers most of France and Belgium
Charleymane #510 Northern India crushed by the Huns
Vern #521 Boëthius introduces Greek musical letter notation to the West
truedog #529 Founded by Plato, the Academy at Athens is closed
Zoltan! #553 Second Council of Constantinople convenes
Charleymane #597 St Augustine of Canterbury introduces Christianity to Britain
HiTech #630 Mohammed captures Mecca
Lizzie Tudor #637 Arabs conquer Jerusalem
truedog #649 Arabs conquer Cyprus
PROLIFE #680 Third Council of Constantinople convenes
chalu2 #691 Dome of the Rock is built on the Jewish Temple site
Bill #711 Muslim conquest of Spain
jttmab #732 Islamic expansion in Western Europe stopped by Franks
HiTech #742 Charlemagne is born
Charleymane #771 Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the kingdom
Neocon #790 Vikings begin assault on Britain
chalu2 #800 Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman emperor
Charleymane #814 Charlemagne dies
jlallen #841 Vikings found the city of Dublin
chalu2 #861 Iceland discovered
Neocon #869 Cyrillic alphabet developed by Greek brothers
Charleymane #900 Turks begin invasions of India, bringing Islam
Lizzie Tudor #950 Erik the Red is born
Bill #962 Otto I founds the second Holy Roman Empire in Germany
jlallen #970 Leif Erikson is Born / Chinese introduce paper money
Charleymane #982 Erik the Red discovers Greenland
Neocon #983 First encyclopedia called the Taiping Yulan made in China
truedog #1001 Leif Erikson believed to have discovered the New World
Neocon #1027 Birth of William I, first Norman king of England
truedog #1040 Macbeth murders Duncan, king of Scotland
Neocon #1066 William the Conqueror invades England, defeats last Saxon
king at Battle of Hastings and is crowned King of England
Lizzie Tudor #1095 Crusades begin
sandintoes #1107 Chinese money printed in 3 colors to stop counterfeiting
Achilles #1155 Map of western China printed (oldest known printed map)
jlallen #1162 Genghis Khan is born
Neocon #1169 Ibn-Rushd begins translating Aristotle's works
j g cordes #1189 Richard I (the Lionhearted) succeeds Henry II in England
Neocon #1192 Samurai and Shoguns emerge as the ruling class in Japan
Bill #1200 Buttons invented to decorate clothing
chalu2 #1215 King John signs Magna Carta / Kublai Khan is born
sandintoes #1227 Genghis Khan dies from falling off his horse
sandintoes #1245 The Great Inquisition
truedog #1246 The Great Inquisition ends
Neocon #1254 Marco Polo is born
melinda abplanalp #1260 Kublai Khan proclaimed emperor
Bill #1275 Marco Polo meets and kneels before Kublai Khan
sandintoes #1289 First manuscript mentioning spectacles
Neocon #1294 Kublai Khan dies
Neocon #1307 Dante Alighieri: "Divina Commedia"
jlallen #1324 Marco Polo dies
Neocon #1337 Start of the "Hundred Year War" between France and England
Bill #1340 First European paper mill opened
Bill #1350 First gunpowder used as a projectile by a German monk
John Lacelle #1351 Bubonic Plague ends after killing 25 million people
jlallen #1380 Poll Tax introduced in England
jlallen #1381 Peasant's Revolt in England
jlallen #1382 Vulgate Bible translated into English
wallacestevens #1387 Geoffrey Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales
Bill #1400 Birth of the Inca civilization
Bill #1428 Joan of Arc leads French against English
truedog #1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake as a witch after trial
mark silvers #1452 Leonardo da Vinci is born
sandintoes #1453 Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks
jlallen #1455 Johann Gutenberg completes first printed Bible
jlallen #1473 Nicolas Copernicus is born
Neocon #1476 Leonardo da Vinci is accused of a homosexual affair
Neocon #1480 Modern Chess appears
jlallen #1492 Columbus discovers the New World
truedog #1497 Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India
Bill #1512 Michelangelo finishes painting the Sistine Chapel
PROLIFE #1517 The beginning of the Reformation
melinda abplanalp #1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies
Neocon #1521 Hernando Cortez conquest of the Aztecs /
Ponce de Leon dies failing to find the Fountain of Youth
Neocon #1522 Magellan crew navigates the globe
jlallen #1530 Copernicus asserts the earth travels around the sun
Neocon #1535 Reformation begins as Henry VIII makes himself head of English Church
Neocon #1543 Nicolas Copernicus dies
Neocon #1547 Henry VIII founder of the Church of England dies
mark silvers #1564 William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei are born
Bill #1568 Bottled beer invented in London
PROLIFE #1573 Earl of Essex granted Clandeboye by Queen Elizabeth I
PROLIFE #1574 Tunis Annexed by Ottomans
MulhollandDrive #1580 Portuguese-Spanish Union
sandintoes #1597 Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
rich4eagle #1607 Jamestown founded, first permanent English colony in American
Les Horowitz #1609 Galileo constructs the first astronomical telescope
Bill #1610 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson's Bay / Galileo discovers Jupiter moons
jlallen #1613 Neptune discovered by Galileo
Neocon #1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
melinda abplanalp #1624 Dutch West India Company purchases Manhattan
Lather.Rinse.Repeat. #1632 Galileo publishes "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
truedog #1633 Galileo renounces the Copernican system before the Inquisition in Rome
truedog #1642 Galileo Galilei dies
chalu2 #1643 Articles of the United Colonies of New England
Neocon #1665 Cell discovery by Robert Hooke
Neocon #1666 Great London Fire
sandintoes #1692 Salem Witch Trials
melinda abplanalp #1712 Piston steam engine invented by Thomas Newcamen
rich4eagle #1724 Modern mercury thermometer invented
rich4eagle #1734 Daniel Boone is born
sandintoes #1752 Ben Franklin discovers lightning is electricity
Gemini #1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born
Gemini #1769 Nicolas Cugnot invents the motorized carriage
rich4eagle #1770 Ludwig van Beethoven is born
sandintoes #1773 Boston Tea Party
rich4eagle #1774 First Continental Congress
Gemini #1775 Second Continental Congress / Marine Corps founded
Neocon #1776 Declaration of Independence
rich4eagle #1777 Articles of Confederation
melinda abplanalp #1778 Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii / Franz Mesmer uses hypnotism
truedog #1779 Austria declares war on France
Neocon #1780 Laurens, former president of the Congress captured by British
Charleymane #1781 Final ratification of the Articles / Uranus discovered /
Washington recommends a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer
sandintoes #1782 Continental Congress Thanksgiving Proclamation
truedog #1783 End of the War for Independence
rich4eagle #1784 First colony in Alaska, founded by Russian Grigorii Shelekov
Elect #1785 Russians settle Aleutian Islands
rich4eagle #1786 Small earthquake in New Hampshire
sandintoes #1787 Constitutional Convention / Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Neocon #1788 Statehood: Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland,
South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, and New York
rich4eagle #1789 Washington's First Inaugural Address / French Revolution /
North Carolina statehood
Gemini #1790 Rhode Island statehood
melinda abplanalp #1791 Vermont admitted to the Union
chalu2 #1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman /
Kentucky admitted to the Union
rich4eagle #1793 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are beheaded
sandintoes #1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies
rich4eagle #1795 Metric system adopted in France
sandintoes #1796 Washington's Farewell Address / Tennessee statehood /
Smallpox vaccination invented
Gemini #1797 John Adam's Inaugural Address
Charleymane #1798 Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt
chalu2 #1799 Washington dies at Mt Vernon /Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Gemini #1800 Napoleon conquers Italy / Herschel discovers infrared rays
chalu2 #1801 Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
truedog #1802 John Dalton introduces atomic theory into chemistry
jpmac #1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty / Ohio statehood
chalu2 #1804 Beginning travels of Lewis and Clark / Whiskey Rebellion
Gemini #1805 Lord Nelson defeats the French-Spanish fleets at Battle of Trafalgar
chalu2 #1806 Rockets introduced as weapons into British army
jpmac #1807 Newberry invents circular saw
Lizzie Tudor #1808 US prohibits importation of slaves from Africa
Gemini #1809 James Madison's First Inaugural Address
sandintoes #1810 Napoleon divorces Josephine / Appert technique for canning food
Lizzie Tudor #1811 Avogadro writes on the molecular composition of glass
mark silvers #1812 War of 1812 / Louisiana statehood / Napoleon invades
Russia in June and is forced to retreat in winter
chalu2 #1813 Drais builds on early version of the bicycle
Gemini #1814 French defeated by allies, Napoleon exiled to Elba
mark silvers #1815 War of 1812 ends / Lafitte, Battle of New Orleans /
Tambora, largest eruption in 10,000 years /
Napoleon defeated by Wellington at Waterloo
sandintoes #1816 Indiana statehood / Laennec invents stethoscope
Lizzie Tudor #1817 Monroe's First Inaugural Address / Mississippi statehood
chalu2 #1818 Illinois statehood / Steam ship crosses the Atlantic
chalu2 #1819 Alabama statehood / Hans Oersted discovers electromagnetism
Neocon #1820 Maine statehood / Liberia founded for repatriation of Negroes
Gemini #1821 Missouri statehood / Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics
chalu2 #1822 Accordion invented / Fourier writes "Analytical Theory of Heat"
jpmac #1823 Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in America
Neocon #1824 Mexico becomes a republic, 3 years after declaring independence
jpmac #1825 John Quincy Adams' Inaugural / First passenger railroad in England
chalu2 #1826 Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph
Neocon #1827 Sulfur friction matches introduced by John Walker
chalu2 #1828 Construction of first railroad in the US (Baltimore-Ohio)
Neocon #1829 Andrew Jackson's Inaugural / Henry constructs electric motor
jpmac #1830 Robert Brown discovers the cell nucleus in plants
Neocon #1831 Ross determines position of the magnetic North Pole
chalu2 #1832 Word 'socialism" comes into use in English and French
Neocon #1833 Webster publishes his own revision of the King James Bible /
Slavery abolished in British Empire
jpmac #1834 Jacobi invents first practical electromotor /
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
Charleymane #1835 First test to propel trains by electric batteries
Charleymane #1836 Texas Declaration of Independence / Arkansas statehood /
Battle of the Alamo
Les Horowitz #1837 Martin Van Buren's Inaugural Address / Michigan statehood /
Samuel Morse debuts the telegraph
Les Horowitz #1838 Ozone discovered / Dickens publishes "Oliver Twist"
Gemini #1839 First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China /
Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber
Gemini #1840 Lower and Upper Canada united / First postage stamp in Britain
truedog #1841 James Polk's Inaugural Address / Saxophone invented
truedog #1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty defines US-Canadian border
truedog #1843 SS Great Britain built, first propeller ship to cross Atlantic
truedog #1844 Texas Treaty of Annexation / YMCA founded
jlallen #1845 Harrison's Inaugural Address / Florida and Texas statehood
jlallen #1846 Mexican War / Iowa statehood / Neptune discovered
jlallen #1847 Salt Lake City founded / British Factory Act restricts workday
jlallen #1848 Mexican War ends / Wisconsin statehood / 1st safety matches /
Marx and Engels: "Communist Manifesto"
jlallen #1849 Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address / safety pin patented
jlallen #1850 Fugitive Slave Act / California statehood
jlallen #1851 Howe invents precursor to the zipper / Singer sewing machine
jlallen #1852 Treaty with the Apache / "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written /
Term evolution coined by Herbert Spencer
jlallen #1853 Pierce's Inaugural / Convention with Britain / Mexico Treaty /
Crimean War begins as Turkey declares war on Russia
jlallen #1854 Republican Party formed / Kansas-Nebraska Act / Japan Treaty
jlallen #1855 David E. Hughes invents printing telegraph
Brumar89 #1856 Neanderthal skull found / Bechstein piano factory started
Les Horowitz #1857 James Buchanan's Inaugural / First safety elevator
chalu2 #1858 Minnesota statehood / California Gold Rush /
Pro-slavery constitution rejected in Kansas
chalu2 #1859 Oregon statehood / Darwin publishes Origin of Species /
John Brown raids Harpers Ferry; is captured and hanged
chalu2 #1860 Winchester's arms company, adapts a breech-loading rifle
chalu2 #1861 Lincoln First Inaugural / US Civil War / Kansas statehood
truedog #1862 Treaty with Great Britain to the Suppress the Slave Trade /
Emancipation Proclamation
truedog #1863 West Virginia statehood / Gettysburg Address
chalu2 #1864 Nevada statehood / Gen. Sherman's Atlanta campaign
truedog #1865 US Civil War ends / Lincoln Assassinated /
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published
Lizzie Tudor #1866 Third TransAtlantic cable finally works properly
chalu2 #1867 Nebraska statehood / Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
truedog #1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson / Cro-Magnon skeleton found
truedog #1869 Trans-Continental railroad is achieved /Suez Canal completed
chalu2 #1870 J.D. Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil Company
Brumar89 #1871 Great Chicago Fire / British Parliament legalizes labor unions
jlallen #1872 Mubridge photographs a horse in motion (early moving picture)
chalu2 #1873 Jeans invented by Levi Struass
Brumar89 #1874 H. Solomon introduces pressure cooking for canning foods
truedog #1875 Richard Hoe invents rotary printing press
chalu2 #1876 US Centennial / Colorado statehood / Bell invents telephone /
Nikolaus Otto invents internal combustion engine in Germany
Gemini #1877 Edison invents phonograph / First refrigerated shipping
Gemini #1878 Salvation Army founded / Anti-Socialist Law in Germany enacted
truedog #1879 Edison invents light bulb / First electric tram in Berlin
Gemini #1880 Pasteur cholera vaccine / Laveran discovers malaria parasite
chalu2 #1881 Garfield Assassinated / Gunfight at the OK corral
Gemini #1882 Edison designs first hydro electric plant in Wisconsin
chalu2 #1883 Krakatau erupts in Indonesia / 1st 10 story skyscraper
chalu2 #1884 First underground railroad / Twain writes "Huckleberry Finn"
pezz #1885 Benz builds gasoline car engine / Eastman photographic paper
pezz #1886 France gives Statue of Liberty to the United States /
Tarawera erupts in New Zealand
chalu2 #1887 Goodwin invents celluloid film
pezz #1888 Jack the Ripper makes headlines in London
pezz #1889 N Dakota, S Dakota, Montana, Washington statehood
Achilles #1890 Idaho, Wyoming statehood / Sherman Antitrust Act / Wounded Knee /
Moving-picture shows in New York / 1st US steel-framed building
truedog #1891 Beginnings of wireless telegraphy / Judson invents zipper
truedog #1892 Automatic phone switchboard / Pithecanthropus erectus discovered
truedog #1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the vote
1st Ford car built / 1st Benz car built / Diesel patented
truedog #1894 Louis Lumiere invents the cinematograph
truedog #1895 X-rays discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen
Neocon #1896 Utah statehood / Becquerel discovers radioactivity
Neocon #1897 Alaska Gold Rush / Ross discovers malaria bacillus
Neocon #1898 Spanish-American War / "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
Neocon #1899 1st magnetic sound recording / Asprin first manufactured
jlallen #1900 Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"
jlallen #1901 McKinley Assassinated / Spindletop launches Texas oil boom /
Christmas tree lights are introduced by Edison General Electric
jlallen #1902 Aswan Dam completed / Enrico Caruso's 1st gramophone recording /
The teddy bear is created by a Russian immigrant to the USA
Brumar89 #1903 Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
pezz #1904 St. Louis World's Fair / New York City subway opens
pezz #1905 Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
Bill #1906 Great San Francisco earthquake and fire / Alzheimer's identified
Les Horowitz #1907 Oklahoma statehood / Lumiere developes color photography /
Boy Scouts founded in Great Britain
lallen #1908 First Model T Ford / General Motors Corporation formed
jlallen #1909 1st Plastic patent by Baekeland / Peary reaches North Pole /
Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel in airplane
Bill #1910 China abolishes slavery / Portugal becomes a republic /
Boy Scouts of America incorporated in the US
Bill #1911 Amundsen reaches South Pole / Rutherford atomic theory
Les Horowitz #1912 New Mexico, Arizona statehood / Titanic sinks
jlallen #1913 Bohr formulates own theory of atomic structure
Bill #1914 Panama Canal completed / Goddard begins rocketry experiments
jlallen #1915 United States Air Force founded
chalu2 #1916 Blood for transfusion refrigerated / Theory of Shell Shock
Achilles #1917 Russian Revolution / US enters World War I
Achilles #1918 Word War I ends / Czar Nicholas II executed in Siberia
Gemini #1919 US Prohibition begins / 1st experiments with shortwave radio
rich4eagle #1920 US Women receive vote (19th) amendment ratified /
League of Nations holds first meeting at Geneva
Les Horowitz #1921 BBC is founded / WWI reparations set off inflation of German Mark
rich4eagle #1922 Insulin 1st given to diabetics / Soviet States form U.S.S.R.
Neocon #1923 Tokyo earthquake kills 120,000
Bill #1924 Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin becomes head of USSR
rich4eagle #1925 Scopes Monkey Trial / Wyoming elects nations 1st woman governor
Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf"
Bill #1926 US Marines quell Nicaragua revolt / Woman swims English Channel
Gemini #1927 Lindbergh flies 1st solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris /
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in the season
jlallen #1928 Fleming discovers penicillin / Byrd begins Antarctic expedition
jlallen #1929 Stock Market Crash / Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago /
Edwin Powell Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe
jlallen #1930 Pluto discovered / France begins to build Maginot Line
Bill #1931 Empire State Building completed
Neocon #1932 Lindbergh kidnapping / Huxley publishes "Brave New World"
Bill #1933 FDR introduces "New Deal" / 1st US aircraft carrier launched /
The chocolate chip cookie is invented
Neocon #1934 Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by Nazis /
Hitler becomes Führer / USSR admitted to League of Nations
jlallen #1935 FDR signs Social Security Act / Radar device built by Watt
Neocon #1936 Hoover Dam completed / Hitler-Muussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
Neocon #1937 Amelia Earhart lost in Pacific on round-the-world flight /
Hindenberg disaster / Focke builds helicopter
jlallen #1938 Ballpoint pen invented / Hahn finds evidence of nuclear fusion
Neocon #1939 Germany invades Poland / Nylon stockings appear /
"Gone with the Wind" and "Wizard of Oz" released
Gemini #1940 Successful US helicopter flight / 1st electron microscope
Neocon #1941 Pearl Harbor is Bombed / US enters WWII
Gemini #1942 Fermi splits atom / Manhattan Project begins
Neocon #1943 US Income tax withholding introduced / Hofmann discovers LSD
Lizzie Tudor #1944 Allies invade Normandy on D-Day / G.I. Bill of Rights enacted /
Bretton Woods Conference creates IMF and World Bank
jlallen #1945 Atomic Bombs used at Hiroshima & Nagasaki / WWII ends
Neocon #1946 First meeting of UN General Assembly opens in London /
Microwave oven invented by Raytheon
Lizzie Tudor #1947 Truman proposes "Truman Doctrine" to resist communist expansion
Neocon #1948 Israel is founded / Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
jlallen #1949 USSR tests atomic bomb / NATO formed / Orwell writes "1984"
Lizzie Tudor #1950 Korean War begins/ McCarthyism begins / China occupies Tibet /
Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb
Les Horowitz #1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to USSR /
"I Love Lucy" begins / color TV intoduced in US
jlallen #1952 US tests hydrogen bomb / Contraceptive pill produced
Les Horowitz #1953 Korean War ends / Hillary climbs Everest / USSR tests H-Bomb /
Smoking linked with cancer / Cave paintings discovered in France
Les Horowitz #1954 "under God" added to Pledge / Nautilus launched / Elvis debuts /
School segregation unconstitutional / Bannister breaks 4-minute mile
mark silvers #1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus in Alabama /
Martin Luther King leads black boycott / UHF waves produced at MIT
jlallen #1956 Trans-Atlantic telephone service is established /
Woody Guthrie composes This Land is Your Land.
Bill #1957 The Little Rock Nine integrate Arkansas high school /
USSR launches Sputnik
truedog #1958 US launches Explorer I / Van Allen Belts discovered
Bill #1959 Alaska, Hawaii statehood / Castro takes over Cuba / 1st Xerox copier
mark silvers #1960 USSR shoots down US U-2 spy plane / Bathyscaphe dives to 38,810 feet
truedog #1961 Alan Shepard first American in space / Bay of Pigs invasion fails /
East Germans erect Berlin Wall to stop fleeing refugees
truedog #1962 John Glenn orbits the Earth / Cuban Missile Crisis
truedog #1963 Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, LBJ becomes president /
Martin Luther King delivers I have a dream speech
jlallen #1964 LBJ War on Poverty / Vietnam War / The Beatles
Starduster234 #1965 Martin Luther King, Jr arrested / Malcolm X shot to death
Starduster234 #1966 Miranda rights born / Black teenagers riot in Watts /
De Gualle requests removal of NATO forces from France
Starduster234 #1967 Apollo 1 burns on launch pad killing 3 astronauts. The next Apollo
mission will be Apollo 7, skipping flight numbers 2 through 6 /
China tests H-Bomb / Barnard performs 1st heart transplant
jlallen #1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated /
Apollo 8 orbits Moon / Pulsars are discovered
Bill #1969 Moon Landing / Mariner sends back pictures of Mars /
Concorde tested / Woodstock attracts 300,000 people
jlallen #1970 Clean Air Act /4 killed at Kent State / Aswan Dam finished
Bill #1971 Communist China joins UN / India invades Pakistan
jlallen #1972 Vietnam War ends / Clean water Act / Terrorist group
Black September attacks Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics
jlallen #1973 Roe vs Wade / Endangered Species Act / LBJ dies
jlallen #1974 Nixon resigns / Privacy Act of 1974 / Patricia Hearst is
kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
jlallen #1975 Watergate trials / Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior
Starduster234 #1976 Viking Probes land on Mars / UK Race Relations Act /
Earthquakes kill 780,000 worldwide
Bill #1977 US gives up Panama Canal / Carter pardons draft evaders /
Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend
Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
Bill #1978 Smallpox eradicated / First Birth Due to Invitro
silvers #1979 Soviets invade Afghanistan / Iran takes hostages at US embassy
Neocon #1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption / American nuns killed in El Salvador /
Hostage rescue attempt in Iran Fails
jlallen #1981 Reagan shot / Pope shot / Reagan fires air traffic controllers
Bill #1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies / Falklands War
mark silvers #1983 US peacekeepers killed in Lebanon / US invades Grenada /
First compact disks
Starduster234 #1984 AIDS discovered / Indira Gandhi murdered
jlallen #1985 Reagan tax reform / Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader /
Air India jet explodes over Atlantic killing 329
Bill #1986 Challenger explodes / Chernobyl melts down / Marcos flees Philippines
mark silvers #1987 World Stock Market crash / Palestinian intifada
Bill #1988 Bomb blows apart Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland
jlallen #1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall / Savings and Loan bailout
jlallen #1990 Gulf War Begins / Germany United / Mandela Freed
truedog #1991 Gulf War ends
jlallen #1992 Windows 3.1 is introduced / Clinton is elected
truedog #1993 SuperConducting Super Collider cancelled
jlallen #1994 An asteroid passes earth at only 160 000km /
Chunnel between England and France opens for traffic
truedog #1995 Tokyo subway attacked with nerve gas
mark silvers #1996 Same-sex marriages prohibited under the Defense of Marriage Act /
Discovery of planet orbiting 4th closest star to Earth
truedog #1997 Socialist Parties win national elections in Britain and France /
Scottish researchers clone lamb from adult sheep DNA
Starduster234 #1998 Pope visits Cuba / Pakistan adopts Islamic legal system
truedog #1999 NATO air attacks on Serbia / 1st balloon flight around the world
jlallen #2000 DNA sequencing of human genome roughly completed /
Bush narrowly wins presidency / Pope visits Jerusalem
Starduster234 #2001 World Trade Center Towers and Pentagon attacked by Terrorists.
jlallen #2002 Hubble shows Universe to be approximately 14 billion years old
Starduster234 #2003 Senate to vote on new Majority Leader January 2003
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