In the year 1943, the Allied forces meet at Casablanca (Jan 14), Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington (Jan 15), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is published (Mar), the Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (Apr 13), the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins (Apr 19), Allied planes bomb Rome (Jul 19), Denmark is occupied (Aug 29), Italy changes sides (Oct 13), alleged date of the Philadelphia Experiment (Oct 28), gypsies will face the same fate as Jews, according to Himmler (Nov 15), RAF planes bomb Berlin (Nov 18), Lebanon gains independence from France (Nov 22), WW2 and the Holocaust go on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1947, the Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf is killed in a plane crash (Jan 26), the communists take power in Poland (Jan 31), the Paris Peace Treaty is signed (Feb 10), the Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Feb 17), ISO is founded (Feb 23), the German state Prussia is officially abolished (Feb 25), IMF begins to operate (Mar 1), the Truman Doctrine is first announced, in effect beginning the Cold War (Mar 12), Miracle on the 34th Street premiers (May 2), the first SAAB automobile is produced (Jun 22), CIA is founded (Sep 18), the U. Continue reading

In the year 1960, the first television anime debuts on NHK (Jan 15), in Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter, triggering many similar incidents (Feb 1), first stars appear on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Feb 9), the United States launches the first weather satellite (Apr 1), Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires, and taken to Israel (May 11), OPEC is founded (Sep 14), the first successful kidney transplant is performed in Edinburgh (Oct 30), The Flintstones premiers in the United States (Sep 30),_ Coronation Street premiers in the U. Continue reading

In the year 1924, Lenin dies, and Stalin, at age 42, immediately begins to clear way for his leadership (Jan 21), the computing company CTR is renamed IBM (Feb 14), Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, but serves only 8 months (Apr 1), Daimler’s and Benz’s companies merge into Mercedes-Benz (May 11), Indian Citizenship Act becomes a law in the U.S. (Jun 2), in New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held (Nov 27), Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda is not a nebula, but actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe (Dec 30), American Indian Wars come to an end after 302 years - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1928, the first east-west transatlantic flight takes place, from Ireland to Canada (Apr 12), the first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York (May 7), The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations (May 15), British inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world’s first color television transmission (Jul 3), Richard E. Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic (Sep 1), Alexander Fleming discovers what later becomes known as penicillin (Sep 28), Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year-plan (Oct 1), Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first animated sound film (Nov 18), Maurice Ravel’s Boléro premiers at the Paris Opéra (Nov 22), Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1956, Finnish troops re-occupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base (Jan 25), Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with Heartbreak Hotel (Feb 22), videotape is first demonstrated at a convention in Chicago by Ampex (Apr 14), Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco (Apr 19), the submarine Transatlantic telephone cable opens (Sep 25), Red Army troops invade Hungary (Oct 26), the first hard disk drive (5MB) is born at IBM (Oct 29) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_3450” align=“alignleft” width=“253”]Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Holland[/caption] In the year 1942, Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car (Jan 13), the first American forces arrive in Europe (Jan 26), Disney’s Bambi is released in theaters everywhere (Apr 13), Hitler is granted power of life and death over every German citizen (Apr 26), Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary (Jun 12), the Battle of Stalingrad begins (Aug 23), several concentration and extermination camps are opened, the WW 2 rages on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1955, an incident in an Alabama bus leads later to bus segregation being ruled unconstitutional (Mar 2), Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister at age 80 (Apr 5), West Germany becomes a sovereign country recognized by leading Western countries (May 5), Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California (Jul 17), first edition of the _Guinness Book of Records _is published (Aug 27), ITV begins broadcasting in the U.K. (Sep 22), Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on CBS (Oct 2), Rebel Without a Cause is released in the United States (Oct 27), the correct number of human chromosomes - 46 - is discovered (Dec 22) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1954, the first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Feb 23), U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test has been conducted on Bikini Atoll (Mar 1), From Here to Eternity wins the Oscar for best picture (Mar 25), the world’s first atomic power station opens near Moscow (Jun 27), Ellis Island in New York closes (Nov 12), the first hotel built on an airport property - The Hyatt House Los Angeles - opens (Dec 1), The U. Continue reading

In the year 1959, the United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro (Jan 7), the Boeing 707 airliner begins service (Jan 25), Mattel’s Barbie doll debuts in the U.S. (Mar 9), Busch Gardens opens in Tampa, Florida and the Dalai Lama is granted asylum in India (Mar 31), two monkeys sent to space from Cape Canaveral become the first living beings to return safely to Earth (May 28), the first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by the Leakeys in Tanzania (Jul 17), Bonanza premiers, first regularly scheduled TV program in color (Sep 12), the first plain paper copier, Xerox 914, is introduced to the public (Sep 19) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1958, the EEC comes into being (Jan 1), the first successful American satellite is launched into orbit (Jan 31), Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (Mar 19), The Bridge on the River Kwai wins seven Academy Awards (Mar 26), Pizza Hut is founded (Jun 15), the first parking meters are installed in Britain (Jul 10), The Beatles record their first songs (Jul 12), NASA is founded (Jul 29), the first television show recorded on color videotape airs on NBC (Oct 17), the United States launches SCORE, the world’s first communications satellite - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1925, Benito Mussolini makes his pivotal speech in Italy (Jan 3), the first issue of The New Yorker appears (Feb 21), the Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Chrysler (Jun 6), Adolf Hitler publishes Volume I of Mein Kampf (Jul 18), the Ku Klux Klan parades in Washington D.C. (Aug 8), Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota (Oct 1), the first London double-deckers are introduced (Oct 2) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1940, Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany (Jan 4), food rationing begins in Great Britain (Jan 8), Pinocchio is released in theaters everywhere (Feb 7), peace treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union ends the Winter War (Mar 12), Germany invades Denmark and Norway (Apr 9), Battle of France begins, and Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister in the U.K. (May 10), the first McDonald’s opens in San Bernardino, California (May 15), Auschwitz-Birkenau opens in occupied Poland (May 20), Battle of Britain begins (Jul 7), the first bombing of Berlin by the RAF takes place (Aug 25), the retaliating 57-day long Blitz by the Nazis starts in London (Sep 7), the WW2 rages on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1941, U.S. President F.D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a third term (Jan 20), plutonium is discovered (Feb 23), Citizen Kane premieres in New York City (May 1), the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer is presented in Berlin (May 12), Operation Barbarossa begins (Jun 22), Finland as a co-belligerent with Germany attacks the Soviet Union to start the Continuation War (Jun 25), the world’s first TV commercial is aired on NBC (Jul 1), the requirement to wear the Star of David is extended to all Jews over the age of six in German-occupied areas (Sep 6), construction of The Pentagon begins (Sep 12), last day of carving on Mount Rushmore (Oct 31), Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii (Dec 7), Thailand and Japan sign a military alliance (Dec 21), the World War II and the Holocaust continue - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1952, West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders (Jan 8), Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom (Feb 7), Wernher von Braun publishes his ideas on space travel (Mar 22), East Germany threatens to form its own army (May 1), the Summer Olympics commence in Helsinki, Finland (Jul 19), Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States (Jul 25), West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks to Israel for the costs of resettling the Jewish refugees after the war (Aug 27), NSA is founded (Nov 4), the first successful sex reassignment surgery is performed in Copenhagen, Denmark (Nov 20), the first successful surgical separation of Siamese twins is conducted in Cleveland, Ohio (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1964, for the first time in the United States, smoking is officially said to be dangerous (Jan 11), Beatlemania begins as the Beatles land at JFK airport (Feb 7), Malcolm X claims he will form a black nationalist party, and Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali (Mar 6), the game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC (Mar 30), Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award (Apr 13), the Rolling Stones release their debut album (Apr 16), Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison (Jun 12), racial segregation is officially abolished in the U. Continue reading

In the year 1963, Betty Friedan’s _The Feminine Mystique _ reawakens the Women’s Movement in the U.S. (Feb 19), the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes (Mar 21), the Beatles release their first album (Mar 22), Hitchcock’s The Birds is released in the U.S. (Mar 28), the first James Bond film is released (May 8), Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space (Jun 16), President John F. Kennedy gives his Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin, East Germany (Jun 26), Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_2034” align=“alignright” width=“355”]Vivien Leigh, Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier in 1956[/caption] In the year 1962, New York City introduces a subway train that operates without a crew on board (Jan 4), Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact (Jan 9), first Kmart store is opened (Mar 1), Taco Bell is founded (Mar 21), first Walmart store is opened (Jul 2), Algeria becomes independent from France (Jul 5), the Rolling Stones make their debut (Jul 12), Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home in L. Continue reading

In the year 1986, the first PC virus starts to spread (Jan 19), space shuttle Challenger explodes right after launch (Jan 28), Pixar Animation Studios open in California (Feb 3), the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station (Feb 19), Olof Palme is shot to death in Stockholm (Feb 28), Rendez-vous Concert in Houston by Jean-Michel Jarre (Apr 5), leak at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl spreads disaster (Apr 26), Desmond Tutu becomes the first black bishop in South Africa (Sep 7), the Oprah Winfrey Show premieres in syndication (Sep 8), the Phantom of the Opera opens in London (Oct 9), Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title (Nov 22) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1985, the Internet Domain Name System is created (Jan 1), We Are The World is recorded (Jan 28), Mikhail Gorbachev becomes new leader of the Soviet Union (Mar 11), Madonna launches her first concert tour (Apr 10), South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages (Apr 15), ozone hole is discovered (May 16), the Schengen Area is born (Jun 14), Live Aid concerts raise money for Ethiopia (Jul 13), the first smoking ban in restaurants is passed in Aspen, Colorado (Aug 28), the Nintendo game Super Mario is released (Sep 13), the space shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight (Oct 3), Microsoft releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1. Continue reading