History of Daddy's Life Time

For james ray sargent
1933 to 2005

1910-1936 :
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 3

1918-1933 :
Prohibition from before birth until age 0

1929-1939 :
Great Depression from before birth until age 6

1931-1933 :
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from before birth until age 0

1933 :
Radio Astronomy at age 0

1933 :
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 0

1933 :
Soviet communist party purge at age 0

1933-1945 :
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 0 to 12

1934 :
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 1

1935 :
Dustbowl at age 2

1935-1936 :
Abyssinian war from age 2 to 3

1936 :
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 3

1936 :
Helicopter at age 3

1936 :
Spanish Civil War at age 3

1936-1952 :
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 3 to 19

1937 :
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 4

1937-1945 :
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 4 to 12

1938 :
Germany annexes Austria at age 5

1939 :
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 6

1939 :
Digital Computer at age 6

1939-1945 :
World War II from age 6 to 12

1940 :
1st black general in US army at age 7

1940 :
Color Television at age 7

1941-1945 :
Manhattan Project from age 8 to 12

1942 :
Nuclear Reactor at age 9

1942 :
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 9

1945 :
Hypertext at age 12

1945 :
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 12

1945-1952 :
Harry S Truman president of US from age 12 to 19

1945 :
United Nations formed at age 12

1946 :
The Bikini at age 13

1946-1989 :
The Cold War from age 13 to 56

1947 :
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 14

1947 :
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 14

1947 :
Transistor at age 14

1948 :
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 15

1948 :
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 15

1948 :
NATO formed at age 15

1948 :
Israel inaugurated as state at age 15

1949 :
45 rpm musical recordings at age 16

1949 :
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 16

1949 :
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 16

1950 :
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 17

1950-1954 :
McCarthyism from age 17 to 21

1950 :
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 17

1950-1953 :
Korean War from age 17 to 20

1951 :
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 18

1952 :
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 19

1952-2050 :
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 19 until after timeline

1953-1960 :
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 20 to 27

1954 :
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 21

1955 :
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 22

1955 :
Invention of Velcro at age 22

1955 :
Warsaw pact formed at age 22

1955 :
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 22

1956 :
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 23

1957 :
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 24

1958 :
Integrated Circuit at age 25

1958 :
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 25

1958 :
US space agency (NASA) established at age 25

1958 :
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 25

1959 :
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 26

1959 :
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 26

1959 :
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 26

1960 :
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 27

1960 :
Pantyhose at age 27

1960 :
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 27

1960 :
Laser at age 27

1961-1970 :
7th Cholera pandemic from age 28 to 37

1961 :
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 28

1961-1963 :
John F Kennedy president of US from age 28 to 30

1961 :
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 28

1962 :
Cuban missile crisis at age 29

1962-1965 :
Vatican II from age 29 to 32

1963-1968 :
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 30 to 35

1963 :
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 30

1963 :
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 30

1963 :
1st artificial heart at age 30

1964-1975 :
Vietnam War from age 31 to 42

1964 :
US civil rights bill at age 31

1965 :
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 32

1965 :
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 32

1966 :
8-track tape players at age 33

1966 :
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 33

1967-1970 :
Nigerian civil war from age 34 to 37

1967 :
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 34

1967 :
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 34

1967 :
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 34

1967 :
1st human heart transplant at age 34

1968 :
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 35

1968 :
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 35

1969 :
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 36

1969-1974 :
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 36 to 41

1969 :
Woodstock Music Festival at age 36

1970 :
Microprocessor at age 37

1970 :
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 37

1971 :
Pakistani civil war at age 38

1971 :
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 38

1973 :
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 40

1973 :
The Internet at age 40

1974-1976 :
Gerald Ford president of US from age 41 to 43

1974 :
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 41

1975 :
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 42

1975 :
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 42

1975 :
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 42

1976 :
American Bicentennial at age 43

1976 :
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 43

1976 :
VHS Video Recordings at age 43

1976 :
Television begins satellite delivery at age 43

1977 :
Neutron bomb at age 44

1977-1980 :
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 44 to 47

1978 :
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 45

1978 :
1st test-tube baby at age 45

1978 :
Laserdisc video recordings at age 45

1979 :
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 46

1979 :
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 46

1980 :
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 47

1981 :
IBM PC ships at age 48

1981-1988 :
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 48 to 55

1981 :
1st female supreme court justice at age 48

1981 :
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 48

1982 :
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 49

1983 :
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 50

1983 :
Bluford 1st black in space at age 50

1983 :
Compact Disks at age 50

1984 :
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 51

1984 :
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 51

1985 :
Amiga Computer Ships at age 52

1986 :
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 53

1986 :
Halley's Comet at age 53

1986 :
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 53

1986 :
Mir space station deployed at age 53

1987 :
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 54

1988 :
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 55

1989 :
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 56

1989 :
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 56

1989 :
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 56

1989 :
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 56

1989-1992 :
George Bush president of US from age 56 to 59

1989 :
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 56

1990 :
World Wide Web at age 57

1990 :
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 57

1991 :
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 58

1991-2003 :
8th Cholera pandemic from age 58 to 70

1992 :
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 59

1993 :
Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 60

1993-2000 :
William Clinton president of US from age 60 to 67

1993 :
Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 60

1994 :
South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 61

1995 :
American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 62

1996 :
DVD video recordings at age 63

1997 :
Cloning living beings at age 64

1997 :
Mars pathfinder lands at age 64

1998 :
US attacks Iraq, again at age 65

1998 :
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 65

1998 :
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 65

1999 :
US attacks Bosnia at age 66

2000 :
Working draft of human genome completed at age 67

2000 :
Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 67

2000 :
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 67

2000 :
'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 67

2001 :
Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 68

2001 :
Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 68

2001 :
US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 68

2001 :
Wikipedia goes online at age 68

2001 :
Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 68

2001 :
X-Box console released at age 68

2001-2009 :
George W. Bush president of US from age 68 until after timeline

2001 :
Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths at age 68

2002 :
Euro currency introduced at age 69

2002 :
Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 69

2002 :
10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 69

2003 :
28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 70

2003 :
Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 70

2004 :
Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 71

2004 :
Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 71

2004 :
Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 71

2004 :
Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 at age 71

2004 :
10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 71

2005 :
Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 72

2005 :
Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 72

2005 :
Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 72

2005 :
Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 72

2005 :
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 72

2005 :
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 72