Custom Timeline for Odis U. Swallows Sr.

Custom Timeline
For Odis Unley Swallows Sr.
1929 to 2000

1910-1936 :
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 7

1918-1933 :
Prohibition from before birth until age 4

1920-1929 :
Roaring 20's from before birth until age 0

1929-1932 :
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 0 to 3

1929 :
Stock Market Crash at age 0

1929-1939 :
Great Depression from age 0 to 10

1930 :
Pluto Discovered at age 1

1931-1933 :
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 2 to 4

1933-1945 :
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 4 to 16

1933 :
Soviet communist party purge at age 4

1933 :
Radio Astronomy at age 4

1933 :
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 4

1935 :
Dustbowl at age 6

1935-1936 :
Abyssinian war from age 6 to 7

1936 :
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 7

1936 :
Spanish Civil War at age 7

1936 :
Helicopter at age 7

1936-1952 :
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 7 to 23

1937-1945 :
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 8 to 16

1937 :
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 8

1938 :
Germany annexes Austria at age 9

1939 :
Digital Computer at age 10

1939 :
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 10

1939-1945 :
World War II from age 10 to 16

1940 :
1st black general in US army at age 11

1940 :
Color Television at age 11

1941-1945 :
Manhatten Project from age 12 to 16

1942 :
Nuclear Reactor at age 13

1942 :
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 13

1945 :
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 16

1945 :
United Nations formed at age 16

1945-1952 :
Harry S Truman president of US from age 16 to 23

1945 :
Hypertext at age 16

1946-1989 :
The Cold War from age 17 to 60

1946 :
The Bikini at age 17

1947 :
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 18

1947 :
Transistor at age 18

1948 :
Israel inaugurated as state at age 19

1948 :
NATO formed at age 19

1948 :
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 19

1948 :
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 19

1949 :
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 20

1949 :
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 20

1949 :
45 rpm musical recordings at age 20

1950-1953 :
Korean War from age 21 to 24

1950 :
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 21

1950-1954 :
McCarthyism from age 21 to 25

1950 :
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 21

1951 :
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 22

1952-2000 :
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 23 to 71

1952 :
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 23

1953-1960 :
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 24 to 31

1954 :
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 25

1955 :
Warsaw pact formed at age 26

1955 :
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 26

1956 :
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 27

1957 :
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 28

1958 :
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 29

1958 :
Integrated Circuit at age 29

1958 :
US space agency (NASA) established at age 29

1958 :
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 29

1959 :
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 30

1959 :
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 30

1959 :
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 30

1960 :
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 31

1960 :
Pantyhose at age 31

1960 :
Laser at age 31

1960 :
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 31

1961 :
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 32

1961 :
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 32

1961-1970 :
7th Cholera pandemic from age 32 to 41

1961-1963 :
John F Kennedy president of US from age 32 to 34

1962 :
Cuban missile crisis at age 33

1962-1965 :
Vatican II from age 33 to 36

1963 :
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 34

1963 :
1st artificial heart at age 34

1963 :
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 34

1963-1968 :
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 34 to 39

1964 :
US civil rights bill at age 35

1964-1975 :
Vietnam War from age 35 to 46

1965 :
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 36

1965 :
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 36

1966 :
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 37

1966 :
8-track tape players at age 37

1967-1970 :
Nigerian civil war from age 38 to 41

1967 :
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 38

1967 :
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 38

1967 :
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 38

1967 :
1st human heart transplant at age 38

1968 :
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 39

1968 :
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 39

1969 :
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 40

1969 :
Woodstock Music Festival at age 40

1969-1974 :
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 40 to 45

1970 :
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 41

1970 :
Microprocessor at age 41

1971 :
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 42

1971 :
Pakistani civil war at age 42

1973 :
The Internet at age 44

1973 :
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 44

1974 :
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 45

1974-1976 :
Gerald Ford president of US from age 45 to 47

1975 :
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 46

1975 :
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 46

1976 :
American Bicentennial at age 47

1976 :
VHS Video Recordings at age 47

1976 :
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 47

1977-1980 :
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 48 to 51

1977 :
Neutron bomb at age 48

1978 :
1st test-tube baby at age 49

1978 :
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 49

1978 :
Laserdisc video recordings at age 49

1979 :
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 50

1979 :
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 50

1980 :
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 51

1981 :
IBM PC ships at age 52

1981 :
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 52

1981-1988 :
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 52 to 59

1981 :
1st female supreme court justice at age 52

1982 :
1st geneticly engineered product - insulin at age 53

1983 :
Compact Disks at age 54

1983 :
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 54

1983 :
Bluford 1st black in space at age 54

1984 :
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 55

1984 :
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 55

1985 :
Amiga Computer Ships at age 56

1986 :
Mir space station deployed at age 57

1986 :
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 57

1986 :
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 57

1987 :
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 58

1988 :
Turin shroud carbon dated from 1330 AD at age 59

1989 :
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 60

1989 :
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 60

1989 :
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 60

1989 :
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 60

1989-1992 :
George Bush president of US from age 60 to 63

1989 :
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 60

1990 :
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 61

1990 :
World Wide Web at age 61

1991 :
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 62

1991-2000 :
8th Cholera pandemic from age 62 to 71

1992 :
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 63

1993-2000 :
William Clinton president of US from age 64 to 71

1993 :
Terrorist bombing of World Trade Center at age 64

1995 :
Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 66

1996 :
DVD video recordings at age 67

1997 :
Cloning living beings at age 68

1997 :
Mars pathfinder lands at age 68

1998 :
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 69

1998 :
US attacks Iraq, again at age 69

1999 :
US attacks Bosnia at age 70

2000 :
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 71

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