A few major events that have happened since 1960

The Oscar for Best Picture in 1960  was Ben-Hur

Grammy – Record of the Year  “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin

Album of the Year was “Come Dance With Me” Frank Sinatra

Song of the Year of “The Battle of New Orleans” by Jimmy Driftwood

 

Lynda Lee Mead from MS was Miss America

 

“To Kill a Mockingbird” came out and some of the other popular movies of 1960 were “Psycho”, “The Apartment” and “The Sundowners”.

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when we graduated.

John F. Kennedy became President in the November election.

 

Pittsburch beat the Yankees (4-3) in the World Series

 

The cost of a first class stamp was 4 cents

 

The Unemployment rate was 5.5%

The Federal Debt was about $290.5 billion

 

American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers,  was shot down over Russia (May 1).

 

The world population was about 3.039 billion

 

 

1961    East Germany erected the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt the flood of refugees (Aug. 13).

 

1962    The first transatlantic television transmission occured via the Telstar Satellite,  making worldwide television and cable networks a reality.   AND    Johnny Carson took over hosting duties of The Tonight Show from Jack Parr.

 

1963    Michael E. De Bakey implanted an artificial heart in a human for the first time at Houston hospital (April 21).

President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President the same day (Nov. 22). Beatlemania hit the U.K. The Beatles,  a British band,  took Britain by storm.

 

1964    Peyton Place premiered on ABC and was the first prime-time soap opera.

Color television made its way into U.S. homes.

The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

 

1965    The first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers are in Vietnam.

The Sound of Music premiered.

Bill Cosby, starring in I Spy, became the first African American to headline a television show.

 

1966   The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8.

 

1967     Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee were killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).

Congress created PBS.

Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons performed the world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3).

 

1968     Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, was slain in Memphis (April 4).

The successful flight of Apollo 8 made Commander Frank Borman,  Command Module Pilot James Lovell,  and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders the first people to orbit the moon.

 

1969    Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —took first walk on the Moon (July 20).

 

1970    Four students at Kent State University in Ohio were slain by National Guardsmen at demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia (May 4).

IBM introduced the floppy disk.

 

1972   Time Inc. transmitted HBO, the first pay cable network.

Atari introduced the arcade version of Pong, the first video game.

 

1973   Nixon, on national TV,  accepted responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate; accepted resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman,  fired John W. Dean III as counsel (April 30).

US Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade.

Skylab, the first American space station, was launched (May 14).

 

1974   Richard M. Nixon announced he will resign the next day,  the first President to do so (Aug. 8).

 

1975    Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft took off for US-Soviet link-up in space (July 15).

 

1976   Viking I landed on Mars.

 

1977   Star Wars hit theaters.

Elvis Presley died

 

1978   Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable stereo.

Balloon angioplasty was developed to treat coronary artery disease.

 

1979   Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., released radiation (March 28).

 

1982   The space shuttle Columbia made its first mission, deploying two communications satellites (Nov. 16).

 

1983   With the introduction of noise-free compact discs, the vinyl record began a steep decline. More than 125 million viewers tuned in to the last episode of M*A*S*H.

The FCC authorized Motorola to begin testing cellular phone service in Chicago.

 

1984   The Cosby Show debuted on NBC. The sitcom was widely considered the most popular show of the 1980s.

Apple introduced the user-friendly Macintosh personal computer.

 

1985   Coca-Cola attempted to change its 99-year-old formula in an effort to attract younger drinkers. "New" Coke was poorly received,  and the company soon reintroduces the original, "Classic" beverage.

 

1986   Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarmed world (April 26   Nintendo video games introduced in U.S.

Halley's comet yielded information on return visit (April 10).

 

1988   Ted Turner started Turner Network Television (TNT) and bought MGM's film library.

 

1989   After 28 years,  the Berlin Wall is opened to the West (Nov. 11).

A San Francisco Bay area earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude,  killed 67 and injured over 3,000. Over 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. (Oct. 17)

 

1990   The Simpsons debuted on Fox and became an instant hit.

Seinfeld debuted on NBC.

The Hubble Space Telescope eas launched (Apr. 25).

 

1992   A text-based Web browser was made available to the public (Jan.); within a few years, millions of people became regular users of the World Wide Web.

 

1993   Five were arrested,  sixth were sought in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York (March 29).

 

1994   O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman (June 18).

 

1995   Russian space station Mir greeted first Americans (March 14). US shuttle docked with station (June 27).

Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blew up block-long Oklahoma City federal building (April 19); The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opened in Cleveland.

An estimated 150 million people watched as the not guilty verdict was read in the O. J. Simpson verdict.

Drs. Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell (UK) created the world's first cloned sheep, Megan and Morag, from embryo cells.

 

• 1996 - TWA Flight 800 explodes off Long Island killing all 230 aboard.
• 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing at Summer Olympics in Atlanta kills 1 and injures 111
• 1997 - Sparked by a global economic crisis scare, the Dow Jones Industrial Average follows world markets and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15
• 1998-1999 - Lewinsky scandal: President Clinton is accused of having a sexual relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This leads to the impeachment of Clinton later in the year by the U.S. House of Representatives. Clinton is acquitted of all impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial
• 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark for the first time, at 10,006.78
• 1999 - Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School. It is the deadliest mass murder at a high school in U.S. history, and sparks debates on gun control and bullying.
• 1999 - Along with the rest of the world, the U.S. prepares for the possible effects of the Y2K bug in computers, which was feared to cause computers to become inoperable and wreak havoc.

• 2000 - U.S. presidential election, 2000; incumbent Texas governor George Walker Bush wins by 537 votes in Florida in a highly contested election against the incumbent Vice President Al Gore. He is thus elected 43rd President of the United States.
• 2001 - George Walker Bush inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States
• 2001 - Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 institutes the smallest tax cut in U.S. history.
• 2001 - September 11th terrorist attacks; 19 terrorists hijack four planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvaniakilling nearly 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000. All civilian air traffic is suspended for 3 days, the first time an unplanned suspension had occurred in U.S. history.
• 2001 - Congress passes an emergency bailout package for the airline industry as a result of the attack.
• 2001 - Patriot Act, increasing law enforcement agencies' ability to conduct searches in cases of suspected terrorism. Agencies were enforced..
• 2002 - The Department of Homeland Security is created in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
• 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, killing all 7 astronauts and resulting in a 29-month suspension of the space shuttle program.
• 2003 - The United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invades Iraq marking the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• 2003 - In Iraq, deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. special forces.
• 2004 - The social networking website Facebook is launched.
• 2004 - Former U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan dies from complications resulting from Alzheimer's Disease. He lies in state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.
• 2004 - U.S. presidential election, 2004; George W. Bush re-elected to second-term; Republicans solidify control in both houses of Congress.
• 2005 - George W. Bush is inaugurated to his second-term
• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Weeks later, Hurricane Rita causes $10 billion damage along the Louisiana and Texas coastlines. In October, Hurricane Wilma kills 35 and causes $20 billion in damage in Florida.
• 2007 - George W. Bush orders a troop surge which substantially increases the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and ultimately leads to reductions in casualties and major victories for coalition and Iraqi forces, against the insurgency.
• 2007 - The late-2000s recession officially begins in December.
• 2008 - Global financial crisis in September 2008 begins as the stock market crashes. In response, U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law to create a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.
• 2008 - U.S. presidential election, 2008; Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States.
• 2009 - Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He is also the first African-American to hold the office.
• 2009 - The first of a series of Tea Party protests are conducted across the United States, focusing on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and conservative views of the Constitution.
• 2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama obtains Congressional approval for the $787 billion stimulus package, the largest since President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• 2009 - Pop icon Michael Jackson dies, creating the largest public mourning for an entertainer since the death of Elvis Presley.
• 2010 - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
• 2011 - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is targeted in an assassination attempt, when a gunman went on a shooting spree, critically injuring Giffords, killing federal judgeJohn Roll and five other people, and wounding at least 13 others, at a "Congress on Your Corner" event Giffords was hosting in suburban Tucson, Arizona.
• 2011 - The ATF gunwalking scandal emerged, wherein thousands of guns were allowed to "walk" through interdiction to Mexico, supposedly to aid in the capture of criminals.
• 2011 - The U.S. launches Operation Odyssey Dawn as part of a United Nations military intervention in the Libyan civil war.
• 2011 - A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 344 people are killed in the deadliest natural disaster in the US sinceHurricane Katrina.
• 2011 - Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by soldiers from the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
• 2011 - Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
• 2011 - A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 154 and injuring 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
• 2011 - STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30 year shuttle program, which began with the launch of shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
• 2011 - Hurricane Irene strikes the Atlantic coast causing heavy flooding from North Carolina to eastern Canada, killing 49 and causing over $13 billion in damage.
• 2011 - In response to continuing economic stagnation, the populist Occupy Wall Street protest movement begins when activists camp themselves in Zuccotti Park in New York City.
• 2012 - A gunman kills 12 and injures 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
• 2012 - Hurricane Sandy devastates the Northeast Coast, killing over 100 people. Extreme damage is found on coastal regions of New York and New Jersey.
• 2012 - President Barack Obama is re-elected over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the presidential election.
• 2012 - A gunman kills 26, including 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
• 2013 - Christopher Dorner murders three people in Southern California, starting the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. His spree ends in Big Bear Lake, California where he barricades himself in a cabin, kills a second officer, before committing suicide.
• 2013 - Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
• 2013 - The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.
• 2015 - Nine people are killed in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a White gunman in a racist attack at the historically Blackchurch

• 2010 — Instagram founded

  2010 — The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.

  2011 — U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman went on a shooting spree, killing federal judge John Roll and five other people, and wounding at least 13 others, at an event Giffords was hosting in suburban Tucson, Arizona

  2011 — A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.

  2011 — Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs.

  2011 — Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.

  2011 — A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting

  2011 — STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.

  ·2012 — A gunman kills 12 and injures 70 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

  2012 — U.S. presidential election, 2012: Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.

  2012 — A gunman kills 26, including 20 children, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

  2012 — Hurricane Sandy strikes the Eastern Seaboard.

  2013 — Christopher Dorner murders three people in Southern California, starting the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. His spree ends in Big Bear Lake, California where he barricades himself in a cabin, kills a second officer, before committing suicide.

  2013 — Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators.

  2013 — A tornado devastates suburbs near Oklahoma City, killing 24.

  2013 — The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.

  2016 — John Glenn dies.

  2017 — Donald Trump becomes the 45th President, Mike Pence becomes Vice President. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office.

  2017 — Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.

  2017 — Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the

  2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  2017 — Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.

  2017 — Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.

  ·       October 1, 2017 — A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 58 people and injuring 546. This is the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

  2018 — Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

  2018 — America was distraught after the death of Stephen Hawking in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He left a legacy in theories of the universe and astrophysics. — Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.

  • ​January 25th, 2019 — The longest government shutdown in American History (December 22nd, 2018 -January 25th, 2019), or 35 days, officially ends.

• February 1st, 2019 — President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

  2019 — Mexican drug boss/lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all ten counts at a drug-trafficking trial in New York.

  ·       February 27th, 2019 — 2019 North Korea - United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. Presiden   Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

  ·       April 2019 — James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December of 2018.

  April 22nd, 2019 — Avengers Endgame is released going on to become the highest grossing movie of all time.

  ·       June 8th, 2019 — President Trump reached an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.

  ·       June 9th, 2019 — A construction crane fell on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.

  ·       December 18th, 2019 — The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.

  January 21, 2020 — The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus.

  ·       January 26, 2020 — Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter and 7 others, perished in a helicopter crash.

  ·       February 5,2020 — The majority of the United States Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump of charges related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal.