Decades

=1940s, 1950s, and 1960s =

=GENERAL RESOURCES =

Eyewitness to History: 20th century

FBI History

Film History by Decade (Filmsite.org)

Fun Music Facts from 1900-1950

Google Cultural Institute Exhibits of artifacts, photos, manuscripts and video of cultural history from 1905-2013

Great Idea Finder Inventor and invention history

History of Comics

Infoplease.com Year by Year

Life Magazine (Time-Life Historic Moments)

National Archives Experience: the Digital Vaults

People History News, events, prices and popular culture 1920 to today

People's Century 1900-1999 (PBS)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picturing the Century ( National Archives and Records Administration)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presidential Timeline (National Archives and Records Administration)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sweet Search: Social Studies (Using the Web and Technology in the Social Studies Class)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TimeSearch History

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UShistory.org

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yahoo: U.S. History by Time Period

> Vintage advertisements under a variety of categories > Archives classic print ads under 17 categories > 100,000 vintage ads under a wide variety of categories > American cultural artists past and present > Artifacts and sounds of popular culture
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Advertisements of the 20th century **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adclassix.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adflip: Archive of Classic Ads
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vintage Ad Browser
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Masters A-Z List (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Memory (Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Authentic History Center
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bad Fads Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Biographical Resources (Westmontwiki)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ClassicCar.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CrazyFads.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital Comic Museum


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fashion and Food Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fashion History and Costume Eras
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Food Time Line (Morris County Library, Whippany, N.J.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soulmates: The Century in Shoes

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MULTIMEDIA =


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remember free doesn't mean copyright free. Copyright is implied! **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audio/Music/Radio Resources
> (Find any song on rdio, Spotify, Grooveshark, Soundcloud, YouTube, Mog and/or Bandcamp)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">100 Years of Rock Visualized NEW
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital History: Music
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free Oldies Music Jukebox (Music from 1950-1989)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HistoryBuff.com Audio Files
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lost in the 50's: Oldies Jukebox
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Music Smasher
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Music Timeline (Google Research)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Musicals 101 (The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Jukebox (Historical recordings from the Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Old Time Radio Shows
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Image Resources

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Biography Channel Photo Gallery
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corbis Images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Getty Images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Library of Congress Photostream on Flickr
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Picsearch

> On the left side click on Archives Timeline to select historical events
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video and Television Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adventure and Action Free Movies (1900's-1960's)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Experience On-Line VIdeos (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Biography Channel Videos
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CBC Digital Archives (Canadian Broadcasting Centre)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classic TV Database
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Crazy About TV (Show information by decade or genre from 1940's through 2013)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have Fun With History
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">History Channel
 * History by Topic
 * Videos by Topic


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Archive (Searching required - not arranged chronologically
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Video Project
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Television: the First 75 Years (Television set history)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TV Party
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
 * 40s
 * 60s

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1940's =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cold War Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Computer History Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Seuss Goes to War (a catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuss)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eyewitness to World War Two
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Farming in the 1940's (Wessels Living History Farm)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For European Recovery: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Sites to see (Education World)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hiroshima Peace Site
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Levitown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (Smithsonian)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pearl Harbor (Have Fun with History)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Perilous Fight: America's World War II (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tuskegee Airmen (Knowitall.org)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Jukebox of Songs from the 40s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voices of World War II (Audio resources)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who "invented' the TV Dinner? (Library of Congress)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WWW-VL: History: USA: 1940-1950

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1945

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Decapitated Rooster Named Mike Lives for 18 Months
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Division of Korea Into North and South
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FDR Dies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firebombing of Dresden
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Firestorm Consumes Tokyo
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Atomic Bomb Tested
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Computer Built (ENIAC)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Germans Surrender
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hitler Commits Suicide
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Microwave Oven Invented
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Nuremberg Trials Begin]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Plane Crashes Into the Empire State Building]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Slinky Toy Hits Shelves
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Who Saved Tens of Thousands of Jewish Lives, Was Arrested and Never Seen Again
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">United Nations Founded
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yalta Conference

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Movies **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, National Velvet, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Spellbound

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Music **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gene Autry, "At Mail Call Today"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bing Crosby, "Aren't You Glad You're You?"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Judy Garland, "This Heart of Mine"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">King Cole Trio, "The King Cole Trio"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glenn Miller, "Glenn Miller"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carousel soundtrack
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Frank Sinatra, "Put Your Dreams Away"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1946

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bikinis Introduced
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Spock's The Common Book of Baby and Child Care Is Published
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juan Perón Becomes President of Argentina
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nuremberg Trials
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Movies **
 * It's a Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Razor's Edge
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Movies **
 * It's a Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Razor's Edge


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Music **
 * [|Carmen Cavallaro], "Dancing in the Dark"
 * "Chiquita Banana"
 * [|Coleman Hawkins], "Say It Isn't So"
 * [|Frank Sinatra], "The Voice of Frank Sinatra"
 * "Tenderly"
 * "There's No Business Like Show Business"
 * "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1947

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marshall Plan
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Polaroid Cameras Invented

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Movies **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gentleman's Agreement, Miracle on 34th Street, Great Expectations, The Bishop's Wife


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Music **
 * [|Doris Day], "Confess"
 * [|Al Jolson], Al Jolson Album
 * "Woody Woodpecker"
 * "A Fellow Needs A Girl"
 * [|Frankie Lane], "That's My Desire"
 * [|Glenn Miller], "Glenn Miller Masterpieces—Vol. 2"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1948

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Berlin Airlift
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Big Bang" Theory Formulated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Newspaper
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gandhi Assassinated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Policy of Apartheid Begun
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">State of Israel Founded
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The microwave oven is invented by Percy Spencer (US)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP ("long playing") record at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It allows listeners to enjoy an unprecedented 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the standard 78 rpm record.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Movies **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Hamlet, I Remember Mama, Johnny Belinda, The Snake Pit

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1949

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">China Becomes Communist
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Non-Stop Flight Around the World
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NATO Established
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Movies **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the King's Men, Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Third Man


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Music **
 * "Some Enchanted Evening"
 * "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
 * "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
 * "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
 * Kiss Me Kate soundtrack
 * [|Samuel Barber], Piano Sonata
 * [|Ernest Bloch], Scherzo Fantasque
 * [|Vaughn Monroe], Vaughn Monroe Sings

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THE 1950'S =
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Birmingham Civil Rights Institute]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brown Foundation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cold War Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Computer History Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Farming in the 50s and 60s (Wessels Living History Farm)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Korean War Commemoration Department of Defense
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Levitown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lost in the 50's: Oldies Jukebox
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Montgomery Bus Boycott (Montgomery Advisor)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mr. Pop History: 1950s Week by Week Archive
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NASA: Human Spaceflight History
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rewind the Fifties
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s to Early 60s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whatever Happened to Polio (Smithsonian)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1950

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Modern Credit Card Introduced
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Organ Transplant
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Korean War Begins
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

Movies
>
 * Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Born Yesterday, The Third Man

=**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1951 **=


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Color TV Introduced
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">====**Movies**====


 * The African Queen, A Streetcar Named Desire, An American in Paris, A Place in the Sun

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1952

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Car Seat Belts Introduced
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Great Smog of 1952
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Polio Vaccine Created
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">====Movies====


 * Singin' in the Rain, High Noon, The Greatest Show on Earth, Moulin Rouge

=**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1953 **=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">====**Movies**====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DNA Discovered
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joseph Stalin Dies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage


 * The Robe, From Here to Eternity, Shane, Roman Holiday

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1954 =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First Atomic Submarine Launched
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Given to Children in Massive Trial
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.066em; line-height: 1.5;">Movies **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">On the Waterfront, Rear Window, The Caine Mutiny, Sabrina, The High and the Mighty

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1955 =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Disneyland Opens
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Emmett Till Murdered
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">James Dean Dies in Car Accident
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Ray Kroc Opens His First McDonald's
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Warsaw Pact Signed

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1956 =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Elvis gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Hungarian Revolution
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Suez Crisis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">T.V. Remote Control Invented
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Velcro Introduced

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1957 =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">European Economic Community Established
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1958 =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">American Bobby Fischer Becomes Youngest Chess Grandmaster
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Hula Hoops Become Popular
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">NASA Founded
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Peace Symbol Created

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1959

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THE 1960'S = > (Please watch out of district) > Click Visit the 60s box on upper middle left side for 1962-1970
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Experience: Race to the Moon (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American Experience: Vietnam Online (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apollo Program (NASA)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BBHQ: Baby Boomer Headquarters
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chicago Blizzards (lhoule's Delicious bookmarks)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cold War Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Cold War: the Manhattan Project (U.S. Department of Energy)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Computer History Museum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cuban Missile Crisis (National Security Archive)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Farming in the 50s and 60s (Wessels Living History Farm)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Fifties Web: the Retro 50s, 60s, and 70s Source
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">General Resources (Link back to great information at the top of the page)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Greg Knight's Patio Culture (Suburban America)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JFK Assassination Reports and Records
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John F. Kennedy Interactive Exhibits
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on YouTube
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The March on Washington (National Public Radio - NPR)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mr. Pop Culture: 1960s Week by Week Archive
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NASA: Human Spaceflight History
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Psychedelic ‘60s: Literary tradition and Social Change ( (University of Virginia Library)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remembering the March (PBS Online News Hour)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Retro: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skooldays: Home of Nostalgia
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Jukebox of Songs from the 50s and 60s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vietnam War (History.com)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We Shall Overcome: Historic Civil Rights Sites (National Park Service)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yahoo: Civil Rights Movement

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1960

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Televised Presidential Debates
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Lasers Invented
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1961

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Bay of Pigs Invasion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Berlin Wall Built
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Peace Corps Founded
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Soviets Launch First Man in Space
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Stalin's Body Removed From Lenin's Mausoleum
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1962

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Cuban Missile Crisis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Famous Escape From Alcatraz
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First James Bond Movie
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Wal-Mart Opens
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1963

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Dr. Who Episode Airs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Woman in Space
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Great Train Robbery in England
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">JFK Assassinated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">March on Washington
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Medgar Evers Is Murdered

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1964

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1965

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Los Angeles Riots
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Malcolm X Assassinated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Miniskirt First Appears
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">New York City Great Blackout
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1966

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Black Panther Party Established
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Kwanzaa Celebrated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1967

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|Australian Prime Minister Disappears]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Che Guevara Killed
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">[|First Heart Transplant]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">First Super Bowl
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Six-Day War in the Middle East
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Stalin's Daughter Defects
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1968

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">My Lai Massacre
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Prague Spring
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Tet Offensive
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Zodiac Killer Strikes

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1969

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Manson Family Murders
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Sesame Street First Airs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO