Baker’s Dozen III

Major events of the 1960’s

  1. The rise of the Beatles
  2. The assassination of JFK
  3. The first Moon landing
  4. I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. Vietnam War
  6. The Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music in White Lake (NY)
  7. The assassination of RFK
  8. Voting Right Act of 1965
  9. Widespread birth control access
  10. Watts Riots
  11. Thalidomide babies
  12. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Major events of the 1960’s

  1. The rise of the Beatles
  2. The assassination of JFK
  3. The first Moon landing
  4. I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. Vietnam War
  6. The Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music in White Lake (NY)
  7. The assassination of RFK
  8. Voting Rights Act of 1965
  9. Widespread birth control access
  10. Watts Riots
  11. Thalidomide babies
  12. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  13. Muhammad Ali stripped of his title

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)

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Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
  9. Rise of Elvis Presley

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
  9. Rise of Elvis Presley
  10. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
  9. Rise of Elvis Presley
  10. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  11. Television becomes a fixture in American households

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
  9. Rise of Elvis Presley
  10. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  11. Television becomes a fixture in American households
  12. 71.1% of all television sets in the United States tune in to “I Love Lucy” to watch the episode in which Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky in 1953; a record that has yet to be surpassed

Major events of the 1950’s

  1. Korean Conflict
  2. Rosenberg Espionage Trial (and subsequent execution)
  3. Brown v. Board of Education
  4. The Army-McCarthy hearings
  5. The Sputnik launch
  6. Hydrogen bomb invented
  7. Double-helix structure of DNA discovered
  8. Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat
  9. Rise of Elvis Presley
  10. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  11. Television becomes a fixture in American households
  12. 71.1% of all television sets in the United States tune in to “I Love Lucy” to watch the episode in which Lucy gives birth to Little Ricky in 1953; a record that has yet to be surpassed
  13. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climb Mt. Everest

Name another category, SpoVi?

Major events of the 1890’s

  1. Election of Andrew Jackson

Major events of the 1890’s

  1. Election of Andrew Jackson
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine

Wait a second…Andrew Jackson? Who died in 1845? Am I missing something?

Major events of the 1890’s

  1. Election of Andrew Jackson
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine
  3. Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand magazine for the first time

Major events of the 1890’s

  1. Election of William McKinley
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine
  3. Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand magazine for the first time
  4. Wright Bros. take to the sky

Corrected #1.

Major events of the 1890’s

  1. Election of William McKinley
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine
  3. Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand magazine for the first time
  4. Wright Bros. take to the sky
  5. Spanish-American War