Timeline
Events and Trends | Dates | Personal Info | |
| Atom bomb; end of WWII; birth of bebop | 1945 | ||
| Beginning of baby boom | 1946 | birth of Michael Cecil Conkin, Kansas City, MO, 6/12/46 | |
| Truman doctrine promises aid to non-communist Turkey | 1947 | ||
| North Atlantic TreatyOrganization (NATO) formed | 1949 | living in Deming, New Mexico | |
| US enters Korean War | 1950 | ||
| Hydrogen bomb tested | 1952 | ||
| End of Korean War | 1953 | ||
| Joseph McCarthy censured by Senate | 1954 | ||
| First commercial computers; Dwight Eisenhower in Colorado hospital | 1955 | Mother in Colorado hospital Mother's death; father to Turkey; children to Masonic home, St.Louis | |
| Little Rock, Ark.schools desegregated | 1957 | ||
| 1959 | Clayton High School,St. Louis | ||
| 1960 | Sunnyvale High School,Sunnyvale, California | ||
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962 | Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach, California | |
| John F. Kennedyassassinated | 1963 | Works in restaurants | |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (US military buildup in Vietnam (through 1968); CIA turns Nelson Mandela over to South African authorities | 1964 | ||
| Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident | 1966 | US Army draftee | |
| Summer of Love;Beatles' Sergeant Pepper | 1967 | Promoted to Specialist4th Class | |
| Martin Luther King assassinated; Robert Kennedy assassinated | 1968 | Candy maker | |
| 4 killed at Kent State | 1971 | ||
| 1972 | Merritt College(through 1976) | ||
| US withdraws from Vietnam; Fall of Allende in Chile | 1973 | ||
| Watergate; Nixon resigns | 1974 | ||
| End of war in Vietnam | 1975 | ||
| President Jimmy Carter elected | 1976 | Graduates with AA in language arts; marriage (6/19/76), Berkeley | |
| American hostages in Iran (till 1981); mass murder-suicide at People's Temple, Guyana | 1979 | ||
| John Lennon murdered;President Ronald Reagan elected | 1980 | Library work (throughpresent), UC Berkeley Library | |
| AIDS epidemic emerges | 1982 | ||
| US invasion of Grenada | 1983 | ||
| Indira Gandhi assassinated | 1984 | ||
| Chernobyl power plant accident; US terrorist bombing of Libya (alleged retaliation) | 1986 | ||
| Iran-Contra scandal | 1987 | ||
| President George Bush elected | 1988 | ||
| Berlin Wall comes down; Earthquake in Bay Area, 7.1; US invades Panama | 1989 | ||
| Nelson Mandela freed | 1990 | ||
| US launches DesertStorm'; Soviet Union dissolved | 1991 | ||
| President Bill Clinton elected | 1992 | ||
| Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal comes to a head | 1998 | Assigned to electronic cataloging unit, UC Berkeley Library |
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