Volume 11 , Issue 2

History At Your Birth

What was happening when you were born? Ellis Raymer sent us a few links to a website where you can click on the particular year and found out just that information.

I clicked the link for the year I was born, 1948, and this is some of what I discovered:

World Statistics for 1948: Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu militant (Jan. 30); Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia (Feb. 23-25); Organization of American States (OAS) Charter signed at Bogot?, Colombia (April 30); Nation of Israel proclaimed; British ends Mandate at midnight; Arab armies attack (May 14); Arab-Israeli Wars; Berlin Airlift begins (June 21); ends May 12, 1949; Stalin and Tito break (June 28); United States of Indonesia established as Dutch and Indonesians settle conflict (Dec. 27); President Harry S. Truman; No Vice President; Population: 146,631,302; Life expectancy: 67.2 years; Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.9; Truman ends racial segregation in the U.S. military; Margaret Sanger founds the International Planned Parenthood Federation; The Hollywood Ten, a group of writers, producers and directors called as witnesses in the House Committee's Investigation of Un-American Activities, are jailed for contempt of Congress when they refuse to disclose if they were or were not Communists; 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.

Here are some of the Links Ellis sent along: Year by Year: 1900-2008 - 1920 - 1938 - 1943 - 1950 - 1970 - 1980 - 1990 - 2000 - 2008.

What happened when you were born?
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