Baby Boomer Nostalgia

1946 - U.S. Navy tests atomic bomb at Bikini in the South Pacific
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru to Polynesia on a raft
1948 - Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru to Polynesia on a raft
1950 - First kidney transplant
1950-1953 - Korean War
1951 - First colour TV program
1952 - American Bandstand premieres on Television
1954 - Elvis Presley cut his first record.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a Black woman, refuses to move to back of the bus
1956 - The U.S. explodes the world's first hydrogen bomb
1956 - President Eisenhower wins re-election
1956 - Elvis appears on Ed Sullivan - swivelling hips are censored
1957 - Russians launch Sputnik I and Sputnik II
1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & the Big Bopper die in a plane crash
1959 - Barbie Doll is born
1960 - John Kennedy is elected president
1960 - Chubby Checker introduces the Twist
1961 - The Berlin Wall is erected
1962 - 36-year-old Marilyn died in her sleep
1963 - Martin Luther King - "I have a Dream" speech during march on Washington
1963 - President Kennedy is assassinated
1964 - The Beatles come to US and change history
1967 - First heart transplant
1967 - Rolling Stone magazine prints it's first issue
1968 - Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinated
1969 - Armstrong & Aldrin land on the moon
1969 - Woodstock Music Concert held at Max Yasgur's farm
1970 - The first "Earth Day" is celebrated
1970 - President Nixon orders U.S. combat troops into Cambodia
1970 - Kent State students protesting the war are killed by National Guardsmen
1970 - The Beatles break up
1972 - Terrorist attack kills 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics
1973 - Vietnam War cease-fire signed
1974 - President Nixon resigns in disgrace
1974 - William Gates drops out of Harvard to write software for home computers ... Thank you Bill !
1977 - Elvis is found dead.

Academy Awards - Best Picture

1950 - All About Eve
1951 - An American in Paris
1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 - From Here to Eternity (Superbit Collection)
1954 - On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
1955 - Marty (1954)
1956 - Around the World in 80 Days (Two-Disc Special Edition)
1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)
1958 - Gigi
1959 - Ben-Hur
1960 - The Apartment
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)
1963 - Tom Jones (1963)
1964 - My Fair Lady
1965 - The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
1966 - A Man for All Seasons
1967 - In the Heat of the Night (40th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
1968 - Oliver!
1969 - Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector's Edition)