MrsB: 99 Years and More to Come! by KimB

MrsB: 99 Years!!!

and More to Come!

June 15 marks MrsB's 99th Birthday and WE could not be happier! It is a milestone for sure and MrsB has been having an entire weeklong celebration with family and friends. Lots of cards, letters, flowers and hoopla all week. Special presents of trees, cakes and more chickens for the farm-in-the-backyard along with the requsit sing alongs and cheers entertaining both MrsB and the neighbors!

MrsB has seen a lot of goings on during her lifetime and here is a summary of some of the world events that have happened.

MrsB June 2021

Presidents

• Presidency of Warren G. Harding #29, March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923
• Presidency of Calvin Coolidge #30, August 2, 1923 - March 4, 1929
• Presidency of Herbert Hoover #31, March 4, 1929 - March 4, 1933
• Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt #32, March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman #33, April 12, 1945 - January 20, 1953
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower #34, January 20, 1953 - January 20, 1961
• Presidency of John F. Kennedy #35, January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963
• Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson #36, November 22, 1963 - January 20, 1969
• Presidency of Richard Nixon #37, January 20, 1969 - August 9, 1974
• Presidency of Gerald Ford #38, August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977
• Presidency of Jimmy Carter #39, January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981
• Presidency of Ronald Reagan #40, January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989
• Presidency of George H. W. Bush #41, January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993
• Presidency of Bill Clinton #42, January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
• Presidency of George W. Bush #43, January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009
• Presidency of Barack Obama #44, January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2017
• Presidency of Donald Trump #45, January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021
• Presidency of Joe Biden #46, January 20, 2021 - ''Incumbent''

Events

• 1922 – Lincoln Memorial is dedicated
• 1923 – Teapot Dome scandal
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• 1925 – Scopes Trial
• 1926 – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is published.
• 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first trans–Atlantic flight
• 1927 – Babe Ruth hits a record 60 home runs in a single season
• 1928 – Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to feature Mickey Mouse
• 1928 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1929 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets a record 68 points over a two–day period, setting off the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and triggering the Great Depression
• 1929 – The Great Depression starts
• 1930 – Frozen vegetables, packaged by Clarence Birdseye, become the first frozen food to go on sale
• 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York.
• 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific.
• 1931 - “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official U.S. national anthem
• 1931 - Hoover vetoes Veteran Bonus
• 1931 - Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth
• 1932 - Son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and later found dead
• 1932 – U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
• 1933 – Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak killed during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Roosevelt.
• 1934 – John Dillinger killed
• 1934 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded
• 1935 – The F.B.I. is established with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director.
• 1936 - Hoover Dam
• 1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany
• 1937 – Hindenburg disaster, killing 35 people and marking an end to airship travel
• 1937 – Golden Gate Bridge completed in San Francisco
• 1939 – Nazi Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
• 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins
• 1940 – Oldsmobile becomes the first car maker to offer a fully automatic transmission
• 1941 – Regular commercial television broadcasting begins; CBS and NBC television networks launched.
• 1942 – Casablanca released
• 1944 – World War II: The United States invades Saipan
• 1944 – D-Day (also known as Operation Overlord)
• 1945 – Germany surrenders, end of World War II in Europe
• 1945 – Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Days later, Japan surrenders, ending World War II
• 1946 – President's Committee on Civil Rights
• 1946 – RCane
• 1947 – Polaroid camera invented
• 1947 – Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball
• 1947 - World Series is broadcast live on television for the first time
• 1949 – Germany divided into East and West
• 1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism (1950–1954) begins
• 1950 – Korean War begins
• 1950 – The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published
• 1952 – Kimosabe
• 1954 – The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event nationally televised in color
• 1954 – Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings
• 1954 – President Eisenhower proposes the Domino theory (Southeast Asia)
• 1954 – First Indochina War ends after the U.S. kept sending aid to the French. France was defeated by Ho Chi Minh and his army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
• 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education
• 1954 – NBC airs The Tonight Show, the first late-night talk show, originally hosted by Steve Allen
• 1955 – Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant
• 1955 – Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus
• 1955 – Disneyland opens at Anaheim, California
• 1955 – Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
• 1955 – Rock and roll music enters the mainstream, with "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets
• 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• 1956 – "In God We Trust" adopted as national motto
• 1957 – Civil Rights Act of 1957
• 1957 – Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins
• 1957 – Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregation. Eisenhower recruits the U.S. National Guard to escort the Little Rock Nine
• 1958 - The Affluent Society written by John Galbraith
• 1958 – NASA formed
• 1958 – Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit
• 1959 – The NBC western Bonanza becomes the first drama to be broadcast in color
• 1959 – Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th U.S. states
• 1960 – U-2 incident
• 1960 – Author Harper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird
• 1960 – Civil Rights Act of 1960
• 1961 – Eisenhower gives celebrated "military–industrial complex" farewell address
• 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1961 – Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space
• 1961 – Vietnam War officially begins
• 1962 – Andy Warhol becomes famous for his Campbell's Soup Cans painting
• 1962 – John Glenn orbits the Earth in Friendship 7
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963 – March on Washington; Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech
• 1963 – Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas
• 1964 – The Beatles arrive in the U.S.
• 1964 – Tonkin Gulf incident; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• 1964 – President Johnson proposes the Great Society
• 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 1964 - The Ford Mustang is introduced
• 1965 – President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
• 1965 – Medicaid and Medicare enacted
• 1965 – The Watts riots in Los Angeles, California
• 1966 – Miranda v. Arizona established "Miranda rights" for suspects
• 1967 – The first Super Bowl
• 1967 – Detroit race riot precipitates the "Long Hot Summer of 1967", when race riots erupt in 159 cities nationwide
• 1967 – The "Summer of Love"
• 1968 – Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968 – Tet Offensive
• 1968 – Civil Rights Act of 1968
• 1968 – Apollo 8 and its three-astronaut crew orbit the Moon, Earthrise photograph taken
• 1969 – Author Maya Angelou publishes I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• 1969 – Stonewall riots in New York City
• 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon on the Apollo 11 mission
• 1969 – The Woodstock Festival
• 1970 – Kent State and Jackson State shootings
• 1970 – The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) begins operations
• 1970 – Singer-songwriter-guitarist-musician Jimi Hendrix dies
• 1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies
• 1971 – Singer Jim Morrison dies
• 1971 – A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements
• 1971 – The landmark situation comedy, All in the Family, premieres on CBS
• 1971 – The 26th Amendment is ratified, allowing 18-year-olds to vote
• 1971 – In New York Times Co. v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published
• 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits China
• 1972 – Watergate scandal
• 1973 – Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling overturns state laws against abortion
• 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
• 1975 – The movie Jaws is released
• 1975 – The Vietnam War ends
• 1975 – Fall of Saigon
• 1975 – President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day span
• 1976 – Americans celebrate the Bicentennial of the United States
• 1977 – The first home personal computer, the Commodore PET, is released for retail sale.
• 1977 – The television miniseries Roots airs on ABC
• 1977 – The science-fiction space opera film Star Wars debuts in theaters
• 1977 – After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain
• 1978 – The Camp David Accords
• 1978 – Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone are assassinated in San Francisco, California
• 1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident
• 1979 — Facing bankruptcy, Chrysler receives government loan guarantees
• 1980 – The United States boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow over Afghanistan
• 1980 – The Mount St. Helens eruption
• 1981 – 1982 United States is part of the global recession
• 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
• 1983 – Chrysler unveils its minivans
• 1984 – Most of the Eastern Bloc boycotts the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
• 1986 – Iran–Contra affair breaks
• 1986 – The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
• 1987 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, President Reagan challenges Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" (referring to the Berlin Wall)
• 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound
• 1989 – The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
• 1989 – President HW Bush declares a "War on Drugs"
• 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launched
• 1991 — The Gulf War
• 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service
• 1991 — The Cold War ends as the USSR is dissolved
• 1991 – Mount Pinatubo Philippines, erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century
• 1992 — Los Angeles riots resulting from the beating of black motorist Rodney King.
• 1994 — "1994 Northridge" earthquake
• 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing
• 1998-1999 — Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
• 1999 — Y2K computer bug
• 2001 — September 11 attacks
• 2003 — Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry
• 2004 — The social networking website Facebook is launched
• 2005 — Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita
• 2007 — Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
• 2008 — U.S. oil prices hit a record $147 a barrel
• 2008 — A global financial crisis begins as the stock market crashes
• 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes
• 2011 – A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri
• 2011 – End of the 30-year shuttle program
• 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls
• 2013 – Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency
• 2013 – The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages
• 2013 – Black Lives Matter
• 2015 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in all 50 US states
• 2017 – Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation
• 2017 – Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria
• 2018 – Death of Stephen Hawking in Cambridge, United Kingdom
• 2019 – All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States
• 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex
• 2019 – The first image of a black hole is taken
• 2019 – The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors
• 2020 – January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus
• 2020 – March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic
• 2020 – May 25, 2020 – George Floyd is killed by police officers
• 2020 – December 14, 2020 – The first COVID-19 vaccine shots are given
• 2021 – January 6, 2021 – Trump-supporting rioters storm the United States Capitol, forcing Congress to evacuate and interrupting the Electoral College vote count that certified Joe Biden's victory
• 2021 – January 13, 2021 – Trump becomes the only president to be impeached for a second time
• 2021 - June 2021, Juno spacecraft performed a second flyby of Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter, the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons taking more detailed images

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