Count to 1,000,000

[Psychotic Ninja]

1941

[Xalder]

1942

[ShouldBeNew]

1943 - Started on friday.

[Xalder]

1944

[scott155]

1945 - The Classhole, AKA BlackHat, assassinates Adolf Hitler. http://xkcd.com/1063/

[ShouldBeNew]

1946

[DeWolfeJV]

1947

[BTGBullseye]

1948 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948

 

Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).

The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.

Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.

 

WB got red, and the USSR stopped listening to us because Uranus mooned them.

[ShouldBeNew]

1949

[BTGBullseye]

1950 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950

 

The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.

Great Brinks Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from the Brink's armored car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Looks like the international police organization didn't help.

[Xalder]

1951

[BTGBullseye]

1952 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952

 

The University of Tennessee admits its first black student.

A mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: The U.S. Supreme Court limits the power of the President to seize private business, after President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in the United States, just before the 1952 steel strike begins.

The United States B-52 Stratofortress flies for the first time.

The keel is laid for the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. It is the word's first nuclear powered submarine.

The Special Forces (United States Army) are created.

Washington D.C. is "buzzed" by several alleged UFOs tracked on multiple radars. Jets scramble on several occasions and the objects take evasive action, only to return after the jets leave the area

Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.

Nuclear testing and Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.

The U.S. National Security Agency is founded.

[Xalder]

1953

[scott155]

1954

[BTGBullseye]

1955 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955

 

The year both of my parents were born.

The game Scrabble debuts.

The Pentagon announces a plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.

Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois.

World population: 2,755,823,000

[Xalder]

1966

[Psychotic Ninja]

1967

[Xalder]

1968

[scott155]

1969

[Psychotic Ninja]

1970