1930 AD to 1939 AD

 1930 AD to 1939 AD: After the Depression and before WWII  (there is more info about the 1930s at 1490 to 1930) 

1930 AD: North America: Many people in general began to see the ancient mounds as interesting and perhaps valuable.

1930s AD:, USA: During the 1930s Congress enacted Neutrality Laws to prevent American business from dragging the country into another war.

1930 AD: North America: Many people in general began to see the ancient mounds and earthworks as important and worth protecting as part of our own history and that of those who came before us.

1930 AD: North America: Many people in general began to see the ancient mounds as interesting and perhaps valuable.

1930s AD:, USA: During the 1930s Congress enacted Neutrality Laws to prevent American business from dragging the country into another war.

~ People in general began to see National Parks in the U.S.A. as important and worth protecting.

~ January 5th, Russia: Stalin announces that all farms must be collective by 1932.

~ January 17th, US: President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs to a historic high and triggering an international tariff war.

~ USA: Dr Jung's help to an alcoholic later seemed a first step in the formation of AA.

1931 AD, United States of America: Continue banana Wars.

~ August, USA: The Airline Pilots Association was founded.

1932 AD, Japan: Toward war. By this time the Japanese civilian government had lost power to control the military.

~ US Banana Wars to 1934.

1932 AD: De Valera elected in Ireland.

~ January 17th President Hoover of the U.S. signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raising U.S. tariffs to a historic high and triggering an international tariff 'war."

~ USA: Wisconsin became the first state to pass an unemployment compensation act.  

                                                                                    

                                                                                 

1933 AD to 1945 AD, Germany: The Third Reich, Nazi Germany, was led by Adolf Hitler. Hitler rose to power through the National Socialist Workers Party and became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Germany's borders had been determined by the Treaty of Versailles, which greatly contribute Germany's economic problems.

~ USA: 5,ooo Cotton pickers in Concoran, California strock, two are killed. I believe it was a sit-down type of strike, but picking cotton there is no place to sit.

~ October, USA: 75,000 miners in Pennsylvania struck.

~ to 1937 AD, Russia: Duration of the second USSR Five-year Plan.

1934 AD, August, USA: 500,000 textile workers struck nationwide.

~ November, USA: Alcoholics Anonymous: Ebby F. tells Bill his story.

~ USA: Bloody Thursday. Two Longshoremen killed in San Francisco, California.

~ May 16th, USA: Teamsters strock for recognition in Minnesota.

~ May 9th, USA: Longshoremen launched a general strike on the West Coast.

~ July 16th through 19th, USA: San Francisco, California there occurred a general strike of 127,000 workers.

1935 AD to 1940 AD, US: The only time the U.S.A. went more than a year without war was during this "isolationist" period in the Great Depression.

~ Mussolini of Italy launched an in invasion of  Ethiopia. The Italians merged Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia into one colony.

~ 1940 AD: This is the only time the US has gone this long without warring. USA: This is the only time so far, that we have gone without warring.

~ USA: The CIO was formed with AF of L to promote industrial unionism.

~ USA: The National Labor Relation Act took effect. Let's find out about the effect of that Act.

~ USA: The Wilderness Society was founded and produced the first draft of a wilderness act.

~ August, USA: The Social Security Act signed by F. D.R., Theodor Delano Roosevelt.

~ August, USA: The United Auto Workers, UAW, charted by the Af of L as an international union.

~ USA: Labor Day Hurricane winds surpass 200 miles an hour. People exposed were sandblasted to death.

1936 AD, January 29th, USA: The National Union of Rubber Workers was established.

~ July 2nd, USA: UAW, United Automobile Workers, joins the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

~ November, USA: The first sitdown strike by Auto Workers starts in South Bend Indiana.

~ December. USA: The UAW sitdown strike is on.

~ The Spanish Civil War begins. Viva Valencia. Viva la Republica. Franco was revolting/

     

1937 AD: On September 17th of this year Richard Carroll Sheehan was born the first child of Dorothy Cecilia and Carroll J. Sheehan. His birth was followed by that of his sister Geraldine(Gerry), and his brothers Robert J, Gary M, and Dorian N Sheehan.

~ On December 29th the Irish Free State became Eire, the Republic of Ireland. DeLavera(Remind of the song "The Irish Washer-woman!") became the first prime minister of the Republic. My sister, Gerry, was born the next day.

~ John A Brennan, Jr. was born on December the 11th. He was the first son of my paternal grandmother and her second husband.

~ In September the Munich Pact was singed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlin, and by Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R. R. Woodham was born a Son of the South in the great state of Mississippi.

~ In November the CIO split from the AFL.

~ Japanese installed a "puppet government" in Nanking, China, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow, China.

~ The Vanquished by William Faulkner was published.

~ "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education by by John Dewey was published.

~ General Anthropology by Franz Boas published.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright "built" Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona.

~ The film "Pygmalion" was show by Leslie Howard.

~ Popular songs were: September Song, Flat Foot Floogie(Floozy) With a Floy, Floy, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby(... just look at you now").

~ USA: the average cost of a new house was about $3,700 dollars.

~ USA: Benny Goodman's band brought a new style of jazz to popularity.

~ US: cost of gas was about 10 cents a gallon. Do you remember what a cent sign looks like?

~ US: The 40 hour work week was established after much effort by the union movement.

~ US: Average wage per year was about $1,720.

~ Al Moen is credited with the design for a double-valve faucet with a cam to control the two valves that he made. He refined the design into a cylinder with piston action. We are talking toilets.

~ USA: Richard Carroll Sheehan: I was born on the 17th of September in Michigan.

~ Ireland: On December 29th the Irish Free State Eire, the Republic of Ireland! De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ USA: John A. Brennan, Jr. was born on December 11th.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R.R. Woodham was born a son of the deep South and at this writing is very much alive in the great state of Mississippi.

~November: CIO split from AFL.

~ Japanese installed Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished published.

~ John Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education were published.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright built Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona.

~ The film "Pygmalion" was shown. Leslie Howard was a star.

~ US, Pop Song: "You must have been a Beautiful Baby" (...just look at you now)

~ USA: Average cost of a new house was about $3,700.00.

~ Benny Goodman's band brought a new style of jazz to popularity. (Was it Swing?)

~ February: Irish volunteers taken part in the battle of Jarama, of the Spanish Civil War.

~ US, September 17th: Richard Carroll Sheehan was born in Detroit, Michigan.

~ Ireland, December 29th: The Irish Free State became Eire, the Republic of Ireland. De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ US. December 11th: John Brennan Jr. was born.

1937 AD: Al Moen is credited with the design for a double-valve faucet with a cam to control the two valves that he made. He refined the design into a cylinder with piston action. We are talking toilets.

~ USA: Richard Carroll Sheehan: I was born on the 17th of September in Michigan

~ Ireland: On December 29th the Irish Free State Eire, the Republic of Ireland! De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ USA: John A. Brennan, Jr. was born on December 11th.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R.R. Woodham was born a son of the deep South and at this writing is very much alive in the great state of Mississippi.

~November: CIO split from AFL.

~ Japanese installed Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished published.

~ John Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education were 

~ Al Moen is credited with the design for a double-valve faucet with a cam to control the two valves that he made. He refined the design into a cylinder with piston action. We are talking toilets.

~ Ireland: On December 29th the Irish Free State Eire, the Republic of Ireland! De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ USA: John A. Brennan, Jr. was born on December 11th.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R.R. Woodham was born a son of the deep South and at this writing is very much alive in the great state of Mississippi.

~November: CIO split from AFL.

~ Japanese installed Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished published.

~ John Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education were 

~ Recovery from recession was noted.

~ Italy invades Albania.

1937 AD: Al Moen is credited with the design for a double-valve faucet with a cam to control the two valves that he made. He refined the design into a cylinder with piston action. We are talking toilets.

~ USA: Richard Carroll Sheehan: I was born on the 17th of September in Michigan

~ Ireland: On December 29th the Irish Free State Eire, the Republic of Ireland! De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ USA: John A. Brennan, Jr. was born on December 11th.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R.R. Woodham was born a son of the deep South and at this writing is very much alive in the great state of Mississippi.

~November: CIO split from AFL.

~ Japanese installed Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished published.

~ John Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education were 

~ Recovery from recession was noted.

~ Italy invades Albania.

1937 AD: Al Moen is credited with the design for a double-valve faucet with a cam to control the two valves that he made. He refined the design into a cylinder with piston action. We are talking toilets.

~ USA: Richard Carroll Sheehan: I was born on the 17th of September in Michigan

~ Ireland: On December 29th the Irish Free State Eire, the Republic of Ireland! De Lavera became the first Prime Minister.

~ USA: John A. Brennan, Jr. was born on December 11th.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ On September 29th R.R. Woodham was born a son of the deep South and at this writing is very much alive in the great state of Mississippi.

~November: CIO split from AFL.

~ Japanese installed Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished published.

~ John Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education were 

~ Recovery from recession was noted.

~ Italy invades Albania.

~ May 30th, USA: Ten strikers were shot by police at Republic Steel in Chicago, IL.

~ January 24th, USA: The UAW organizes the first Aircraft Workers local.

~ February 3rd, USA: Eleanor Jean Farrell was born.

~ February 11th, USA: The UAW wins the first contract with General Motors.

~ March 2nd, USA: The Steelworkers organizing committee wins recognition at U. S. Steel.

~ March 8th, USA: UAW won contracts with Chrysler.

~ April 1st, Aden: The country's first Postage stamps.

~ May 3rd, USA: The Maritime Union of America was founded.

~ June, Earth: The longest solar eclipse in 1,200 years.

~ August, USA: The Appalachian Trail Completed and opened.

~ November 6th, Italy: The country joins Germany and Japan in anti-communist pact.

~ November, America: Dr. Bob and Bill met in Akron, Ohio and counted AA results and find forty cases sober, Success is possible.

~ America: New York AA's separate from Oxford Groups.

~ April 26th: German Planes bomb Guernica, Spain.

~ May 28th: Neville Chamberlain forms government in Britain and favors a policy of appeasement of Hitler.

~ July 7th: Japan invade and capture Shanghai and Peking, China.

~ USA: The  federal government purchases Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri.

~ 1938 AD, USA: My family moves to a rented two bedroom apartment, The only children are Gerry and I. We had just lived in a couple of rooms in Detroit.

~ USA: The National Park Service took over the Shenandoah National Park.

~ USA: My mother and father lived in a upper flat in Warren, Michigan when I was born this year and I spent my first weeks there.

~ The Road to Wigan Pier, a study by George Orwell was published this year.

~ to 1941, California,USA: Joshua Tree townsite company set up offices along the 29 Palms road close the western entrance to Joshua Tree National Monument. By 1914 J.T. had a population of 49 housed in 22 buildings.

~ USA: The UAW organized the first Aircraft Workers local.

~ USA: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was established.

~ USA: Extraordinary rain and snow fell in northeastern California.

~ Japanese invaded China.

~ USA: September Song and You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby were popular songs. What is "Teruel?"

~ USA: Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary was establish within the San Rafael Wilderness, a 1,200 acre refuge within the Los Padres National Forest.

~ Massive floods on the Ohio River and 500,000 persons left homeless.

~ JRR Tolkien gave  The Hobbit to the world. 

~ Northern hemisphere glaciers advanced. Spitsbergen Ice cap and Kutiah glacier in northern India are examples.

~ India and around: Kanji Swami was a Jainism teacher at this time. He brought light to a largely forgotten form of Jainism.

 

 

1938 AD: On March 13th Germany invaded and annexed Austria.

~ Alfred Korzybski founded the Institute of General Semantics. 

~ to 1942 AD, USA: We lived at 8448 St clements in Van Dyke, Michigan. My sister Geraldine was born during this time.

~ September, USA: Avery powerful hurricane struck New England.This hurricane put downtown Providence Rhode Island under ten feet of ocean. Huge breakers so shook the Earth that they were picked up on an alaskan seismograph.

~ November, USA: The CIO split from the A F of L.

1939 AD, January 26th: Nationlists under General Franco captured Barcelona

~ March 10th: Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.

~ March 13th: Germany invaded akia.nd annexed Austria.

~ September: The Munich Pact was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Eduard Daladier of France. Germany gained Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

~ September 29th: R. R. Woodham was born and at this writing is very much alive in the ever great state of Mississippi.

~ November: The CIO split from the AFL.

~ Japanese installed a Chinese puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, and took Canton and Hankow.

~ William Faulkner's The Vanquished was published.

~ Russel Crouse and Howard Linsay, the play, "Life With Father."

~ Robert Graves' The Long Weekend" published.

~ Adolf Hitler's Mien Kampf  complete English Translation published.

~ George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, "The Man  Who Came to Dinner" played.

~ Two of John Dewey's books were published, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright built Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona.

~ The film "Pygmalion" was shown (Leslie Howard).

~ This year, Hitler annexed Austria beginning expansion into neighboring countries, leading to the eventual invasion of Poland and to WWII in Europe.

~ Franz Boas published General Anthropology.

~ John Dewey publishes Logic: The theory of Inquiry and Experience  an Education.

~ US: 40 hour work week established.

~ US: Average wage wage per Year is $1720.

~ Alfred Korzybski founded the Institute of General Semantics.

~ US: A hurricane put Providence, Rhode Island under ten feet of ocean. Huge breakers so shook the earth that they were picked up on an Alaskan seismograph. 

~ US: Eddie Arcaro rode his first Kentucky Derby winner, Lawrin. 

~ US: California Rose Bowl  football game against Alabama 13-0.

~ US: Top pop song, "A Tisket a Tasket."

~ US, December 30th: Gerry Hook born Geraldine Sheehan.

~ US: Other popular songs: God Bless America, Three Little Fishes Swam Over the Dam, Over the Rainbow, Beer Barrel Polka, I'll Never Smile Again.

US, December 30th: My sister Gerry Hook was Born Geraldine Sheehan in Detroit, Michigan.

~ US: President Roosevelt appointed william O. Douglass and Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court.

~ England: Women and children were first evacuated from London.

~ WWII is extent.

~ Pan American Airways began regularly scheduled flights between US and Europe on "Dixie Clipper."`

~ Frank Buchman re-forms the Oxford Group as Moral Re-armament.

~ Turkey: An earthquake kills about 45.000 persons.

~ England: An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk.

~ US: Coal strike by United Mineworkers demonstrates power of the union and of John L. Lewis.

~ US: The Supreme  Court rules sit-down strikes illegal.

~ James Joyce, Finnigan's Wake published.

~ Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley published.

~ W. B. Yeats, Irish Poet, died.

~ Heywood Broun US journalist died.

~ Serge Chakotin, The Rape of the Masses published. 

~ John Dewey, Freedom and Culture published.

~ "Roll Out the Barrel" was being sung in England.

~ Picasso shows "Night Fishing at Antibes.

~ Joliet Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting the atom.

~ Igor Sikorsky (Russ-Amer) constructed the first helicopter.

~ Japanese installed a puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations, took Canton andHankow.

~ US: Giant cyclotron built at the University of California at Berkeley for producing Mestrons from the atomic nuclei. The term mestron as not bee used much lately.

~ The Unvanquished published by William Faulkner.

~ US: Popular songs are: You Are My Sunshine, How High the Moon, The Last Time I saw Paris, When You Wish Upon a Star, It's a Big Wide Wonderful World, South of the Border, Blueberry Hill, Woodpecker Song, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby(just look at you know), Flat Foot Floogie(floozy)With a Floy Floy, A Tisket a Tasket( a red and yellow basket.

~ Average cost of a new house was $3,700.00 USD.

~ June: The Marshall Plan was instituted. It was the US European Recovery Program, the softer underside of US of U.S. foreign policy. This program for  rebuilding Europe was funded from 1948 to 1952. One purpose for it was to limit communist expansion.

~ October 1st: Mao Zedong proclaimed the Peoples Republic of china. Chaing Kai-shek and about 2 million Chinese retreated from mainland China to the Island of Taiwan.

~ Benny Goodman's band brought  new style of Jazz to popularity.

~ The cost of gas for cars was just about 10 cents a gallon(no cent sign available).

~ General Anthropology by Franz Boas was published.

~ Germany invades Poland.

~ France and England declare war on Germany.

~ USA: The 60 inch cyclotron was working at the University of  California at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, California.

~ January 7th, USA: On this date A F of L organizer Tom Mooney was freed from prison in California. Life can be hard on new leaders.

~ June 5th: USA: The Communication Workers of America was founded.

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1939 AD to 1948 AD

 

1939 AD: My sister is born Geraldine Carol Sheehan in the state of Michigan on December 30th. She died in 2024.

 ~ Thailand changed its name from Siam.

~ Hewlett Packard was formed.

~ 40 hour work week established in US.

~ General Anthropology published by Franz Boas.

~ Benny Goodman's band brought a new style of jazz to popularity.

~ Cost of a gallon of gas(gasoline) in the US was 10 cents(no cent sign now available to me)

~ Average cost of a new house in the US was $3,700.

~ The film, Pygmalion, with Leslie Howard was widely viewed in US, but not as popular as was Gone With the Wind.

~ October 1st: Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China. Chaing Kai-shek and about 2 million Nationalist Chinese retreated from mainland China to the Island of Taiwan.

~ June: The Marshall Plan was instituted. It was the European Recovery Program, the softer side of US foreign policy. The program for rebuilding Europe.

~ Songs popular in the US: You Are My Sunshine, How High the Moon, The last time I saw Paris, When You Wish Upon a Star, It's a Big Wide Wonderful World, South of the Border, Blueberry Hill, Woodpecker Song, You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby, Flat Foot Floogie(Floozy), September Song, A Tisket a Tasket.

~ The Unvanquished by William Faulkner.

~ Giant cyclotron built at the University of California at Berkeley for probing the infinitesimal within the atomic nuclei.

~ Japan installed a puppet government in Nanking, withdrew from the League of Nations and take Canton and Hankow.

~ Igor Sikorsky( Russian-American) constructed the first helicopter.

~ Joliet-Curie, Irene demonstrates the possibility of splitting the atom.

~ Picasso Showed his work, Night Fishing in the Antibes.

~ Roll Out the Barrel sung in England

~ John Dewey's work, Freedom and Culture was published.

~ Serge Chakotin's "The Rape of the Masses" was published. Chakotin was a Russian biologist, sociologist, and social democrat. He was interested in optical micro-surgery of the cell. He also became interested in theory of combating political propaganda. He than became interested in organization theory which centered on labor organization.

~ Heywood Broun, US journalist, died.

~ W.B. Yeats, Irish poet, died.

~ George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner played.

 

1940 AD, US: Popular songs: You Are My Sunshine, How High the Moon, The Last Time I Saw Paris, When You Wish Upon a Star, It's a Big Wide Wonderful World, South of the Border, Blueberry Hill, Woodpecker Song.

 

1941 AD, US: On December 7th of this year the Japanese military attacked  the US at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day Congress declared war in Japan.

~ to 1945: World War II.

~ January 1st, USA: The "Little Steel Formula" took effect.

~ to 1945: WWII, World War II was the result of many tears and worse.

~ WWII: German invasion brings Russia into the the war on the side of the US and Allies.

~ to 1945, USA: Commercial fishermen used Salton Sea in the Southern California desert to supple millet to coastal fish markets after German submariners made ocean fishing hazardous.

~ April 10th, USA: UAW, United Auto Workers struck at Ford.

~ December, USA: FDR, Franklin Delano, Roosevelt announced no strike pledge for WWII. 

1942 AD, March 26th, USA: Paul Clifford Sheehan, Cliff, my father's younger  brother, died in Michigan. My father left Michigan and us before the funeral.

~ USA: Later, my sister and I and my pregnant mother left St Clements caught up with him and then stayed in a motel near Phoenix, a motel in Tucson, a ranch near Douglas where I rode a burro, fought a rooster, and avoided a long egg eating snake, another motel in Phoenix, a trailer in Hayward California, other locals I do not remember, a room over a liquor store near Skid Row in Seattle Washington, a simi-tent in Gabbs Nevada, an interesting old house in seattle, a comfortable duplex on Queen Anns Hill near Seattle and like that.

~ May 1st, USA: The Little Steel Formula ended.

~ November, USA: Equal pay for equal work was first discussed by the federal government.                                                       

1943 AD: Robert J. Sheehan was born  on  November 7th of this year and died, too early, with me in Desert Hot Springs, California on July 4th of  1963                                                                   

~ WWII in progress.

~ Nikola Tesla died.

~ Zoot suits(with a reet pleat) became popular attire among hep-cats. 

~ Popular songs of the year included: "Marzy Doats" and Oh What a Beautiful Morning. 

 

1944 AD: Gary Michael Sheehan was born in October of this year in the middle of the ending of WWII in a rapidly changing Southern California.

~ B29s  practice dropping dummy A bombs into the Salton Sea.

~ Our family moves a not very well baby Gary from a trailer court near LAX and  North American Aviation to a nice new house in nearby budding Westchester, California. 

~ D Day landing at Normandy. 

~ A couple of the most popular songs of the year were: "Accentuate the Positive" and  "Don't Fence Me In." These two may have been the start of my philosophy.

~ October 11th, USA: I received a good new brother. Gary was born in Inglewood. About this time we moved to Westchester. There was fateful partnership formed among Frank Bowren, Josephine Bowren(my grandmothers third husband), my father and mother.

November 7th, USA: My brother, Robert, became one year old.

~ to 1945, USA: B 29s from the US army 393rd heavy bomber squadron, commanded by Lt. Col Paul Tibbets made regular, but highly secret practice flights from Wendover Air Base in Utah and dropped dummies of a new bomb into the Salton Sea. On August 6th of 1945, Tibbets and his crew, in the Enola Gay, dropped on Hiroshima. Latter on a job at the Salton Sea with my father, we were shown where one of the dummy bombs missed that Sea

~ US: National Parks in the US were made part of the National Park and State Reserve System

1944 AD: North America: Many of the mound and earthwork archaeological sites centered mostly on the Mississippi and Ohio River drainage areas were made part of the National Park and State Reserve systems.

~ My family of origin and I lived in Inglewood in a trailer park near LAX and North American Aviation

~ October 11th, USA: Gary is born, and Robb is about 11 months old. My father begins a partnership with his mother's 3rd husband. We moved to Westchester about this time. I believed it was called a "trailer camp." My father worked at NAA and soon bought a house in Westchester.

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1945 AD: End of WWII.

~ Christmas comet.

 ~ July 16th, US: At a site called Trinity in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico an atomic bomb using plutonium was tested.

~ August 6th: An atomic weapon carried by a bomber called the Enola Gay was exploded about 1,800 feet above the Japanese city of Hiroshima, full of Japanese men, women, children. Some lived.

~ August 9th, Japan: A Trinity type weapon was exploded above Nagasaki. The city was devastated. Some people survived.

~ February, Yalta, Crimea Peninsula now Russian, but until recently part of Ukraine.

~ Truman. Churchill, and Stalin met to "reconstruct" Europe. We can say that was also the beginning of the Cold War. 

1945 AD to 1991 AD, Russia: The boundaries of the USSR varied, but approximated those of imperial Russia.

~ We lived in Westchester, California. My father was using some of his skills in work at North American Aviation and life seemed to normalize a bit

~1945 AD to 1953 AD: The Democrat, Harry S. Truman was  president of the USA.

~ USA: Eddie Arcaro road his first Kentucky Derby winner, Lawrin.

~ USA: California wins Rose Ball football game against Alabama 13-0. 

~ Pop Song: "A Tisket A Tasket" a red and yellow basket?

~ Russel Crouse and Howard Linsay "Life With Father" played.

~ Robert Grave's "The Long Weekend" published.

~ Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf" complete English translation.

~ James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake published.

~ Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley published.

~ Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany and agreed to divide Poland between them. Stalin promptly ordered the invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, and northern Bukovina.

~ Spain: January 26th Nationalists under General Franco capture Barcelona.

~ Czechoslovakia: March 10th Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.

~ USA: December 30th Gerry Hook born Geraldine Carol Sheehan in the US state of Michigan.

~ USA: Popular songs: God Bless America, Three Little Fishes, Over the Rainbow, Beer Barrel Polka, I'll Never Smile Again.

~ USA: President Roosevelt appointed William O. Douglas and Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court.

~ England: Women and children were first evacuated from London.

~ Frank Buchman re-forms Oxford Group as Moral Re-Armament

 Receiver from economic recession was noted.

~ Albania: Italy invades Albania.

~ US, theater: George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart  "The Man Who Came to Dinner."

~ W.B. Yeats, Irish poet died.

~ Heywood Broun, U.S. journalist died.

~ Serge Chakotin's, The Rape of the Masses was published.

~ England: Roll Out the Barrel was sung. 

~ Picasso shows his work "Night Fishing at Antibes."

~ Joliet-Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting the atom.

~ Population of the U.S. 132 million a 7.3% increase since 1930 which is the smallest increase since such statistics were begun in 1790 and that's including a 0.5% in immigrants!

~ US: Giant cyclotron built at the University of California at Berkeley for accelerating nuclear particles to high velocities to better produce radioactive isotopes that can be used for imaging procedures.

~ November 30th, USA: My father talks to me about having another child in the family. My mother suffers a miscarriage.

~ November, USA: A 113 day strike at GM, General Motors began. It closed 96 plants.

~ Rats spread Pulmonary Plague somewhere on Earth.

~ The United Nations was formed.

    

1946 AD: Cold War. U.S. occupies the Philippines and South Korea.

~ USA: 200,000 Electrical Workers struck nationwide, They had waited for the wart to end.

~ USA: My family of origin was in Desert Hot Springs, California and my father was breaking ground for our new home. $300.00 final check from NAA was not considered peanuts.

~ USA, January 21st, 30,000 steelworkers launched a thirty-state strike.

~ USA, March 19th: United Auto Workers won contract with General Motors after 113 day strike. 

~ USA, May 23rd: A Nationwide rail strike began.

~ USA, March 27th: Walter Reuther was elected as the third UAW president.

1947 AD: Cold War. U.S. occupies south Korea. U.S. forces land in Greece to fight Communists.

1947 AD: Beginnings of the Cold War.

~ US: The Truman Doctrine, President Harry Truman's Foreign policy expressed the harsher elements of "containment. US, "leader of the free world," The people anywhere threatened by internal or external communistic movements would be supported by U.S. Turkey and Greece would receive immediate military aid.

~ US: In June of this same year the Marshall Plan was instituted. It was the European Recovery Program, the 'softer side" of US foreign policy. It was the program for rebuilding Europe funded from1948 to 1952. It was also calculated to limit communist movements.

 

 

Go to 1930 to 1939 for more.

                                                                according to Richard