1948 AD to 1957 AD: Timeline of more recent history.
1948 AD, June, USA:The Marshall Plan was instituted. It was the European Recovery Program, the "softer side" of the US foreign policy. this program for rebuilding Europe was from 1948 t0 1952. It was also calculated to limit communist movements.
~ to 1949 AD: Cold War. U.S. forces aid Chinese Nationalist Party against Communists.
~ to 1957 AD, USA: Terrible drought from Desert Hot Springs, California to Austin, Texas. That is 9 years. I have been saying 7 and people thought I was exaggerating and I began to think so myself!
~ August, USA: 23,000 workers strike International Harvester Corporation.
~ December, USA: General strike in Oakland, California.
~ China: This nation becomes the People's Republic of China.
~ April, USA: Record high temperature in 29 Palms, California of 102 F on the way to the high desert. In the low desert at the Salton Sea I experienced temperatures of over 130 degrees fahrenheit!
~ USA: I was living in Desert Hot Springs.
~ USA: The first fully employer-paid pension plan was one by UAW.
1949 AD: On 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.
1950
AD to 1953 AD: On June 5th North Korea invaded South Korea with 10 divisions and quickly swept the South to Pusan at the southern tip of Korea. So the war began. Korean War "was won by South Korea and United Nation
forces against North Korea and Chinese forces." The 38th parallel was an
interesting compromise. I remember that much US blood and wealth was
thought by some to have been lost in an immoral effort to interfere in
the civil war of a sovereign nation. Wasn't the first such intervention
nor has it been the last.
~ More than 300,000 Ojibwa speakers could still speak or chant more than one complete sentence of their language. In 1950 the had the fourth most speakers among the tribes with most native speakers.
~ USA, Family: We were on the desert, Desert Hot Springs. Then we were at Joe Lampman's in Gardena. Then at the Haslams in Hermosa Beach. A hell of a year. I wonder if I first met Sue Adams there. I have almost no memory of this time. I would have been about 13. Not too young for "puppy love."
~ USA: I was in DHS and and Hermosa Beach during this time. I attended Junior High in Hermosa and got into fights there and was put in the hospital once. Not a great time of my life. It may have been there that I had to interesting male teachers who fought in WWII. One may have been wounded. Sponheim?
~ USA, me: I worked as a magician's assistant, a babysitter, and volunteer junior assistant Scoutmaster as I continued junior high in the South Bay area near Hermosa Beach. I spent important years away from the desert.
1951 AD: My youngest brother Dorian Norman Sheehan was born on May 7th of this year
~ North Korea forces break through the 38th parallel and take Seoul.
~ Jersey Joe Walcott knocks out Ezra Charles in the 7th to win the heavyweight boxing title
~ Rachel Carson publishes The Sea Around Us."
~ Popular films of the year are: The African Queen directed by John Huston and "Viva Zapata" directed by Elia Kazan. ~ to 1953, USA, me: I worked as a magician's assistant, a babysitter, and volunteer junior assistant Scoutmaster as I continued junior high in the South Bay area near Hermosa Beach. I spent important years away from the desert!
~ Hermosa Beach, California, USA: "Family" in Hermosa Beach, California. We Lived on Longfellow ave. I worked as an assistant to Frank Herman at the time. I think that I attended a different Jr H, than Pier Ave.
1952 AD: Elizabeth II of the House of Windsor is Queen of Britain.
~ "Family in DHS "Home." I am not remembering well. We may have lived in Hermosa at this time too. My father was still in bad shape. I am fairly certain that I did attend 9th grad at Palm Springs High School this year. What a history.
1953 AD to 1961 AD: The Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower was a US president.
~ Nikita Khrushchev replaced Joseph Stalin as leader of of the Soviet Union following Stalin's death.
~ OMG! I am forgetting a lot. I have a note here but it may be wrong. It says family in DHS, that may be wrong. I think that I had left home by this time. I had just started Redondo Beach and was close to a shooting there so I moved to "Wilmington' and enrolled in Banning High and found I had moved from the frying pan and into the fire. Gerry was there. Not a good place for her, but the family was there. It was not a good place. I went to see a gang fight. No one was there, but one very dead body under bright lights! I left, I did not want to be the only live person there if the police arrived. Then I attended a family discussion and my sober father told me if I did like the way things were going I should live. My mother did not disagree. The next morning I left for the desert.
~ February 26th, USA: The Aluminium Workers International was founded.
~ USA: Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy takes his anti-communist stand on national television. For many mccarthyism becomes a bad word.
~ California, USA: My family is living in Redondo Beach. I return to Desert Hot Springs. Items have been getting less international and more personal, but it could be useful to have in mind that it is a real person posting these items. Also you may find it easy to skip any item which does not interest you.
~ the A.F.of L. and the CIO merge at a New York City convention.
~ California, USA: I am a Junior at Palm Springs High School and my family are living on 184th St in Redondo Beach.
1955 AD: Ireland joins the United Nations.
~ The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty lasted from 1955 to 1991. The Warsaw Pact was a response to NATO and the 1954 induction of of Germany into it. NATO is a mutual defense organization wherein an attack on one is an attack on all, and so was the Warsaw Pact.
~ the A.F.of L. and the CIO merge at a New York City convention.
~ California, USA: I am a Junior at Palm Springs High School and my family are living on 184th St in Redondo Beach.
1956 AD, Greece: Santorini earthquake at Thira.
~ USA: I graduate from PSHS. Family lives on Clarion Dr in Carson, California.
~ USA, 7/56 to 3/57 I worked at North America Aviation, near Los Angeles, California. It was near this time the US Navy got me. I had mistakenly joined the Naval Reserves earlier.
Richard Sheehan