1993 AD to 2002 AD

1994 AD, US wars: Conflict in Iran. US Invades Haiti.

~ Ireland: Peace  declaration and IRA ceasefire.

~ US conflict in Iraq. US invades Haiti.

1995 AD, US wars: Conflict in Iraq. US invades Haiti. NATO bombing of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1996 AD, US war: Conflict in Iraq.

1997 AD, North America: Joe Sanders and an interdisciplinary group of scientists published important findings about Watson Break archaeological site in Science. They presented solid evidence that Middle Archaic hunter-gatherers constructed monumental earthworks at Watson Break. Science

~ USA involved in no major war!

~ 1998 AD, US: Bombing of Iraq. Missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan.

1998 AD to 1999 AD, US: Kosovo war. Part of the Yugoslav Wars located in Serbia. It was fought by KLA,AFRK. Albana, Croatia, United States, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom against FR Yugoslavia!!! and included the bombing of Novi Sad. It resulted, among other things in victory of the allies: Yugoslavia forces pull out of Kosovo, de facto separation of Kosovo from FR Yugoslavia under UN administration, return of Albanian refugees, KLa veterans join the UCPMB, starting the Presevo insurgency, Russia uses Kosovo as pretext for Crimea, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia interventions. The joys of modern killing.

~ Operation of infinite Reach in Sudan and Afghanistan with unpleasant ongoing results. It was fought by the US against al-Qaeda, sudan, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Taiba. Results were mixed. Strikes hit targets but failed objectives; al-Qaeda suffers damage and casualties, however its senior leaders survive the strikes; Al shifa pharmaceutical plant destroyed.The benefits of years of making war.

~ US: Joe DiMaggio played ball and then died at 84.

~ US: Crime rate falls for the 7th consecutive year.

~ US Bombing of Iraq. US missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan.

1999 AD: US Kosovo war.

1999 AD, US: Joe DiMaggio, famous baseball player, died at 84 years of age.

~ US: Crime rate falls for the 7th consecutive year.

2,000 AD, Anthropocene: was coined by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer as a name for our current epoch and now it is being used as a term of man's presence on Earth. A bit awkward because we do not know how long we have been here. But, it looks like it will be around for awhile.

~ No major Us war.

2001 AD: "U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan." How can anyone war with terror? How can terror defend itself? War is made on people by people.

~  This is a marker date for the regular cycle of solar activities which repeat in approximately each 22 years. 

2002 AD: U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan and Yemen.

2014 AD Solar cycle 24-25. A fairly regular set of various solar activities significantly effecting our life on Earth.

1957 AD to 1966 AD

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1957 AD to 1975 AD: The Vietnam War was won by North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States.

~ Asian flu led to 50,000 US dead. The Asian flu of the time touched me personally. But I scarcely noted the Hong Kong flu and the Swine flu.

~ About this time I was called to active duty in the U.S. Navy. I asked for a deferment so as not to leave my family too disrupted. I got only six months. I spent about 3 years on active duty and had money sent home to help my family which was minus my father. The amount of money I was able to have sent home was very little.

~ Michigan, USA: The Mackinac bridge opened to link the upper and lower peninsula.

~ Russia: Russians launched Sputnik I, the first satellite in space.

~ USA: Asian flue broke out and about 50,000 Americans died of it. I contacted in Naval Boot Camp.

~ to 1964, USA: I served in the United States Navy. Might have finished my service in 1963 after serving three years.

1958 AD: The yearly wage in the US in this year was $5,100 by 2020 the yearly wage was $34,250. What can this tell us about inflation? The weekly wage this 1958 year was $71. By 2020 the usual weekly wage was $860. What does this tell us about the value of the dollar?

~ to 1960, USA: Iwas in the U.S. Navy,

~ November, USA: Record low temperature for November in 29 Palms, 21 degrees in that Southern California desert.

~ to 1964 AD, USSR: Nikita Khrushchev was Premier.

~ USA: My family minus my father and myself are living in Redondo Beach, California.

1959 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam war, conflict in Haiti.

~ July, USA: The Longest US steel strike begins and lasts 96 days.

 

1960 AD to 1963 AD:  Canadians experienced what has been called a Quiet Revolution during these years.

~ U. S. war in Vietnam.

~ February to August, USA: I work as a set-up man and drillpress operator at Autonetics as I attend a Junior College.

~ Earth: With a polar precession of  minus 23.500 degrees.

~ to 1961, USA: I worked various odd jobs while studying at the University of California at Berkeley.

~  to 1963, USA; John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected president and was assassinated in 1963.

 

1961 AD to 1963 AD: The Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the US president.

~ U.S. war in Vietnam.

~ to 1962 AD: Honduras: I taught English, drove for a timber buyer, after leaving Mosquitia. 

~ USA : I was a brakeman for Southern Pacific Railroad out Oakland and San Francisco Bay area, California. I was a busy Young man.

~ USA: Bill of Alcoholics Anonymous exchanges letters with Dr Carl Jung.

~ USA: I enroll as a student at the University of California at Berkeley.

~ April 12 th, Russia: Yuri Gagarin, the soviet cosmonaut, became the first man in outer space to orbit the the Earth. Gagarin received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.

~ May, US: Alan Shepard became the first American in space and one of 12 americans to walk on the moon.

1962 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam War, Cold war: Cuban Missile Crisis, Marines fight Communists in Thailand.

~ USA: The United Farm Workers was founded.

~ USA, September: Cesar Chavez was elected president at first NFWA convention at Fresno, California. Farm Workers.

~ to August of 1963, Honduras: I taught English to adults.

~ USA, March 31st: Chavez began organizing California farm workers.

~ July, US: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth and the first to orbit the Earth more than once. He was a Marine Corps fighter pilot who joined NASA's astronaut program. In 1968 Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space, when at the age of 77 he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

1963 AD to 1969 AD: The Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson was US pres. 

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam War.

~ June 10th, USA: The Equal Pay Act was signed by J. F. Kennedy.

~ November, USA: John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

1964 AD, Chile: Eduardo Frei ran as a Christian Democrat in the presidential election. The CIA used a record amount of money to see him elected. He had seemed a particularly good an brilliant human being up to that time. There is a very great deal to be learned about these happenings. American citizens paid a very great deal to meddle in the politics of this little country.

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam War.

~ 1964 AD, Chile: American Citizens paid their CIA and other organizations to meddle in the democratic elections of Chile.

~ Chile: Eduardo Frei ran as a Christian Democrat in the Chilean election as a popular candidate.

~ USA: the Valdez, Alaska tidal wave at 200 plus feet, I believe was the largest recorded to this date.

~ September 3rd, USA: The U.S. Congress passed the Wilderness Act. It was said that it was passed to "secure for the American people of the present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness" This Wilderness Act passed after 8 years, 18 hearings, and 66 versions before it passed.This effort began in 1956 by distinguished conservationists, but had roods stretching back to the 1930 Minnesota Act and, some believe back through the ages beyond Noah. LBJ.

~ July 2nd, USA: Civil Rights Act signed by L. B. Johnson.

~ September, USA: Graphic Artists Union International founded.

1965 AD, Ireland: O' Neil - Lemass talks.

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam war, Occupation of Dominican Republic.

1965 AD to 1975 AD, USA: During this decade the New Indian movement returned National Parks to the consciousness of American Indians and awakened the national consciousness.

~ March 7th, USA: "Bloody Sunday" Selma Alabama. It was a Civil Rights March when 25 year old activist John Lewis led over 600 "Marchers" across the Edmund Pettus bridge which resulted in the murders of Jimmy Lee Jackson and Amelia Boynton Robinson as they protested against Jim Crow laws and for equal voting rights.

~ September, USA: Filipino Farm Workers, AWOC, launched a five year grape boycott in Delano.

1966 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam War. U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic.

~ April 10th, USA: Farm Workers end a 300 mile March to Sacramento, California.

~ April 6th, USA: Farm workers, UFWOC, recognized by Schenley during March to Sacramento.

~ August, USA: UFW won first secret ballot election with Di Giorgio, co.

~ AWOC and NFWA merged to form UFWOC under Cesar Chavez.

~ Hockey League Players Association established.

 

1967 AD to 1970 AD: Nigerian Civil War won by Federal Government against Biafra.

~ Six Day War won by Israel against Egypt, Syria, Jorden, and Iraq.

1969 AD to 1974 AD: Republican, Richard Nixon was US Pres.

1970 AD, Ireland: Dublin Arms trial.

1971 AD: Pakistani civil war was one by East Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India against West Pakistan.

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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.

 

 

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                                                                according to Richard