1984 AD to 1993 AD   

1984 AD, US wars: Cold war. CIA proxy war in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Conflict
in Persian Gulf.

1985 AD, US wars: Cold war. CIA proxy wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.

~ Anglo-Irish Agreement signed.

~ Symbolics.com is assigned the first registered domain name.

~ I enjoyed teaching High School!

~ to 1986 AD, USA: I studied at Golden West College College in Huntington Beach, California.

1986 AD, US wars: CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.

~ to 1987 AD, USA: I taught in public schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico and a bit on the Reservation at Toadlena, Shiprock, NM.

~ USA: About this time I suffered a deep depression in part associated with the mental problems of a woman I lived with  3wwq

1987 AD, US wars: Conflict in Persian Gulf.

~ USA: I worked as an assistant Purchasing Agent at Capital Business Machines in Eureka, California and attended ACA meetings.

1988 AD, US wars: Conflict in in Persian Gulf. U.S. occupation of Panama.

~ Russia: An earthquake killed about 45,000 persons.

1989 AD: Charged particles from the sun  cut electric power in a Canadian province.
~ Marks a cycle of changes in solar activity which effect our Earth. If you have any information to offers about these cyclic activities please tell us in the "comments" section below.
~ US wars: Second Gulf of Sidra incident. US occupation of Panama. Conflict in Philippines.

1990 AD, US wars: First Gulf war. US occupation of Panama.

1991 AD, US war: First Gulf war continues.

1992 AD, US wars: Conflict in Iraq.

1993 AD, US wars: Conflict in Iraq.

1993 AD: Downing Street Declaration; British government accepts the right of the people of Ireland to self-determination.

                                                                   

                                                                                Richard Sheehan

 1975 AD to 1984 AD

1975 AD: Vietnam the fall of the South and the rise of the Nation. US economic and military aid had continued to the bilacous faction of South Vietnam had continued to this date. The capture of Saigon marked the end of the war. The war had cost the death of about 4 million Vietnamese, 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 US soldiers.

1976 AD to 1978 AD, US: No Major wars. 

~ U.K: Elizabeth II, queen of the UK, sent an email message from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.`

~ China: An Earthquake in the Tungshan area of that country took about 750,000 lives!

~ US: It seems I was a licenced mail order stamp dealer in Manhattan Beach, California!

~ to 1978 AD, USA: Seems that I was also an unlicensed paper hanger.

1977 AD to 1980 AD: the Dem., Jimmy Carter was US President.

~ Stratigraphy: Thanks to Wikipedia. The global Commission on Stratigraphy(now the International Commission on Stratigraphy)began to define the global references known as GSSp(Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points) for geologic periods and faunal stages.

1977 AD to 1980 AD: the Dem., Jimmy Carter was US President. Have I shortchanged the Pres

July to October of 1980, USA: My memory of my doings are less than clear. My notes say that I was hanging wall paper while living in Lennox, California. It seems to me that about this time I was getting two houses ready to sell and teach classes of 4th 5th and 6th graders. And that before Christmas of  1980 I was in Spain after spending time in Iceland, passing through Belgium and England, spending time in Ireland and France. I was a busy boy.

1978 AD, USA: There was an exceptionally strong blizzard in New England.

~ USA: It seems that I sold the Osage property, in Lennox. That sees about right. I remember that I had wanted to buy and fix up other property, but the market was not right in southern Cal and explains my trip to NY, through western Europe including a bit of Greece and on through India to a stay in Sri Lanka.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

1979 AD: Cold War. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan.

~ November, USA: The UAW, United Auto Workers, started what would be 172 day strike at International Harvester.

~ USA: The Salton Sea of California surface elevation was recorded at 228 feet below sea level.

~ January 19th, USA: The UFW, United Farm Workers, strike vegetable growers and boycott produce at Bruce Church, Inc.

~ February 10th, USA: Fufino Contreas, UFW martyr, shot to death near Calexico, California.

~ November, USA: I was touring in Massachusetts.

~ June 8th, USA: Women Coal Miners Association was founded.

~ August, USA: PATCO workers struck only to be fired by President Reagan!

~ I was sandblasting, waterblasting, and refinishing luxury log cabins and condos as a private contractor in Mammoth Lake, California.

1980 AD: Cold War. CIA Proxy war in Afghanistan.

1980 AD to 1990 AD, North America: US southern states began to claim their part of pre-Columbian history and archaeology more effectively.

~ US: The people of the southern states began to claim their part in the National Parks and i Native American archaeology sites.

1980 AD to 1990 AD, North America: US southern states began to claim their part of pre-Columbian history and archaeology more effectively.

~ US: The people of the southern states began to claim their part in the National Parks and in Native American archaeology sites

1981 AD to 1982 AD: Ten Republicans die on hunger strike in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.                                                                                       
 ~ Dying hunger-striker, Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament.
~  Cold War. CIA proxy wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. First Gulf of Sidra Incident.

~ July 1st, USA: The UAW reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO.

~ USA: The Columbia space shuttle built by United Auto Workers was launched.

~ 400,000 workers demonstrated against president Reagan administration labor policies.

1982 AD, US "war": Cold War. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
Conflict in Lebanon.  

~ USA: to 1986 AD: I taught 4th through 10 grades in 4 California counties.
 
 
 1883 AD: USA: The National Association of PHCC, formerly the National association of Master Plumbers, first met at the old Astor House.
~ US War: Cold war. Invasion of Grenada. CIA proxy war in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Conflict in Lebanon. 

1984 AD, US wars: Cold war. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. Conflict in Persian Gulf.

~ October, USA: United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co signed a three-year moratorium on plant closures.

~ July, USA: United Farm Workers started third grape boycott in protest of farm labor law non enforcement. I was difficult to imagine that such non enforcement could happen in America.

~ to 1985 AD, USA: I took some math classes and education classes at Long Beach City College.

 1966 AD to 1975 AD

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.

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.

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.

1968 AD: This date marks a 22 year solar cycle of changes affecting Earth including: of cosmic ray intensity, geomagnetic activity, and other influences of solar activity.

~ February  11th, USA: Cesar Chavez begins 25 day fast for nonviolence.

~ March 10th, USA: Robert F. Kennedy joins Cesar Chavez at mass ending 24 day fast.

~ April 4th, USA:Martin Luther King Jr was killed while organizing striking sanitary workers. He was born in 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. He Led the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. from the mid 1950s until his assassination. MLK Day.

~ June 5th, USA: Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

~ June 12 th, USA: Age Discrimination ACT signed by Lyndon Baines Johnson.

~ to 1969, USA: I worked as a refinery operator at Union Oil in Wilmington, California.

~ I wandered into and around English and American Virgin Islands and considered teaching Jr High in St. Thomas.

~ Viet Nam: The Tet Offensive badly damaged the Viet Cong. What the US people thought of our dealings in Vietnam came to be that it was not good for them.

~ US: President Richard Nixon began withdrawing US troops from Vietnam.

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

1969 AD: Ireland: Rioting between Catholics and Protestants. British troops called in. 

~ December, USA: The Federal Mine Safety and Health act was signed.

~ to 1971 AD, USA: I studied Sociology and was on the Dean's List for scholarship and Alpha Gamma Sigma scholarship Society.

~ USA: Hospital Workers end 113 day strike in South Carolina.

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

~ July, US: Astronauts John Glenn and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin stepped from their spacecraft onto the, planted the American flag, gathered 47 pounds of lunar rocks for later study it has been said. Lunar flights continued until 1972, when NASA changed focus to the space shuttle program.

1970 AD, Ireland: Dublin Arms trial.

~ May 9th: Walter Reuther was killed in a plane crash.

~ July, US: Delano Grape Growers signed a contract with UFWOC ending a 5 year grape strike/boycott.

~ to 1972 AD, USA: I held a variety of part time and odd jobs, Including a great deal of tutoring of adults while attending school full-time.

~ December, USA: Cesar Chavez jailed 20 days in Salinas, California for refusing to end a lettuce boycott which began in August of this year.

~ December, USA: Congress passes Occupational Safety and Health Act, OSHA.

~ USA: National Football League Players Association was established.

~ Bangladesh: A hurricane drowned 250,000 people!

~  May 31st, Peru: An Andean earthquake killed 60,000 persons. It  cracked Huascaran, the highest peak in the . It was the worst earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

~ March 17th, St Patrick's Day, USA: The day of the first U.S. Postal Workers strike.

1970 AD, Ireland: Dublin Arms trial.

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

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

~ to 1975 AD: Vietnam War. We give war powers to olygarks.

1971, Ireland: Provisional IRA begins campaign to oust British troops from the Island.

~ 1973, USA: Me: BA in Sociology; BA in Behavioral Science; Honor's List; Teaching credential.

1972 AD: The Republic of Ireland joins the European (Economic) Community. 

~ "Bloody Sunday."

~ U.K. joins the European community.

~ January 25th, USA: Nan Freeman became the first UFW martir, killed by truck on Florida picket line.

~ May 12th, USA: C, Chavez began 24 day fast protesting Arizona farm labor bill.

~ June 24th, USA: Labor for Peace founded.

~ August, USA: Paperworkers International Union  was Founded.

 

1973 AD: October War was fought by Israel against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon with a ceasefire arranged by the UN.

~ Paris Peace Accords: Direct US involvement ended. Air Force Special Ops continued until April 1975. President Ford in a televised speech on April 23rd 

~ April 16th, USA: 2nd UFW, United Farm Workers grape boycott started.

~ July, USA: UFW boycotted Gallo after they signed a Teamsters contract.

~ August, USA: Farm Worker, Nagi Daifulla was killed in Lamont, California.

~ September, USA: UFW held its first Constitutional Convention in Fresno, California.

~ October, USA: California Occupational Safety and Health Act was enacted.

~  By this time the war in VietNam became extremely controversial in America and the United states signed the Paris Peace Accord this year. The fighting in Vietnam continued but the US Congress passed the Case-Church amendment prohibiting US military involvement in Vietnam.

 

 1974 AD to 1977 AD, USA:  The Republican, Gerald R. Ford was US President.

~ US war: Vietnam war. the Vietnam War reignited on the 13th of December of 1974 with offensive operations by North Vietnam, leading to victory over South Vietnam in under two months.

~ March 23rd, USA: Coalition of Labor Women, CLWU, founded.

~ August, USA: Bethlehem Steel hires first women miners.

~ November: Karen Silkwood killed.

1975  AD, US war Vietnam war is lost by South Vietnam and its major alie and peace reigns in the land.

1975 AD, USA: declared the end of the Vietnam War.

~ November: Karen Silkwood killed.

~ March 1st, USA: Farm workers ended a 7 day march on Gallo Wine at Modesto, California.

~ June 5th, USA: Governor of California  J. Brown singed Agricultural Labor Relation Act.

~ to 1979 AD: I sold worldwide postage stamps to collectors by mail.

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1976 AD to 1978 AD, US: No Major wars? 

1977 AD to 1980 AD: the Dem., Jimmy Carter was US President.

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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1948 AD to 1957 AD

 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

 

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