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Madrid Alyice Perkins
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Madrid Alyice Perkins 2/28/1922 - 5/11/1987 (Shown at age 23)
| Madrid Alyice Perkins was born on February 28, 1922 in an unknown place and died on May 11, 1987 in an unknown place. She lived to be 65 years old.
Marriages Henry Cecil Skipper, 2nd Bill Pugh, 3rd Click Enders. Her chridren are Marlene Olivia Skipper Wissert,Marvin Leroy Skipper &
Lanette Ceilia Skipper Dockery. She was a Professional Seamstress.
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Madrid, her family, and friends. For example, Madrid is 5 years old when Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
Age | Date | Event |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
1 |
1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
2 |
1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
4 |
1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
5 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
6 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
14 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
16 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
24 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
25 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
29 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
30 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
35 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
38 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
40 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
43 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
49 |
1971 |
The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union |
52 |
1974 |
Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright |
53 |
1975 |
Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography) |
57 |
1979 |
First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination |
59 |
1981 |
AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space. |
64 |
1986 |
Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher. |
Age | Date | Event |
16 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
17 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
19 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
28 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
33 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
38 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
41 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
47 |
1969 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface. |
48 |
1970 |
NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest. |
55 |
1977 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time. |
62 |
1984 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft. |
Age | Date | Event |
5 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
7 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
8 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
10 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
11 |
1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
12 |
1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
12 |
1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
13 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
17 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
21 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
22 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
23 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
32 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
40 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
44 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
45 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
49 |
1971 |
Charles Manson is found guilt of murder. |
50 |
1972 |
Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal. |
51 |
1973 |
The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam. |
55 |
1977 |
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president. |
59 |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
65 |
1987 |
January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County. |
65 |
1987 |
President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles. |
Age | Date | Event |
16 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
17 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
23 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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