People - Various dates (Cotinued)

Entertainment/Events/World Issues/Politics

1939 - Britain goes to war
When Hitler's armies invaded Poland - war engulfed Europe. The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used the BBC to tell the people that Britain was at war with Germany. The BBC was now part of the war effort.
1937 - The Hindenburg disaster
American reporter Herb Morrison took a prototype radio van to watch the airship the Hindenburg coming in to land. His words as he witnessed the subsequent tragedy became some of the most famous in broadcasting history.

1977 - Punks make waves
Punk was sweeping the UK. This subculture was embodied by the Sex Pistols, a band that swore, spat and mocked the establishment. It's not surprising that their silver jubilee hit God Save the Queen was banned by the BBC.
1980 - Who Shot JR?
Dallas, the American TV series about Texan oilmen and their families had ended on a cliffhanger. Viewers around the world were obsessed by the mystery of who shot the main character, JR Ewing. In the United States, there were even questions from the government.

People (1925-1940)

WORLD WAR II FACTS
Finland signs U.S.S.R. peace treaty in 1940. V-2 rocket developed by the Germans during WW2. Pearl Harbor bombed on November 27, 1941. 16,354,000 WW2 casualties (killed, wounded, or diseased) President Roosevelt requested $1.8 Billion dollars for national defense and $1.2 billion for producing 50,000 planes a year then requests $ 1.2 billion more. 1941-Government persuades women to take jobs during World War II. Almost 7 million women responded, 2 million as industrial "Rosie the Riveters" and 400,000 joining the military. President Roosevelt died two weeks before the German surrender.

People in 1970s (Continued)

President Richard Nixon

1970 Salvador Allende elected in Chile Anwar Sadat elected in Egypt Charles de Gaulle dies

1971 Calley convicted of My Lai massacre "Papa Doc" Dulavier of Haiti dies Louis Armstrong dies
1972 President Nixon is reelected John Edgar Hoover dies

1973 Nixon accused of Watergate cover-up Lyndon B. Johnson dies
1974 Patty Hearst joins in bank raid Alexander Solzhenitsyn exiled from USSR
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated. General Franco dies
1976 Chairman Mao dies Barbara Walters becomes most highly paid woman on TV
1978 Muhammad Ali regains heavyweight boxing title.

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1970.htm

Bibliography Of animation & Technology by Shereen Harrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Barbara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_(arcade_game)
The Mammoth book of great inventions By James Dyson & Robert Uhlig
Robinson publishing 2004
http://www.google.co.uk/

People (Various Dates)

1936 Spanish Civil War Begins
1937 Japan Invades China
1939 World War II begins
1970 The Beatles break up
1973 Abortion legalized in us
1975 Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
1978 John Paul II Becomes Pope

Ref: http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/ Michael