(under construction)
1961
–Jan20, JFK takes office
–March, the Peace Corps is founded, headed by (JFK in-law) Sargeant Shriver
–first industrial robot put into use by General Motors at Trenton NJ
–April 12, Yuri Gagarin launches into an 89 minute earth orbit to be the first man in space
–April 17, Bay of Pigs invasion to oust Castro from Cuba, proposed by Allen Dulles
–founding of the World Wildlife Fund in Switzerland
–Prof. Lev Rivlin of Moscow proposes construction of a gamma-ray laser http://www.hafniumisomer.org/cqeseg3.htm
–Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram begins “Obedience to Authority” studies, subjects deliver electric shocks to ‘victims’ when told
—“In 1961, Allen Frey..reported that humans could hear microwaves…Pulsed microwave..(sound-to-skull) transmission was discovered during World War II by radar technicians who..could hear the buzz… By proper choice of pulse characteristics, intelligent speech may be created…” http://polioforever.wordpress.com/electromagnetism/
–Aug., Berlin Wall under construction
–USSR nuclear test series detonates the largest H-bomb ever, “Ivan” (Tsar Bomba) yields over 50 megatons (approx half capacity); designed for 100 mt
–hurricane Carla
1962
–Feb10, a Cold War drama of spy-catching results in a swap of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel with U-2 pilot Gary Powers and student Frederick Pryor
–AMA forms the ‘Committee on Quackery’ to eliminate Chiropractic
–Rothschilds create Imetal, an umbrella corp. for their mining interests
–Jul03, Algeria declares its final independence from France following its war for independence which began Nov.01, 1954 http://www.answers.com/topic/algerian-independence-war
–Super Typhoon Karen (name repeated) destroys 95% of the buildings on Guam causing ‘retirement’ of the base
–Sep27, biologist Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” is published
–October, 13-day “Cuban Missile Crisis”
–the Sabin ‘OPV’ polio vaccine replaces the Salk ‘IPV’
–for the first time since the Nevada Test Site opened in 1951, the National Institutes of Health gets an operations accountability review and a budget trimming. By contrast, its parent agency HEW gets triple funding.
–US Air Force deploys the defoliant ‘Agent Orange’ in Vietnam
–success of ‘artificial inovulation’, the transplant of mammal eggs from one breed/species to another
1963
–Feb., Theodor von Karman, the “father of supersonic flight”, receives the first US science medal
–first human ‘nerve’ transplant
–Roger Revelle founds Harvards ‘Center for Population Studies’
–May25, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) is established with 32 founding nations
–SV40, simian virus #40, discovered as a contaminant in polio vaccines. SV40 soon becomes classed as an oncogene with an added property as a genetic ‘promoter’ in transgene recombinants.
–Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico becomes world’s largest radio telescope, 305m diameter dish
–Betty Friedan publishes “The Feminine Mystique”
–first human lung implantation performed by Dr. J.D. Hardy
–Jul26, NASA launches Syncom II, the first successful geosynchronous satellite; Syncom broadcast the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the world https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1963-031A
–Aug 5, signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in Moscow by US, UK, and USSR; enters into force on October 10
–August, US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara commissions a study that becomes known as the Report From Iron Mountain
–Nov02, Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are assassinated in a military coup
–Nov22, JFK assassinated in Dallas https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/the-jfk-conspiracy-con/
–Nov, Stanley Kubrick’s movie ‘Dr. Strangelove’, scheduled to premiere Nov22, is delayed and edited to remove a reference to Dallas
1964
–Herman J. Muller publishes ‘Radiation and Heredity’ proving chromsome damage, predicting chronic disease and human extinction (see the American Journal of Public Health, vol 54)
–Mar, Alaska Earthquake and tsunami:Magnitude 9.2 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1964_03_28.php
–Apr.2, Soviets launch Zond 1 space probe to Venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_program
–US satellite disintegrates over Madagascar, dumping its plutonium core
–U.S. Civil Rights Act passes, Johnson gives his “Great Society” speech (the ‘Great Society’ is book from the Fabian socialist, Graham Wallas)
–Aug., Gulf of Tonkin Incident escalates Vietnam ‘police action’
–first animal-to-man organ transplant of porcine kidneys
–eastern US has 3 intense and expensive hurricanes
–Oct.15, Leonid Brezhnev leads a political coup in USSR replacing Krushchev
–Oct.16, the Chinese test their first nuclear bomb at Lop Nor
–Nov.30, Soviets launch second space probe with pulsed plasma propulsion, the Zond 2, which made a Mars flyby in August of 1965 http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Pulsed_Plasma_Thruster; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_2
–Dec.30, United Nations holds the Conference on Trade and Development, creates UNCTAD in Geneva
1965
–war between India and Pakistan
–US launches its first nuclear reactor in space; the SNAP-10A, under Atomic Energy program SNAPSHOT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
–Feb.21, Malcolm X is assassinated in a Harlem mosque
–Aug11, the racial “Watts Riots” begin in Los Angeles
–Sep09Congress passes the Housing and Urban Development Act
–Hurricane Betsy
–first major conventional clash of forces in Vietnam, US troops expand to 200,000
–Nov9, NYC and the NE U.S. experience the largest urban blackout
–Nov22, United Nations creates the UN Development Program (UNDP), headed by Paul Hoffman
–Dec21, UN General Assembly approves the Declaration on the Rights of the Child
1966
–Jan, Soviets land Luna 9 probe on the moon
–Cuba hosts the Tri-Continental Conference, 77 countries convene to promote a communist/socialist agenda
–a military coup in Nigeria, led by Gen. Ojukwu, creates the secessionist state of Biafra
–the later-named Gulf War Syndrome is first described
–Project Pandora, a secret study of The Moscow Signal microwave beamed into the American Embassy, is begun to determine the biological and behavioral effects of low-level microwave radiation
–July01, France withdraws from NATO, headquarters move from Paris to Brussels
–July04, US Congress passes the Freedom of Information Act
–Charles Bluhdorn (Gulf+Western Industries) acquires Paramount Picture Studios http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bluhdorn; Paramount was funded with $10 million from Kuhn Loeb & Co through Adolph Zukor’s partner, banker Felix Kahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Communications#Paramount_Communications_Inc.; Paramount merged into Viacom/CBS
–Sep, Star Trek premiers as a new TV series (canceled after 3 seasons, rerun in 1969)
–Standard Oil of New York merged with Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum, which became Mobil Oil
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“By 1920 Exxon, BP and Royal Dutch/Shell dominated the world’s booming oil business, with the Rockefeller, Rothschild, Samuel, Nobel and Oppenheimer families, along with British and Dutch royals owning the brunt of their stock. Two other Rockefeller babies, Mobil and Chevron, weren’t far behind the Big Three. The Texas Murchison family – themselves patronized by the Rockefellers – controlled Texaco, while the Mellon family – with its own ties to the Rockefeller fortune – controlled Seventh Sister Gulf Oil.” http://silverbearcafe.com/private/05.11/horsemen.html
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1967
–the Report from Iron Mountain is published (leaked) noting that Perpetual War is good for the economy and social control
–The Oasis Plan is proposed; Eisenhower, Strauss and Weinberg
–May 31, US launches the first Timation satellite for global navigation; predecessor to GPS
–Jun 5-10, Six Day War; Israel captures the Sinai Penninsula
–Jun 8, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty (NSA ‘listening’ ship) using unmarked fighter jets
–Jun30, US Congress passes the Military Selective Service Act of 1967
–July01, the European Community (EU) is formed from a merger of 3 organizations
–Nigeria and it’s oil-rich breakaway eastern region of Biafra brace for civil war
–Jun 17, PRC, China, explodes it first H-bomb at Lop Nor
–it’s the “Summer of Love” in San Francisco http://www.sfgate.com/summeroflove/
–race riots in Newark, N.J. and Detroit, Michigan
–hurricane Arlene
–Sep06, United Nations creates the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva
1968
–Jan., the North Vietnamese VC launch the Tet Offensive
–Robert S. McNamara, who says US cannot ‘win’ war in Vietnam is replaced as Sec. of Defense by Clark M. Clifford; McNamara becomes president of the World Bank
–My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese village residents by US troops is reported in a letter to Nixon by ‘Charlie Company’ trooper Ronald Ridenhour
–March, first successful human heart transplant
–April 4, Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, TN
–April 4, MGM, Stanley Kubrick film 2001 A Space Odyssey is released
–US military dumps obsolete weapons stores off US coastal waters
–the Club of Rome is created at the Rockefeller estate in Bellagio Italy
–Marburg virus infects ‘monkey handlers’ at pharma plant in Germany; monkeys used in vaccine production
–June 6, Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in California, L.A. Ambassador Hotel
–June 12, the Paramount film Rosemary’s Baby opens in theaters
–July 1, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) signed by US, UK, and USSR
–Aug20, invasion of Czechoslovakia by USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies
–Hong Kong Flu goes pandemic, strains H3N2 (‘brought’ from Vietnam) and H2N2 (Japan strain); note here that all ‘flus’ are cofactored illness from the accumulated results of exposure to toxins and body deficiencies
1969
–Drs John Gofman and A. Tamplin say ionizing radiation is cause in all cancers
–Mar 2, supersonic Concorde makes its first flight
–Golda Myerson (Meir) of Wisconsin becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Israel (resigned 1974)
–May17, UN declares it ‘World Telecommunication Day’
–July 16, Apollo 11 moon landing (really?), 5 more complete crewed landings occur through Dec. 1972 Apollo 17
–major sheep kill from biowar release outside the Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah
–Aug 10, Charles Manson followers from The Family commit the Tate-LaBianca murders
–Aug 15-18, Woodstock Festival makes music history in upstate New York, rain is observed from aerial ‘spraying’
–Aug 17-18, hurricane Camille, cat5, landfall windspeeds believed to be strongest in US history
–Sep01, coup d’etat in Libya ousts King Idris I, replaced by Col. Muammar Gaddafi
–Nov, the first link in DARPA’s ‘ARPAnet’ (internet) connects UCLA with Stanford
–Dec, the USAF Project Blue Book on UFOs, begun in 1952, is officially closed
1970
–Jan., after 3 years of “one of the most devastating civil wars in history” in which 2-3 million people perished from starvation, Biafra is reunited with Nigeria; “Oil fueled the Nigerian civil war. The major fields were in what was Biafra..” http://thepogrom-war-starvation.blogspot.com/2007/12/biafra-rush-for-oil.html
Nigeria was, at the time, soon to become a major opium producer alleged under CIA drug traffick
–Mar 5, effective enforcement of Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (signed Jul,1968) begins
–launch under UN auspices of the first “Ecology Day” (Earth Day) by Gaylord Nelson; cofounder and Master of Ceremonies, Ira Einhorn, is later known as the “Unicorn Killer”; Einhorn was a close associate of Dr. Andrija Puharich, psychical researcher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn
–May 4, students shot and killed at Kent State University, Ohio, by National Guardsmen
–the World Bank initiates a Third World lending program
–fiber optic ‘lightwave’ cable is invented at Corning Glass https://www.thoughtco.com/birth-of-fiber-optics-4091837
–George Soros and Jim Rogers co-found the Quantum Fund N.V., offshore investment banking
–Dec 2, creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); lawyer William Ruckelshaus is first (and 5th, under Reagan) director
–US population at 203,392,000
–WORLD POPULATION at 3,680,000,000
1971
–US, National Cancer Act of 1971, passes under the Nixon Administration
–US military, in partnership with ‘Five Eyes’ (UK, USA, AU, CA, NZ) implements the secret satellite surveillance network called ECHELON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
–Nixon appoints George H.W.Bush to be US Ambassador to the United Nations (serves through ’73; Ford retains Bush as special liason to China)
–Klaus Scwab establishes the World Economic Forum at the ski resort of Davos Switzerland
–April, US table tennis team visits China; Ping-Pong Diplomacy initiates official diplomatic relations
–Bilderbergers meet in Woodstock Vermont at Rockefellers’ Woodstock Inn
–Greenpeace Foundation est. in Vancouver, first ‘action’ in Amchitka, Alaska to deter a ‘peaceful’ nuclear blast
–Club of Rome publishes “Limits To Growth”
–‘Nat’l Center for Toxicological Research’ is founded at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas
–Paul Berg genetically ‘recombines’ E.coli and SV40 monkey virus (both ‘infectious’ in humans)
–successful ‘clone’ of a frog performed by John Gurdon, Cambridge Univ. England
–July, Henry Kissinger secretly visits Beijing while on a trip to Pakistan
–New York Times publishes the “Pentagon Papers” about top-secret involvement in pre-war Vietnam, the source is RAND Corp. analyst Daniel Ellsberg
–Oct25, Nationalist China is expelled from the United Nations, replaced by the Peoples Republic of China
–Dec.11, the Libertarian Party is founded in the U.S. http://www.lp.org/our-history
1972
–British soldiers kill 14 demonstrators in Ireland, known as Bloody Sunday; 500 more killed during the year
–Feb 21-28, Nixon makes historic visit to the People’s Republic of China which he called “the week that changed the world”
–the “paradoxical dose-response” to radiation is discovered by Abram Petkau
–US and Israel endow the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) for incentive grants; in 1977 and 1978, two more development funds, BIRD and BARD, support joint industry and agriculture projects
–US Marine Mammal Protection Act, halts the dumping of obsolete munitions begun in 1968
–the Special Virus Cancer Program is initiated at Fort Detrick by the Nat’l Cancer Institute
–the Stockholm Agreement is signed, environmental protection
–May02, J.Edgar Hoover dies at home, removal of private files begins immediately; Hoover was investigating the CFR at the time of his death
–May22, Nixon and Brezhnev negotiate the SALT I nuclear weapons ‘freeze’, signing May 26
–June 17, the “plumbers” who “stop leaks” are arrested in Watergate Hotel break-in
–pesticide DDT is banned (partial) for domestic US use
–Sep.5, 11 Israeli athletes are killed by terrorists at the Olympic Village in Munich
–“In 1972 Standard Oil of New Jersey became Exxon… Exxon Mobil shares board members with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Prudential… Exxon owns most of the land in Yemen (5.6 million acres), Oman and Chad. Its 1991 assets totaled $87 billion… As of 1993 Banker’s Trust was #1 shareholder in Exxon.” http://silverbearcafe.com/private/05.11/horsemen.html
–Nov23, UNESCO World Heritage Treaty is signed
1973
–Jan, US announces the “end of the draft”, changes to an all volunteer army
–Feb27, Wounded Knee South Dakota is occupied by armed Lakota demanding the ouster of their corrupt tribal chairman and his ‘goon squad’; a standoff evolves on the first day between the occupiers and the US govt FBI and military that lasts until May 8; https://vimeo.com/77696574 ; behind the scenes is a story of land theft, open pit uranium mining and contaminated air and water
–Mar, last US combat troops leave Vietnam
–Mar28, Congress creates the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
–Apr.3, Motorola produces and demonstrates the first hand-held mobile phone
–first CAT-scan, computer assisted tomography
–New York’s WTC under construction
–July04, The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is created
–Golda Meir delivers the “Samson Option” nuclear ultimatum to Richard Nixon
–Sep11,Chile’s president Allende is overthrown in violent US-backed coup d’etat, replaced by Gen. Augusto Pinochet http://www.chipsites.com/derechos/1973_eng.html
–Oct. 6-24, Yom Kippur War, Egypt recaptures Sinai, lost to Israel in 1967 (Israeli withdrawal completes in 1982)
–techniques of recombinant DNA are perfected
–Oct19, first OPEC gas/oil ‘crisis’ begins
–Nov19, US Senate releases a report on the Termination of the National Emergency, which it discovered to have been in force continuously since March 9, 1933; the Emergency does not terminate but continues…
–Vice-president Spiro Agnew resigns in ‘no contest’ to tax evasion, Gerald Ford appointed and sworn in as Vice President Dec.6
*blog post MPG on the Road Not Taken briefly introduces the 1973 story of Tom Ogle, a young mechanic in Texas who recirculated the fuel in his big car motor by altering the hoses, giving him 200 mpg on regular gas with no emissions. Tom predicted the lightweight cars coming on the market could get as much as 900 miles per gallon.
1974
–the Batelle Report confirms high cancer-rates to the AEC, which buries the report
–UN report titled ‘New International Economic Order’ proposes global redistribution of wealth
–Mar25, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew and replaced as king by his brother Khalid
–May08, Impeachment hearings against Richard M. Nixon begin
–Aug.9, Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford ascends the US presidency and appoints Nelson Rockefeller as VP (both the new Pres and Vice-pres are “appointees”)
–Nov13, Oklahoma nuclear industry worker and whistleblower Karen Silkwood is killed on her way to meet NYTimes reporter Burnham about defective nuclear products and safety; see blog post “JFK File, Signs of Traffick” for more https://jenniferlake.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/jfk-file-signs-of-traffick/
–the “Arecibo Message”, written by Cornell’s Frank Drake, is beamed into space at star cluster M13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
–Argentina devolves into a decade of strife and right-wing military tyranny known as the Dirty War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
1975
–Jan04, Nelson Rockefeller heads a new Rockefeller Commission to investigate US intelligence activity; 1975 becomes the “Year of Intelligence” as the Church (Senate) and Pike (House) government commissions are formed by Congress
–Jan20, United Nations University opens in Tokyo
–Feb, China Earthquake, 7.0 hits Haicheng, residents had a one-day warning to evacuate http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1975_02_04.php
–US economy in ‘stagflation’
–Apr30, Saigon falls to North Vietnam
–May, Trilateral Commission holds its first plenary session in Japan
–Jun23, UN holds World Food Conference in Rome
–France hosts the first of the “G8” economic summits (Group of Eight, expanded from an original 6)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8; representing 53% of the world economy
–July30, Detroit Michigan, Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa disappears the day he is alleged to participate in a secret meeting with mobsters about power-sharing in union affairs
–JulyAug, the Helsinki Accords result in a policy charter for European security on borders and human rights; deemed favorable to the USSR
–Lyme Disease breaks out in northeast US; named for the town of Lyme, CT; caused by spirochete bacteria of the genus Borrelia, the first confirmed case in the US was in 1970 Wisconsin, five years earlier
— British writer Anthony Sampson pens “The Seven Sisters” about the international OIL cartel; the Seven Sisters are: Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Exxon, Mobile, Chevron, Texaco, and Gulf.
–Biology “milestone came in 1975 with the production of hybridomas by Kohler and Milstein. These cell lines, formed by the fusion of a normal antibody-producing cell with an immortal cancer (myeloma) cell, are each capable of the continuous production of antibody molecules [leading to monoclonal antibody therapeutics, the “mab” suffix designation for a new class of potent antibiotic-type drugs]. http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/87/04706665/0470666587-118.pdf
–Nov02, CIA Director William Colby was asked to resign by Ford; Colby is replaced with George HW Bush; Colby’s September testimony to the Church Committee https://www.c-span.org/video/?409091-1/william-colby-church-committee-hearing
1976
–Jan., GHWBush becomes 11th Director of the CIA (one year)
–Jan30, 32 senators and 92 House members sign the Declaration of Interdependence, penned by Henry Steele Commager, calling for the dissolution of US sovereignty, redistribution of US wealth, and entry into a New World Order
—Ebola appears for the first time in central Africa at two locations; northeast Congo and southern Sudan
–the “swine flu” threat becomes a vaccine campaign in the US
–April, the Church Committee issues a multi-volume report on the CIA citing mind-control, drug trafficking, assassinations, civil incitement around the world, and much more
–Bilderbergers meet in Hot Springs Virginia
–July, Legionnaire’s (legionella) pneumonia appears in Philadelphia hotel convention, sickens 200
–military coup d’etat against Isabel Peron in Argentina http://memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=PAY_ARG_000
–Gary Allen publishes ‘The Rockefeller File’ with an introduction by Congressman Larry Patton McDonald (McDonald was ‘assassinated’ on KAL flight 007, shotdown over the ocean by Soviets Sept.1 1983. McDonald allegedly carried evidence about the high-level plot to assassinate JFK, implicating (then in ’76, VP Nelson Rockefeller and CIA Director GHW Bush; Bush was the ’83 VP at the time of McDonald’s death)
1977
–Nuclear engineer Jimmy Carter becomes 39th US President, pardons American ‘draft dodgers’ on Jan21
–variant of Mad Cow (TSE) infecting the US deer population according to Dr. Elizabeth Williams
–detection of the Ozone Hole over Antarctica
–Mar14, UN holds the World Conference on Water in Argentina; UN also establishes the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) in Rome
–UK builds the Joint European Torus (JET) plasma/fusion project; achieves plasma in 1983, fusion in 1991; 16 megawatts of fusion in 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus
–the “Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques” meets to draft the ENMOD Treaty (ratified in 1978)
–Mar.27, two Boeing 747s collide at the Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands killing 583
–May25, opening day of the first Star Wars movie, released by 20th Century Fox; sequels follow in 1980 (Empire Strikes Back) and 1983 (Return of the Jedi)
–Aug04, Congress passes the Department of Energy Organization Act; the old US Atomic Energy Commission is dissolved and replaced by multiple branch agencies within a new Department of Energy
–Nov., Columbia Pictures releases Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978
–legal case filed of “Patenting Life” by Dr. Chakrabarty, invention of oil-eating enzyme which is feared will lead to ‘designer microbes’. Dr. Chakrabarty’s right of patent is upheld by the US Supreme Court in 2001
–Apr27, Afghanistan coup d’etat, the Saur Revolution, is ‘assisted’ by Soviets
–the Shah of Iran is overthrown by followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
–Sep11, Janet Parker is the last person known to have died from smallpox, contracted in a UK medical lab
–Sep02-17, Carter hosts Sadat of Egypt and Begin of Israel at Camp David to negotiate a peace agreement
–Oct25, Congress passes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which allows domestic US surveillance by CIA
–Nov18, the Guyana Jonestown community commits mass suicide after an airport ambush kills Congressman Leo J. Ryan who came to investigate reports about Jim Jones and the Peoples’ Temple. More than 900 members died by poisoned Kool-Aid, and many others were allegedly shot to death. Ryan co-sponsored the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which was designed to govern covert CIA operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%E2%80%93Ryan_Amendment
–the Global 2000 Plan, written by Cyrus Vance on behalf of Club of Rome, is organized in the US. “This plan calls for a massive reduction in world population by means of war, famine, disease, and genocide. World population is scheduled to be reduced…to 2 billion by 2050.” [p216, The Controllers, by Ed Whitney]
1979
–Jan01, US resumes full diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China
–Jan07, Vietnam invades Cambodia
–UN declares 1979 the “Year of the Child”
–Feb01, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is overthrown in Iran by followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini
–Feb.12-23, first UN World Climate Conference held in Geneva
–Mar26, Camp David Peace Treaty signed by Israel and Egypt; U.S. pays both parties each $7.5 billion; thereafter US converts aid to Israel into direct cash transfers
–Mar28/29, meltdown accident at Three-Mile Island Nuclear Plant www.polioforever.wordpress.com/fallout/
–Mar31, Carter issues order 12127 creating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) transferring all regional emergency authority to FEMA
–Apr04, biowarfare anthrax ‘accidental’ release in Sverdlovsk, USSR
–the “last wild case” of polio is declared in the US among the Amish (TMI falllout?)
–Aug, United Nations opens headquarters in Vienna Austria
–a US Constitutional amendment to ban the ‘electoral college’ and replace it with direct voting is killed in the Senate
–Oct26, South Korean president Park Chung-hee is assassinated
–Nov, 500 Iranians storm the American Embassy and take 90 hostages
–Dec25, Soviets invade Afghanistan, a military conflict begins that lasts over 9 years pitting USSR against the Mujahideen supported by the CIA
1980
–the 80s are dubbed the International Decade of Water and Sanitation; rotavirus (‘discovered’ in 1973) is identified as the major global cause of diarrheal diseases in children
–a new growth industry of commercial Biotechnology emerges in the ’80s
–W.H.O. announces the worldwide eradication of smallpox
–U.S. creates the new Dept. of Health and Human Services from the old HEW; a Department of Education is split off as an independent agency
–Pres. Carter deregulates the banking industry
–the most powerful (megawatt) laser of its time, MIRACL, becomes operational http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRACL [Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser]
–May18, Mount St. Helens in Washington state rumbles from dormancy and explodes killing 57 https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/mount-st-helens-may-18-1980
–the Hunt brothers of Texas attempt to corner the Silver market; Gold and Silver hit record prices
–Ted Turner’s CNN begins broadcasting
–Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) gains official independence from Britain
–Sep22, Iraq seizes territory from Iran, war begins
–Dec08, John Lennon assassinated in NYC by Mark Chapman
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