95 years of history is what my grandma was able to experience.
1-Born during world war 1
2- experienced world war 2
3-The shooting of the Romanov family
4-landing on the moon
5-The great depression
6-Freedom for African Americans (Rosa Parks)
7-The Korean War
8-The Vietnam War
9-Desert Storm
10-Operation Enduring Freedom
11-Operation Iraqi Freedom
12- The roaring 20's
13- Prohibition
14- The industrial Revolution
15- Invention of the cell phone
16- Invention of refrigerator
17- Invention of Computers from large to small
18- The evolution of music
19- The repeal of Prohibition
20- The hippie movement
21- The birth of modern air travel
22- Lived during 17 American Presidents
23- Saw the best and the worst president's
24- The assassination of JFK
25- Martin Luther King
26- L.A. Riots
27- She was alive during the only invasion on U.S. soil
28- The two biggest catastrophes in U.S. history...Pearl Harbor, and 9/11
29- The building of the Hoover Dam
30-The birth of Las Vegas
31- Al Capone
32- Valentines Day Massacre
33- The birth of Nascar
34- Evolution of the Television
35- The Dust Bowl
36- The birth and death of the planet Pluto
These are just a few things she experienced. I would really love it if each of you would comment on this post with something else in history from 1916-2011 that she would have experienced. Thanks everyone! She was an amazing woman, and a wonderful friend and grandmother.
XoXo-Andrea Carla
These were things to add from my mother:
ReplyDelete· Grandma could remember belonging to a “I Love Lindy” club, so Lindbergh’s crossing and the Lindbergh kidnapping
· On the day Grandma was born the headlines in the papers was that Helen Keller eloped with her the journalist Peter Fagan, her secretary, but it was stopped and they did not marry.
· The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, considered one of the worst natural disasters in human history
· 18th Amendment (Prohibition) came and went (21st Amendment)
· On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election.
· 1927 talking movies
· 1930 jet engine
· The Great Depression
· Penicillin
· Vaccine for polio at a time when all mothers feared it would strike their children.
· The 20th Amendment (terms for elected federal officials and what to do if there is no elected Vice President)
· Granddad served in the Navy during the Korean War
· 22nd Amendment (term limits for Presidents)
· 1962 Cuban missile crisis
· 1964 segregation abolished
· 1969 man on the moon (Mom and Dad graduated high school)
· Voting age dropped from 21 to 18 years old
· Alaska and Hawaii admitted to the United States
· Invention of television and microwave ovens
· The Internet was invented