Weird. Do you ever start to clean out a room for the expressed intent of finding one specific object?... Twas me tonight as I perused the year I was born.. .after I got into it... I forgot whyinthehell/whatinthehell I was looking for...
Nonetheless... what followed was a recaptured blast from the past (Bonita Allen/James Nail/Naomi Johnson/Walter Cronkite/Dan Rather/"Baba Wawa"/Peter Jennings.. et all..)
I honestly forget "what happened - when", so it was kinda go back and 'relive'... have fun.....
1951
The rain falls for 40 days and the Great Flood in July inundates Armourdale and the West Bottoms again, affecting the packinghouse business directly. At least 5 people die. National Guard units take up positions to discourage looting. To better maintain order, Kansas City closes the taverns and package liquor stores. City crews, desperate to save the Municipal Air Terminal, dump junked cars onto the embattled levees to fight the surging water-and keep the airport dry. Many Kansas residents are left homeless and will be relocated to temporary homes in trailers located on the Old Homestead Golf Course. "Trailer City" will be occupied until Christmas of 1952. After the flood, the Health Department of Kansas City administers 111,711 vaccinations to prevent typhoid fever. No typhus outbreak occurs. A federal official compares the land to the bombed-out cities of Europe in World War II. A nonprofit collective called Disaster Corps Inc. is formed to donate man-hours and equipment for the cleanup. Remembering the test of the city's mettle in 1900 when the Convention Hall burned down 3 months before the Democratic National Convention, city officials make a point of renovating the American Royal facilities for the show, which open on time in the fall. The country marvels at the collective Kansas City character. Illustrator Norman Rockwell paints "The Kansas City Spirit," showing a worker rolling up his sleeves while holding a blueprint. Joyce Hall prints it on 20,000 brochures distributed across the county. Riverside, Prairie Village, Mission, Merriam, Roeland Park, and Countryside are all incorporated.
January, 1952.. A man and woman smooch in St. Louis.(Ed/Velma Schultze) 9 months later, son born.
1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.... Polio vaccine...
1957 May, 20th. An F5 tornado rips through Ruskin Heights leaving 44 dead and another 500 injured
1958/59.. Welcome Alaska/Hawaii...
1960'a... Teachers made $5,174/year.. Psycho released...
1961 Bay of Pigs... Peace Corps founded..
1962.. Marilyn Monroe found dead...
1963.. JFK assasinated.. .. MLK “I have a Dream”speech..
1964 Chicago millionaire insurance man, Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, brings the Beatles to Kansas City. He pays the group $150,000 for a 31-minute concert at Municipal Stadium. About 20,000 people attend the concert on September 17th--fewer than half the available seats are filled.
1965 LA Riots
1966 Mass draft protests...
1967 First Super Bowl...
1968 MLK assassinated..
1969 Neil Armstrong, first man on moon.... Woodstock... Hi Sesame Street..
1970 KC Population reaches 507,330. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, 23 to 7.... Beatles breakup...
1972 MASH premiers... Spitz, 7 Gold... Watergate..
1973 Crown Center opens, changing the face of Midtown... We're outta Viet Nam.. .
1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped... Nixon resigns...
1975.. Microsoft founded..
1977... Long live the king (Elvis found dead). Roots... Star Wars.. Brush Creek ravages the Plaza after a savage thunderstorm dumps torrents of water on Kansas City on September 12th. 24 die and property owners suffer $94 million in damages.
1978.. Babies now come in test tubes.. Hi Pope John Paul II
1979 The Kemper Arena roof collapsed in a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain. Fortunately on the night of the storm Kemper was empty.
1980 John Lennon assassinated.. CNN/Ted Turner emerge.. . Mt St. Helens spews..
1981 The suspended walkways at the one year old Hyatt Regency hotel collapse during a tea-dance party being held in the atrium lobby. 114 dead, over 200 injured... Pac Man... Charles/Di marry, millions watch...
1982 ET phone home.. “Thriller” released.. .Vietnam War Memorial opened in DC..
1983 Cabbage Patch... Sally Ride..
1984: PG-13 created..
1985 The Kansas City Royals win the World Series. The downtown loop experiences an increase in new construction and the restoration of older neighborhoods... My son Dru was born...Bret Saberhagen's son Drew born... New Coke..
1986 Chernobyl.. Challenger explodes..
1988 The Steamboat Arabia is found buried in farmland 1/2 mile south of the Missouri River. In the worst loss to the city's fire department since 1959, an Ammonium Nitrate explosion kills 6 firefighters responding to a fire at a construction site near 87th and 71 Hwy. 9 years later, 5 people are convicted of setting the fires in the truck trailers containing explosive ammonium nitrate.
1989 Berlin Wall falls..
1990 Mandela freed.. Hubble in space...
1991 Desert Storm
1992 Rodney King verdict spurs LA riots..
1993 World Trade Center bombed.. Lorena Bobbitt.. well... she “lops” it...
1994 OJ.. oh my.. arrested for double murder..
1995 Ok City bombed..
1997 Princess Di car fatal car
wreck.. Tiger wins Masters..
1998 Clinton Impeached.. . Coincidentally, Viagra marketed..
1999 What the hell is “The Euro?”
2001 Al Qaeda/Word Trade..
2002 An ice storm interrupts power to 387,000 area homes, damages trees, closes schools and businesses, knocks out streetlights, and causes runs in area stores on candles, sleeping bags, lamp oil, and generators. All the motel rooms are taken. 300 out-of-state utility crews from 12 states work 16-hour days to restore power. The cost of recovery after the storm is estimated at 20 million
2003.. March 20, War on Iraq... Hi MySpace... Facebook launched..
2005.. Katrina... Youtube...
2007 iPhone..
2008 Stock market crashes and the Dow Jones tumbles from a historic high of 14198.10
in October 2007 to 7449 in December 2008
2009 Two of America’s ‘Big Three’ car makers, Chrylser and General Motors, go
through bankruptcy proceedings...........
2011 (or 2012) Victor finds love of his life, makes him easily forget whatshername and whatshername.
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