Top Song: “Cohen on the Telephone”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n1924 – Dad is 20 Years Old<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- \u00a0The first\u00a0Winter Olympics\u00a0 open in\u00a0Chamonix, in the French\u00a0Alps<\/li>\n
- Calvin Coolidge\u00a0becomes the first\u00a0President of the United States\u00a0to deliver a radio broadcast from the\u00a0White House<\/li>\n
- Adolf Hitler\u00a0is sentenced to 5 years in\u00a0prison\u00a0for his participation in the\u00a01923\u00a0Beer Hall Putsch<\/li>\n
- J. Edgar Hoover\u00a0is appointed head of the\u00a0Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/li>\n
- American astronomer\u00a0Edwin Hubble\u00a0announces that\u00a0Andromeda, previously believed to be a\u00a0nebula, is actually another\u00a0galaxy, and that the\u00a0Milky Way\u00a0is only one of many such galaxies in the\u00a0universe.<\/li>\n
- Top Movie: “Sherlock, Jr”<\/li>\n
- Top Song: “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo'”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1934 – Dad is 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- John Dillinger\u00a0and his gang rob the First National Bank in\u00a0Mason City, Iowa, United States, stealing $52,000.<\/li>\n
- American outlaws\u00a0Bonnie and Clyde\u00a0are ambushed and killed by police in\u00a0Bienville Parish, Louisiana.<\/li>\n
- Adolf Hitler\u00a0becomes\u00a0F\u00fchrer<\/i>\u00a0of Germany<\/li>\n
- The Dust Bowl hits the Midwest, damaging or ruining 300 million acres of cropland in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas<\/li>\n
- Top Movie: It Happened One Night<\/li>\n
- Top Song: Moon Glow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1944 – Dad is 40<\/p>\n
\n- WWII: D-Day: 155,000\u00a0Allied\u00a0troops shipped from England land on the beaches of\u00a0Normandy\u00a0in northern France, beginning\u00a0Operation Overlord\u00a0and the\u00a0Invasion of Normandy.<\/li>\n
- Anne Frank\u00a0and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to\u00a0Auschwitz concentration camp<\/li>\n
- Germany begins the Ardennes offensive, later known as the\u00a0Battle of the Bulge<\/li>\n
- Dad’s step-son Neil turns 13, and his daughter Sheila turns 2 years old this year<\/li>\n
- Top Movie: Double Indemnity<\/li>\n
- Top Song: You Always Hurt The One You Love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1954 – Dad is 50<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The first nuclear-powered\u00a0submarine, the\u00a0USS\u00a0Nautilus<\/i>, is launched<\/li>\n
- The first mass\u00a0vaccination\u00a0of children against\u00a0polio\u00a0begins in\u00a0Pittsburgh,\u00a0Pennsylvania, United States.<\/li>\n
- U.S. officials announce that a\u00a0hydrogen bomb\u00a0test has been conducted, on\u00a0Bikini Atoll\u00a0in the Pacific Ocean.<\/li>\n
- Bill Haley & His Comets\u00a0record “Rock Around the Clock”<\/li>\n
- In Brown v. Board of Education,<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0Supreme Court of the United States\u00a0rules unanimously that segregated schools are unconstitutional.<\/li>\n
- Texas Instruments\u00a0announces the development of the first commercial\u00a0transistor radio.<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0United States Senate\u00a0votes 67\u201322 to condemn\u00a0Joseph McCarthy, for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0TV dinner\u00a0is introduced<\/li>\n
- Dad’s step-son Neil turns 23, daughter Sheila turns 12, daughter Diana turns 9 and son Paul turns 3 years old this year<\/li>\n
- Top Movie: “Rear Window”<\/li>\n
- Top Song: “Little Things Mean a Lot”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1964 -Dad is 60<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The first computer program written in\u00a0BASIC is run. BASIC\u00a0(Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an easy to learn high level\u00a0programming language<\/li>\n
- The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000<\/li>\n
- The\u00a0Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted<\/li>\n
- Neil turns 33, Sheila turns 22,\u00a0 Diana turns 19 and Paul turns 13<\/li>\n
- Top Movie: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”<\/li>\n
- Top Song: “I Want to Hold Your Hand”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1974 – January and February*<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) giving women the right to have credit in their own name (without their husband’s permission) was passed by congress.\u00a0 It was enacted later in the year.<\/li>\n
- After a record 84 days in\u00a0orbit, the crew of\u00a0Skylab 4<\/i>\u00a0returns to Earth.<\/li>\n
- The maximum\u00a0speed limit\u00a0on U.S. highways was lowered to 55 miles per hour (89\u00a0km\/h), a limit that would remain in effect for the next 13 years, in order to conserve gasoline during the\u00a0OPEC\u00a0embargo.<\/li>\n
- Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport\u00a0(DFW), which would become the second-busiest in the world for passenger service, opened in the U.S. state of\u00a0Texas\u00a0for scheduled flights. The first flight to land was a Boeing 727 arriving from\u00a0Memphis, Tennessee.<\/li>\n
- The U.S. TV sitcom\u00a0Happy Days<\/i>\u00a0debuted on\u00a0ABC.<\/li>\n
- Top Movie:\u00a0 “Blazing Saddles” Premiered on February 7th<\/li>\n
- Top Song: “The Way We Were” Released in October 1973 and went on to be the top song of 1974<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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