In+Their+Lifetime

Tell the World Their Story

 * In your parent's lifetime, what has happened in....**

** The United States? **
1.Following a weeklong series of earthquakes and smaller explosions of ash and smoke, long-dormant Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state, hurling ash 15,000 feet into the air and setting off mudslides and avalanches. 2. Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult - including the cult's leader Marshall Herff Applewhite -- were found dead March 26 in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe. They commited suicide. 3.The largest oil spill in U.S. history occurs when the tanker Exxon Valdez, loaded with some 1.2 million barrels of crude oil, runs aground on a reef in the Gulf of Alaska. An estimated 265,000 barrels of oil pour out of the tanker, blanketing the waters and coastline with a thick murky film. a)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1980/index.html#helens b)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1997/index.html c)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1989/index.html

** The World? **
1.While waving to a crowd from an open convertable in St. Peter's Square in May 1981, Pope John Paul II is struck by two bullets and wounded in the abdomen, right arm and left hand. 2.A huge bomb explodes in the garage below New York's World Trade Center, killing five people and forcing a hectic evacuation of some 50,000 people from the massive twin tower complex. More than 1,000 people are treated for injuries, most from smoke inhalation. Mohammed A. Salameh is later arrested in connection with the bombing as he tries to claim a refund on a rented van believed to have carried the explosion. 3.B-52s Bomb North Vietnam In an effort to disrupt movement along the Mugia Pass -- the main route used by the N.V.A. to send personnel and supplies through Laos and into South Vietnam -- American B-52s bomb North Vietnam for the first time. a)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1981/#pope b)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1993/index.html c)https://www.lschs.org/cfhttp.cfm?script=cf_academics/resourcecontent.cfm&pageid=608&rid=288

**Popular Culture? **
1.John Lennon is gunned down and killed outside his New York City apartment by Mark Chapman, a deranged fan. 2.Fred Astaire, whose grace and fancy footwork beguiled generations of moviegoers around the world, dies at age 88. 3.Early on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London under circumstances which have never been fully explained. He had spent the later part of the evening before at a party and was picked up by girlfriend [|Monika Dannemann] and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel. According to the estimated time of death, he died shortly afterwards. a)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1980/index2.html#lennon b)http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/1987/index.html c)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix

** Technology? **
1.In September, Computer Recreations, Inc. installs //[|Galaxy Game]//, a version of //[|Spacewar!]// for [|PDP-11] hardware and the first coin-operated [|video arcade] [|game], in Tresidder Union at [|Stanford University].[|[2]] 2.The Oregon Trail came out in 1985 for the Apple II from Brøderbund. Earlier versions were produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). 3. and Ted Dabney founded an engineering firm, [|Syzygy Engineering],[|[13]] and soon hired [|Al Alcorn] as their first design engineer. Bushnell decided to have Alcorn produce an arcade version of the [|Magnavox Odyssey]'s Tennis game,[|[14] a)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_video_gaming b)http://edugamesblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/the-top-10-most-influential-educational-video-games-from-the-1980s/ c)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari ====**   <span class="wiki_link"> <span class="wiki_link">Fashion? **==== 1.For evening in the early seventies, either straight or flared Empire line dresses with a sequined fabric bodice and exotic sleeves were the style for a dressy occasion. 2.Punk first emerged in the mid 1970s in London as an anarchic and aggressive movement. About 200 young people defined themselves as an anti-fashion urban youth street culture. Closely aligned was a music movement that took the name punk. 3.Both men and women sported big hair, and it sometimes seemed like there was a competition to see who could come up with the most elaborate ‘do. The 80’s was the decade of the hair band, the crimping iron, and the teasing comb. a)http://www.fashion-era.com/1970s.htm b)http://www.fashion-era.com/punks_fashion_history1.htm c)[|http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/popularhairstyl_sldw.htm0] [[image:1971blkhalter.jpg width="91" height="231"]] [[image:punk-fashion.jpg width="306" height="304"]] [[image:300_143773.jpg width="212" height="356"]]

**<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0)"><span class="wiki_link">Sports? **
1.After four decades of existence, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first "home" game in Harlem in 1968. 2. In the spring of 1974, the Bay View branch of the central Milwaukee YMCA was permanently closed. At the time of it's closing, many very successful athletic programs were being offered by the Y. The YMCA's athletic director, Ron Bird, and several of the parents who had boys or girls playing on one of the existing teams, felt it would be impossible for their kids to travel the distance to South Milwaukee to continue playing in the YMCA's programs. After may hours of discussion and planning, it was determined that they would form a private organization, the Bay View Area Redcats. The Bay View Area Redcats now serves over six hundred boys and girls in the Metro Milwaukee area and is involved in tackle football, baseball, basketball, girls softball and cheerleading. 3.Bart Starr #15, was the [|quarterback] for the [|Green Bay Packers] (1956-1971) and the [|MVP] of the first two [|Super Bowls]. He earned four [|Pro Bowl] selections and was inducted into the [|Pro Football Hall of Fame] in 1977.After his playing career, Starr was the head coach of the Packers for nine seasons (1975–1983), compiling a 52–76–3 record. a)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters b)http://www.bvaredcats.org/aboutus.html c)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Starr