100 events that shifted history continued --part 3
51. Scientists patent computer chip 1959
52. Marconi sends radio signal across Atlantic. 1901
53. Sex scandal leads to impeachment of President Clinton. 1998
54. Secretary of State George Marshall proposes rebuilding plan for war
ravaged Europe. 1947
55. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated. 1968
56. Senate rejection dooms League of Nations. 1920
57. Rachel Carson book, Silent Spring, helps launch environmental movement.
1962
58. The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan. 1964
59. Voting Rights Act removes obstacles to minority voting. 1965
60. Russian Yuri Gagarin is first man in space. 1961
61. First jet airplane flight. 1941
62. U. S. troops arrive in South Vietnam; U.S. bombs North Vietnam. 1965
63. North Vietnamese forces take over Saigon, capital of South Vietnam.
1975
64. Manhattan Project begins secret work on atomic bomb; first chain
reaction. 1942
65. GI Bill of Rights passed to help veterans. 1945
66. Alan Shepard is first American in space. 1961
67. Nixon faces Watergate scandal. 1973
68. San Francisco earthquake. 1906
69. United Nations established. 1945
70. Communists build Berlin Wall. 1961
71. Mohandas Gandhi leads nonviolent protests in India. 1920
72. Standard Oil loses antitrust case; monopolies lose power. 1911
73. U.S. withdraws ground troops from Vietnam. 1973
74. Allies establish NATO to counter Communist power in Easter Europe. 1949
75. Stalin forces modernization in Soviet Union; 25 million died in
resulting famines. 1928