Verlie's Diary

A note with brief genealogy from contributor Kay White Monohan.

Worldwide unemployment doubled. Empire State building completed.

The Queen Mary crossed the Atlantic. Spanish Civil War began. Hoover Dam completed. BBC broadcasts began.

Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill launches the "V for Victory" campaign across Europe. GI-bill approved, Siege of Leningrad began. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. United Nations has first meeting. Era of the baby boomers began.

Most drivers used hand signals to alert others they were turning. "I Love Lucy" became popular and color television was broadcast for the first time from the Empire State Building.

Federal-Aid Highway Act began construction of interstate highways. Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. Disposable diapers and Teflon pans. "As The World Turns" and "The Price is Right” become popular.

Peace Corps established. The Berlin Wall constructed, IBM introduced ball typewriter. First disposable diaper. Unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.

Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. The Harlem Globetrotters started their road tour.

Al Capone convicted for Income Tax Evasion. The Great Depression became worldwide. Franklin D. Roosevelt won US presidential election in a landslide. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Golden Gate bridge opened. Big unionization began with UAW United Auto Workers Union. Hindenburg exploded. Amelia Earhart disappeared.

Internment camps set up for people of Japanese . Major battles at Midway.

CIA established as Cold War began. UN created the Jewish State of Israel. Inventions included the first instant camera, tubeless time, and transistor. Sound barrier was broken. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

First Holiday Inn. The Today Show debuted on NBC. Polio Epidemic worsened, Diary of Anne Frank published, and communist teachers banned from public schools.

Toyota started selling cars in the US. Asian Flu Pandemic. USSR launched Sputnik 1. South Vietnam attacked by Viet Cong.

John Glenn orbits earth. Marilyn Monroe died. First Bond film released. Cuban missile crisis. First Wal-Mart store opened.

Republican Herbert Hoover won the presidential election. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon film with sound was released.

Prohibition laws repealed. Western dust storms devastation from drought and high winds. Alcatraz became a federal penitentiary. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Hitler persecuted Jews. Hurricane hit Long Island leaving 63-thousand homeless and hundreds dead. Orson Wells dramatization of "War of The Worlds" radio show caused panic. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

US General Dwight D. Eisenhower became the supreme Allied commander. Glenn Miller Orchestra produces many hits. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Inventions: LP records, Velcro, six transistor radio. Apartheid in South Africa. NASCAR first race at Daytona Beach. West Berlin Soviet Blockade. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Elizabeth II crowned Queen. First polio vaccine developed, first color television went on sale, as did the first Corvette. First James Bond novel published.

Microchip Invented. First Trans Atlantic passenger jetliner service began. US Military considering mapping earth from orbiting satellite. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Assassination of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. "The Birds" produced. "Beatlemania began with the release of "I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There."

The Wall Street Crash in October signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. The first Academy Awards and first car radio, made by Motorola.

Rise of Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung. Farm-Relief Act was signed into law. FBI ended the crime sprees of John Dillinger, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

World War II began. Albert Einstein and president Roosevelt begin the nuclear bomb program. LaGuardia Airport opened. Thailand changed it’s name from Siam. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Normandy battles foreshadowed the end of the war. London attacked by V2 rockets. Food shortages encouraged government to promote vegetables gardens.

Postwar prosperity as products got bigger and better, especially cars and television sets. Soap Operas began. Russia developed the nuclear bomb, which increased Cold War tensions.

Elvis Presley begins music career, Communist Party outlawed in US, Brown v. Board of Education Decision. Ellis Island in New York closed as a point of Immigration. Senator Joseph McCarthy censured.

Fidel Castro in power after the Cuban Revolution. Alaska became the 49th state and Hawaii became the 50th state. John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr. introduced as first astronauts. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Race riots in major US cities. Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton. Surgeon General reported that smoking may lead to lung cancer.

Full year of the great depression. Strenuous prohibition enforcement. The Zeppelin Airship completed flight from Germany to Brazil. U.S. Public Works programs began.

Alcoholics Anonymous established. US Social Security Act signed into law. Amelia Earhart flew across the Pacific. Monopoly game and Volkswagen Beetle launched. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

Germany invaded France. "Gone With the Wind" released. Benny Goodman and Count Basie gained popularity. New factories offered earnings up to $1,250 per year.

Nuclear Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Adolf Hitler commit suicide. Harry S. Truman became US President after Roosevelt died. German concentration camps liberated. United Nations created.

Howdy Doody and Saturday cartoons launched on black and white TV. Cartoons included in theater matinees. Median income was #3,300.

Seat belts installed on all new cars. Minimum wage raised to $1.00. First McDonalds and TV Dinners. Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry and The Platters popular. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.

US entered Vietnam War. John F. Kennedy elected president. Chubby Checker and the Twist popular. Soviets shoot down US U2 spy plane. Aluminum cans. First photocopier. Verlie's diary for this year has been lost.