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OUR GENERATION
Boomer Timetable
1940s-1950s 1960s-1970s
1945: Soldiers come home after WWII to make babies at the rate of one every eight seconds over the next two decades.
1946: Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Baby and Child Care,” published. Parents get the okay to become emotionally involved with their children.
1947: Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaks the color barrier in major league baseball.
1948: The “Kensey Report” on sexual behavior in the human male is published.
1951: Disc jockey Alan Freed coins the term rock ‘n’ roll.
1952: “Bandstand” begins its long run on TV.
1954: Supreme Court deems racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.
1955: Elvis Presley ushers in a new age of rock ‘n’ roll with “That’s All Right.”
1959: WHAM-O introduces the first Fris- bee.
1960: Birth control pill approved for sale by the FDA.
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis – Pres. Kennedy decides not to attack Soviet missiles in Cuba, avoids nuclear war.
1968: North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive.
1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
1970: Four students killed at Kent State by National Guardsmen during protest against the Vietnam War.
1972: Break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters leads to Nixon’s resignation two years later. 1975: U.S. evacuates from Vietnam. South Vietnamese government surrenders.
1977: “Star Wars”” opens. Legions of faithful Jedis follow.
1980: John Lennon shot and killed in New York. IBM PC introduced, business boots up. Pac-Man introduced, takes arcade games to a new level.
1981: The CDC publishes report on AIDS epidemic.
1983: Chrysler Minivan introduced. Soccer moms abandon station wagons. Newsweek declares 1983 “the year of the yuppie.”
1985: Bob Geldof spearheads Live Aid concerts, raising over $100 million to fight famine in Africa.
1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff.
1989: Berlin Wall falls, leading to the reunifi- cation of East and West Germany.
1991: Persian Gulf War liberates Kuwait.
1992: Riots erupt in Los Angeles after jury acquits policemen of beating Rodney King.
1993: Branch Davidian compound burned down near Waco, Texas.
1995: Truck bomb explodes outside federal building in Oklahoma City. O.J. Simpson trail captivates a nation.
1998: Viagra hits the shelves.
1999: Shootings at Columbine High School. Clinton’s impeachment trail ends without a conviction.
2000: Bush wins election after Florida vote recount.
2001: Attack on World Trade Center.
2006: First Boomers turn 60.
20th-21st Century America
1883-1900 (18 years)
The Lost Generation was a term originally used to identify a group of American literary expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; it is now used more generally to describe the generation of young people who came of age in the U.S. during and shortly after WWI. Very few Americans from this generation are currently alive.
1901-1924 (24 years)
The G.I. Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won WWII, later to become the Establishment, and the parents of children who would later become the Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964). Journalist Tom Brokaw dubbed this the Greatest Generation in a 1998 book of that name.
1925-1945 (20 years)
The Silent Generation was the generation born between the two World Wars, who were too young too join the service when WWII started. Many had fathers who served in WWI.
1946-1954 (8 years)
The Baby Boomers (Boom Generation) were the generation born just after WWII, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrates worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teen and college years were characteristically part of the 1960s counterculture, but later became more conservative.
1955-1964 (9 years)
Generation Jones was the heretofore-lost generation between the Boomers and GenXers, which has emerged now as a bonafide distinct generation. The election of Barack Obama to the U.S. Presidency created significantly increased awareness of this generation as many prominent sources referred to Obama as specifically a member of Generation Jones.
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CONTENTS
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OUTLOOK
Moving Forward Changes To Health System Might Be Here To Stay University Health Endocrinology Moves 03 06
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COVID RESOURCE
Coronavirus Resource Guide Coronavirus Resource Guide
OUR GENERATION
Boomer Timetable Telehealth or House Call Doctor Visits Holistic View of Life’s Third Age (Retirement) New Medicare Policy to Help Diabetes Patients 7 Eating Habits Gained During Childhood Embracing Technology: Healthcare To Binge Watching
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LEISURE Boomer Calendar The Arts Food and Wine Good Ethnic Eating Bella Italia Midtown’s Perenn Baker 17
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