Thank you everyone for all the votes in the past. I’m running 2 this time to catch up with what I’ve gotten done.
Poll for 1948 the year my uncle David was born

• State of Israel created – 5 votes
• Cold War: Berlin Blockade begins – 6 votes
• Marvin the Martian makes his debut – 4 votes
• Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania – 2 votes
• Play Kiss Me, Kate opens – 2 votes

1950 the year my aunt Dorothy was born

• Scandal over Ingrid Bergman’s illegitimate child – 0 votes
• McCarthyism – 2 votes
• Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb – 1 vote
• Apartheid begins in South Africa – 1 vote
• Korean War begins – 4 votes
• Beetle Bailey comic strip begins – 0 votes
• Peanuts comic strip first published – 4 votes
• Mother Teresa begins her charity work – 2 votes
• Shirley Temple retires from show business – 2 votes
• First pagers developed – 0 votes
• Antihistamine discovered – 1 vote