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