12 Chapter 11 Timelines

TIMELINE OF JESSE OWENS'S LIFE 1913 Jesse Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama 1921 Moves with family to Cleveland, Ohio 1932 Daughter Gloria born 1933 Begins studying at Ohio State University 1935 At Big Ten Championships, sets three world records and ties another in less than an hour Marries Ruth Solomon 1936 Wins four gold medals at Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany 1939 Daughter Marlene born 1940 Daughter Beverly born 1949 Moves with family to Chicago 1950 Is named top track athlete of the first half of the twentieth century 1955 Sent on international goodwill tour by President Eisenhower 1960 Starts his own advertising and marketing company C. 1971 Moves with Ruth to Arizona

1973 Elected to board of directors of US Olympic Committee 1976 Given Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980 Dies of lung cancer in Arizona at age sixty-six

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1913 United States introduces income tax 1924 The first Winter Olympic Games held in France 1927 Charles Lindbergh is the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 1933 Adolf Hitler elected chancellor of Germany 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, driving US to enter 1941 World War II 1945 US drops two atomic bombs on Japan World War II ends 1950 Korean War begins 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling by Supreme Court ends school segregation 1963 March on Washington and major civil rights rally President John F. Kennedy is assassinated 1964 Civil Rights Act passed by Congress, making all segregation illegal 1968 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

1972 Palestinian terrorists kill eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany 1975 Last US forces leave Vietnam at the end of Vietnam War 1976 America celebrates the Bicentennial, its two hundredth birthday 1980 To protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the US does not send athletes to the Summer Olympics in Moscow