17 Chapter 16 Timelines

TIMELINE OF JACKIE ROBINSON'S LIFE 1919—Jack Roosevelt Robinson is born in Cairo, GA 1920—Robinson family moves to Pasadena, CA 1939—Jackie enrolls in UCLA Brother Frank dies in motorcycle accident 1941—Jackie plays football for the Honolulu Bears 1942—Jackie is drafted into the US Army 1945—Jackie joins the Kansas City Monarchs Jackie signs a contract to play for the Montreal Royals 1946—Jackie marries Rachel Isum Son Jackie, Jr., is born 1947—Jackie becomes the first black player on a modern major league baseball team 1949—Jackie is named MVP of the National League 1950—Daughter Sharon is born

1952—Son David is born 1955—Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series 1957—Jackie retires from baseball 1962—Jackie is voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame 1971—Jackie, Jr., dies in a car accident 1972—Jackie dies on October 24 1973—Rachel Robinson starts the Jackie Robinson Foundation TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1919—First nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean takes sixteen hours and twelve minutes 1920—Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote 1929—New York Stock Market crashes 1931—Empire State Building opens in New York City 1939—Germany invades Poland and World War II begins

1941—Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor and US enters World War II 1942—Anne Frank and family go into hiding in Amsterdam 1945—World War II ends 1947—Chuck Yeager pilots first plane to travel faster than the speed of sound 1950—Korean War begins 1955—Polio vaccine is announced Disneyland opens in California Montgomery Bus Boycott is held to end segregation 1961—John F. Kennedy becomes first Catholic president 1964—Beatlemania hits the US 1967—Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the US Supreme Court, becoming the first black Supreme Court Justice 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee 1972—Title IX is signed into law, giving girls and boys equal opportunities in all school programs, including sports