Eyewitness accounts:  1948 - 1967

Historical snippets from the first and last years of this eyewitness period...

1948:  Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi. Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia. Israel recognized by US and Britain. Berlin Airlift begins. Truman ends segregation in military. "Big Bang" theory introduced. Polaroid camera invented. World Health Organization established.

1967:  Biafra secedes from Nigeria. Israel occupies Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and West Bank. Military coup deposes King Constantine II. Thurgood Marshall becomes first black US Supreme Court justice. Astronauts Grissom, White, Chaffee killed in launch pad fire. The Beatles release Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pulsars and quarks discovered. First successful human heart transplant performed in South Africa.