The 60's Baby Boom generation is identified as officially beginning January 1st, 1946. The significant increase in the number of babies born in 1946 over those born in 1945 is attributable to the end of World War II and the return of veterans of the war to their current or future wives. In 1945 2,873,000 babies were born compared to 3,500,000 in 1946, a 20% increase. In 1954 the number increased to 4,000,000 and remained high through 1964, the last year of the baby boom generation. In reality those born in the 40's have little in common with those born in the 60's. This modest attempt to chronicle some of the defining events in the lives of baby boomers focuses on the early baby boomers, the 60's generation, and their experiences. The events are a simple chronology interspersed with narrative where appropriate. Events range from politics, civil rights, rock and roll, war, fads, entertainment, and much more; some general and some personal.

The climate of the country in the post-World War II era was in many ways simply a relief that we had won the war. The period of the war imposed many restrictions on American citizens, including the rationing of many items important for the war effort. Rationing coupons were issued for everyday items like sugar, bananas, meat, cigarettes, butter, chocolate and gasoline. Gasoline was rationed based on how far you had to drive to work. There was no gasoline available for pleasure driving. Post WWII America wanted to move beyond the discipline and rationing that had been necessary for the war effort.

Whatever the reasons, 1946 saw the beginning of a unique generation of kids. Well, at least we think so.

References to AHS '64 are Alton High School Class of 1964.

• 1945 the end of WWII in both Europe and Japan, and the return home of veterans. May 7th Germany surrendered, September 2nd Japan surrendered.
• April 1945, George Goodwin, my father, home on leave from the Army, 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment, after being awarded the Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman's Badge, and other medals for meritorious actions in the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of The Bulge.
• November 11th, 1945, Ray Morales born, AHS '64.
• December 12th, 1945, Alan McAfoos born, AHS '64.
• January 1st, 1946, the official beginning of the baby boom generation.
• January 9th, 1946, Dick Goodwin born, AHS '64. (See April, 1945 above)
• June 1946, Supreme Court rules that Negroes could not be forced to sit in the back of the bus.
• June 1946 Dr. Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care published.
• June 1946 television sets started to appear in American homes (6,000 manufactured).
• September 11th, 1946, Dave Meyer born, AHS '64.
• December 6th, 1946, Lemoyndue Jarrett born, AHS '64.
• Of those born in 1946, 7,250 were killed in Vietnam, an increase of 68% over those born in 1945 (4,325). The number peaked with 10,151 born in 1947, 9,019 born in 1948, 6,301 born in 1949, and 2,977 born in 1950. Of those born between the years 1951-1957, 3,401 were killed in Vietnam.
• Celebrities born in 1946, Diane Keaton, Naomi Judd, Dolly Parton, Gene Siskel, Gregory Hines, Sandy Duncan, Tyne Daley, Liza Minneli, Ruth Pointer, Timothy Dalton, Al Green, Hayley Mills, Lesley Gore, Candice Bergen, Cher, Pricilla Presley, Barry Manilow, Ron Silver, Sylvester Stallone, Sue Lyon, Cheech Marin, Linda Ronstadt, Susan Saint James, Lesley Ann Warren, Connie Chung, Tommy Lee Jones, Oliver Stone, Susan Sarandon, John Prine, Suzanne Somers, Pat Sajak, Sally Field, Janet Lennon, Patty Duke, Jimmy Buffet, Duane Alman, Gram Parsons, Keith Moon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gilda Radner, and last but not least, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
• April 15th, 1947, Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, he was recruited by owner Branch Rickey.
• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began looking everywhere for Communists.
• November 1948, President Truman re-elected in upset over Dewey.
• 1948 first mass produced suburb in Levittown, Long Island. Many returning veterans eligible for the G.I. bill loans purchased homes. The developers refused to sell to black Americans.
• 1948 first McDonalds in San Bernardino, California.
• 1948 Long play (LP) record invented.
• July 1948 B.F. Skinner's Walden II published.
• July 1948 Ed Sullivan show began.
• 1949 Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
• January 1950, Fair Labor Standards Act amended to inclde $.75 an hour minimum wage.
• 1950 Military budget $12 billion out of total $40 billion.
• February 5th, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that he had list of 205 State Department employees who were members of the Communist Party.
• March 20th, 1950, Jan Belt, later Jan Goodwin, born.
• June 25th, 1950, North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
• 1950, CBS received an FCC license to begin broadcasting in color.
• 1950, Pete Seeger of The Weavers created Hooteneny record label.
• 1950, 1.5 million television sets in the U.S.
• 1950, Americans purchased automobiles at increased rate.
• 1951, suburbs spread rapidly.
• 1951, President Truman initiated draft deferment for college students.
• 1951, Number of televisions in U.S. jumped dramatically to 15 million.
• 1951, Color television introduced.
• July 21st, 1951, Geneva agreement divided Vietnam into North and South Vietnam.
• 1951, Marlon Brando starred in the movie A Street Car Named Desire.
• 1951, The Weavers blacklisted by the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC).
• 1952, Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan "Moondog" Freed began playing black rhythm and blues music in response to white teenagers rejection of white, slow, rhythmless pop music. Freed coined the term "Rock and Roll", and refused to play white artists covers of black musicians songs. Rock and Roll was basically a euphemism for rhythym and blues played to white audiences.
• November, 1952, WWII hero Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for President ending twenty consecutive years of Democratic domination of the presidency.
• 1952, first Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1952, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea published.
• 1952, 58,000 people contract polio, 1,400 died, many permanently disabled.
• 1953, Korean War ended.
• 1953, Marilyn Monroe starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blonds.
• 1953, Hugh Hefner started Playboy.
• 1953, Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique published.
• May, 1954, The Supreme Court, in Brown vs. Board of Education, struck down separate but equal doctrine, outlawed segregation in public schools.
• May, 1954, French defeated in Vietnam.
• December, 1954, Fess Parker starred as Davy Crockett on television, coonskin caps flourished.
• December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, resulted in her arrest and precipitated the Montgomery Bus Boycott and eventually the civil rights movement.
• November, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower re-elected elected president, again he defeated Adlai Stephenson.
• January, 1956, federal minimum wage rose to $1.00 an hour.
• 1956, Congress, in response to President Eisenhower's push for a national highway system to ensure military readiness, passed the Federal Aid Highway Act and ensured financing of the interstate highway system. Ironically, the new interstate system killed historic Route 66 which linked Chicago and Los Angelos, and many small communities inbetween.
• July, 1956, Dick Clark replaced Bob Horn as host of local Philadelphia television dance show, Bandstand. American Bandstand would be picked up nationally in 1957, a critical outlet for the growth of Rock and Roll.
• October 8th, 1956, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, defeating the Dodgers 2-0.
• 1957, Grace Metalius' controversial Peyton Place published, focusing attention on the obvious discrepencies between public and private sexual mores in mainstream America.
• October 21st, 1957, Army Captain Harry Griffith Cramer, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was America's first casualty in Vietnam.
• December, 1957, local Philadelphia group Danny and The Juniors appeared on American Bandstand as an impromptu replacement act for a no-show scheduled guest. Their song, At The Hop, became an immediate #1 hit after having floundered when first released, and catapulted Danny and The Juniors to rock & roll star status.
• November, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected president in a narrow victory over Richard Nixon.
• October 1st, 1961, Roger Maris hit homerun number 61 at Yankee Stadium, in the 4th inning, off Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox to break the record held by Babe Ruth. It was the Yankees' 163rd game.
• February 2nd, 1962, Friendship 7 was launched with John Glenn aboard the one man Mercury spacecraft. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Friendship 7 is on display at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC.
• September , 1962, The beginning of the Cuban missle cirsis. U.S. reconnaissance establishes the presence of defensive SAM missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy issues a statement warning the U.S.S.R. of "the gravest consequences," including a nuclear confrontation, if Cuba becomes a base for Soviet ICBM's. U.S.S.R. warns the U.S. not to invade Cuba and denies any intention of introducing offensive missiles. Soviet troops begin arriving secretly in Cuba. U.S. contingency plans for an airborne assault and invasion of Cuba proceed. The U.S.S.R. learns of these plans through espionage. Rumors of offensive missiles in Cuba persist.
• September 30th, 1962, black student James Meredith escorted into the University of Missisippi by federal troops called out by President Kennedy.
• September 1962, Ed Roberts, severely disabled secondary to childhood polio, was reluctantly admitted into the University of California, Berkeley. "We've tried cripples before and it didn't work", read the local headlines. Roberts was forced to live in the campus hospital, Cowell Hall.
• October 14-16, 1962, President Kennedy is informed that the U.S.S.R. missiles in Cuba will be operational in two weeks. Early discussions lean toward a "surgical" air strike on the missiles and an invasion of Cuba to depose Castro. Gradually a consensus forms around starting force at a lower level with a naval blockade while concurrently seeking a diplomatic solution and increasing the military pressure if necessary depending on the Soviet response.
• October 18, 1962, Kennedy meets with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office. Gromyko denies that the Soviet Union has placed offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba. The President restates his September warning. Photos of the missile sites are on Kennedy's desk during the conversation. Intelligence suggests that some of the missiles could be launched in less than 24 hours.
• October 24th, 1962, President Kennedy receives a letter from Khrushchev calling the quarantine (naval blockade) "an act of aggression" and refusing to direct Soviet ships to observe it. But, intelligence reports suggest that sixteen of the nineteen Soviet ships en route to Cuba have slowed down or reversed course.
• November 21st, 1962, Just over a month after the Cuban missle crisis began, JFK terminates the quarantine when Khrushchev agrees after several weeks of tense negotiations at the U.N. to withdraw Soviet IL-28 nuclear bombers from Cuba. Three decades later a Soviet military official would reveal that mobile tactical nuclear weapons and more than 40,000 Soviet troops were in place in Cuba for use in the event of an American invasion.
• June 1963, a Buddhist monk performed an act of self immolation in Saigon in protest of the repressive regime of South Vietnam's President Diem.
• June 11th, 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance at the University of Alabama attempting to stop two black students from registering, an expression of his staunch opposition to integration.
• June 12th, 1963, Medger Evers (NAACP) shot to death upon arrival at his home.
• August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial. About 250,000 civil rights activists and their supporters were involved in the historic march on Washington.
• November 22nd, 1963, President John Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald during a motorcade through Dallas, Texas.
• February 9th, 1964, Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan show.
• February 25th, 1964, Cassisus Clay (Muhammed Ali) defeats Sonny Liston for heavy weight boxing championship.
• June 5, 1964, Alton Senior High School graduation. Class of 595 graduates, 605 senior pictures in The Tatler, (yearbook). At 30th reunion in 1994, 29 were deceased, 4 killed in Vietnam. At 35th reunion in 1999, 40 were deceased. June '64 begins high school graduation for America's baby boomers.
• June 21st, 1964, Three civil rights activists (James Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (20), Michael Schwerner (24)) killed on arrival in Mississippi by KKK
• July 2nd, 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, a priority for President Lyndon Johnson.
• August 7th, 1964, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution granting President Lyndon Johnson wide-spread authority to send American troops to defend South Vietnam, in essence the start of America's build up in Vietnam. The Resolution was in response to incidents that reportedly occurred between the American destroyer Maddox and North Vietnamese torpedo and PT boats in the Tonkin Gulf. The incident was later called into question and found to be more of an incident to justify the Congressional Resolution than any threat to the American destroyer. The resolution opened the door for sending American troops into Vietnam.
• August 1964, Pilot Everett Alvarez who took off from a US carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. He had to jump from his damaged plane but his parachute failed to open. He survived and was imprisoned by the North Vietnamese. He remained prisoner for almost 8 and one-half years -the longest confirmed POW in the nation's history.
• November 1964, Lyndon Johnson elected president in a landslide over Barry Goldwater.
• December 2nd, 1964, Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, gave a fiery speech from Sproul Plaza in front of Berkeley's main administration building, to a large crowd of protesters, many of whom took part in a sit-in inside the building and a campus strike. "There is a time," he said, "when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." Approximately 800 student protesters were arrested at the sit-in. The Free Speech movement that Savio gave voice to became a model for protests. The events of 1964 in Berkeley ushered in a decade of student agitation across the country, culminating in the wide protests against the war in Vietnam.
• March 8-9, 1965, 500 American Marines land in Vietnam to protect Da Nang Air base.
• Saturday, October 30th, 1965, Richard Crawford, AHS '64, USMC, killed in Vietnam.
• 1966, Vietnam era draft peaked at 382,010, compared to 1965 (230,991), 1964 (112,386), 1967 (228,263), 1968 (296,406), 1969 (283,586), 1970 (162,746), 1971 (94,092), 1972 (49,514), and 1973 (646).
• September 15th, 1966, AHS '64 classmates Ray Morales, Alan McAfoos, and Lemoyndue Jarrett, drafted, began tour of duty in Vietnam.
• Friday, May 26th, 1967, Memorial Day weekend, Ray Morales, AHS '64, killed in Vietnam. Alan McAfoos, AHS '64, wounded.
• Tuesday, June 6th, 1967, Fred Elizondo, AHS '64 killed in Vietnam.
• Sunday, June 18th, 1967, Dick Goodwin, AHS '64, in drunken car crash, paralyzed from chest down.
• Sunday, July 23rd, 1967, Lemoyndue Jarrett, AHS '64, killed in Vietnam.
• In 1967- 11,153 (19.2%) Americans were killed in Vietnam, in 1968- 16,589 (28.5%), 1969- 11,614 (20%), in 1970- 6.084 (10.5%). Of Americans killed in Vietnam, 68.6% were 22 years old or younger. Of Americans killed in Vietnam, 24.2% were 20 years old, the most common age of death, followed by 16.7% were 21 years old. Of Americans killed in Vietnam 65.7% were in the Army, 25.5% were in the Marines, 4.4% were in the Air Force, and 4.4% were in the Navy. Of Americans killed in Vietnam, 70.1% were single.
• March 31st, 1968, President Johnson announces on national television that he will not run for re-election.
• April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tenessee, by James Earl Ray.
• June, 1968, oldest baby boomers begin graduating from college.
• June 6th, 1968, Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan.
• August, 1968, Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-war protestors clash with Chicago police, protestors beaten, arrested.
• November, 1968, Richard Nixon elected President, defeated Hubert Humphrey.
• April, 1969, Smothers Brothers TV show cancelled, too controversial, anti-war sentiments.
• July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. His famous quote upon stepping onto the moon, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
• August 15-18th, 1969, 450,000 young Americans attended Woodstock in Max Yasgur's muddy pasture in New York. Woodstock became seen as a defining 60's era event, reflective of the love generation, hedonism, rock and roll, drugs, and the peace movement.
• September, 1969, trial of Chicago Eight begins- Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, David Dillinger, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, Lee Weiner. William Kunstler lead attorney.
• December 1, 1969, Draft Lottery System began, student deferments for college only applicable through end of semester.
• January 12, 1971, debut of All In The Family
• June, 1971, "Pentagon Papers", copied by Daniel Ellsberg, printed in New York Times.
• March 1972, In Berkeley, California, the first self help, peer support, advocacy organization founded and controlled by people with severe disabilities, the Berkeley Center for Independent Living, was founded.
• Septemer 1st, 1972, Bobby Fischer, in Reykjavik, Iceland, became the first American World Chess Champion, following twenty consecutive years of Russian domination. Their first game was on June 11th, and their 21st and last game was on August 31st. Fisher's opponent, Boris Spassky, resigned after his 41st move the next morning at 12:50 a.m., September 1st.
• November, 1972, Richard Nixon re-elected President, defeated George McGovern.
• January 27th, 1973, U.S.-Vietnam Cease-Fire agreement.
• February 1973, Everett Alvarez and the other Prisoners of war, were repatriated by the North Vietnamese as a result of the peace agreement negotiated in Paris. He was awarded the distinguished Flying Cross and promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
• March 29, 1973, Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
• July 1, 1973, the Daft ended, U.S. switched to all volunteer military.
• On February 4, 1974 two black males and a white female, members of The Symbionese Liberation Army, busted into newspaper-empire heiress Patty Hearst's Berkeley apartment, beat up her boyfriend Steven Weed, kidnapped her and began a nightmare for Patty Hearst, including assault and rape, while placing demands on her wealthy father, Randolph Hearst.
• August 9th, 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, a result of the "Watergate Hearings". Vice President Gerald Ford becomes President.
• November, 1976, Democrat Jimmy Carter elected President, defeats incumbent Gerald Ford.
• November, 1980, Ronald Reagan elected President, defeated Jimmy Carter.
• November, 1984, Ronald Reagan re-elected President, defeated Walter Mondale.
• January 28, 1986. Kennedy Space Center in Florida was busy preparing the launch of the 25th space shuttle, Mission 51-L, the 10th flight of Orbiter Challenger. This was one of the most publicized launches because it was the first time that a civilian, school teacher Christa McAuliffe, was going into space. It was the coldest day that NASA had ever launched a shuttle. At 11:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, Challenger left Pad 39B at Kennedy. Seventy three seconds into flight, the Orbiter Challenger exploded, killing all seven crew members.
• November, 1988, George Bush elected President, defeated Michael Dukakis.
• January 16th, 1991. Subsequent to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Desert Storm begins at 7 p.m. EST (3 a.m. Jan. 17 in Iraq) with massive U. S. and allies air and missile attacks on targets in Iraq, Kuwait. President Bush: "We will not fail."
• January 17th, 1991. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares: "The great showdown has begun! The mother of all battles is under way.'' Iraqi Scud missiles strike Israel. Scud fired at Saudi Arabia is downed by U.S. Patriot missile - first anti- missile missile fired in combat. This is the first of numerous Iraqui scud missile launchings.
• January 23rd, 1991. President Bush urges Saddam Hussein be brought to "justice," suggesting removal of Iraqi president could be a goal.
• February 26th, 1991. Brig. Gen. Richard Neal in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, says Iraqi forces are in "full retreat" with allied forces pursuing. Saddam Hussein announces Iraqi occupation forces will withdraw completely. Residents of Kuwait City celebrate end to occupation. Resistance groups set up headquarters to control city. U.S. Marine in Kuwait City says U.S. Embassy is back under U.S. control.
• February 27th, 1991. Kuwaiti troops raise emirate's flag in Kuwait City. President Bush declares suspension of offensive combat and lays out conditions for permanent cease-fire. Saddam Hussein remains in control in Iraq.
• November, 1992, Bill Clinton elected President, defeated George Bush. Clinton, born in 1946, the first baby boomer elected president.
• January, 1996, the oldest baby boomers turn 50 years old.
• November, 1996, Bill Clinton re-elected, defeated Bob Dole.
• March 15th, 1998, Dr. Benjamin Spock who published Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, died. The book, published in 1946, guided many parents in rearing the baby boom generation and earned Spock the title of doctor to the baby boom generation.
• September 8th, 1998. At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, in the 4th inning, Cardinal first baseman Mark McGwire hit homerun number 62 off Chicago Cub pitcher Steve Trachsel breaking Roger Maris' record of 61 hit in 1961. (Note: Dick and Jan Goodwin were in attendance, seated along the left-field foul-line with a great view of the blast.)
• September 27th, 1998. At Busch Stadium, Mark McGwire hit homerun number 70 off Montreal's Carlo Pavano, setting the record for homeruns hit in a single season.
• Decemer 19th, 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives, on a partisan vote, passed two of four Articles of Impeachment and delivered them to the Senate. On Article 1, 223 of 228 (97%) Republicans voted to impeach the president, 201 of 206 (97%) Democrats voted not to impeach the president.
• February 12th, 1999. By a 55-45 roll call the Senate voted to reject the article of impeachment alleging that President Clinton committed perjury and provided false testimony before a grand jury with regard to the Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. A two-thirds vote – 67 – was needed to convict. Voting "not guilty" were 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Voting "guilty" were 45 Republicans. By a 50-50 roll call the Senate voted to reject the article of impeachment alleging that President Clinton obstructed justice in an attempt to delay, impede, cover up and conceal evidence in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. A two-thirds vote – 67 – was needed to convict. Voting "guilty" were 50 Republicans. Voting "not guilty" were 45 Democrats and five Republicans.
• November 7th, 2000. Election day, the closest race for the presidency in American history. At the close of all available elecetion results, Vice President Al Gore had approximately a 200,000 vote lead in the popular vote over Texas Governor George W. Bush.. However, the electoral college could not be called as Florida vote was too close to call. In the following days, an automatic recount was required due to the closeness of the race. George W. Bush was ahead by 300 votes out of almost 6,000,000 votes cast. Democrats challenged the results in select counties, requesting a manual recount. Both parties made legal maneuvers, and partisan rhetoric was nauseating. After ballots mailed in from overseas were counted, George W. Bush had a 930 vote lead. The Supreme Court of Florida would hear arguments on Monday, November 20th, to hear arguments from both parties as to whether a manual recount and the possible new vote tallies, were legal.
• December 13th, 2000. After over a month of legal contests, including the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, Vice President Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush. Both gave speeches focused on uniting a deeply duvided country. Gore's speech was conciliatory, but he indicated he adamantly disagreed with the U.S. Supreme Court decision which essentially handed the victory to Bush.
• September 11th, 2001. Four commercial airplanes were hi-jacked in the United States, two flew directly into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, both shortly toppled to the ground. The Trade Center was 110 stories high. A third pane was flown directly into the Pentagon causing massive damage. The fourth plane crashed outside of Pittsburg, possibly passengers struggled with the hi-jackers. Total dead could not be estimated, but was expected to run into the thousands. The terrorist acts were referred to as acts of war by President Bush, and considered the most significant act of aggression on America since the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
• October 6th 2001. Barry Bonds hit homes number 71 & 72 off of Los Angelos Dodger's pitcher Chan Ho Park, eclipsing the record set three years before by the St. Louis Cardinal's Mark McGwire.
• October 7th. 2001. The United States and allies begin war against Terrorism by striking strategic sites within Afghanastan. Strikes were apparently focused on the Taliban and training facilities of groups associated with Osama bin Laden. Anti-terrorism attacks were precipitated by the September 11th attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. where an estimated 5,000 people were killed. (See September 11th above).
• October 7th, 2001. Barry Bonds hit homerun number 73.
• October 8th, 2001. A worker in a media publications office in Florida was the second emloyee diagnosed with exposure to anthrax. Officials thought the first diagnosis was an isolated event, but were re-evaluating the situation as to whether it was related to terrorist attacks on the United States.
• December 27th, 2002. Dave Meyer, my best friend, was found dead in his home in East Alton. Cause of death unknown, autopsy pending.
• April 24th, 2003. A Coroner's inquest determined that Dave Meyer committed suicide.
  
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