historical events

Jacob Heine

Dec 7, 1840

He published a monograph saying that the symptoms of polio

World war 1

Jul 28, 1914

World War 1 started in the summer of 1914

Outbreak

Aug 19, 1916

There was a large outbreak of polio in the USA

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Aug 7, 1921

Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio

Warm Spring Foundation

Aug 26, 1926

Roosevelt started Warm Spring Foundation

Iron lung

Oct 12, 1928

The first iron lung was used at Children's Hospital, Boston

President

Dec 7, 1932

Roosevelt was selected president of the United States

March of Dimes

Jan 3, 1938

It was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

World war 2

Sep 1, 1939

Word war : September 1 1939- September 2 1945

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

Family car

Sep 5, 1943

It was very important to have a family car at that time

Cold war

Apr 16, 1947

Cold war between Capitalism and Communism

Three viruses

Oct 6, 1951

Jonas Salk announced there were just three viruses

the department of communicable diseases at Blegdam Hospital

Dec 6, 1951

the chief was in the hispital believed patients who were being successful

Home economics

Dec 7, 1951

How to be a good housewife

Testing vaccine

May 23, 1952

Salk tried the vaccine on himself, his children, male chidren at the Polk State School and adults near Pittsburgh.

Vaccine

Jun 12, 1952

Salk tried the vaccine on forty-five children at the D,T,Watson Home for Crippled Childrenand twenty-sevenn staff memberrs of the Watson Home also volunteered to take the vaccination.

4680 people got polio

Jul 4, 1952

There were 4580 cases ub the Unite States

The new Vaccine

Feb 9, 1953

Time magazine welcomed the news of Salk's vaccine and said it would probably be available in time for a large scale field test later that year

speakerphone

Sep 7, 1954

American Telephone and Telegraph had just developed a speakerphone

NASA

Dec 7, 1954

NASA asked for applications from anyone who wanted to be an astronaunt

Vaccine

Apr 12, 1955

Jonas Salk announced polio Vaccine was successful in April 12 1955

Disneyland

Jul 17, 1955

Disneyland opened in July 1955

Martin Luther King

Dec 5, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

TV

Sep 4, 1958

TV sets

kitchen

Aug 10, 1959

The Kitchen in 1959

polio

Dec 31, 1960

It had nearly disappeared by 1960

Albert Sabin

Dec 7, 1961

He came out with his live-virus vaccine