Nixon's Apollo
A sketchpad timeline for Nixon's Apollo et al.
Timeline contains 1000 entries sorted into 7 categories which are as follows: Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, NASA, the Soviet space program, Cinema, Conspiracy Headlines and Technology.
1905-01-02 00:00:00
ELARA, SATELLITE OF JUPITER
Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
1905-05-15 00:00:00
LAS VEGAS NEVADA FOUNDED
Las Vegas Nevada founded
1905-12-24 00:00:00
HOWARD HUGHES BORN
Howard Hughes, the son of Howard Robard Hughes, was born in Houston on 24th December, 1905. Howard's father was the founder of founder of the Hughes Tool Company. His brother, Rupert Hughes, worked as a writer for Samuel Goldwyn's movie studios
1905-12-24 00:00:00
NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE ON FILE
SOURCE: Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness By Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
1906-01-13 11:28:49
RADIO SETS FOR SALE
1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1906-05-22 11:28:49
WRIGHT BROTHERS PATENT
Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
1906-05-26 11:28:49
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Archaeological Institute of America forms
1906-06-07 11:28:49
LUSITANIA LAUNCHED
Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1906-08-23 11:28:49
US-CUBA RELATIONS
Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention. ON SEPT 28TH US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909. US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma. OCT 3 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
1906-10-20 11:28:49
FIRST VACUUM TUBE
Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube). OCT 25 US inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio & broadcasting
1906-11-14 11:28:49
TEDDY VISITS PANAMA
Roosevelt becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country (Panama) To inspect construction of Panama Canal. First visit abroad by any President or President-elect. Departed the U.S. November 9; returned to U.S. November 26.
1908-02-01 00:00:00
HUGHES-SHARPE TOOL COMPANY
In 1908 Howard Robard Hughes patented a two-cone rotary drill bit that penetrated medium and hard rock with ten times the speed of any former bit, and its discovery revolutionized oil well drilling. The following year he joined forces with Walter Benona Sharp to establish the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Houston.
1908-06-30 00:00:00
TUNGUSKA EVENT
The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 07:14 KRAT (00:14 UT) on June 30 [O.S. June 17], 1908
1908-08-27 00:00:00
LBJ BORN
Lyndon Baines Johnson August 27, 1908 Stonewall, Texas, U.S.
1909-03-04 00:00:00
TAFT IS #27
1910-03-28 00:00:00
FIRST SEA PLANE
1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1910-06-22 00:00:00
GERMAN AIRSHIPS
1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911-04-17 00:00:00
GEORGE DE MORENSHILDT BORN
April 17, 1911
1912-03-23 00:00:00
WERNER VON BRAUN BORN
Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun March 23, 1912 Wirsitz, Provinz Posen, German Empire
1912-04-14 00:00:00
TITANIC SINKS IN ATLANTIC
LAUNCHED 31 MAY 1911 MAIDEN VOYAGE 10 April 1912 SUNK 14 APRIL 1912
1912-05-01 00:00:00
FILM TECHNOLOGY
Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
1913-01-09 00:00:00
RICHARD NIXON BORN
09 Jan 1913
1913-03-04 00:00:00
WILSON IS #28
Enter story info here
1913-05-01 00:00:00
MERCK PATENTS 'ECSTASY' FORMULA
The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
1913-07-14 00:00:00
GERALD FORD BORN
NOT HIS BIRTH NAME 14 Jul 1913
1914-06-28 00:00:00
ORIGIN OF FIRST WORLD WAR
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, leads within weeks to the outbreak of World War I.
1915-05-06 00:00:00
ORSON WELLES BORN
Enter story info here
1917-05-29 00:00:00
JFK BORN
Enter story info here
1917-10-30 00:00:00
ROBERT MAHEU BORN
Robert Aime Maheu (October 30, 1917 – August 4, 2008) was an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI, CIA and as the chief executive of Nevada operations[1] for the industrialist Howard Hughes.
1917-11-05 00:00:00
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government in Petrograd (later Leningrad, still later St. Petersburg), leading to the formation of a Communist government, the sparking of a civil war within the former Russian empire, and finally, in December 1922, the foundation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1918-02-01 00:00:00
SPRING 1918
HOWARD HUGHES IS 12. LIVES IN HOUSTON. BUILDS HIS OWN RADIO SET AND JOINS A RADIO CLUB.
1918-10-01 00:00:00
WILLIAM DONOVAN MEDAL OF HONOR
During the First World War Donovan organized and led the 1st battalion of the 165th Regiment of the 42nd Division. He served on the Western Front and in October, 1918 he received the Medal of Honor. The citation read: "Lt. Col. Donovan personally led the assaulting wave in an attack upon a very strongly organized position, and when our troops were suffering heavy casualties he encouraged all near him by his example, moving among his men in exposed positions, reorganizing decimated platoons, and accompanying them forward in attacks. When he was wounded in the leg by machine-gun bullets, he refused to be evacuated and continued with his unit until it withdrew to a less exposed position." By the end of the war he had been promoted to the rank of colonel. In 1919 he visited Russia and spent time with Alexander Kolchak and the White Army.
1918-10-09 00:00:00
E HOWARD HUNT BORN
Everette Howard Hunt was born in Hamburg, on 9th October, 1918. During the Second World War Hunt served in the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and for a while was stationed in China.
1919-01-06 00:00:00
TEDDY ROOSEVELT DIES
Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr.(October 27, 1858—January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909).
1919-01-07 00:00:00
ADM. GEORGE STEPHEN MORRISON BORN
JIM MORRISON'S FATHER
1919-02-01 00:00:00
SPRING 1919
HOWARD HUGHES POLIO SCARE. COULD NOT WALK. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. SPENDS 4 WEEKS IN MACINAC ISLAND IN MICHIGAN.
1920-03-01 00:00:00
HOWARD HUGHES FIRST PLANE RIDE
A $5 DOLLAR THRILL RIDE IN A RETIRED WW1 PONTOON PLANE
1920-05-07 00:00:00
JAMES MCDONALD BORN
AMERICAN PHYSICIST AND EPIC UFO RESEARCHER
1921-03-04 00:00:00
HARDING IS #29
Enter story info here
1922-05-29 00:00:00
MAE BRUSSELL IS BORN
Conspiracy Queen hailing from Carmel, California, relentlessly pursued the JFK assassination and exposed the Nazi connections of Richard Nixon, Howard Hughes and more.
1922-11-04 00:00:00
KING TUT TOMB FOUND
Howard Carter finds Pharaoh Tutankhamen. On 4 November 1922, Howard Carter's excavation group found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62),
1922-11-26 00:00:00
TECHNICOLOR PROCESS
The Toll of the Sea debuted on November 26, 1922 as the first general release film to use Technicolor. Frame enlargement of a Technicolor segment from The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The film was one of the earliest uses of the process on interior sets, and demonstrated its versatility. The second all-color feature in this process, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924. Process 2 was also used for color sequences in such major motion pictures as The Ten Commandments (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Ben-Hur (1925). Douglas Fairbanks' The Black Pirate (1926), became the fourth feature to be filmed entirely in Technicolor.
1923-02-16 00:00:00
TUT SARCOPHAGUS FOUND
On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the sealed doorway, and found that it did indeed lead to a burial chamber, and he got his first glimpse of the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
1923-08-02 00:00:00
HARDING IS DEAD
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States (1921–1923).
1923-08-02 00:00:00
COOLDIDGE IS #30
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1924-01-21 00:00:00
VLADIMIR LENIN DIES
Lenin died of a heart attack on 21 January 1924.
1924-01-24 00:00:00
HOWARD R. HUGHES SR DIES
Howard Robard Hughes died of an embolism of an artery on 24th January, 1924. when his son was 18. Howard inherited a controlling share in the Hughes Tool Company but his uncle, Rupert Hughes, supervised his business interests until he reached the age of 21. In 1924 Hughes bought out his relatives and became the sole owner of the Hughes Tool Company.
1924-02-03 00:00:00
WILSON IS DEAD
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921.
1924-05-28 00:00:00
HUGHES SEIZES TOOL CO. AT 19
28 May 1924, HH takes full control of Hughes Tool, Richard Hack (BIOGRAPHER). Hughes studied Texas inheritance law prior to making his move on the company.
1924-06-12 00:00:00
GEORGE HW BUSH BORN
12 Jun 1924