{"id":9369,"date":"2020-06-03T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2020-05-21T07:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:32:54","slug":"significant-events-prompt-505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/significant-events-prompt-505\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant Events . . . Prompt #505"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Make a List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start with the year you were born and make a list of significant events that happened in your life, both personally and historically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are having trouble thinking of major events, here are a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1950-1975       Vietnam Conflict<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1958                Explorer I, first American satellite is launched<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 1959   Alaska becomes the 49th<\/sup> state<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 1959   Hawaii becomes the 50th<\/sup> state<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 1961   John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th<\/sup> president<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 1963   Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream” Speech<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov. 1963       President Kennedy is assassinated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964                Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 1968       Martin Luther King is assassinated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 1963        Sen. Robert Kennedy is assassinated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 1969        Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1973                Roe v. Wade, legalizes abortion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1973\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watergate cover-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 1974        Nixon resigns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986                Space shuttle Challenger<\/em> explodes 73 seconds after liftoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1990                Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to Persian Gulf War<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9\/11\/2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two hijacked jetliners ram two towers of World Trade Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 2009       Swine flu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 2009        Michael Jackson dies at age 50<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing Prompt:<\/strong> Take one item from your list and write in detail what happened to you that year. If you have time, take another year and write what happened to you that year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make a List. Start with the year you were born and make a list of significant events that happened in your life, both personally and historically. If you are having trouble thinking of major events, here are a few: 1950-1975       Vietnam Conflict 1958                Explorer I, first American satellite is launched January 1959   Alaska becomes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1165,11],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-just-write-writing-freely-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2r7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}