The Life and Times of
Alma Katherine Roundtree Adams

1910's

1911 General vaccination programs against typhoid begin in the United States.

Britain passes the "Official Secrets Act" which prevents future discussion of anything the government deems secret.

Crisco & Junket introduced

1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire

1912 First International Congress of Eugenics at the University of London. The president of the Congress is Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. One of the first English vice presidents is Winston Churchill. American vice- presidents included Charles Elliot, president emeritus of Harvard, and Alexander Graham Bell. Also attending was Starr Jordon, president of Stanford University.

1912 First whooping cough (Pertussis) vaccine created by two French bacteriologists, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, who wanted to use it in Tunisia. After they grew Pertussis bacteria in large pots, they killed it with heat, mixed it with formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies) and injected it into children.

Lincoln Highway Association dedicated to mark an automobile route across the U.S. in 1912

Oreos & maraschino cherries introduced

1913 John D. Rockefeller founds Rockefeller Institute with $100 million grant.

First Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1913

The American Cancer Society is formed.

Her husband, Griff Asher Adams, born on July 21, 1914

1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide

1915 A doctor in Mississippi alters the diet of 12 prison inmates and is successful in producing pellagra (a vitamin deficiency disease), using reverse logic in an "attempt to find a cure for the disease".

1915 Tetanus epidemics in trenches of World War I.

1918 Great influenza epidemic

In 1915 Rand McNally produces stencils for local organizations to use to mark name or symbol associated with a particular route along its path

J.P. Morgan organizes control of US newspaper businesses.

Two million cars registered in U.S. by 1915

Birth

Alma Katherine Roundtree Adams born on January 26, 1916

The first evidence of brown mottling of teeth is reported in the United States.

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1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution

1917 AMA hostile toward compulsory health insurance.

1917 Freud writes "Introduction to Psychoanalysis".

Constituents try and force Harrison Drug Control Act on Coca-Cola and are defeated.

Fifteen states in the US have eugenics laws on the books which authorize sterilization of criminals, epileptics, the retarded and insane.

Moon pies introduced

Outbreaks of encephalitis in China and Europe.

Post WW1 supplies of chlorine designated to be added to water supplies.

Second Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1917

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1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany

1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic

1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.

1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds" (Communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."

1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.

1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia

Fortune cookies introduced

The Espionage Act of 1918

The Surgeon General of the United States issues a report that states that tuberculosis is the leading cause for discharge of men from the Armed Forces.

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1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets

1919 First Silesian Uprising

1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War

Billy Graham born

Death rate from encephalitis accelerates. Between 1919 and 1928, over 500,000 deaths and 1,000,000 cases of neurological impairment were attributed to this disease, which affects males more than females. Recent research indicates that this epidemic was a late manifestation of the post World War I influenza outbreaks, and that both were due to the appearance of a swine flu virus.

Hostess cup cakes introduced

1920's

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1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany

By 1920 Gulf Oil gives away 16 million maps of eastern U.S. per year

Eskimo Pie & Good Humor & Yoo-hoo introduced

Nobel Prize winner (1931) Dr. Otto Warburg begins conducting experiments with human cells and pathogenesis of cancer.

Prohibition in the US brings narcotics trafficking and large scale organized crime into the US.

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1921 BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed.

1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany

Ghandi begins agitating against the British opium imports into India. He would be eventually assassinated.

Inauguration of President Warren G. Harding 1921

Wonder Bread, Wheaties & zucchini introduced

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A study by Samuel Torrey Orton connects emotional disturbance with neurological problems. This insight was lost after World War II when psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis became popular, breaking the connection.

Aluminum production (along with production of toxic by-product sodium fluoride) increases. Aluminum cookware is mass introduced in the US, beginning the gradual accumulation of aluminum in the brains of Americans. Additional aluminum is injected into society in "antacids".

By 1922,more than 100 radiologists died from X-ray induced cancer.

Coca-Cola plant built in Ashtabula, Ohio. The drink contains coal tar derivatives, flavoring, and massive amounts of sugar.

Gummi Bears & Clark Bars & Girl Scout Cookies introduced

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1923 Canadian physician Frederick Banting receives Nobel Prize for discovery of a way to extract the hormone insulin, which permitted control of blood sugar in those with diabetes.

Earl of Inchscape publishes his report which insists that British opium trade must be maintained to protect the revenue of the British Empire, much to the protest of the League of Nations.

Popsicles introduced

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1924 Dr. Seale Harris of the University of Alabama discovers that sugar can cause hyperinsulinism and recommends people cut sugar consumption. The medical establishment comes down on Harris and his work is suppressed. Harris would be awarded a medal by the AMA 25 years later, as pharmaceuticals to control low blood sugar are developed and put into production.

1924 Heroin, originally created by I.G. Farben, is outlawed as a prescription drug in the United States.

Frozen foods & pineapple upside-down cake introduced

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"Monkey Trial" of John T. Scopes in Tennessee after he teaches evolution in his classroom

1925 General vaccine programs against tuberculosis began in the United States.

Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen tries a modified Pertussis vaccine during an epidemic in the Faroc Islands. It did not prevent Pertussis.

I.G. Farben, German chemical industry conglomerate, is reorganized by the Warburgs as a merger between Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Welierter-Meer, and Griesheim Elektron.

Inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge 1925

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General Medical Society for Psychotherapy created in Germany, an international organization.

Ice cream sandwich introduced

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1927 Austrian psychiatrist Menfred Sakel develops insulin shock (insulin coma treatment, ICT). Patients are overdosed with insulin, which induces a coma. By 1937, all neuropsychiatric hospitals in Germany would use ICT.

1927 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes the US Supreme Court decision in the case Buck v. Bell. In the case, a psychiatric inmate, Carrie Buck, was chosen for sterilization after having a child because she was deemed "feeble-minded". Justice Holmes wrote, "It is better if society can prevent our being swamped with incompetance".

By 1927 U.S. highway routes become uniformly marked and mapped

Kool-Aid & Pez introduced

Smallpox in England dwindles almost to the vanishing point.

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1928 Fleming discovers penicillin.

1928 Third International Congress of Eugenics. At the conference, a Dr. Robie calls for the sterilization of 14 million Americans with low IQ scores.

Development of of the EEG machine and the discovery brain waves.

Edward L.Bernays, nephew to Sigmund Freud, writes the book Propaganda, in which he explains the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and how it is manipulated by those who wish to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. Says Bernays, "those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, largely by men we have never heard of."

Gerber's baby food & Heath bars introduced

John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil interlocks his empire with I.G. Farben in Germany.

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Dr. Wiley's Bureau of Chemisty is dismantled and replaced by the Food Drug and Insecticide Administration, precursor of the FDA. Lists of "dubious compounds in food" were declared "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)".

I.G. Farben concluded limited cartel agreements with Dupont Chemical in US.

Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover 1929

Po'Boy & hot Italian sandwiches introduced

1930's

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1930 Max Theiler develops a yellow fever vaccine.

Twinkies & Jiffy biscuit mix & dry soup mix introduced

William Wirt, who pioneered Carnegie's German Wundt school system in Gary, Indiana and tried it in New York, is committed to an insane asylum in Washington, D.C where he died in 1932. Wirt was committed because he began to make public speeches saying that he had been part of a world wide conspiracy to bring about a controlled state in the hands of certain people.

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1931 Fluoride in drinking water is found to be the cause of brown teeth - now known as dental fluorosis.

1931 I.G. Farben and Alcoa Aluminum sign Alig Agreement pooling patents.

Bisquick & Vidalia onions & tacos in LA & refrigerator biscuits introduced

H.Trendley Dean of the U.S. Public Health Service initiates studies on fluorides under the jurisdiction of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Mellon is founder of Alcoa aluminum, who is one of the main suppliers of sodium fluoride as a by-product of aluminum manufacture. He publishes a study showing that, at 1ppm, fluoride results in the reduction of tooth decay.

Roosevelt endorses polio "immune serum", precursor to vaccines in 1950's.

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Alma Katherine Roundtree Adams married Griff Asher Adams on November 13, 1932

1932 The US Public Health Service initiates a study in Tuskegee, Alabama where black men are given syphilis. Four hundred men were unwittingly given the disease. No medical care was offered. The study ended when it was discovered in 1972, after 40 years. The office supervising this study was the predecessor of the Center for Disease Control.

Fritos introduced

Third International Congress of Eugenics held in New York. Dr. Theodore Russell Robie of the Essex County Mental Hygiene Clinic in New Jersey presents "Selective Sterilzation for Race Culture", in which he called for the sterilzation of at least 14 million Americans who had received low IQ scores since World War I.

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1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1933 I.G. Farben gives Nazis 4.5 million RM.

1933 Outbreak of encephalitis in St. Louis, Missouri.

Color printing used in road maps by 1933

Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen discovers the Pertussis vaccine's ability to kill infants without warning (SID). He reports that two babies vaccinated immediately after birth died in a few minutes.

First Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933

Vaccination programs against Yellow Fever begin in the United States.

World Fair in Chicago has amoebic dysentary outbreak.

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1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang

1934 Drs. Chaffee and Light publish manuscript entitled "A Method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System".

1934 IG. Farbenindustrie completely under Nazi control.

Ritz crackers & Hawaiian Punch & Rutgers tomatoes introduced

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1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War

1935 Lobotomy introduced in the United States. In the next 30 years, over 100,000 people would have their brain mutilated in American institutions. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. Orlando J. Andy would apply lobotomy to six-year-old children.

Sloppy joes introduced

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1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War

I.G. Farben produces Zyklon B gas for extermination camps.

Pertussis vaccine introduced in the United States.

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1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War

1937 AMA "approves" drug sulfanilamide with diethylene glycol. Kills more than 100 people.

1937 Another outbreak of encephalitis in St. Louis, Missouri.

SPAM & Krispy Kreme introduced

Second Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1937

The Neutrality Acts of 1937 & 1939

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1938 Germany invades Austria.

1938 Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, now a subsidiary of I.G. Farben, begins manufacture of LSD / Lysergic acid.

Canned soda introduced

Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act certifies 19 dyes for use in foods.

German chemist Schrader discovers Sarin, 10 times more lethal than Tabun, which is later dumped into planetary water supplies to placate the population.

Reich Air Ministry is shipped 500 tons of tetra-ethyl lead gas additive from Standard Oil of New Jersey (EthylStandard) in the United States, through I.G. Farben, with payment secured through Brown Brothers Harriman on Sept 21, 1938.

The idea of "booster shots" arose as a "solution" to poor antibody response in infants and newborns. These become customary in the 1940's.

Ugo Cerletti becomes the first to use electroconvulsive treatment in fascist Italy. The first victim was a 39 year old engineer who was found wandering on trains without a ticket. Present at this event was Lothar Kalinowsky, who would become a member of the American Psychiatric Association and an avid promoter of electroshock in the United States.

Waffles introduced

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1939 - 1941 World War II

1939 Germany invades western Poland. Russia invades eastern Poland. Both Germany and Russia commit atrocities and mass murder.

1939 Health Practitioners Law (Heilpraktikergesetz) is put into practice in Germany. Allowed psychotherapists to advance their professional claims within the field of health and medicine during the Third Reich. The law ended the 'freedom to cure' that had existed in Germany since 1870. The 'freedom to cure' which had given personal and professional access to all aspects of healing, current and future, instead of the narrowly defined parameters which exist today. In future, the government would supervise all training of medical personnel, including officially approved health practitioners.

1939 Psychiatrists in Brandenburg Germany begin operation of gas chambers to kill mental patients.

Dr.Emanuel Josephson reveals AMA coverup of Vitamin E benefits.

Dr.Weston Price, a research dentist, publishes "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration- A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects", which argued that refined foods and sugar causes physical degeneration and disease as opposed to natural unrefined foods.

Nazi holocaust murders Jews and other minorities

1940's

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1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England

American intake of petroleum-based food colorings/additives increases ten-fold.

Soviet concentration camps maintained by fluoride administration to inmates to decrease resistance to authority and induce physical deteriorization.

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1941 - 1945 World War II

1941 AMA "approves" I.G. Farben subsidiary "sulfathiazole", a short acting oral and topical antimicrobial sulfa drug.

Among the American corporations supporting Germany were Sterling Drug (Bayer).

M & Ms & Cheerios introduced

Roosevelt's Infamy Speech Dec. 8, 1941

The Atlantic Charter Aug. 14, 1941

The Declaration of War on Germany Dec. 11, 1941

The Declaration of War on Japan Dec. 8, 1941

Third Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941

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Corn dogs introduced

Epidemic of typhus in Egypt and North Africa 1942 into 1943.

Germany becomes world's largest producer of aluminum

I.G. Farben known to be operating using slave labor from Nazi camps.

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1943 American vaccine researcher Pearl Kendrick reports that adding a metallic salt seemed to heighten the capacity of the Pertussis vaccine to produce anti-bodies. Pearl Kendrick is the researcher that urged that Pertussis vaccine be combined with Diptheria vaccine. Later the Tetanus vaccine was added, producing the DPT Vaccine.

1943 General vaccine program against influenza begins in the US.

1943 Infantile paralysis epidemic kills 1200 and cripples more in US.

1943 Researchers from the US Public Health Service examine the health of residents of Bartlett, Texas to see if the 8ppm fluoride in the drinking water was affecting their health. It was checked again in 1953. They find that the death rate in Bartlett was three times higher than a neighboring town which contained 0.4 ppm fluoride.

Chicago-style pizza introduced

Child psychologist LeoKanner observes a new illness appearing in US children. The problem became known as "autism".

Dr. John Tinterta rediscovers the vital importance of the endocrine system, and connects sugar use to production of hyper-adrenocortic episodes in humans intolerent to sugar. This is where adrenal hormones are suppressed, producing inability to think clearly, allergies, inability to handle alcohol, depression, apprehension, craving for sweets and low blood pressure.

Penicillin "successfully used in the treatment of chronic diseases".

The Journal of the American Medical Association on September 18, 1943, states, "fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. The exact mechanism of such actions are obscure. The sources of fluorine intoxication are drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine, fluorine compounds used as insecticidal sprays for fruits and vegetables (cryolite and barium fluoro- silicate) and the mining and conversion of phosphate rock to superphosphate, which is used as a fertilizer. That process alone releases approximately 25,000 tons of pure fluorine into the atmosphere annually."

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1944 The American Cancer Society (ACS) is reorganized, chiefly under the wing of Albert Lasker (an advertising tycoon) and Elmer Bobst (president of two drug companies, Hoffman LaRoche and Warner Lambert). Mary Lasker in New York was the driving force of the ACS for decades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which is based on the Lasker advertising fortune, provides the impetus to dominate cancer research.

Asperger in Vienna describes the first cases of adult "autism" to appear.

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1945 - 1949 Chinese Civil War

Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, former member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, sentenced to life in prison at Nuremberg for his role at Buchenwald.

Due to the severity of the war crimes committed by IG Farben during World War II, after the war it was split into several smaller companies which then recombined themselves into Agfa, BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst - with several convicted war criminals running those companies.

Fourth Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945

Japan surrenders twice, followed by US bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and a third and final unconditional surrender September 2, 1945.

Postwar nitrate supplies designated to be added to food chain as fertilizer.

The German Surrender Documents of World War II May 8, 1945

The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II Sept. 12, 1945

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1946 - 1954 First Indochina War

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1947 - 1949 First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan

Betty Crocker's cake mix introduced

The Truman Doctrine Mar. 12, 1947

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1948 - 1949 First Arab-Israeli War

1948 Gandhi is assassinated

Frozen french fries & ready-to-spread frostings introduced

The North Atlantic Treaty Apr. 4, 1949

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1949 Mao Tse Tung declares the Communist People's Republic of China

Inauguration of President Harry S. Truman 1949

Instant pudding & seedless watermelon introduced

1950's

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1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea)

Frozen pizza & American Tex-Mex introduced

Start of Chinese Communist attack on Buddhism

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1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England

AAA distributes 40 million state, regional, and city maps to its members in 1952

Diet soda & Duncan Hines cake mixes introduced

Formation of World Fellowship of Buddhists

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First Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953

TV Dinners introduced

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Ranch dressing & Broasted chicken introduced

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1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)

Interstate Highway Act of 1956 funds a new era of highway construction

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Second Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1957

Tang & Pam introduced

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Rice-A-Roni & instant ramen noodles introduced

1960's

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Brown rice in USA introduced

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Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy 1961

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1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War

Instant mashed potatoes introduced

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1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of South Vietnam, is assassinated

Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech Aug. 28, 1963

President Kennedy is assassinated

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1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam

Buffalo Wings & Pop Tarts & fast food chicken sandwiches introduced

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1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)

Gatorade & Slurpees introduced

Inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson 1965

State Department White Paper on Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965

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1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)

High fructose corn syrup introduced

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Treaty on the Non

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1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.

1969 Ho Chi Minh dies in Hanoi

First Inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon 1969

1970's

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1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (Third Indo-Pakistani War)

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More than 250 million road maps printed for just the oil companies to distribute in 1972

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1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)

Arab oil embargo of 1973 tightens profits for oil companies and free road maps become less available

Second Inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon 1973

The War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973

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1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War

AAA distributes 180 million maps in 1974

Self-service gas stations begin appearing in 1974 and by 1984 replace most full service tations and eliminates free road maps

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1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War

1975 Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister

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Inauguration of President Jimmy Carter 1977

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Pope John Paul

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1979 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan War

1980's

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1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War

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First Inauguration of President Ronald Reagan 1981

Yukon gold potatoes introduced

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Her husband, Griff Asher Adams, died on March 15, 1982

1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina

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Second Inauguration of President Ronald Reagan 1985

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1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama

Inauguration of President George H. W. Bush 1989

1990's

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1991 - 1995 Croatian War of Independence

1991 Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition

1991 Slovene War of Independence

The Civil Rights Act of 1991

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1992 - 1995 Bosnian Civil War

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First Inauguration of President William J. Clinton 1993

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1994 - 1996 First Chechen War

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Second Inauguration of President William J. Clinton 1997

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1998 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)

Grape tomatoes introduced

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1999 Second Chechen War

2000's

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2001 Invasion of Afghanistan

Address of President Bush on the start of strikes against Al Qaeda and the Taliban October 7, 2001

First Inauguration of President George W. Bush 2001

Terrorist Bombing of the World Trade Towers in NYC September 11, 2001

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2003 Invasion of Iraq

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Second Inauguration of President George W. Bush 2005

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Inauguration of President Barack H. Obama 2009