TIMELINE OF TIMELINE of Jackie Robinson’S LIFE the world

1919 Jack Roosevelt Robinson is born in Cairo, GA First nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean 1919 takes sixteen hours and twelve minutes 1920 Robinson family moves to Pasadena, CA Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution 1920 1939 Jackie enrolls in UCLA gives women the right to vote Brother Frank dies in motorcycle accident New York Stock Market crashes 1929 1941 Jackie plays football for the Honolulu Bears Empire State Building opens in New York City 1931 1942 Jackie is drafted into the US Army Germany invades Poland and World War II begins 1939 1945 Jackie joins the Kansas City Monarchs Jackie signs a contract to play for the Montreal Royals Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor and 1941 US enters World War II 1946 Jackie marries Rachel Isum Son Jackie, Jr., is born Anne Frank and family go into hiding in Amsterdam 1942 1947 Jackie becomes the first black player on a modern World War II ends 1945 major league baseball team Chuck Yeager pilots first plane to travel 1947 1949 Jackie is named MVP of the National League faster than the speed of sound 1950 Daughter Sharon is born Korean War begins 1950 1952 Son David is born Polio vaccine is announced 1955 Disneyland opens in California 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series Montgomery Bus Boycott is held to end segregation 1957 Jackie retires from baseball John F. Kennedy becomes first Catholic president 1961 1962 Jackie is voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame Beatlemania hits the US 1964 1971 Jackie, Jr., dies in a car accident Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the US Supreme Court, 1967 becoming the first black Supreme Court Justice 1972 Jackie dies on October 24 Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated 1968 1973 Rachel Robinson starts the Jackie Robinson Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee Title IX is signed into law, giving girls and boys equal 1972 opportunities in all school programs, including sports

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