My Chronology

Dates	Events in Judy Garland's Life	Arts and Literature	Politics	Science and Philosophy
1922	Frances (Judy) Gumm born	James Joyce's Ulysses is published.	Irish Republican Army (IRA) formed.	Insulin is isolated and used to save the life of a young man, marking the first successful treatment for diabetes.
1935	Judy starts work at MGM	Carmel Bach Festival founded.	The Nuremberg laws, enacted by Germany's Nazi party, make anti-Semitism the law of the land.	Gerhard J. Domagk uses Prontonsil to kill Streptococcus in mice.
1940	Wins an Oscar for her work in The Wizard of Oz	Fantasia debuts.	Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Britain's prime minister.	California opens Los Angeles' first highway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1941	Judy marries David Rose (her first husband)	Orson Welles' Citizen Kane premieres.	The Lend-Lease Act permits President Roosevelt to send military supplies to allies.	Charles Fletcher demonstrates that penicillin is not lethal to humans using police volunteers.
1944	Judy divorces Rose	Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma, a groundbreaking exploration of black-white race relations in the United States.	Congress passes the G.I. Bill of Rights.	A team of scientists working at Harvard University and funded in part by IBM construct the first automatic, general-purpose computer.
1945	Judy marries Vincente Minnell	The African-American glossy magazine Ebony appears for the first time on American newsstands.	World War II ends.	U.S. planes drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, prompting Japan's surrender.
1946	Judy's first child, Liza Minnelli is born	Dr. Benjamin Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care, forever changing Americans' thoughts about child care.	Juan Peron, husband of Evita Peron, is elected president of Argentina.	After displacing native inhabitants of the Bikini Atoll island in the Pacific, the United States experiments there with the atomic bomb.
1950	Judy leaves MGM	Charlie Brown comic strip premires.	Korean War begins.	The Point Four Program, intended to provide technological skills, knowledge, and equipment to developing nations, begins.
1969	Judy Garland dies	Woodstock is held.	The Stonewall Riots officially mark the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States.	Apollo 11 mission.