Lyndon Johnson Timeline

Lyndon Johnson Timeline. A lifetime of events for the Thirty-Sixth American President of the United States, both public and private. From his birth on August 27, 1908 in Stonewall, Texas to his death on January 22, 1973.

DATE	LYNDON JOHNSON TIMELINE OF EVENTS
1908	Lyndon Johnson was born on August 27
1909	William Howard Taft becomes the 27th U.S. President
1913	Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th U.S. President
1921	Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th U.S. President
	Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumes the Presidency upon the death of President Harding
1924	Johnson graduates from High School
1925	Calvin Coolidge becomes the the 30th U.S. President
1927	Johnson graduates from Southwest Texas State Teachers College
1929	U.S. Stock Market crash
	Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st U.S. President
1930	Johnson begins teaching in Houston, Texas
1931	Johnson campaigns for Richard Kleberg running for Congress
1932	Johnson is hired as Richard Kleberg's secretary and moves to Washington D.C
1933	Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the 32nd U.S President
	President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation
1934	Johnson marries Claudia Taylor
1935	Johnson is named the Director of National Youth Administration in Texas
	Social Security Act is passed
1937	Johnson is elected to the United States Congress
1938	Johnson is re-elected to Congress
1940	President Roosevelt is re-elected to a 2nd Presidential term
	Johnson is re-elected to Congress
1941	Johnson loses a senate bid in a special election
	Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japan
	The United States enters World War II
	Johnson goes on active duty in the U.S. Navy
1942	Johnson is sent to the Pacific as President Roosevelt's representative
	Battle of Guadalcanal
	Johnson is awarded the Silver Star Medal
	Invasion of North Africa
1943	United States offensive in the Pacific and Italy
1944	Johnson serves on Post Military Policy Committee
	Allied forces land in France
	Campaign in the Philippines begins
1945	Vice President Harry Truman assumes the Presidency upon the death of President Roosevelt
	The U.S. drops the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
1946	Johnson is re-elected to Congress
	Paris Peace Conference
1947	The Truman Doctrine
	Johnson serves on the House Armed Services Committee
	Marshall Plan
	Johnson votes for the Taft Hartley Act
1948	Johnson serves on the Joint Atomic Energy Committe
	Johnson is elected to the United States Senate
	Harry Truman is elected President
1949	Johnson serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee
	The NATO pact is signed
1950	Johnson heads the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee
	The Korean War begins
1951	Johnson is elected the Senate Democratic Whip
1953	Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th U.S. President
	Johnson is chosen as the Senate Minority Leader
1954	Johnson is re-elected to the Senate
	The U.S. Supreme Court issues a desegregation order
	Johnson is elected the Senate Majority Leader
	The Army-McCarthy hearings
1955	Johnson suffers from a heart attack
1957	Johnson directs the passage of the Civil Rights Act
1961	John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th U.S. President
1963	President John Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas while campaigning for re-election
	Vice President Lyndon Johnson assumes the Presidency upon the assassination of President Kennedy
	Johnson appoints the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy
	Civil rights supporters march on Washington D.C.
1964	Riots in the Panama Canal Zone
	Twenty-Fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified
	Johnson proclaims war on poverty
	Johnson settles the railroad strike
	Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
	U.S. destroyers are attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats
	Johnson orders bombing of North Vietnam in retaliation
	Johnson signs into law the Economic Recovery Act
	Johnson is elected President
1965	The U.S. installation at Pleiku is attacked by Vietcong
	Race Riots in Los Angeles, California
	U.S. Astronaut walks in space
	Johnson signs Medicare Act
1966	First United States soft lunar landing
	The United States bombs Hanoi
1967	Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to the United States Supreme Court
	Nation wide peace marches against the Vietnam War
	War in Middle East
1968	North Korea seizes a U.S. ship
	Johnson announces he will not run for re-election
	Richard Milhous Nixon becomes the 37th U.S. President
1973	Lyndon Johnson dies on January 22