1940
What was the population of Sarasota in 1940?
What tropical park opens this same year?
What school starts to be built?
1941
What park opens in 1941? Who dedicated it?
What library opens? What is it eventually called?
What major attack takes place on December 7th?
1942
What bomber pilot training base opens in the spring of 1942? What does it eventually become?
What was the reason for this? What war is raging in Europe?
1943
What does the Venice Army Training Base start doing?
Who is present at the Teheran conference? Why do you think they were meeting?
1944
What hits Sarasota in 1944 that destroys many of the crops and causes 500 people to evacuate their homes?
What is the famous day called (June 6th) when the Allies invade Normandy?
What is important about the election of Miss Charlie Hagerman?
1945
How many people live in Sarasota in 1945? Who surrenders on May 7th?
What ends in 1945? What famous president dies? Who becomes president?
1946
What two military bases are deactivated? Why do you think?
How does Sarasota rank in celery production for the state?
1947
What museum does the state approve financing for?
Who becomes the first non-white major league baseball player?
What do the scientists at Bell laboratories invent this year?
1949
Which two arts groups get started in Sarasota? Why do you think this did not happen earlier?
1950
What new circus has its first performance?
What does the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce want to do? Why do you think?
What school starts construction?
Where are U.S. troops sent?
What does the county buy this same year?
What popular symphony debuts (begins)?
1951
What theater is moved to Sarasota in crates?
Who came to town that caused so much excitement in Sarasota and Venice?
1952
What is the big event in Feb.?
What three schools begin to be built? Why three in the same year? What does President Truman sign this year?
1953
What theater opens this year? What is its first performance? What did Sarasota host on March 1st ? Who did it feature? What elementary school starts to be built?
Who climbs to the top of Mt. Everest?
1954
What school begins construction this year? What MAJOR decision did the Supreme Court make on May 17th?
1955
What store opens in the new Ringling Shopping Center?
What opens on October 16th?
What school begins construction?
What does the Supreme Court decide on May 31st?
1956
What opens this year, according to the timeline?
How many people attended this opening?
Who becomes famous this year with "Heartbreak Hotel"?
1957
What three new schools begin construction?
What famous author publishes two new books? What are their titles?
What two famous satellites are launched? What country launches them?
1958
What were the big events of 1958?
What two new schools begin construction?
1959
Who purchases a great portion of north Sarasota's prime real estate? What did they purchase? How much did it cost?
What elementary school begins construction in 1959?
What communist leader comes into power this same year?
What do Cubans do after this happening?
What two new states join the United States of America?
1960
Why did people evacuate the Keys in 1960? What did the schools do during this same time?
1961
What unusual event took place with two elephants? What were police called in to do?
What major invasion of Cuba took place? Was it successful?
What did President Kennedy establish this same year?
What two schools began construction?
What major wall was built to divide Germany?
1962
What was the first elementary school to integrate in Sarasota?
What new grade was added this same year at Bay Haven? Who paid for it? How did they do it?
Where were U.S. troops sent in 1962?
1963
What was special about Booker High School in 1963?
Who was assassinated this same year?
1964
What opened just south of Blackburn Point Road?
Who was the famous architect that designed the dorms at New College?
Who became worldwide celebrities in the same year?
1965
Look at the statistics for 1965 and compare it with previous years. What is happening? What school begins construction?
Who became the first American to walk in space this same year?
1966
What two new schools begin construction?
What is Sarasota’s tallest building? How many stories is it?
1967
What building is torn down?
What school closes as part of a county integration plan?
What was special about Dr. Christiaan Barnard?
1968
What happened early this year that showed the power of local citizens against big land development?
What school began construction this year?
What major American leader was assassinated?
1969
What major Sarasota landmark was demolished?
What two astronauts walk on the moon in the same year?
1970
What theater opens on January 5th?
What closes in Venice?
What event in May effected college students and public opinion about the Vietnam war?
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