This is part of a timeline history project at Envision Academy of Arts and Technology in Oakland, CA
1957-10-04 00:00:00
Sputnik I launched
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball
1960-07-18 00:00:00
John Everett Kittredge is born
I was born at Herrick Hospital in Berkeley, CA. It is now a mental health hospital.
1963-11-22 12:30:30
John F. Kennedy assasinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade.
1965-09-01 00:00:00
John enters kindergarten
Date Approximate: I went to "Little Hillside" and I WALKED to school by myself
1978-06-01 00:00:00
John graduates from Berkeley High
BHS was great if you knew how to get over. Once they tried to suspend me, and I got all my teachers to say I could come anyway.
1984-06-01 00:00:00
John graduates from UC Berkeley
I should have graduated in 1982 but I had a drinking problem and went into rehab...
1995-07-17 00:00:00
John Meets Ingrid
John was running a concert at Lincoln Center and Ingrid was volunteering as an usher. John was such a mac daddy they've been together ever since!
1999-10-07 00:00:00
Khalil León Kittredge Martinez is born
We could see the Brooklyn Bridge from the hospital room
2006-09-01 00:00:00
Envision Academy Opens (approx date)
Our address was Oakland but the building was in Emeryville.
2011-08-17 00:00:00
John becomes a digital literacy teacher
And now I need to teach these little rats how to do stuff!
2012-01-25 00:00:00
J12 busts out from EA
The J12 takes to the internet and an EA legend is born