Los Angeles in the Cold War
The atlas holds 56 people and 93 moments here, from 1947 to 1991. The most recorded lives are Jim Morrison, Ronald Reagan and Alfred Hitchcock.
Notable people
Judy Garland
in 1961
1 moment here
American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Katharine Hepburn
in 1976
1 moment here
American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…
Louis Armstrong
in 1951
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Marilyn Monroe
from 1961 to 1962
2 moments here
American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…
Marlon Brando
in 1989
1 moment here
American actor and activist whose stage and screen career ranged from Broadway in the 1940s to major films through the early 2000s.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1965
1 moment here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Maya Angelou
in 1965
2 moments here
American memoirist, poet, performer, educator, and civil-rights activist. Her documented life moved from Missouri and Arkansas to California and New…
Miriam Makeba
in 1959
1 moment here
South African singer, songwriter, actor, and anti-apartheid activist known as “Mama Africa.” Makeba’s career took her from Johannesburg and Pretoria…
Mohamed Morsi
in 1982
1 moment here
Egyptian engineer, university professor, Muslim Brotherhood politician, and Egypt’s fifth president, serving from 2012 until his removal in July…
Nelson Mandela
in 1990
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1957
1 moment here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1959
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Olivia de Havilland
in 1979
1 moment here
Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…
Olivia Hussey
in 1969
1 moment here
British actress born in Argentina, best known for playing Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet.…
Paramahansa Yogananda
from 1950 to 1952
2 moments here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
Paul Walker
in 1973
1 moment here
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor best known for playing Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.…
P. L. Travers
in 1961
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Prince
from 1981 to 1985
2 moments here
Prince Rogers Nelson was an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and filmmaker associated with the Minneapolis sound.…
Ravi Shankar
in 1971
1 moment here
Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Richard Feynman
from 1959 to 1988
4 moments here
American theoretical physicist known for foundational work in quantum electrodynamics, the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics, and…
Robin Williams
from 1977 to 1990
4 moments here
Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian, born in Chicago and raised in Illinois, Michigan, and California.…
Ronald Reagan
from 1952 to 1989
6 moments here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Shinzo Abe
in 1978
1 moment here
Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2020.…
Stanley Kubrick
from 1955 to 1959
2 moments here
American filmmaker and photographer whose career began in New York photojournalism, expanded through Hollywood productions and European location…
Moments
- 1969 Los Angeles movie-deal visit Andy Warhol
- 1970 Los Angeles publicity trip Federico Fellini
- 1970 Jean Weigle Memorial Lecture Sydney Brenner
- 1970 Primal therapy in Los Angeles John Lennon
- 1971 L.A. Woman recording Jim Morrison
- 1971 Work on the Raga soundtrack Ravi Shankar
- 1972 Amazing Grace recording Aretha Franklin
- 1972 Home and studio near Inglewood Tina Turner
- 1972 Receives Honorary Academy Award Charlie Chaplin
- 1973 Lost Weekend in Los Angeles John Lennon
- 1973 Birth in Glendale Paul Walker
- 1973 Visit to Los Angeles Félix Houphouët-Boigny
- 1974 Caltech commencement address Richard Feynman
- 1974 Year at Caltech Stephen Hawking
- 1974 Troubadour incidents John Lennon
- 1975 Return to Hollywood for Cannon Joan Fontaine
- 1976 A Matter of Gravity tour stop in Los Angeles Katharine Hepburn
- 1977 Los Angeles comedy-club work Robin Williams
- 1978 Visiting student at USC Shinzo Abe
- 1979 Gone with the Wind anniversary tribute Olivia de Havilland
- 1979 U.S. visit to Los Angeles Ahmed Sékou Touré
- 1980 KBE papers presented at Universal Studios Alfred Hitchcock
- 1980 Los Angeles Music Center headline performance Teresa Teng
- 1980 Death at Bel Air home Alfred Hitchcock
- 1981 Rolling Stones opening appearance Prince
- 1982 Doctoral study at USC Mohamed Morsi
- 1982 Chuck Berry special at the Roxy Tina Turner
- 1982 Final U.S. concerts Freddie Mercury
- 1983 Lived in Los Angeles Douglas Adams
- 1983 Recorded The Works in Los Angeles Freddie Mercury
- 1984 Opens Los Angeles Olympics Ronald Reagan
- 1985 Purple Rain Tour with guest artists Prince
- 1985 Trip to Los Angeles for Tulum research Federico Fellini
- 1986 Co-hosting the 58th Academy Awards Robin Williams
- 1988 Final hospitalization and death Richard Feynman
- 1989 Connie Chung interview at home Marlon Brando
- 1989 61st Academy Awards appearance Robin Williams
- 1989 Lives at Bel Air estate Ronald Reagan
- 1989 Returns to California after presidency Ronald Reagan
- 1990 62nd Academy Awards appearance Robin Williams
- 1990 Academy Honorary Award acceptance Akira Kurosawa
- 1990 Rallies supporters in Los Angeles Nelson Mandela
- 1991 Voice-over recording for Gardens of the World Audrey Hepburn