1901-2012

RideaYeti

1986 - Bad: Challenger explodes, Chernobyl disaster
Good: Top Gun, Aliens, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

dogacreek

1987: President Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Deaths of Rita Hayworth, Andy Warhol, Lee Marvin and Fred Astaire

MelissR75

1988 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope goes into operation.
A bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103.

obolton756

1989.. Marty McFly went back to to future... lol nah jk

Berlin wall was torn down

aa1440

1990

Kuwait
•Saddam Hussein orders Iraq invasion of Neighboring Kuwait
Kuwait
•Operation Desert Shield Begins as the United States and UK send troops to Kuwait


"I was involved in Desert Storm."

Italian_Buju

1991

Canada introduces the Canadian Goods and Services Tax (GST) a national sales tax

Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment

7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead

Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, issues a public statement confirming that he is stricken with AIDS, and the next day he dies of complications

911 Emergency Number tested in US northwestern cities

LA723

1992

April 29 – Los Angeles riots: Acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is restored.

October 3 – After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.

November 3 – United States presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.

heyitsmegxx

1993 Nov 30

"Schindler's List" Is Released

PunkyRachel

1994~ April 8, Kurt Cobian was found dead at his home.

heyitsmegxx

1995 Dec 19th - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

robot_potato

1996-

The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.

Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland.

The American punk rock band The Ramones play their last show.

The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

August 28 – Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales.

The O. J. Simpson civil trial begins in Santa Monica, California

JonBenét Ramsey, 6, is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado.

CassieReannan

1997:

Jan 12th - Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space

Feb 6th - Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

Apr 30th - 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay

Sep 16th - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO

December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

beachlover317

August 17th 1998
U.S. President Bill Clinton admits in a televised address to having had inappropriate relations with ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky on this day in history

PunkyRachel

1997:

Jan 12th - Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space

Feb 6th - Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

Apr 30th - 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay

Sep 16th - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO

December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

OMG! Funny story about Ellen. My folks loved that TV show watched it every week with us kids. Then after she "came out" my folks were all, "We hate Ellen!" because they are religious homophobes. Stopped watch anything with Ellen in it and wouldn't let us kids watch either.

beachlover317

March 8, 1999
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing

beachlover317

February 13, 2000
The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

CassieReannan

2001:

Jan 13th - Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people

Jan 15th - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

Apr 1st - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.

and of course:

Sep 11th - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people

Sep 11th - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people

Sep 11th - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard

akinmytua

this thread it great
movies in 2002
Spiderman
the pianist
the bourne identity
LOTR two towers
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Catch me if you can

dogacreek

2003:

Space shuttle Columbia explodes over East Texas, killing all seven on board.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of California
Saddam Hussein captured, but not put to death for another three years
Harley-Davidson Motor Company and Ford Motor Company both celebrate their 100th anniversaries

mommared53

2004 One of my favorite movies: The Notebook.

heyitsmegxx

2005

•Bombers Attack in Bali (Oct. 1): At least 22 people die when several bombs explode at tourist sites on the Indonesian island of Bali. Suicide bombers are suspected.

CassieReannan

2006:

Jan 1st - Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.

Apr 2nd - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.

May 26th - The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

Nov 5th - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

Dec 6th - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

d4rkn3ss06

2007-I graduate high school!

haha

but really
2007:

July 21, 2007 The final book of the Harry Potter Series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released. Sells 11 million copies in 24 hour making it the fastest selling books in history!

Friday74

2008:

Feb 17, 2008: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.

May 12, 2008: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the Sichuan Province of China, killing more than 69,000 people, making it China's worst disaster in more than 30 years.

akinmytua

2009- (I graduate high school)
February 1 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly lesbian head of government.

March 7 – NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer which will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA.

June 25 – The death of American entertainer Michael Jackson triggers an outpouring of worldwide grief. Online, reactions to the event cripple several major websites and services, as the abundance of people accessing the web addresses pushes internet traffic to potentially unprecedented and historic levels.

October 1 – Paleontologists announce the discovery of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the oldest remains of a human ancestor yet found.

December 16 – Astronomers discover GJ1214b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.