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  • Punkedpoetess
    Punkedpoetess Posts: 633 Member
    1985 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the USA.
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    1984- Winston Smith meets Big Brother

    He meets O'Brien seven years later, really.
  • elcieloesazul
    elcieloesazul Posts: 448 Member
    1985: DNA used in first criminal case.
  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
    1977 - Elvis died, Star Wars released. Me born :wink:

    Elvis is still alive!
  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
    1986.... cherynoble.
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
    1987•The World's Population reaches approx five billion (5,000,000,000)
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1988-



    The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
  • juicy011
    juicy011 Posts: 200 Member
    1989 George H. W. Bush inaugurated
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
    1990•Americas Favorite animated family "The Simpsons " is aired on Fox for the first time
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    1991 -Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    1992 Hubble


    I'm wrong! 1992 LA Riots
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1992 Hubble


    I'm wrong! 1992 LA Riots


    April 26th, 1992 there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
    1992 Hubble


    I'm wrong! 1992 LA Riots


    April 26th, 1992 there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?

    It was april 29th,my birthday!
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    1992 Hubble


    I'm wrong! 1992 LA Riots


    April 26th, 1992 there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?

    I'll repsond to this in 1999 (Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3UbqM537KY)
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1992 Hubble


    I'm wrong! 1992 LA Riots


    April 26th, 1992 there was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?

    It was april 29th,my birthday!


    Friggin Sublime, tryin' to change history!
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1993- NAFTA
  • Punkedpoetess
    Punkedpoetess Posts: 633 Member
    April 1994 - Kurt Cobain committed suicide using a gun.
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
    1995- OJ Trial
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
    1996 - After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
  • funkycamper
    funkycamper Posts: 998 Member
    On May 20, 1997
    - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
    - Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
    - White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
    - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
  • nray3119
    nray3119 Posts: 100 Member
    Jan 5th 1998 Sonny Bono died.
  • nixrun
    nixrun Posts: 44
    1999 - star wars episode I: the phantom menace is released in theaters, worst star wars ever.
  • Hayesgang
    Hayesgang Posts: 624
    2000

    •Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).


    •U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).


    •Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30).
  • cloud2011
    cloud2011 Posts: 898 Member
    2000 - People fear Y2K (even though it is not actually the first year of the new millenium; 2001 is) and so stockpile food and supplies in anticipation of a computer meltdown that never occurs.
  • Razzlebari
    Razzlebari Posts: 29 Member
    2000 - The new Millennium, the last Peanuts cartoon runs in newspapers (Charles Schulz died), Geocaching begins once Bill Clinton has announced that GPS will not be limited to the sole use of the US Military, Bush vs. Gore baloney in the Supreme Court, and the Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia.
  • xonashwaox
    xonashwaox Posts: 108
    2001

    2001 started on a Monday
    President George Bush becomes the 43rd President
    The Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl
    The Arizona Diamondbacks win the World Series
    The LA Lakers won the NBA Championship
    The world's first self-contained artifical heart was transplanted
    The Ipod and Xbox were introduced
    Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" was Rudolph Giuliani
    The "Best Film" Oscar Winner was A Beautiful Mind
    Some of the Billboard #1 Songs included Ms. Jackson by Outkast, Bootylicious by Destiny's Child, Butterfly by Crazy Town, Stutter by Joe
    Some popular movies included Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Ocean's Eleven, and Rush Hour 2
    Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs
    Millions watched Britney Spears dance with a python at the MTV Music Video Awards
    Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
    NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon lo
  • luhluhlaura
    luhluhlaura Posts: 278 Member
    2001 - Nearly 3,000 are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City

    November 29 – George Harrison of the Beatles dies ):

    October 23 - The iPod was first introduced by Apple.
  • allisonrozsa
    allisonrozsa Posts: 178 Member
    2001- FBI Agent Robert Hanssen was arrested for spying for the Russians for 15 years and is considered one of the worst cases of espionage in American history.

    (The 2007 film "Breach" was based on this story).
  • SheilaSisco
    SheilaSisco Posts: 722 Member
    Terrorist assaults loomed large in 2002 with deadly attacks in Bali, Moscow and the Middle East. The U.S. hunted al Qaeda in Afghan caves, prepared to face off Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and fended off snipers around its capital -- all as the dust continued to settle from the catastrophic events of September 11, which marked a one-year anniversary.
  • hmj0502
    hmj0502 Posts: 2
    2002 XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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