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  • RideaYeti
    RideaYeti Posts: 211 Member
    1986 - Bad: Challenger explodes, Chernobyl disaster
    Good: Top Gun, Aliens, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • dogacreek
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
    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
    MelissR75 Posts: 735 Member
    1988 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope goes into operation.
    A bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103.
  • obolton756
    obolton756 Posts: 261 Member
    1989.. Marty McFly went back to to future... lol nah jk

    Berlin wall was torn down
  • aa1440
    aa1440 Posts: 956 Member
    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
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    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
    LA723 Posts: 92 Member
    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
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    1993 Nov 30

    "Schindler's List" Is Released
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    1994~ April 8, Kurt Cobian was found dead at his home.
  • heyitsmegxx
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    1995 Dec 19th - Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    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
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    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
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    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
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    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
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    March 8, 1999
    The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing
  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 Member
    February 13, 2000
    The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    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
    akinmytua Posts: 6
    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
    dogacreek Posts: 289 Member
    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
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    2004 One of my favorite movies: The Notebook.
  • heyitsmegxx
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    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
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    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
    d4rkn3ss06 Posts: 57
    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
    Friday74 Posts: 36 Member
    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
    akinmytua Posts: 6
    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.
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