1963 JFK assassination
1969 Neil Armstrong 1st man on the moon
1970 Anwar Sadat elected in Egypt
1970 Jimi Hendrix dies at age 27
1970 Janis Joplin dies at age 27
1970 Apollo XIII explosion
1971 Calley convicted of My Lai Massacre
1971 Jim Morrison dies at age 27
1971 Mark Spitz won Olympic Gold in Munich
1972 Dam collapse, Buffalo Creek, W VA 250 killed
1972 Nixon Reelected
1972 Russian probe lands on Venus
1972 US astronauts explore moon
1972 Skateboard invented
1972 J Edgar Hoover dies
1973 Nixon accused of Watergate Scandal
1973 Skylab repaired in space
1973 Supreme Court overturns abortion laws
1973 Lyndon B Johnson Dies
1974 Patty Hearst Joins in raid on bank
1974 Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth home-run record
1974 Pet Rocks
1975 Human rights pact signed in Helsinki
1976 Viking probe finds no life on Mars
1977 Star Wars hits the big screen
1977 Elvis Presley dies
1978 Jonestown massacre, 900 people die
1980 300 baud modems!
1980 Iran/Iraq war
1980 Aid's surfaced
1980 Pacman invented
1980 John Lennon Shot
1981 Charles and Di wed
1981 MTV went on the air
1981 after 444 days of captivity, the hostages in Iran are released
1981 John Hinkley shoots and wounds President Reagan
1981 Sandra Day O'Conner takes office as first woman Supreme Court Justice
1982 Battle of the Faulkland Islands War
1982 man tries to attack Pope John Paul II
1982 Barney Clark becomes 1st person to receive permanent artificial heart
1983 Sally Ride becomes first woman in space
1984 Apple Macintosh hits the market
1984 Indira Ghandi is killed
1985 1st Live Aid Concert
1986 Challenger explodes shortly after takeoff
1986 Reactor at Chernobyl explodes
1987 AZT - AIDS treatment drug approved
1988 Newly designed space shuttle Discovery makes first fight
1989 Conflict at Tiananmen Square
1989 Russians allowed to vote for first time ever
1989 Student activist Abbie Hoffman dies
1989 Berlin wall was toppled
1989 US Troops invade Panama, overthrow Noriega
1990 Operation Desert Shield begins
1990 East and West Germany are reunited
1991 Persian Gulf War begins
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested
1991 USSR officially ends
1992 Mob king John Gotti convicted of 5 murders
1992 Rodney King verdict results in the Los Angeles riots
1993 Bombing of World Trade Center kills 6, injures over 1,000
1993 After 51 day standoff, federal agents storm Dividians
1993 X files premiers
1994 Nancy Carrigan assulted, Tonya Harding and husband prosecuted
1994 Paula Jones files sexual harrassment suit against Clinton
1994 Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman stabbed to death... OJ arrested
1995 Bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma Ctiy
1995 O J Simpson acquitted of murder
1995 Theodore Kaczynski , the unabomber, turned in by his brother
1995 Jerry Garcia dies of a heart attack
1996 6-year-old child beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey is found dead
1996 Timothy Leary dies of prostate cancer
1996 Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Great Britain are divorced
1997 Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit suicide
1997 Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
1997 Princess Diana is killed in an automobile accident
1997 Mother Teresa dies of a heart attack
1997 septuplets are born to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey
1998 The Clinton sex scandal explodes when the president denies having a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
1999 President Clinton is acquitted of impeachment charges.
1999Two teen-age students kill 15 and wound 23 in Columbine High School
1999 Hilton Hotels give go ahead for massive orbiting hotel
1999 World prepares for various perceived challenges of Y2K
2000 No Y2K problems appear
2001 Hutchinson Gas Crisis
2001 World Trade Center Collapse
2001 US Attacks Taliban and Al Quada in Afganistan
2001 George Harrison Dies of throat cancer
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