• 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 World Trade Center Collapse
  • 2001 US Attacks Taliban and Al Quada in Afganistan
  • 2001 George Harrison Dies of throat cancer