A Chronology of History
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| 1900 - 1999: to the rescue. ... saving the Republic | |
| DATE | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Boxer Rebellion begins against foreigners in China. |
| 1901 | William McKinley takes oath on March 4 to begin second term of Presidency. |
| 1901 | McKinley assassinated, dies September 14, Theodore Roosevelt becomes 26th President on September 14. |
| 1902 | Theodore Roosevelt, on Aug. 22, becomes first president to ride in an automobile. |
| 1903 | Mark Twain publishes The Great Revolution in Pitcairn. |
| 1903 | Wright brothers make first powered flight, Kitty Hawk, NC Dec 17. |
| 1903 | Great automobile race from New York City to Pittsburgh takes eight days. |
| 1904 | Chief Joseph dies in exile in Washington state. Led the great Nez Perce retreat of 1877. |
| 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt takes oath on March 4; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1906 | Great San Francisco earthquake April 18 kills over 500 people. |
| 1907 | International Prize Court Treaty is signed at The Hague, 18 October. Never ratified. |
| 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld stages his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater; July 8. |
| 1908 | First Model T rolls off Ford Motor Co., assembly line. |
| 1909 | William H. Taft takes oath on March 4; becomes 27th President. |
| 1909 | Great White Fleet of 16 battleships completes trip around the world. |
| 1909 | Robert E. Peary (a white) & Matthew A. Henson (a black) reach North Pole. |
| 1909 | NAACP founded by W. E. B. DuBois. |
| 1910 | Boy Scouts of America founded, Feb 8. |
| 1910 | Death of Mark Twain, Stormfield, at Redding, Connecticut: April 21. |
| 1910 | Florence Nightingale dies in London. |
| 1911 | First transcontinental flight takes 82 hours; nearly 2 months. |
| 1912 | Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded March 12. |
| 1912 | Titanic hits iceberg, April 15. 1503 lives lost. |
| 1913 | Woodrow Wilson takes oath on March 4; becomes 28th President. |
| 1913 | Harriet Tubman, heroine of underground railroad, dies; buried in Ohio. |
| 1913 | 16th Amendment legalizes income tax which was enacted illegally in 1861. |
| 1913 | 17th Amendment changed election rules for Senators to direct election by the people instead of by state legislatures. |
| 1914 | Panama Canal completed; opens August 15. |
| 1914 | World War I begins in Europe; President Woodrow Wilson declares neutrality. On August 23, Japan declared war on Germany |
| 1915 | SS Lusitania sunk May 7; 1198 lives lost. |
| 1916 | General John "Blackjack" Pershing chases Pancho Villa deep into Mexico. |
| 1916 | National Park Service established, Aug. 25, within the Department of the Interior. |
| 1917 | Woodrow Wilson takes oath on March 4; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1917 | After scores of U-boat incidents, the Lusitania, and the "Zimmermann note," United States enters WW I - April 6. |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution, Feb.: Bolsheviks led by V. I. Lenin. |
| 1917 | WW I American expeditionary force in France suffers 1st casualties, Sept. 4. |
| 1917 | Father Edward Flanagan founds Boy's Town, December 1. |
| 1918 | The Pandemic of '18, breaks out Mar. 11, world wide outbreak kills 25-35 million. |
| 1918 | The American's Creed adopted April 3 |
| 1918 | Congressional Medal of Honor, law updated and rules clarified, Jul. 9. |
| 1918 | Russia's Czar Nicholas II, his empress and 5 children, all executed by Bolsheviks, Jul. 16. |
| 1918 | Sgt. Alvin C. York, kills 25 and captures 132 enemy; Argonne forest, France, Oct. 8. |
| 1918 | Armistice ends WW I on 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month: Nov. 11. |
| 1919 | Sgt. Alvin C. York receives Congressional Medal of Honor, Apr. 18, St. Silva, France. |
| 1919 | Sgt. Alvin C. York's docks at Hoboken, New Jersey, May 22, aboard the U.S.S. Ohio. |
| 1919 | 18th Amendment introduces prohibition of intoxicating liquors. |
| 1920 | 19th Amendment brings women the vote, Aug 26. |
| 1921 | Warren G. Harding takes oath on March 4; becomes 29th President. |
| 1921 | Famous race horse, Man O' War retired to stud. Lives another 26 years. |
| 1922 | King Tutankhamun's tomb discovered on Nov. 4, by Howard Carter. |
| 1922 | U. S. S. R. created; includes Russia, Byelorussia, Transcaucasia, and Ukraine. |
| 1922 | Teapot Dome scandal involves illegal lease on Navy oil reserves. |
| 1923 | Warren G. Harding dies August 2 from heart attack in San Francisco. |
| 1923 | Calvin Coolidge takes oath on August 3; becomes 30th President. |
| 1923 | The Beer Hall Putsch, Nov. 8, in a Munich beer hall, Adolf Hitler proclaims a Nazi revolution. |
| 1924 | J. Edgar Hoover named head of Bureau of Investigation; DOJ, May 10 |
| 1924 | Congress confers citizenship on (some) Native Americans, June 15 |
| 1924 | Lenin dies and Stalin takes over in U. S. S. R. |
| 1924 | Covenant of The League of Nations, including Amendments, December, 1924. |
| 1925 | First female as a state governor is Nellie Taylor Ross, in Wyoming. |
| 1925 | First commercial diesel-electric trains begin service. |
| 1925 | Calvin Coolidge takes oath on March 4; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1925 | John T. Scopes convicted in "monkey trial" of teaching evolution: Dayton, Tennessee, July 24. |
| 1926 | Richard E. Byrd flies over North Pole May 9. |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris May 21 after non-stop flight from New York. Devotes much of his later life denouncing America and supporting such causes as Nazism, Hitler, and socialism. His wife supported his ideology. |
| 1928 | The Paris Treaty providing for the renunciation of war, August 27. |
| 1928 | Richard E. Byrd flies over South Pole November 28. |
| 1929 | St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago by rival bootleggers. |
| 1929 | Herbert C. Hoover takes oath on March 4; becomes 31st President. |
| 1929 | Television is demonstrated by Vladimir K. Zworykin. First completely electronic system. |
| 1929 | The Permanent Court of International Justice established under the League of Nations. |
| 1929 | Amos and Andy, comedy program starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made network debut on NBC radio, August 19. |
| 1929 | Great Depression begins after bank and stock failures in October. |
| 1929 | Teapot Dome scandal continues with conviction of former Sec. of Interior Albert B. Fall: Oct. 25. |
| 1930 | Construction begins on Hoover Dam across Colorado River near Las Vegas. July 7. |
| 1931 | Thomas Alva Edison, dies. Lights across the nation are dimmed in his honor. |
| 1931 | The National Anthem finally adopted by Congress March 3. |
| 1931 | Empire State Building opens May 1. |
| 1932 | Amelia Earhart flies solo from Newfoundland to Ireland; 1st woman to make such a flight. |
| 1932 | 20th Amendment established new starting date for President & Congress. |
| 1932 | Welland Canal bypasses Niagara Falls for shipping. |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt takes oath on March 4; becomes 32nd President. |
| 1933 | First woman in Presidential Cabinet is Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. |
| 1933 | Emergency Banking Act, March 9. |
| 1933 | Civilian Conservation Corps, March 31. |
| 1933 | Federal Emergency Relief Act, Agriculture Adjustment Act, May 12. |
| 1933 | Tennessee Valley Authority Act, May 18, establishes the TVA to harness the Tennessee River and bring electricity to rural Appalachian area. |
| 1933 | Farm Credit Act, June 16. |
| 1933 | Germany outlaws all political parties except the Nazi Party; July 14. |
| 1933 | American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes; July 22. |
| 1933 | 20th Amendment changes effective date for new president to January 20th and congress to January 3rd. |
| 1933 | 21st Amendment repeals 18th Amendment; prohibition amendment. |
| 1934 | First diesel-electric passenger train, The Burlington Zephyr, begins service. |
| 1934 | Securities and Exchange Commission created June 6 |
| 1934 | Adolph Hitler wins plebiscite Aug. 19 in Germany giving him sole executive power. |
| 1935 | J. Edgar Hoover named Director of new FBI in Department of Justice. |
| 1935 | Works Progress Administration approved by Congress, April 8. |
| 1935 | Wagner-Connery Act establishes National Labor Relations Board, July 5. |
| 1935 | Social Security Act, August 14, signed into law. |
| 1935 | Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post killed when their airplane crashes near Point Barrow, Alaska; August 15. |
| 1935 | Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship and make the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany; Sept 15. |
| 1936 | Adolf Hitler presides over Olympic games in Berlin with a ceremony on Aug. 1. |
| 1936 | President Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington; September 11. |
| 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt takes oath on March 4; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1937 | Amelia Earhart Putnam disappears during attempt to fly around the world. |
| 1937 | Neutrality Act of 1937; declares that the U. S. will stay out of troubles in Europe. |
| 1937 | President Roosevelt delivers Quarantine Speech; Oct. 5 in Chicago. |
| 1937 | Adolph Hitler tells his generals of his plan to take over Europe, Nov 5. |
| 1938 | Aviator Douglas Corrigan takes off from New York, saying he is headed for California; he ends up in Ireland, earning the nickname "Wrong Way Corrigan;" July 17. |
| 1939 | First electronic computer built by John V. Atanasoff. |
| 1939 | Geological Survey final report on cost of Louisiana Purchase $23.2 million. New York World's Fair opened April 30. |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany and Soviet Union sign non-aggression treaty: Aug. 23. |
| 1939 | Hitler starts WW II on Sept. 1, by attacking Poland (after other nations had already been attacked). |
| 1939 | Albert Einstein signs letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program; August 2. |
| 1939 | Bill of Rights finally ratified by Massachusetts, Georgia & Connecticut. [Didn't change anything. Three-fourths of the states had already ratified them in 1791.] |
| 1940 | Bugs Bunny makes "official" debut in the Warner Brothers cartoon "A Wild Hare;" July 27. |
| 1940 | Winston Churchill pays tribute to RAF, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." August 20. |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky, exiled Communist revolutionary, died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin: August 21st. |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt takes oath on March 4; begins third term of Presidency. |
| 1941 | Lend-Lease Act became law March 11. |
| 1941 | Churchill & Roosevelt develop The Atlantic Charter, Aug 14 in Argentina. |
| 1941 | December 7, the Day of Infamy, - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, HI. U. S. declares war on Japan, December 8, and on Germany, December 11. |
| 1942 | Executive Order 9066 imprisons many thousands of Japanese-Americans (Nisei) for three years. |
| 1942 | The Battle of the Coral Sea, May 7-8. | The Battle of Midway, June 4. | The Battle of Guadalcanal: August 7; | |
| 1942 | 6000 Canadian and British troops launched against Germans at Dieppe, France with 50% casualties: August 19. |
| 1942 | First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, by Fermi, December 2. |
| 1944 | Landing at Anzio Beach by the Allies, January 22. |
| 1944 | D-Day at Normandy! The Longest Day begins, June 6. |
| 1944 | The Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19. |
| 1945 | Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23. |
| 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt takes oath on March 4; begins record fourth term. |
| 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dies on April 12; Harry S Truman takes oath; becomes 33rd President. |
| 1945 | WW II: April 29: American soldiers liberated Dachau; Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun; Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor. April 30: As Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Hitler and Braun committed suicide. May 1: The Soviet Union announced fall of Berlin, and allies announced surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. |
| 1945 | First atomic bomb exploded anywhere; Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16. |
| 1945 | B-29 'Enola Gay' drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Aug 6. |
| 1945 | Last atomic bomb then in existence dropped at Nagasaki, August 9. |
| 1945 | World War II ends: first in Europe, May 7; then in Japan, Sept 2. |
| 1945 | President Harry Truman ended the Lend-Lease program for Europe on August 21st. The plan had delivered $50 billion in aid to America's allies during WW II. |
| 1945 | United Nations chartered in San Francisco; moves to NYC in 1950. |
| 1946 | Cold War begins as U. S. S. R. expands through eastern Europe. Sir Winston Churchill coins term "Iron Curtain." |
| 1946 | 28 former Japanese leaders indicted as war criminals on April 29. |
| 1946 | Taft-Hartley Act outlaws certain practices of trade unions. |
| 1947 | Truman Doctrine opposes Communism in Greece, Turkey, and elsewhere, March 12. |
| 1947 | Captain Chuck Yeager produces the world's first Sonic Boom, October 14, as he breaks sound barrier in a Bell X-1 aircraft. |
| 1947 | Marshall Plan helps rebuild Europe, June 5. |
| 1947 | Transistor invented at Bell Labs, in New Jersey, Dec 23. |
| 1948 | Foreign Assistance Act funds the Marshall Plan, April 3. |
| 1948 | Organization of American States (OAS) formed, April 30. |
| 1948 | Supreme Court ruled that deed covenants prohibiting sale of real estate to blacks is unenforceable. |
| 1948 | United Nations creates Republic of Israel. |
| 1948 | Berlin airlift begins nearly a year of relief to overcome blockade. |
| 1948 | Native Americans allowed to vote (finally) in New Mexico and Arizona. |
| 1949 | Harry S Truman takes oath on January 20; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization born, April 4. |
| 1949 | Iva Ikuko Toguri, a.k.a. Tokyo Rose, is convicted of treason in San Francisco. Sentenced Oct. 6. |
| The Question Resolved: 1950 - 1984 | |
| 1950 | North Korea invades South Korea, June 25. |
| 1950 | Pusan Perimeter formed on August 2. MacArthur invades at Inchon, September 15; surprises North Korean forces. |
| 1950 | President Truman, on August 25, ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. |
| 1951 | 22nd Amendment limits president to two terms. 1st proposed by Thomas Jefferson. |
| 1951 | Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur, April 11. Command in Korea goes to General Ridgway. |
| 1951 | President Harry Truman on Sept 4, addresses nation from Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco; 1st live coast-to-coast television broadcast. |
| 1951 | UNIVAC introduces first commercially available electronic computer system. |
| 1952 | Canadian television broadcasting began in Montreal, September 6. |
| 1953 | Dwight D. Eisenhower takes oath on Jan. 20: 34th President. |
| 1953 | Stalin dies, March 5: Khrushchev new leader in U. S. S. R. |
| 1953 | Cease fire in Korea, 3 mile wide area near 38th parallel and roughly along previous boundary becomes demilitarized zone (DMZ.) |
| 1953 | Soviet Union admits it has tested a hydrogen bomb, August 20. |
| 1954 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturns Plessy v. Ferguson. |
| 1954 | Remington Rand sells a UNIVAC computer system to General Motors. |
| 1955 | Dr. Jonas Salk proves his vaccine against polio virus is safe. |
| 1957 | Dwight D. Eisenhower takes oath on January 20; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1957 | Eisenhower authorizes, support assistance (advisors) for South Vietnam. |
| 1957 | Sputnik satellite launched in orbit by Soviet Union. 1st artificial satellite ever. |
| 1957 | Ford Motor Co. introduces its ill-fated Edsel, Sept. 4. |
| 1959 | St. Lawrence Seaway opens Great Lakes to foreign shipping, Apr 25. |
| 1959 | President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union: August 21st. |
| 1960 | 23rd Amendment grants Electoral College representation to Washington, DC. |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy takes oath on January 20; becomes 35th President. Inauguration Speech |
| 1962 | John Glenn is first U. S. astronaut to orbit earth, Feb 20. |
| 1962 | Birth of Concorde. French and British aerospace engineers agree; pool efforts to create a supersonic transport. |
| 1962 | Military aid begins in South Vietnam |
| 1963 | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; I Have A Dream, August 28. |
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes 36th President. |
| 1964 | 24th Amendment ends poll taxes. |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act put teeth in Federal enforcement of anti-discrimination. |
| 1964 | Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 24; repealed in 1970. |
| 1965 | Lyndon B. Johnson takes oath; January 20; begins 1st full term as President. |
| 1965 | White Paper on Vietnam, U. S. State Department. "AGGRESSION FROM THE NORTH." |
| 1965 | First American, ground forces arrive in South Vietnam. |
| 1967 | 25th Amendment allows President to step aside temporarily, then resume. |
| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall is first black to become a justice on Supreme Court. |
| 1968 | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered in Memphis. |
| 1969 | Richard M. Nixon takes oath on January 20; becomes 37th President. |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong took "one giant leap for mankind" onto the moon. |
| 1969 | Concorde, supersonic transport, commercial SST, makes first test flights. |
| 1970 | Four students killed by National Guard during on-campus protest at Kent State University in Ohio. |
| 1970 | Palestinian terrorist seized control of 3 jetliners, which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after passengers and crews were evacuated. |
| 1971 | Amtrack goes into service, May 1. |
| 1971 | 26th Amendment provides voting at 18 years old. |
| 1972 | Equal Rights Amendment for women proposed by Congress; never ratified by states. |
| 1973 | Richard M. Nixon takes oath on January 20; begins second term as President. |
| 1973 | Vice-President Agnew forced to resign. Gerald R. Ford becomes 1st non-elected VP. |
| 1973 | Vietnam War ends for U.S. soldiers on March 29, as U.S. stops fighting and withdraws forces. Promises financial support to South Vietnam. |
| 1973 | Wars Powers Resolution enacted; over-riding Nixon's veto. |
| 1973 | President Nixon announced the resignation of top aides H.R. Halderman and John Ehrlichman along with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and White House Counsel John Dean over the Watergate scandal. |
| 1973 | Roe et al v. Wade decision starts bitter abortion/anti-abortion debates. |
| 1974 | Nixon resigns, Aug. 9, over Watergate. - Gerald Ford becomes 38th President; 1st non-elected. |
| 1975 | Congress reneges on financial aid, to South Vietnam. |
| 1975 | The fall of Saigon, April 30, the United States pulls Americans out of South Vietnam. Surrenders Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to Communist control. |
| 1975 | The first personal computer, the Altair, is developed. Two years later Jobs and Wozniak introduce Apple II. |
| 1976 | Air France and British Airways; 1st passenger supersonic airliner service. |
| 1977 | James Earl "Jimmy" Carter takes oath January 20; becomes 39th President. |
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party leader, chosen Britain's first female prime minister. |
| 1979 | SALT II Treaty signed with USSR but not ratified by U. S. Senate. |
| 1980 | Mount St. Helens volcano erupts in northwestern United States. |
| 1981 | Ronald Wilson Reagan takes oath January 20; becomes 40th President. |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman Supreme Court Justice. Appointed by President Reagan. |
| 1984 | Geraldine Ferraro; becomes 1st woman V.P. candidate on major party ticket; with fellow Democrat Walter Mondale. |
| Current Events: 1985 - 2003 | |
| 1985 | Ronald Wilson Reagan takes oath January 20; begins second term of Presidency. |
| 1985 | Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes new leader in U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, Jan. 28, during take-off from Cape Canaveral, FL. All seven astronauts are killed, including Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher, who was to be the first private citizen in space. |
| 1986 | Mikhail S. Gorbachev belatedly informed world on April 28 of disaster at Chernobyl nuclear reactor. |
| 1986 | Oct., 10-12 - President Reagan meets with Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland. Talks prove to be the beginning of the end for U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Apr., 27 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim is denied entry into the U.S. because of links to the Nazi Party of WW II. He had already served several years in the U.S. - UN member and Secretary General of UN. |
| 1987 | Disarmament treaties between USSR and USA eliminate large numbers of ground-launched nuclear missiles. |
| 1988 | Jul., 3 - An Iranian passenger plane is accidently shot by U.S. missile in the Persian Gulf killing all 290 on board. |
| 1988 | Aug., 10 - A compensation bill is signed by President Reagan to apologize and compensate Japanese-Americans for illegal imprisonment during WW II. |
| 1989 | George Herbert Walker Bush takes oath January 20; 41st President. |
| 1989 | Soviet Union collapses. Russia and other nations emerge. |
| 1989 | 1st Amendment protects burning U.S. flag; U.S. Supreme Court rules on June 21. |
| 1989 | President George H.W. Bush names General Colin Powell to Chairman of Joint Chiefs, Aug., 10; First black To serve in that post. |
| 1990 | Jan., 3 - U.S. forces invade Panama to capture Panamanian President Manuel Noriega. He is brought to the U.S., tried and jailed on drug smuggling charges. |
| 1990 | President George H.W. Bush signs Hate Crimes bill into federal law, Apr. 23. |
| 1990 | President George H.W. Bush signs Americans with Disabilities Act into law, July 26. |
| 1990 | West and East Germany unified. Balkans begin to splinter. |
| 1990 | Aug., 2 - Iraq invades Kuwait in effort to seize control of Persian Gulf oil. |
| 1991 | Jan., 16-Feb., 27 - Operation Desert Storm: U.S. and allied forces invade Kuwait and Iraq to force Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. |
| 1991 | April 30 - An estimated 125,000 people died as cyclone struck Bangladesh. |
| 1991 | May 16 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes first representative of British royalty to address U.S. Congress. |
| 1991 | "Iceman's" remains discovered in mountain region of Austria/Italy. |
| 1991 | Oct., 15 - Clarence Thomas becomes 2nd black to sit on the Supreme Court. |
| 1992 | States ratify XXVII Amendment, which was approved by Congress in 1789! |
| 1992 | April 29 - Deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after jury in Simi Valley, CA, acquitted LA police officers of most state charges in video taped beating of drunk-driver-drug-head, Rodney King. LA County soon made King a wealthy man but he passed the money on to drug dealers for more dope. |
| 1992 | Aug., 24-26 - Worst natural disaster (property) in recorded U.S. history, as Hurricane Andrew strikes across FL and into LA coast. |
| 1993 | Jan., 3 - President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin agree on Start II Treaty designed to reduce each sides nuclear weapons by more than half. |
| 1993 | Jan., 13 - U.S. joins 120 other nations in pack to eliminate arsenals of chemical weapons. |
| 1993 | William Jefferson Clinton takes oath January 20; becomes 42nd President. |
| 1993 | Feb., 26 - Terrorist bomb rips World Trade Center in NYC killing 7 and injuring hundreds. |
| 1993 | Apr., 19 - Religious fanatic David Koresh and 85 of his followers perish in fire near Waco, TX, as federal officers attempt arrests for weapons violations and murder of federal agents. |
| 1993 | Aug., 3 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes second woman to sit on Supreme Court. |
| 1993 | Sep., 2 - U.S. and Russia agree to share technology to build a space station. |
| 1994 | Feb., 3 - President Clinton approves trade resumption with Vietnam. |
| 1994 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO "leader" Yasser Arafat signed accord, May 4, on Palestinian autonomy. Granted self-rule in Gaza and Jericho. |
| 1994 | Nov., 8 - Republicans dominate national elections; win control of House and increase lead in Senate. First Republican Congress in forty years. |
| 1995 | Jan., 23 - Congress removes congressional exemptions from public laws. |
| 1995 | Apr., 19 - Federal building blown up in Oklahoma City killing 167. At first Arab terrorist are blamed but turns out to be white American terrorist. |
| 1995 | Jun., 29 - U.S. space shuttle Atlantis links up with Russian MIR space station. |
| 1995 | Jul., 11 - U.S. re-establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam. |
| 1995 | Aug., 11 - President Clinton issues Executive Order ending nuclear testing by the U.S. |
| 1995 | Oct., 16 - "Million Man March" on Washington as black men converge to demonstrate solidarity. |
| 1996 | Feb., 1 - Telecommunications Act of 1996 is passed, pushed through Congress by (R)Rep. Billy Tauzin of Louisiana and (R)Sen. John McCain of Arizona with ample support from Democrats. Provides cable monopoly to TV cable companies; restricts other forms of competition. |
| 1996 | Feb., 24 - Two U.S. private planes flying over international waters are shot down by Cuban fighter jets. U.S. government issues a protest, then goes back to sleep. |
| 1996 | Apr., 9 - In a political stunt, federal law passed giving President "line-item" veto. In effect, allows President to write own laws. Congress was hoping to get rid of another of those irksome accountability problems with voters. Supreme Court stops laughing long enough to overturn bill. |
| 1996 | May 11 - Valuejet Boeing 737 plunges into FL Everglades killing all on board. |
| 1996 | May 17 - Federal law passed requiring resident notification when convicted sex offender moves into neighborhood. Federal judges soon overturn law, thereby upholding the rights of sex offenders to rape whomever they wish. |
| 1996 | TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 explodes over Atlantic Ocean off Long Island killing 230. |
| 1996 | Jul., 31 - President Clinton signs law from Republican Congress to limit welfare payments. |
| 1996 | Aug., 6 - NASA scientists claim to have discovered proof that life once existed on Mars. Evidence is based on rock found near Arctic Circle. |
| 1996 | Aug., 29 - President Clinton political advisor, Dick Morris, found to have revealed national policy secrets to prostitute. Press never asked why Morris - not a government employee - knew such secrets. |
| 1996 | Sep., 26 - Astronaut Shannon Lucid returns after setting new record by completing 188 days in space, including linking up with Russian space station. |
| 1996 | Nov., 22 - Democrat National Committee admits accepting illegal contributions from foreign citizens; returns $450,000 to Indonesians. |
| 1996 | Dec., 3 - Hawaii becomes first state to legalize same sex marriages. |
| 1996 | General Motors announces "first" electric car available for sale to public, Dec., 5. |
| 1996 | Dec., 6 - Madeleine Albright named Secretary of State: First woman to hold position. |
| 1996 | Dec., 21 - Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich admits violating rules by lying to Ethics Committee. |
| 1997 | Jan. 20., William J. Clinton begins 2nd term as President. First Democrat to win consecutive term since Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 1997 | Feb., 4 - Santa Monica, CA, civil court jury finds O.J. Simpson liable in deaths of wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. Awards total judgement against Simpson of $33.5M. |
| 1998 | President Clinton impeached by HOR: 2nd president to be impeached. |
| 1998 | Y2K rumors and uninvestigated false reports are widely broadcast and printed by the international press corps. |
| 1999 | Y2K rumors fueled by the international press corps, throws world into near panic. Fervor is reminiscent of the Salem Witch hunts of 1692. |
| 1999 | President Clinton acquitted in Senate on strict party-line vote. |
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