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Y2K Bug
As the year 2000 approached, computer programmers realized that computers might not interpret 00 as 2000, but as 1900.As December 31, 1999, turned into January 1, 2000, computers might interpret December 31, 1999, turning into January 1, 1900. Power plants were threatened by the Y2K bug. Power plants depend on routine computer maintenance for safety checks, Not having the correct date would throw off these calculations and possibly put nearby residents at risk. -
Bush vs gore
After 36 days of Florida recounting the votes from the first failed attempt with the new digital voting, Al Gore finally conceded the presidency to George W. Bush. -
Bush/Gore Race
The US Supreme Court ordered that the recount contiune even though the Court voted 5-4 in the republicans favor George w.Bush was appointed the 2000 election president. -
Bush Inaugurated as POTUS
His first term in the White House was focused around the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America. The following month, in response to the attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to overthrow the Taliban government. Bush also signed the Patriot Act into law created the Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. During his second term his popularity plummeted. Critics said Bush had used misleading claims about Iraq. -
9/11 Terror Attacks
Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked three passenger planes they carried out suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing everyone on board. The planes and nearly 3,000 people on the ground. A fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field. In response to the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, and continue the hunt for Bin laden -
Patriot Act
Anti-terrorism law drawn up in response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. -
Shuttle Columbia Explosion
Eighty seconds into the launch, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and hit the edge of the shuttle’s left wing.The first debris began falling to the ground in west Texas near Lubbock, the last communication from the crew was heard at 9 a.m. The shuttle disintegrated over southeast Texas, near Dallas. Residents in the area heard a loud boom and saw streaks of smoke in the sky. -
War in Iraq Begins
George W. Bush announces on TV that we are joining the United Kingdom on the war against Iraq to free it people and save the world from grave danger. WE were after dictator Saddam Hussein because we believed he possesd weapons of mass destruction -
Saddam Hussein executed
After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is captured on this day in 2003. Saddam’s downfall began on March 20, 2003, when the United States led an invasion force into Iraq to topple his government, which had controlled the country for more than 20 years. After moving to Baghdad as a teenager, Saddam joined the now-infamous Baath party, which he would later lead. -
Ronald Reagan's death
He died at his Los Angeles home at age 93, making him the nation’s longest-lived president. He passed away from a long battled disease with Alzheimer's. -
SE Asian Tsunami
A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on this day in 2004, Dec. 26 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across the Indian Ocean coastline.
The quake was the second strongest ever recorded and the estimated 230,000 dead made this disaster one of the 10 worst of all time.
The quake moved a full 750 miles of underwater fault line earth up to 40 feet.
There, waves reached 80 feet high over large stretches of the coast and up to 100 feet in some places. -
Steroids in baseball scandal
In order to pressure major league baseball to toughen its policy against steroid use, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds an 11-hour hearing on March 17, 2005, during which seven former and current baseball players are questioned. In response to Rep. Henry A. Waxman's accusation that all the players must have known about steroid use in the club houses, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro offer denials. -
Death of Pope John Paul
He was the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. His successful efforts to end communism, as well as for building bridges with peoples of other faiths, and issuing the Catholic Church s first apology for its actions during World War II. -
Election of Pope Benedict XVI
bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church from the years 2005– 2013. Prior to his election as pope he led a distinguished career as a theologian and as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.In 2013 he became the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. -
Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans
The category 4 storm is considers to be the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.New Orleans. Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city on August 28, when Katrina briefly achieved Category 5. Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in the New Orleans Convention Center The federal government and President George W. Bush were criticized for their slow response to the disaster. -
Hurricane Rita Hits Texas
Documented as the strongest Gulf storm on record – on track to bash East Texas, Houstonians heeded the call to evacuate.
2.5 million people hit the road ahead of the storm’s arrival.
Rita weakened to Category 3 strength before making landfall -
Nancy Pelosi
In 1987, Pelosi made the leap to public office, winning a special election for California's Eighth District, which includes San Francisco.
She advocated for the withdrawal of troops from the region.
Pelosi lobbied for the development of better paying jobs, access to college education and affordable health care for all, and revised energy policy that focused on cleaner, more efficient domestic alternatives. -
McCain/Obama campaign and race
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. He was subsequently elected to a second term over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity. -
Pres. Barack Obama Inauguration
Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on Jan.20, 2009.
Obama had become the first African American to win election to the nation’s highest office the previous November.
Obama opened his inaugural address, which lasted some 20 minutes, by recognizing the challenges facing the nation at the outset of his administration—the worsening economic crisis, ongoing war against radical extremism and terrorism, costly health care, failing schools and a general loss of confidence. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
On February 17, 2009, in Denver, Colorado, President Barack Obama discusses the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act before he signs it into law. The $787 billion stimulus package was designed to create or save jobs in the wake of mass layoffs brought about by the Great Recession. -
Operation Geronimo
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group. The American military commander in charge of the special operations raid that killed Osama bin Laden has said the al-Qaeda founder could “absolutely” have been captured alive. -
Democrats take control of house and senate
For the first time in 40 years, the Republican Party wins control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections. Led by Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who subsequently replaced Democrat Tom Foley of Washington as speaker of the House, the empowered GOP united under the “Contract with America,” a 10-point legislative plan to reduce federal taxes.
