Kristen's Timeline

By Miss K

  • United Kingdom and France agree to freeze Nazis gold loot

  • I was born!!!

    I was born!!!

    Born at Beth Israel in Boston, MA.

  • Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California

  • Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule

  • 2 convicted in New York City bombing

    New York City bombing(1991)

  • President scandal

    U.S. president is accused in White House scandal with Monica Lewinsky
  • Europeans agree on single currency, Euro's

    Europeans agree on single currency, Euro's

  • India atomic tests

    India conducts 3 atomic tests

  • Terry Nichols convicted

    Terry Nichols is sentenced to death
  • FBI agent charged

    FBI agent charged

    FBI agent Robert Hanssen is charged with spying for Russia for 15 years

  • Timothy McVeigh

    Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh is executed

  • 9/11

    Hijackers ram jet liners into NYC's Twin Towers Trade Center and Pentagon. About 1,000 dead. 4th hijacked plane crashed about 80 miles outside of Pittsburg. Leader was Osama Bin Laden.

  • Taliban regime in Afghanistan

    collapses after 2 months of bombing by American warplanes and fighting agianst Northern Alliance ground troops

  • India Hindu- Muslim violence

    In Gujarat, Muslim fire-bombed a train. 1,000 dead in bloodshed.

  • Pennsylvania miners

    Miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a floded mine shaft

  • East Timor

    East Timor becomes a new nation

  • Cardinal Bernard Law

    Boston archbishop resigns as a result of Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal

  • "Colombia"

    U.S. space shuttle "Colombia" explodes, killing all 7 astronauts

  • Iraq war

    U.S. and Britian launch war against Iraq

  • Arnold Schwarzengger

    Governer of California is elected after recall vote, ousted Gray Davis.

  • Saddam Hussein

    Captured by American Troops

  • Pope John Paul II dies

  • London; Islamic terrorists

    London is hit by Islamic terrorists bombings, killing 52 and wounding 700. This was the worst attack since World War II

  • Hurricane Katrina

    This hurricane strikes the Gulf Coast; 1,000 dead and millions left homeless

  • U.S. soldiers

    Number of U.S. soldiers deaths in Iraq reaches 2,000

  • Danish newspaper

    Publishes taboo against pictures of Muhammad

  • Response to Katrina

    House releases report on response to Katrina, assigning blame on all levels of the government

  • Saddam Hussein hanged

    Convicted and hanged in Baghdad

  • Democrats gain control

    Democrats gain control in both Houses of Congress

  • Stolen paintings

    3 men wearing ski masks steal 4 pieces of artwork from Zurich Museum, worth $168 million. 2 pieces found in unlocked car.

  • Edward Kennedy

    Democrat from MA. gets a brain tumor; in office since 1963

  • Truck bomb outside Marriot

    A truck bomb explodes outside a Marriot hotel in Islamabad, killing over 50 people.

  • Barack Obama

    First black U.S. president

  • Swine Flu

    kiled about 150 in Mexico

  • Michael Jackson dies

    At age 50.

  • No texting while driving

    Obama bans texting while driving

  • Haiti earthquake

    Magnitude 7.0

  • Miners trapped under Chile

    33 miners trapped 1/2 mile undergourd for 17 days

  • Greece and Ireland is battres by financial crisis

  • France flight disappears

    Air France flight disappears somewhere of the north coast of Brazil. 228on board, en route to Paris

  • Gulf oil spill

    Leaked for 86 days