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Britain alarmd by an outbreak of "mad cow" disease.
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F.B.I. arrests suspected Unabomber.
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Clinton signs line-item veto bill.
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Militant Taliban leaders seize Afghan capitol of Kabul.
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U.S., U.K., and France agree to freeze Nazi's gold loot.
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O.J. Simpson found liable in civil suit.
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I was born in St. Elizabeth's hospital at 10:06 p.m.
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Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule.
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Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing.
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Clinton was accused in White House sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky.
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Europeans agree on single currency, the euro.
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Unabomber sentenced to 4 life terms.
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London.
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U.S. senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton.
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The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug.
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Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa steps down and Thabo Mbeki takes over.
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JFK and his wife die in a plane.
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Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, age 6, reunites with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home.
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U.S. sailors on Navy Destroyer Col die in Yemen terrorist explosion.
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The Mad Cow disease alarms Europe.
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President Bush wins Florida recount and wins presidential election against Al Gore.
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George W. Bush is sworn into office as 43rd president of the United States.
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Terrorist attack on the U.S. with planes crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
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Israel condems the Palestinian authority as a "terror-supporting entity."
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Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapses after two months of bombing by American warplanes and fighting by Northern Alliance ground troops
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India's worst Hindu-Muslim violence in decade killed more tha 1,000 people.
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U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Quaeda and Taliban.
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U.S. withdraws from International Court treaty.
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Bush signs legislation creatig cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security.
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Space Shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts.
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Bush signs 10-year, $50-billion tax cut package which is the 3rd largest tax cut in U.S. history.
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Suicide bombers attack 2 synogogues in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 25 people
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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi announces he will give up weaons program.
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Armed rebels in Haiti force President Aristide to resig an flee the country.
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Gay marriages begin in Massachusetts, the first state in the country to legalize such unions.
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About 380 tons of explosives reported missing in Iraq.
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George W. Bush is re-elected president, defeating John Kerry.
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Aid pours into help th 11 Asian cuntries after devestaion of the tsunami.
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George W. Bush is officially sworn in for his 2nd term as president.
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Pope John Paul II dies
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Hurrican Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people.
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Israeli prime minister suffers a massiv stroke.
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North Korea test fires missiles over the Sea of Japan snd explodes a nuclear device in the Northern Korean mountains.
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President Bush used his veto power for the first time, striking down legislation that would have expanded the number of stem cell lines available for embryonic research using federal financing.
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Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.
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The first black president of the U.S., Barack Obama was sworn into office as 44th president of the United States.
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The H1N1, also known as swine flu, killed at least 150 people in Mexico.
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Famous dancer and singer Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50.
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Obama announces that the U.S., China, India, Brazil, and South Africa have reached an agreement to combat global warming.
