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Americans With Disabilities Act
The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, etc. It is enforced by U.S. Department of Labor. The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else -
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination
President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court of the United States to replace Thurgood Marshall. The nomination proceedings were controversial from the start, especially over the issue of abortion, and many women's groups and civil rights groups opposed Thomas on the basis of his conservative political views. -
Hurricane Andrew
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck the Bahamas and Florida. It was one of the most destructive hurricane to ever hit the state. Andrew caused major damage in the Bahamas and Louisiana, but the greatest impact was felt in South Florida. In total, it destroyed more than 63,500 houses, damaged more than 124,000 others, caused $27.3 billion in damage and left 65 people dead. -
Black Hawk Down
Operation expanded in an attempt to create political stability in this chaotic nation.The AK-47 assault weapons customarily used by the Somalis were no match for the high-tech weaponry that the U.S. forces possessed. The “Sammies”, as the U.S. soldiers called them, were poor shots, tending to fire wildly and then run off. -
North American Free Trade Agreement
Agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. It supplanted Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canad.It has two supplements: the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). -
Million Man March
Mass of African-American men in Washington, D.C. called by Louis Farrakhan. It was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a leading group of civil rights activists and the Nation of Islam working with scores of civil rights organizations. The founder of the National African American Leadership Summit, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. served as National Director of the Million Man March. -
TWA Flight 800
It was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near New York at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board died in the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. territory. They thought it was a terrorist attack but it wasn't. -
Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
It was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics.The explosion directly killed 1 person and injured 111 others; another person later died of a heart attack. It was the first of four bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. Security guard Richard Jewell discovered the bomb before detonation and cleared most of the spectators out of the park. -
NATO Bombing in Yugoslavia
Military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) during the Kosovo War. The bombings continued until an agreement was reached that led to the withdrawal of Yugoslav armed forces from Kosovo and the establishment of United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo -
Columbine Shooting
School shooting that occurred at Columbine High School in Columbine. In addition to the shootings, attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and car bombs. The perpetrators, senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional people. After exchanging gunfire with responding police officers, the pair committed suicide
