My life By toddster92 Apr 17, 1993 Rodney King Beating Aug 27, 1993 A 13-year-old Los Angeles boy accuses Michael Jackson of fondling him. Nov 30, 1993 Schindler's List Movie Apr 16, 1994 Thousands dead in Rwanda massacre Jun 18, 1994 O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife Aug 27, 1994 Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27 Apr 22, 1995 Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre Aug 27, 1995 Nebraska won the NCAA football Championship Oct 16, 1995 Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital May 8, 1996 South Africa gets new constitution Aug 2, 1996 Congress passes welfare reform bill Dec 27, 1996 Chicago Bulls won NBA Championship Jun 30, 1997 Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule Nov 12, 1997 Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing May 3, 1998 Europeans agree on single currency, the euro Dec 19, 1998 House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice Dec 27, 1998 Chicago Bulls win another NBA Championship Jun 16, 1999 Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down Aug 27, 1999 Blair Witch Project movie was realeased Dec 31, 1999 The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon. May 14, 2000 "I love you" virus disrupts computers worldwide Jul 25, 2000 Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris Nov 30, 2000 Mad cow disease alarms Europe Jan 16, 2001 Congo president Laurent Kabila assassinated by bodyguard Mar 25, 2001 Gladiator takes five Oscars Sep 11, 2001 Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon Jan 18, 2002 National Academy of Sciences issues report opposing human reproductive cloning, but supports therapeutic cloning Feb 22, 2002 Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government sign a cease-fire agreement, ending 19 years of civil war Mar 2, 2002 U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan Jan 28, 2003 In State of the Union address, Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate Feb 1, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts Apr 9, 2003 Baghdad falls to U.S. troops Mar 2, 2004 John Kerry secures Democratic nomination after winning nine out of ten primaries and caucuses Aug 13, 2004 Summer Olympics take place in Athens, Greece Aug 25, 2005 Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf coast Aug 27, 2005 More than 350 million digital songs were purchased in 2005 Oct 25, 2005 Number of deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reaches 2,000 Feb 15, 2006 House releases a report on the response to Hurricane Katrina, assigning blame on all levels of government Sep 4, 2006 Steve Irwin Dies Nov 7, 2006 Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections Feb 7, 2007 The U.S. begins its "surge" of some 30,000 troops to Iraq to stem increasingly deadly attacks by insurgents and militias Jun 27, 2007 Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain Jul 24, 2007 The minimum wage increases to $5.85, up from $5.15 Aug 27, 2008 Boston Celtics Win NBA championship Sep 26, 2008 President Obama is elected, he is the first black president