My life

  • Rodney King Beating

  • A 13-year-old Los Angeles boy accuses Michael Jackson of fondling him.

  • Schindler's List Movie

  • Thousands dead in Rwanda massacre

  • O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife

  • Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27

  • Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre

  • Nebraska won the NCAA football Championship

  • Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital

  • South Africa gets new constitution

  • Congress passes welfare reform bill

  • Chicago Bulls won NBA Championship

  • Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule

  • Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing

  • Europeans agree on single currency, the euro

  • House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice

  • Chicago Bulls win another NBA Championship

  • Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down

  • Blair Witch Project movie was realeased

  • The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.

  • "I love you" virus disrupts computers worldwide

  • Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris

  • Mad cow disease alarms Europe

  • Congo president Laurent Kabila assassinated by bodyguard

  • Gladiator takes five Oscars

  • Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon

  • National Academy of Sciences issues report opposing human reproductive cloning, but supports therapeutic cloning

  • Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government sign a cease-fire agreement, ending 19 years of civil war

  • U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

  • In State of the Union address, Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate

  • Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts

  • Baghdad falls to U.S. troops

  • John Kerry secures Democratic nomination after winning nine out of ten primaries and caucuses

  • Summer Olympics take place in Athens, Greece

  • Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf coast

  • More than 350 million digital songs were purchased in 2005

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

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

  • Steve Irwin Dies

  • Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections

  • The U.S. begins its "surge" of some 30,000 troops to Iraq to stem increasingly deadly attacks by insurgents and militias

  • Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain

  • The minimum wage increases to $5.85, up from $5.15

  • Boston Celtics Win NBA championship

  • President Obama is elected, he is the first black president