Family Oral History Project

  • Kimberly Kay Wutzke was born

  • Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points

  • NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record

  • Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

  • 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England

  • Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)

  • US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

  • Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264

  • South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl

  • Ford Bronco chase

  • Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California

  • One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people.

  • The first color photograph appears on the front page of the New York Times.

  • Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

  • Euro is established.

  • The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan

  • 9/11

  • U.S. invasion of Afghanistan

  • the start of the Iraq war

  • Spirit lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.

  • U.S. Troops Kill Several Civilians in Afghanistan

  • Markets plunge around the world

  • Plane crashes into the Hudson river

  • Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

  • Osama Bin Laden dies

  • Whitney Houston Dies