-
On October 16th 1994 , I was born at 2:26 am In ivory Coast. Two years later my family moved to the United states
-
Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife.
-
Centennial Olympic Park bombing at Summer Olympics in Atlanta kills 1 and injures 111.
-
The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows world markets and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15
-
President Clinton is accused of having a sexual relationship with 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This leads to the impeachment of Clinton later in the year by the U.S. House of Representatives.
-
Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School. It is the deadliest mass murder at a high school in U.S. history, and sparks debates on gun control and bullying.
-
Texas governor George Walker Bush wins by 537 votes in Florida in a highly contested election against the incumbent Vice President Al Gore. He is thus elected 43rd President of the United States.
-
September 11th terrorist attacks; 19 terrorists hijack four planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000. The first time an unplanned suspension had occurred in U.S. history.
-
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks.
-
In Iraq, deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. special forces.
-
he social networking website Facebook is launched. Facebook is now the biggest social networking sites in the world.
-
Hurricane Katrina devastates the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
-
The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marchers protest for immigration rights.
-
A South Korean student shoots and kills 32 other students and professors in the Virginia Tech massacre before killing himself. It stands as the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history until 2012 and spurs a series of debates on gun control and journalism ethics.
-
U.S. presidential election, 2008; Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States.
-
Pop icon Michael Jackson dies, creating the largest public mourning for an entertainer since the death of Elvis Presley.
-
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
-
Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by soldiers from the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
-
aAman dressed in black fatigues and armed with two handguns entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 27 people, including twenty children, in a mass shooting
-
The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.
-
A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area.
-
Same sex marriage is legalized in all 50 US states.
