Historical Events During My Life

By Elyse-Elie

  • Worst Snowstorm In History

    Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

  • Comet Aproaches Earth

    Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) aproaches within 0.1012 AUs of Earth

  • Comet Crosses Mars's Orbit

    Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mar's orbit.

  • LTTE Suicide Attack On Sri Lanka's Temple Of The Tooth

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.

  • China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 Airliner Crashes

    A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.

  • A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes

    A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

  • 9-11

  • Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument

    Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.

  • A heat wave in Paris

    A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

  • Massachusetts becomes the first state to legalize same-sex marriage

    Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage

  • The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas

    The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.

  • The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.

  • The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.

  • Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States

  • A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home.

    A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home. Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in the hospital.

  • The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy

    The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama.

  • The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.

  • The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon