Major US and World Events 1980-2015 By vanessac8908 May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption Dec 8, 1980 Assassination of John Lennon Aug 12, 1981 IBM Computer Introduced Nov 20, 1982 Thriller Album by Michael Jackson Released Jun 18, 1983 Sally Ride Goes to Space Jun 30, 1983 Cabbage Patch Dolls Jul 3, 1985 Back to the Future Released Sep 3, 1985 Titanic Found Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Oct 19, 1987 Black Monday Jun 30, 1989 World Wide Web Invented Nov 9, 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall Feb 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela is Freed Apr 24, 1990 Hubble Telescope Launched Nov 14, 1990 Lip-Sync Scandal of Milli Vanilli Jan 16, 1991 Operation Desert Storm Jun 17, 1991 Repeal of Apartheid Laws Apr 29, 1992 Rodney King Riots Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing May 6, 1994 Channel Tunnel Opens http://www.eurotunnelgroup.com/uk/the-channel-tunnel/infrastructure/ Sep 3, 1995 eBay Founded Jul 5, 1996 Dolly the Sheep Born Jun 30, 1997 Harry Potter Released Aug 31, 1997 Princess Diana Dies May 28, 1998 Testing of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan Jan 1, 1999 Euro Currency Released Apr 20, 1999 Columbine High School Shooting Jan 1, 2000 Human Genome Mapping Nov 11, 2000 Presidential Election Controversy Sep 11, 2001 World Trade Center Terrorist Attack Sep 18, 2001 Anthrax in Mail Feb 1, 2003 Columbia Shuttle Destroyed Mar 20, 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Feb 4, 2004 Facebook Debut May 17, 2004 Same-Sex Marraige Legal in Massachusetts Aug 23, 2005 Hurricane Katrina Aug 1, 2007 I-35W Bridge Collapse Jan 30, 2008 Global Financial Crisis Nov 11, 2008 President Barak Obama Elected Jun 25, 2009 Michael Jackson Dies Apr 20, 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill May 2, 2011 Osama Bin Laden Killed Jul 20, 2012 Colorado Movie Theater Shooting Dec 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting Jun 26, 2013 Defense of Marraige Act Strike Down Apr 12, 2014 Ebola Epidemic Reaches First World Jun 30, 2014 Rise of ISIS Jul 21, 2014 Israel-Hamas Conflict Aug 9, 2014 Protests in Ferguson Apr 15, 2015 Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack Jun 26, 2015 Same-Sex Marraige Legal in US Jun 30, 2015 Syria Refugee Crisis Jul 20, 2015 Positive Cuba and US Diplomatic Relationship Nov 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks Jan 5, 2016 Zika Virus in America Jun 23, 2016 Britan Leaves EU
