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I was born.
on June 24. 2000 I was born at 8:20 a.m, in Nashville, TN. -
The planes hit the Twin Towers in New York
On September 11th, 2001, a series of coordinated suicide attacks took place in the United States. On that day, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City – killing everyone on board, along with many others working in the buildings. -
Quaoar was discovered
Quaoar is a binary, trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet. It was discovered in June 2002 by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology. It orbits at 43 astronomical units (6.4×109 km; 4.0×109 mi) from the Sun with an orbital period of 286 years. It has a single tiny moon called Weywot. -
Mars Exploration Rovers
The Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) was a NASA mission involving two rovers – Spirit and Opportunity – exploring the surface of Mars. Their primary scientific objective was to search for and characterise a wide range of rocks and soils holding clues to past water activity. The mission was part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program which included three previous successful landers: two Viking landers in 1976 and Pathfinder in 1997. The total cost of building, launching, landing and operating the -
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts inside. The loss of Columbia was a result of damage sustained during launch, when a piece of foam insulation the size of a small briefcase broke off the Space Shuttle external tank (the main propellant tank) under the aerodynamic forces of launch. The debris struck the leading edge of the left wing, damaging the Shuttle's thermal protection system, which was -
YouTube is launched
The video-sharing website, YouTube.com, was launched in February 2005. It grew rapidly, reaching 100 million views per day within a year of being launched. By 2007, the site consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000 – and in March 2008, its bandwidth costs were estimated at $1 million a day. By 2009, the site had reached over a billion views daily and become the 4th most popular site after Google, Yahoo! and Facebook. -
My first day of kindergarden
This was my first day of kindergarden at pixie school in Lebonnon, Tennessee -
Saddam Hussein is executed
The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on 30th December 2006. He was sentenced to death by hanging, after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. -
I moved to North Carolina
Me, my mom, step dad, my two dogs, and my cat all moved from our house in Tennessesee to our current house in Dallas, North Carolina. -
Multiple suicide bombings kill 796 people in Kahtaniya, northern Iraq
The Yazidi communities bombings occurred at 8pm local time on 14th August 2007, when four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the villages of Kahtaniya and Jazeera, near Mosul. Entire neighbourhoods were flattened by the blasts. Iraqi Red Crescent's estimates stated that 796 were killed and 1,562 wounded, making it the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of American combat operations. It was also the second deadliest act of terrorism in the world – following only -
My baby brother is born
On this day my baby brother- Dylan, was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. -
Oil prices hit a record high
In July 2008, oil prices rose to a record high of $147 a barrel following concern over recent Iranian missile tests. However, prices declined to just $33 a barrel in December, less than a quarter of the peak price reached four months earlier. A strong contributor to this decline was the drop in demand for oil in the USA, as well as the global equities slide. -
Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the USA
Barack Obama was inaugurated the 44th president of the U.S. in January 2009, becoming the first African American to hold office. His immediate actions were focused on the financial crisis plaguing the country. He subsequently introduced several economic stimulus packages, with billions upon billions of dollars being spent in an effort to reinvigorate the financial system and free up credit.
