Timeline By sammcgill May 4, 1970 Kent State Shooting Jul 1, 1971 Voting age goes to 18 Aug 15, 1971 Nixon ends gold standard Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Burglaries Aug 9, 1974 Nixon Resignes May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens Erupts Jan 20, 1986 First MLK Jr. Day May 21, 1988 Graduates High School Jan 17, 1991 Operation: Desert Storm Apr 29, 1992 Rodney King Riots Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombings Mar 31, 1996 Birth of Child Aug 21, 1996 Graduates College Jan 7, 1998 Birth of Child Apr 20, 1999 Columbine Shootings Dec 14, 2000 Opens own restaurant Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Oct 7, 2001 US invades Afghanistan Oct 24, 2004 Gets Married Apr 14, 2005 Birth of Child Dec 2, 2006 Birth of Child Nov 4, 2008 Barack Obama is elected president May 2, 2011 Death of Osama bin Laden
