Timelines By mauxy 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1990 Alberto fujimori became president of peru 1994 Mandela is elected president of South Africa 1996 Dolly is born, the first cloned sheep 1997 Princess Diana of Wales dies in car accident 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 2000 The first crew on a space station 2001 The fall of the twin towers 2003 The Capture of Saddam Hussein 2004 The creation of Facebook 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2006 Michelle Bachelet makes history in Chile 2007 Apple revolutionizes cell phones with the iPhone 2008 The creation of bitcoin 2009 Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident 2014 John Paul II was canonized by Pope Francis 2016 Donald Trump president of the USA 2018 The exodus of the Venezuelan people intensifies