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Sharon Pratt Dixon
Sworn in as mayor of Washington DC becoming the first black women to serve as mayor of a major city -
Cold War Ends
The end of the Cold War, (announced by President George Bush in his term) between the US and USSR that ranged from 1947-1991, between the once WWII allies. Never actually breaking out into the open or a "hot" war with actual fighting (aside from proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam). The space race, nuclear weapons creation, and even athletics became focuses of the Cold War.The U.S. gov's emphasis on national security rather than domestic needs lead to later increases in slums, crime and unemployment -
Toni Morrison
become the first African American women to win the Nobel Prize for literature -
Air Jordans
Michael Jordan won 6 championships in the 90's and this made his shoe brand really big and many pop culture icons wore and had atleat one pair. -
Titanic
James Cameron's the Titanic comes out and wins many awards including the academy award for best picture and academy award for best visual effects. -
Highest Attendance at Women's Sporting Event in History
The 1999 Women's World Cup Victory where the Unites States beat China in the Rose Bowl. It received the highest attendance at a women's sporting event in history with 90,184 fans. It meant a lot to women to have such great attendance. -
Serena Williams
Serena wins the US open at age 17, becoming the first of the Williams sisters to claim a grand slam single title -
The Y2K Bug
A problem in coding computer information was believed to cause havoc by 2000, "the new millennium", as the thought that early computers inability to register four digit 2000 as it could 1999, possibly mistaking it for 00 or 1900. It was believed that computers would be so confused that they would shut down completely causng trouble for traffic, air ways, household applicances . Atleast 100 billion was used in the prevention during the Clinton Presidency in America, 300 billion worldwide. -
Oops... I did it Again
Brittney Spears releases her her single oops i did it again selling 500.000 CD copies the first day. -
Children's Health Act of 2000
This law was established to focus on the treatment of children's health. The law established the formation of federal child health funding programs and included a pediatric research program in the National Institutes of Health. This law requires Health and Human Services to foucs on children with diseases, asthma, and cancer, etc. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This law was passed in 2001 to make sure that children spent more time in school focused on reading and math. This hurt the world of physical education because it required less leisure time in school therefore P.E. is no longer required in some schools as a part of daily curriculum. Several physical education jobs were cut as well. -
September 11th Terrorist Attacks
September 11th terrorist attacks--19 terrorists hijack four planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000. All civilian air traffic is suspended for 3 days, the first time an unplanned suspension had occurred in U.S. history. -
Capture of Saddum Hussein
The capture of Saddum Hussein by American troops in 2003 from hiding in the city of ad-Dawr. After capture and trial for war crimes Saddam was found guilty of war crimes on November 5, 2006, and sentenced to death. He was later executed at Camp Justice, a joint Iraqi-U.S. military facility on December 30, 2006 for the charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. -
Child Nutrition and WIC Authorization
This law required schools who were federally funded to make sure that low-income students were fed nutritious meals and were involved in physical activity. This law made sure that if a school was federally funded then it had to have a nutritious meal program and a physical education program included in the curriculum. -
Facebook
Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg -
Drew Gilpin Faust
Harvard University named Drew Gilpin Faust it's first women president in the schools 371 year history -
President Obama's Inauguration
President Obama is inaugurated as the 44th United States President. He is also the first Africsn American to hold the postion. Obama received more votes than any other candidate in U.S. presidential election history, over 69 million, with voter turnout of the 2008 elections being the highest in US history--131.3 million total votes. -
The Fault in our Stars
The Fault in our stars, written by John Green, is a 313 page novel that sold 10.7 million copies and was awrded goodreads choice winner. -
Highest Paid Sportsman-Floyd Mayweather
Forbes Magazine announced boxer Floyd Mayweather as the highest paid sportsman with 420 million dollars in earnings in the world of sports. The revenue and sponsors contributed to Mayweather's earnings. -
Jennifer Welter
The Arizona Cardinals hired Jennifer Welter as an assistant coaching intern for the teams training camp and preseason. She'll coach inside linebackers. Shes the first women coach in the NFL
