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Treaty Ending Cold War
United States and Russia sign START 1 Treaty ending the cold war. It also ended the reign of the Soviet Union. -
1st Atack on World Trade Center
The epicenter was the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, where a massive eruption carved out a nearly 100-foot crater several stories deep and several more high. Six people were killed almost instantly. Smoke and flames began filling the wound and streaming upward into the building. Those who weren’t trapped were soon pouring out of the building—many panic-stricken and covered in soot. More than a thousand people were hurt in some way, some badly, with crushed limbs. -
World Wide Web
The Computing Center began operating an experimental Web server in the second half of 1993. The initial home page was all text, but in December of 1993 a graphical home page with iconic links was introduced. The links on the original page reflected many of the items available from the Gopher service that existed at the time, but also included several new items, like a map of the campus with links to information about the buildings, that demonstrated some of the new capabilities of the Web. -
NAFTA
This agreement removed most barriers to trade and investment among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Under the NAFTA, all non-tariff barriers to agricultural trade between the United States and Mexico were eliminated. -
Pizza Hut offers online ordering
Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering on its Web page. -
V-chip invented
In 1995, Tim Collings, a Canadian resident, invented the V-chip. Tim came up with this idea because he was concerned about the impact that television violence was having on children. Then, he made a decoding device that would use certain signals, such as G, PG-14, and M. What these ratings do is let parents and children know what the TV show will be like. -
Toy Story 1st Computer Animated Film
John Lasseter’s “Toy Story” is the 1st computer animated film to be made. -
Telecommunication Act
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is the first major overhaul of telecommunications law in almost 62 years. The goal of this new law is to let anyone enter any communications business -- to let any communications business compete in any market against any other. It has the potential to change the way we work, live and learn. It will affect telephone service -- local and long distance, cable programming and other video services, broadcast services and services provided to schools. -
White Rock Lake Dreged
White Rock Lake is dredged for 3rd time this century. It isn’t completed until 1998. For the Love of the Lake, a grass-roots activist organization is also formed. -
Gary Faye Locke Elected Govenor
Gary Faye Locke was the first, and remains the only, Chinese American to serve as governor of Washington State in United States history. -
Chemical Weapons Banned
The United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in April 1997. This banned the possession of most types of chemical weapons, some of which were possessed by the U.S. at the time. It also banned chemical weapons development, and requires the destruction of existing stockpiles, precursor chemicals, production facilities and weapon delivery systems. -
Mars Pathfinder lands on mars
The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft successfully bounced and came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time. -
Blogging Becomes Big
Just a handful of blogging sites were around in 1998 and 23 were around at the beginning of 1999 -
Columbine Massacre
Littleton became the site of the worst school shooting in American history. Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18; Walked in the school and set off bombs along with shooting and killing or injuring many people. One person named Cassie Bernall who they shot for saying she believed in god. At the end of the day both boys killed themselves with bullet wounds to the head. -
Holes wins Newberry Award
The best seller “Holes” by: Louis Sachar receives the Newberry Award. -
Twin Towers Collapse
Hijacked jetliners hit the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth hijacked plane crashes into a field in Pennsylvania. The Twin Towers Collapse; Hundreds of Brave NYC Firemen Lose their Lives, along with 2973 victims and the 19 hijackers died. -
Diane Denish
Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish elected as first woman Governor of New Mexico. -
Social Networking
Social networking hits its initial boom with friendster.com in 2002 followed by myspace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. Fackbook now leads the global social networking pack. -
Space Shuttle Columbia Explodes
Space shuttle Columbia’s most recent scientific mission was tragically cut short on February 1, 2003, when the shuttle disintegrated during routine re-entry about 39 miles above the earth at a speed of approximately 12,500 miles per hour. All seven crew members aboard the shuttle were killed. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States with devastating effect. It was reported that more then 1,800 people lost there lives, and more then $81 billion dollars in damages occurred. -
Recession
The 2008/2009 recession is seeing private consumption fall for the first time in nearly 20 years. This indicates the depth and severity of the current recession. With consumer confidence so low, recovery will take a long time. Consumers in the U.S. have been hard hit by the current recession, with the value of their houses dropping and their pension savings decimated on the stock market. Not only have consumers watched their wealth being eroded – they are now fearing for their jobs as unemployme -
Barack Obama Elected President
Barack Obama, a 47 year-old, first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. -
Michael Jackson Dies
On June 25th 2009 Michael Jackson died suddenly of a reported cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old. -
Balloon Boy Scandal
After searching northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a Mylar balloon for miles and repeatedly interviewing his big brother, authorities ended the search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene where it began, at his house. He was found in a box in his family’s attic. -
Patrick Kennedy Steps Down
A Kennedy has served in elected office in Washington ever since Patrick Kennedy's uncle, John F. Kennedy, was elected to Congress from Massachusetts in 1946. Now Patrick has decided he will not seek a ninth term. Patrick Kennedy's decision not to seek re-election will leave Washington without a Kennedy in political office for the first time in more than 60 years.
