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9/11/2001
Al Qaeda members hijacked four US passenger planes, two were flown into the twin towers, one into the pentagon and one was headed to the White House but crashed into a field. 3000 people were killed. -
Y2K Fiasco
The Y2K fiasco happened when computers and electronics from 1999 and before could not process that new millennium was about to happen. A lot of citizens thought that the electronics were going to become faulty or even dangerous when 2000 hit. -
Hanging "Chads" in Florida
In the 2000 United States presidential election, many Florida votes used Votomatic-style punched card ballots where incompletely punched holes resulted in partially punched chads: either a "hanging chad", where one or more corners were still attached, or a "fat chad" or "pregnant chad", where all corners were still attached, but an indentation appears to have been made. These votes were not counted by the tabulating machines. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is tied with Hurricane Harvey of 2017 as the costliest tropical cyclone on record. Katrina was also one of the costliest natural disasters and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. As Katrina made landfall, its front right quadrant, which held the strongest winds, slammed into Gulfport, Mississippi, devastating it. -
Bush V. Gore
Bush v. Gore was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. The ruling was issued on December 12, 2000. On December 9, the Court had preliminarily halted the Florida recount that was occurring. The Electoral College was scheduled to meet on December 18, 2000, to decide the election. -
Execution of Saddam Hussein
The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted 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. -
Bush/Gore Race
President Bush and Al Gore were in a tight race against each other in the election of 2000. The voting process was extended since in Florida the online votes were not working, so Gore essentially gave Bush the Florida votes, causing Bush to win the election. -
Bush Inaugurated as POTUS
Bush was inaugurated on January 20, 2001 as the 43rd President of the US, after an extremely close race with Al Gore. -
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy Mcveigh was sentenced to death in 1997 after a 5 week rial for Oklahoma City bombing. He stayed on death row until June 11, 2001 when he was executed by lethal injection. -
Patriotic Act
In October 2001 the Patriotic Act was signed by Bush and gave America the proper tools to intercept and obstruct terrorism. -
Osama in Afghanistan
The US makes it a mission to find Osama Bin Laden, since he posted an online confession for the events that occurred on 9/11. The US military troops find him in an abandoned house in Afghanistan, then confirm that it is him. -
Eron Scandal (Houston, TX)
Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded in 1985 as a merger between Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron reported financial condition was sustained by institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud. -
Shuttle Columbia Explosion
the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Great Recession, the ARRA's primary objective was to save existing jobs and create new ones as soon as possible. Other objectives were to provide temporary relief programs for those most affected by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy. -
War in Iraq
The US declares war on any terrorism group/force, mainly in Iraq where Islamic terrorists directly threaten US shortly after the attack in 2001. -
Capture of Saddam Hussein
Samir, a 34-year-old Iraqi-American military interpreter who helped find Saddam and pull him from his hideaway in December 2003. Operation Red Dawn was an American military operation conducted on 13 December 2003 in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq, near Tikrit, that led to the capture of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. -
Kerry/Bush Campaign
The US presidential election of 2004 was the United States 55th quadrennial president election. it was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. -
Pope John Paul
Pope John Paul served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005. He is called Saint John Paul the Great by some Catholics. -
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 to 2013. Benedict's election occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Since his resignation, Benedict holds the unique title of "Pope Emeritus". -
Saddam Hussein executed
Hussein was put on death row in 2003 then executed by lethal injection in 2006. -
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing most of San Francisco, California. She previously served as the 52nd House Speaker from 2007 to 2011, the only woman to do so. As Speaker, she attained the highest congressional rank of any female politician in American history. -
Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth hurricane, and fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season. Rita formed near The Bahamas from a tropical wave on September 18, 2005. -
McCain/Obama Race
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, a Senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, a long-time Senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of Senator John McCain of Arizona and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. Obama became the first African American ever to be elected as president, and Joe Biden became the first Catholic to be elected as vice president. -
First Bailouts
The senate passed the $700 billion bank bailout bill on October 3rd, 2008. $700 billion bailout to buy mortgage-backed securities that were in danger of defaulting, wanting to take these debts off the books of the banks, hedge funds, and pension funds that held them. The goal was to renew confidence in the functioning of the global banking system, which had narrowly avoided collapse. -
Obama Elected president
On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President. -
Pres. Obama Inauguration
The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the combined attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet traffic, it was among the most-observed events ever by the global audience. -
Affordable Care Act
Makes affordable health insurance available to more people. The law provides consumers with subsidies (“premium tax credits”) that lower costs for households with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level. Expand the Medicaid program to cover all adults with income below 138% of the federal poverty level. (Not all states have expanded their Medicaid programs.)Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally. -
Supreme Court Appointees
President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor[1] to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter.[2] Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31. The second appointment was that of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace the retired John Paul Stevens. Kagan was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 2010. -
Operation Geronimo
The code name Geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden used the code name "Geronimo" to refer to either the overall operation, to fugitive bin Laden himself or to the act of killing or capturing bin Laden.
