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DNA Discovered
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Korean War Ends
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Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
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McDonald's Corporation is Founded
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Vietnam War Begins
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NASA Founded
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Berlin Wall Built
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JFK Assassinated
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Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
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1st Child Born
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First Super Bowl
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2nd Child Born
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•Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated •My Lai Massacre
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Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
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VCRs Introduced
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Pocket Calculators Introduced
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Abortion Legalized in U.S.
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Vietnam War Ends
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North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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Star Wars Movie Released
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Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
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Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
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Wreck of the Titanic Found
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1st Grandchild Born
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
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2nd Grandchild Born
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End of the Cold War
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Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially
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World Trade Center Bombed
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3rd Grandchild Born
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Hong Kong Returned to China
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U.S. President Clinton Impeached
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Panama Canal Returns to Panama
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The Euro is Introduced (The New European Currency)
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George W. Bush is elected President of the United States
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Afghan War begins
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Wikipedia founded
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9/11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York
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Iraq War begins
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Hurricane Katrina kills nearly 2000 people in the Gulf of Mexico
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Saddam Hussein is executed in Iraq
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Barack Obama is elected President of the United States
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A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills 230,000
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The largest oil spill in US history occurs in the Gulf of Mexico
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9.0 earthquake near Tohoku, Japan
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Osama bin Laden is Killed
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1st Great Grandchild Born
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Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France