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Federal Budget crisis in 1995
This was a federal conflict over funding for education, the environment, and public health. Which lead to a government shutdown until 1996. -
1996- Centennial Olympic park bombing
1996- Centennial Olympic park bombing kills 1, injures 111. -
1997- World Market Plummets
1997- Dow Jones's industrial average follows the world market and plummets 7.18% to $7,161.15. -
1998- 1999- Clinton.
1998- 1999- Clinton was accused of a sexual relationship with a 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky/ impeachment of Clinton. -
1999- Columbine High school Shooting
1999- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and 1 teacher at Columbine High school sparking gun debate. -
1999- Chicago heat wave
The Chicago heat wave that killed 739 people. -
September 11 Terrorist Attacks
After 9/11 the New York Stock Exchange had to shut down for a period of time. The estimated damage was over $5 trillion dollars. The unemployment rates fell and GDP. There were 2,996 casualties on September 9th, 2001 with 19 of them being the hijackers themselves. American Airlines flight 767 crashed into the North Twin Tower (8:45) -
Hurricane Katrina 2005
This massive hurricane created 250 billion dollars worth of damage. -
The Great Recession/Subprime Crisis
Lax lending standards fueled a housing bubble and when it crashed banks were left holding trillions of dollars of worthless investments in subprime mortgages. This made people lose jobs, money, and homes. -
2010- Deep water Horizon
On April 20th, The Deepwater Horizon oil rig was exploited in the Gulf of Mexico killing 11 people, leaving 17 injured and 2 days later on April 22nd it capsized and the damaged pipe below the rig started spewing oil into the Gulf. -
2012-Hurricane Sandy
This deadly hurricane reached up to 155mph and killed 233 people. This cost the US $50 billion dollars which was the most expensive storm in US history. -
More immigrants were leaving the U.S.
In 2015 more Mexican immigrants were leaving the U.S. than arriving. -
Covid-19 March 11 2020
Covid-19 was a nationwide pandemic that made millions of people have to go into quarantine and lose their jobs. The US GDP dropped by 8.7% and millions of companies struggled even to stay open. -
War between Russia and Ukraine 2022
This war contributes to making the US's already high inflation worse. Mainly it made oil and energy costs go up. -
2022-U.S trades War terrorist for WNBA player
UNknown still ongoing...