Personal Timeline

By rioludoodle

  • Birth

    The day I was born.

  • 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks

    Terrorist attacks strike the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon.

  • War in Afghanistan

    The United States and its allies invade Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks.

  • Max

    My younger brother is born

  • Facebook

    The social media site Facebook is launched

  • Piano Lessons

    I begin taking piano lessons

  • YouTube

    Start of the online video-sharing platform

  • Summer

    My younger sister is born.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina devastates the coast.
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    Great Recession

    Housing bubble bursts and recession occurs

  • Meadow Brook to Ada

    I switch elementary schools

  • Presidential Election of 2008

    Barack Obama wins the election to become the 44th American president.

  • BP Oil Spill

    Major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

  • Osama Bin Laden's Death

    The founder of Al-Queda is killed in Pakistan by U.S. forces.

  • Russian Annexation of Crimea

    Russia invades and occupies part of Ukraine, setting off an international crisis.
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    Ferguson Unrest

    Protests and riots occur in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a young African-American man by a white police officer.