Significant Events of My Lifetime

By adrianna.morse

  • Death of Princess Diana

    Death of Princess Diana
    Princess Diana Died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in Paris, France. Caused by reckless driving from the chauffeur.

  • Colombine Highschool Shooting

    Two highschool students killed 15 students during a rampage. First of many devastating school shootings in the 21st century.

  • Mapping of the Human Genome

    Mapping of the Human Genome
    Genome Mapping InfoOn June 26, 2000, two rival teams of scientists announced a scientific accomplishment that was expected to greatly affect the future. Dr. J. Craig Venter, head of Celera Genomics (a private company in Rockville, MD), and Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, made a first draft of the human genome.

  • US Invasion of Afghanistan

    The U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and overthrew the Al-Qaeda-supportive Taliban government. American troops then began to institute democracy, fight off any insurgents, and the search for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

  • Mars Rover

    Mars Rover
    Two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were launched to Mars and landed January 2004.

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Katrina formed in the Bahamas and made its biggest impact as a Category 3 storm in New Orleans,LA.

  • Pluto Reclassified as a Dwarf

    Pluto Reclassified as a Dwarf
    There are three main conditions for an object to be considered a 'planet':The object must be in orbit around the Sun.The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.Pluto fails to meet the third condition, since its mass is only 0.07 times that of the mass of the other objects in its orbit

  • DVD replaces the VCR

    In the early 2000s DVD began to overtake VCR as the most popular consumer of prerecorded video and VCR stopped being sold as of December 23, 2008.

  • Haiti

    Haiti
    At least 230,000 were killed in Haiti after a massive earthquake on January 12, 2010 and 3,000,000 were left homeless as estimated by the Haitian government.