Technology Project #3 (1980 - 2001)

By hmckurtis

  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Chinese troops open fired on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing. The death toll was near 1,000.

  • Mount St. Helens

    Mount St. Helens erupted.

  • Holy war

    Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared holy war against Iran

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the US

  • US debt

    US national debt hit $1 trillion.

  • Falklan Islands

    Argentine troops seized the Falklan Islands from Great Britain.

  • Falklan Islands

    Argentina surrendered to Great Britain, which ended the Falklands Islands conflict.

  • Hong Kong

    Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration to transfer Hong Kong back to China in 1997.

  • Live Aid

    Concerts held at Wembley Stadium and John F. Kennedy Stadium raised over $70 million for African famine relief.

  • Reagan and Gorbachev

    US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for first time.

  • First nuclear disaster

    A reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR exploded, 31 died, and radioactive contamination reached much of Western Europe.

  • Hands Across America

    Americans held hands from California to New York.

  • Black Monday

    Stock markets around the world crashed.

  • Iran and Iraq

    Ceasefire between Iran & Iraq took effect after 8 years of war.

  • Al-Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda formed.

  • The Cold War

    Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declared the Cold War over.

  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment.

  • Hubble space telescope

    Hubble space telescope was placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery and sent its first photo from space one month later.

  • Operation Desert Shield

    US deployed troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield.

  • East and West Germany

    East and West Germany were reunified.

  • IRA

    The IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

  • Gulf War

    Gulf War ended after Iraq accepted a ceasefire.

  • WWW

    World Wide Web debuted as a publicly available service on the Internet.

  • Maastricht Treaty

    The Maastricht Treaty was signed by 12 countries from the European Community to create the European Union.

  • Operation Restore Hope

    US Marines landed in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.

  • Rwandan Genocide

    The Rwandan Genocide began with the assassination of Rwandan President and Burundian President, which abruptly ended peace negotiations.

  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela became South Africa's 1st black president.

  • Amazon.com

    Amazon.com founded by Jeff Bezos.

  • Yugoslav Wars

    The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris by leaders of various governments, which ended the conflict in former Yugoslavia.

  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin Laden issued a message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places".

  • Welfare reform

    US President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law.

  • Hong Kong

    United Kingdom returned Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.

  • Princess Diana

    Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in a road tunnel.

  • Google.com

    Google.com was registered as a domain name.

  • The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement

    The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland was signed by the British and Irish governments.

  • The Troubles

    Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland killed 29 people and injured about 220.

  • Monica Lewinsky scandal

    US President Bill Clinton admitted in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and the had "misled people" about the relationship.

  • Bill Clinton

    US President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.

  • Columbine High School massacre

    Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado.

  • Bush v. Gore

    Bush won in result of the controversial presidential election.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

  • Same-sex marriage

    The Netherlands became the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal.

  • World Trade Towers

    Two planes hijacked by Al Qaeda crashed into New York's World Trade Towers, which caused both towers to collapse and killed 2,752 people

  • George W. Bush

    US President George W. Bush declared a "war on terror".