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- Court Rules Same Sex Marriage a Right
America went through one of the most remarkable social...
- Anthrax Laced Letter Received
Starting on September 18th, 2001 only a week after 9.11 a...
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Inaguration. On January 20th 2009 President Obama was...
- Bin Ladin Killed by Us
On May 2, 2011 an elite American military unit entered the...
- Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy the most massive Atlantic hurricane in...
- iPhone Introduced
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. When he returned, the...
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2016 was a rare year in American Presidential politics, as...
- Boston Marthon Bombing
February 8: The Algerian Civil War ends. February 27 – March 1: Riots and mass killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave 1,044 dead. March 14: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk. April 11 - 13: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt fails to overthrow president Hugo Chavez. May 20: East Timor gains independence.
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As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development in history, vaccines by Pfizer and Mod...
January 6 Insurrection On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died in the chaos either shortly before, during or following the event, including a Capitol police officer. Lawmakers from both political parties, in...
U.S. Rejoins Paris Climate Accord and WHO In his first hours as president, Biden signed a letter signaling the return of the United States to the global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, adopted by nearly 200 nations in Paris in 2015. The nation had officially withdrawn from the Paris accord in late 2020...
Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday In June, President Biden signed legislation officially establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The new holiday marks the anniversary of the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in...
Mass Shootings in Atlanta and Boulder Two mass shootings within a week of each other in March—at three spas in the Atlanta area on March 16 and a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22—proved a devastating reminder of the ongoing scourge of gun violence in the United States. Of the eight people killed in Atlanta, six were Asian women, fueli...
Verdicts in Three Prominent Murder Trials In April, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, which sparked protests against systemic racism and police violence in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and 60 countrie...
NASA Rover Lands on Mars Launched in late July 2020, the NASA rover Perseverance spent months traveling through space, covering some 292.5 million miles before touching down on Mars on February 18. As the space agency’s most sophisticated rover yet, Perseverance spent the rest of the year exploring Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake, collec...
Among the notable people we lost in 2021 was Colin Powell, the celebrated military leader who became the nation’s first Black secretary of state, who died in October of complications from COVID-19 while suffering from multiple myeloma, a blood cell cancer that suppresses the immune system, as well as Parkinson’s disease. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank...
Amy McKeever, “U.S. surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 deaths as Omicron looms.” National Geographic, December 15, 2021. CNN Editorial Staff, “Covid-19 Pandemic Timeline Fast Facts.” CNN, November 23, 2021. Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch, “FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated.” Reuters, August 20, 2021. Devan Cole and Paul LeBlan...
- Smartphones Are Everywhere. What did we ever do before the invention of the smartphone? KARRASTOCK/Getty Images. Apple rolled out its first smartphone — a hand-held computer and mobile phone mashed into one — in 2007.
- Social Media Sites Take Off. With the handiness of a computer in our pockets, social media became the method of communication for billions around the world.
- We Now Connect Via WiFi. "We stand," declared Wired magazine in 2003, "at the brink of a transformation." The article was titled "The Wi-Fi Revolution," and the technology, indeed, was ground-shaking.
- Memes and Emojis Spread Like Wildfire. Memes, like "the distracted boyfriend," are now part of our everyday lexicon. Wikimedia. That smiley face, that shrugging guy, the finger gun, the tears of joy.
- September 11th Attacks *Sept 11th 2001. On a sunny day in September 11th, 2001 an extraordinary event took place on American soil, 19 Al Qaeda members hijacked four American commercial passenger jet airliners.
- Iraq War. In 2003, President George W. Bush launched the War on Terror when he ordered an invasion of Iraq, which had been accused of developing weapons of mass destruction and harboring terrorists.
- Hurricane Katrina 2005. 2005 saw Hurricane Katrina, the most expensive natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in American history. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast with winds up to 80 mph and a storm surge that caused levees to break which flooded the city of New Orleans.
- Great Recession 2007. In 2007, the housing bubble burst and the United States entered a recession. The terrible economic downturn would become known as and remembered as the Great Recession.
The 21st century has been a volatile period, beginning with the 9/11 attacks, the war on terrorism, the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. ... 9/11 Timeline. On September 11, 2001—a ...
Dec 17, 2020 · 21st Century 2020 Events 2020 was a tumultuous year that saw the onset of a deadly pandemic, widespread protests over systemic racism—and a deeply contentious election.
