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Re: The counting game :D

by Neko92 » Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:19 am

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Re: The counting game :D

by ShadyVale » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:37 pm

1992...
Jan 26th - Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting cities of the United States and her allies with nuclear weapons. In return U.S. Pres. George H. W. Bush announces that the United States and her allies will stop targeting Russia and the remaining communist states with nuclear weapons.
Feb 1st - Pres. George H. W. Bush meets with Pres. Boris Yeltsin at Camp David, where they formally declare that the Cold War is over.
Mar 22nd - Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.
Apr 6th - Microsoft releases Windows 3.1.
Apr 20th - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, London, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
Apr 29th - The acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is restored.
May 7th - Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.
May 9th - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted in New York.
May 23rd - A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
Jul 19th - A car bomb placed by the Mafia (with the collaboration of Italian intelligence) kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
Aug 24th-28th - Hurricane Andrew (Category 5) hits Bahamas/Florida/Louisiana with sustained winds as high as 165mph (270km/h). In total, it destroyed more than 63,500 houses, damaged more than 124,000 others, caused $27.3 billion in damage, and left 65 people dead. Traveling far inland, it finally dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system.
Oct 1st - Turner Broadcasting System launches Cartoon Network, the first all-animation television channel.
Oct 3rd - After performing a song protesting alleged child abuse by the Catholic Church, Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II Live on SNL, causing huge controversy, leading the switchboards at NBC to ring off the hook.
Oct 4th - The government of Mozambique signs a truce with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War. (gg SDOR)
Oct 31st - Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.
Dec 3rd - A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
Dec 22nd - The Archives of Terror are discovered by Dr. Martín Almada, detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans who had been secretly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, in what became known as Operation Condor (a U.S. backed campaign of political repression and state terror started in 1968).
? - First confirmed detection of extrasolar planets,
? - In terms of units sold, compact discs outsell audiocassettes for the first time in the U.S.
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Re: The counting game :D

by AmericanCrafter » Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:39 am

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Re: The counting game :D

by ShadyVale » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:19 am

1994...

Jan 1st - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
Jan 19th - Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.
Mar - The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet.
Mar 14th - Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors.
Mar 27th - The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama.
May 6th - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
Jun 17th - NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
Jun 26th - Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows. This had been its mainstay since 1980.
Jul 5th - Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
Nov 7th - WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
Nov 13th - The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
Dec 31st - December 31st is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
? - Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average American.
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Re: The counting game :D

by AmericanCrafter » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:23 am

1995

April 19 - Oklahoma City Bombing
Netscape debuts and dotcom boom begins
August 24 - Windows 95 was released
SOUND LINKY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0
President Bill Clinton confirms Area 51 exists o.o
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Re: The counting game :D

by ShadyVale » Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:10 pm

1996...

Jan 3rd - Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone.
Jan 7th - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, killing more than 150 people. Philadelphia receives a record 30.7 inches (78 cm) of snow, New York City's public schools close for the first time in eighteen years and the federal government in Washington, D.C. is closed for days.
Feb 9th - The element copernicium is created by fusing a 208-Pb nucleus with a 70-Zn nucleus, forming 278-Cn. Given the placeholder name "ununbium", the element is not named until 2010.
May 18th - The X Prize Foundation launches the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.
Jul 5th - Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
Jul 12th - Hurricane Bertha: made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 2 storm, causing $270 million in damage .
Jul 27th - The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia kills one person and injures 111.
Aug - The first three parent baby is conceived in New Jersey through mitochondrial donation.
Aug - The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York City.
Aug 6th - NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive lifeforms.
Aug 13th - Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicates there may be water on one of Jupiter's moons.
Aug 16th - Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the 20-foot (6.1 m) deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.
Sep 5th - Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph (185 km/h) sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damages ($4.68 billion in present-day terms[3]) and killed 27 people, mainly in North Carolina. The name "Fran" was retired due to the extensive damage.
Sep 24th - U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
Nov 7th - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
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Re: The counting game :D

by AmericanCrafter » Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:07 am

1997


January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
February 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland.
March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists committed mass suicide at their compound.
May 10 – The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.
June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
June 26 – Bloomsbury Publishing publishes J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in London.
July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis
July 4 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
July 21 – The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 3:00 am.
October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
December 3 - 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty except the US, China, Russia, and 32 other nations.
December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
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Re: The counting game :D

by ShadyVale » Fri Sep 21, 2018 4:27 am

1998...

Jan 6th - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
Jan 17th - The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
Jan 22nd - "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
Mar 1st - Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
Mar 2nd - Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
Mar 5th - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
May 19th - The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
May 19th - The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.
Jul 5th - Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the U.S. and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
Sep 4th - Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Nov 10th - Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU (1.03849×10^10 km).
Nov 20th - A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the ISS, the 21-ton Zarya Module.
Dec 4th - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the ISS, the 25,600 pounds (11,600 kg) Unity module. It docks with Zarya two days later.
Dec 19th - The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against Pres. Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation.
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Re: The counting game :D

by AmericanCrafter » Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:58 pm

1999


THE END OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM

January 1- Euro was established
January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231.
February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
March 2 – The brand new Mandalay Bay hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas
March 29 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at 10,006.78.
April 1 – Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become Canada's third territory.
April 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado, teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves.
May 3 – 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a devastating tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale, hit southern and eastern Oklahoma City metropolitan area, killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly). It also produces the highest winds recorded on Earth: 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h).
June 1 – Napster, a music downloading service, debuts.
July 7 – In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.
July 31 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface.
August 11 – A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia.
October 29 – A super cyclonic storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000 people.
November 20 – The People's Republic of China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
November 23 – The National Assembly of Kuwait revokes a 1985 law that granted women's suffrage.
November 30 – The ExxonMobil merger is completed, forming the largest corporation in the world.

December 31 - 3rd Millenium celebrations begin along with Y2K conspiracies lol
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Re: The counting game :D

by ShadyVale » Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:39 pm

2000...

Jan 10th - America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
Jan 14th - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
Feb 9th - AmericanCrafer is born unto the world; Angels rejoice for he is the Earth's problem now. :D
Feb 13th - The final original Peanuts (Charlie Brown and gang) comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
Mar 4th - The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan.
Mar 10th - The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048. Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years.
Mar 12th - Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
Mar 1th - The U.S. dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre.
Apr 3rd - U.S. v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
Apr 22nd - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, D.C., ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
May 1st - A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.
May 3rd - In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 4th - After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
May 11th - The billionth living person in India is born.
May 13th - Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
Jun 5th - 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
Jul 14th - A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
Aug 7th - DeviantART is launched.
Aug 8th - The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
Aug 14th - Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, debuts.
Aug 24th - The Nintendo GameCube is revealed.
Sep 13th - Steve Jobs introduces the public beta of Mac OS X for US$29.95.
Oct 11th - 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
Oct 30th - This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space.
Oct31st - Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
Nov 2nd - The first resident crew enters the ISS.
Nov 7th - In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
Dec 15th - The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.
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