TIMELINE
1985 — 1989
1980s CD, VCR, Cable Become Common
1981-1989 Ronald Reagan is President
1985 Hurricane Hugo
1985 Michael Jordan Wins Rookie of the Year
1985 Terrorists Bomb Air India Flight 182
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 Chernobyl Disaster
1987 Ozone “Hole” Found Over Antartica
1987 Stock Market Crash
1988 Spitak Earthquake Kills 25,000 People
1988 Lockerbie Bombing Kills 270
1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
1989 Berlin Wall Falls
1990 — 1994
1990 An insurance company has agreed to pay more than $500,000 - plus monthly payments of up to $2,000 for life - to the widow of a Roanoke firefighter killed in 1985 by a hit-and-run driver who plowed through the scene of a car fire on Shenandoah Avenue. The settlement ended a lawsuit that lasted longer than the prison term of a Salem teenager who caused the accident. Roger Lee White was convicted of manslaughter and hit-and-run charges.
1991 Gulf War
1992 Los Angeles Riots
1993 Bill Clinton is President
1993 Internet Expands with World Wide Web
1994 Amazon is Founded
1995 — 1999
1995 Yahoo! is founded
1995 Tokyo Gas Attack at Tokyo Metro
1995 Chicago Heat Wave kills 525
1995 eBay is Founded
1996 U.S. Clean Air Act Amended to Ban Sales of Leaded Fuel
1997 Tiger Woods Wins His First Major at the 61st Masters Tournament
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales Dies After a Car Crash
1998 International Space Station Begins Construction
1998 President Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations
1998 Google is founded
2000 — 2004
2000s Internet and Cell Phones Revolutionize Communications
2001-2009 George Bush is President
2001 9/11 Terror Attack Alerts America
2002 Euro Banknotes and Coins Put Into Circulation
2002 Kmart Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
2003 Iraq War Begins
2003 The New United States Department of Homeland Security Officially Begins Operation
2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger Elected Governor of California
2004 New Government Formed in Iraq
2004 Rover Lands on Mars
2005 — 2010
2005 Hurricane Katrina
2005 Rosa Parks Dies at 92
2006 Enron Former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling and Founder Kenneth Lay Found Guilty of Conspiracy and Fraud
2006 Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death
2007 Seung-Hui Cho Goes on Shooting Rampage at Virginia Tech Killing 32
2007 iPhone Invented
2008-2010 Global Financial Crisis and Recession
2008 7.9 Earthquake in China Kills Thousands
2009 Barack Obama Elected President
2010 BP Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
