1900-Now

[milagros317]

1971

A military junta led by Major General Idi Amin siezes power in Uganda (Jan. 25).

 

[Bugman]

September 5 1972.



Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.

 

[milagros317]

1973

The American League adopts the "designated hitter rule" meaning that the game they play can no longer legitimately be called "baseball".

 

[Bugman]

April 8 1974.


At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.

 

[NukeLaloosh]

April 1975 - Bill Gates founds Microsoft

 

[milagros317]

1976

July 4
The United States celebrates its Bicentennial.

July 4
Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid.

 

[paracarl44]

1977.

January 17th: Gary Gilmore dies by a firing squad in Utah. His execution was the first since the death penalty was reintroduced in the United States.

 

[Bugman]

February 16 1978.



The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1979: February 18 - The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.

 

[McNoodle]

December 08 1980
Mark David Chapman murders former Beatle John Lennon.

 

[milagros317]

1981

The Los Angeles Dodgers, led by sensational rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, beat the Expos in the NLCS and the Yankees in the World Series to become World Champions of Major League Baseball.

 

[Bugman]

September 19 1982.



Scott Fahlman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon to an online bulletin board

 

[paracarl44]

1983.

January 26th: Universary of Alabama former football head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant dies at age 69.

 

[Bugman]

January 22 1984.



The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial "1984".

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1985: January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21).

 

[milagros317]

1986

Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard (Jan. 28).

 

[Bugman]

June 12 1987.



Cold War: President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1988: July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record in the American Northeast.

 

[ikaiyoo]

1989 March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1990: January 13 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

 

[Bugman]

Janurary 12 1991.



Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

 

[milagros317]

1992

George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin proclaim a formal end to the Cold War (Feb. 1).

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1993: January 1 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Slovakia and the Czech Republic separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.

 

[milagros317]

1994

October 17: Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1995: January 9 - Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.