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To: goldworldnet who wrote (333939)	12/26/2002 11:00:41 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

dood... your scarin' me.... :)

To: goldworldnet who wrote (333939)	12/27/2002 8:45:50 AM
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You need to go fishin, gold..... <gg>

To: goldworldnet who wrote (333939)	12/28/2002 10:32:55 PM
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President Thread Grubs for Historical Years This list chronicles many early post numbers with their authors and corresponding events in history using the post number as a year. I have tried to be faithful to this task though scholars do debate many dates. Many sites were used for this compilation. I hope the old timers here enjoy this list as well as newer posters such as myself who have since joined this discussion. MKTBUZZ #14 Death of Augustus Caesar sandintoes #20 Agrippina brings Germanicus' ashes to Rome MKTBUZZ #25 Han Dynasty in China begins MKTBUZZ #26 Tiberius withdraws from Rome Dr. Stoxx #37 Roman emperor Tiberius dies MKTBUZZ #40 Caligula orders Jerusalem temple made an Imperial shrine TigerPaw #41 Caligula stabbed to death TigerPaw #57 Paul is imprisoned in Caeasarea sandintoes #70 Judea revolts against Rome, Jerusalem is burned truedog #79 Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Pompeii destroyed Dr. Stoxx #122 Hadrian begins construction on a 117 km (73 mile) long wall between England and Scotland. Dr. Stoxx #132 First seismoscope developed in China rich4eagle #149 Chinese dictionary of 10,000 characters produced by Hu Shin MKTBUZZ #154 Polycarp travels to Rome to arbitrate Christian dispute Hawkmoon #158 Claudius Galen writes that arteries carry blood jlallen #219 Founding of the Sura Academy in Babylon truedog #248 Rome’s 1000th birthday celebrated under the emperor Philippus sandintoes #250 Greek mathematician Diophantus publishes Arithmetica sandintoes #271 First form of compass used in China Neocon #297 Rome recaptures Armenia and Mesopotamia Neocon #300 Church council of Elvira, Spain, prohibits intermarriage between Jews and Christians, also forbidding them to eat together truedog #325 Constantine the Great introduces Sunday as a holy day Ellen #340 Battle of Aquileia / Constantine II is killed Charleymane #381 First Council of Constantinople convenes Ellen #383 Roman legions begin to leave Britannia MKTBUZZ #389 The Library at Alexandria burns Charleymane #406 Attila the Hun born Charleymane #440 Church adopts December 25th to celebrate Christmas chalu2 #452 Atilla sacks Patavium (Padua, Italy) chalu2 #453 Attila the Hun dies Charleymane #476 End of West Roman Empire MKTBUZZ #500 Scriptures have now been translated into more than 500 languages / Clovis conquers most of France and Belgium Charleymane #510 Northern India crushed by the Huns Vern #521 Boëthius introduces Greek musical letter notation to the West truedog #529 Founded by Plato, the Academy at Athens is closed Zoltan! #553 Second Council of Constantinople convenes Charleymane #597 St Augustine of Canterbury introduces Christianity to Britain HiTech #630 Mohammed captures Mecca Lizzie Tudor #637 Arabs conquer Jerusalem truedog #649 Arabs conquer Cyprus PROLIFE #680 Third Council of Constantinople convenes chalu2 #691 Dome of the Rock is built on the Jewish Temple site Bill #711 Muslim conquest of Spain jttmab #732 Islamic expansion in Western Europe stopped by Franks HiTech #742 Charlemagne is born Charleymane #771 Charlemagne becomes sole ruler of the kingdom Neocon #790 Vikings begin assault on Britain chalu2 #800 Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman emperor Charleymane #814 Charlemagne dies jlallen #841 Vikings found the city of Dublin chalu2 #861 Iceland discovered Neocon #869 Cyrillic alphabet developed by Greek brothers Charleymane #900 Turks begin invasions of India, bringing Islam Lizzie Tudor #950 Erik the Red is born Bill #962 Otto I founds the second Holy Roman Empire in Germany jlallen #970 Leif Erikson is Born / Chinese introduce paper money Charleymane #982 Erik the Red discovers Greenland Neocon #983 First encyclopedia called the Taiping Yulan made in China truedog #1001 Leif Erikson believed to have discovered the New World Neocon #1027 Birth of William I, first Norman king of England truedog #1040 Macbeth murders Duncan, king of Scotland Neocon #1066 William the Conqueror invades England, defeats last Saxon king at Battle of Hastings and is crowned King of England Lizzie Tudor #1095 Crusades begin sandintoes #1107 Chinese money printed in 3 colors to stop counterfeiting Achilles #1155 Map of western China printed (oldest known printed map) jlallen #1162 Genghis Khan is born Neocon #1169 Ibn-Rushd begins translating Aristotle's works j g cordes #1189 Richard I (the Lionhearted) succeeds Henry II in England Neocon #1192 Samurai and Shoguns emerge as the ruling class in Japan Bill #1200 Buttons invented to decorate clothing chalu2 #1215 King John signs Magna Carta / Kublai Khan is born sandintoes #1227 Genghis Khan dies from falling off his horse sandintoes #1245 The Great Inquisition truedog #1246 The Great Inquisition ends Neocon #1254 Marco Polo is born melinda abplanalp #1260 Kublai Khan proclaimed emperor Bill #1275 Marco Polo meets and kneels before Kublai Khan sandintoes #1289 First manuscript mentioning spectacles Neocon #1294 Kublai Khan dies Neocon #1307 Dante Alighieri: "Divina Commedia" jlallen #1324 Marco Polo dies Neocon #1337 Start of the "Hundred Year War" between France and England Bill #1340 First European paper mill opened Bill #1350 First gunpowder used as a projectile by a German monk John Lacelle #1351 Bubonic Plague ends after killing 25 million people jlallen #1380 Poll Tax introduced in England jlallen #1381 Peasant's Revolt in England jlallen #1382 Vulgate Bible translated into English wallacestevens #1387 Geoffrey Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales Bill #1400 Birth of the Inca civilization Bill #1428 Joan of Arc leads French against English truedog #1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake as a witch after trial mark silvers #1452 Leonardo da Vinci is born sandintoes #1453 Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks jlallen #1455 Johann Gutenberg completes first printed Bible jlallen #1473 Nicolas Copernicus is born Neocon #1476 Leonardo da Vinci is accused of a homosexual affair Neocon #1480 Modern Chess appears jlallen #1492 Columbus discovers the New World truedog #1497 Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India Bill #1512 Michelangelo finishes painting the Sistine Chapel PROLIFE #1517 The beginning of the Reformation melinda abplanalp #1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies Neocon #1521 Hernando Cortez conquest of the Aztecs / Ponce de Leon dies failing to find the Fountain of Youth Neocon #1522 Magellan crew navigates the globe jlallen #1530 Copernicus asserts the earth travels around the sun Neocon #1535 Reformation begins as Henry VIII makes himself head of English Church Neocon #1543 Nicolas Copernicus dies Neocon #1547 Henry VIII founder of the Church of England dies mark silvers #1564 William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei are born Bill #1568 Bottled beer invented in London PROLIFE #1573 Earl of Essex granted Clandeboye by Queen Elizabeth I PROLIFE #1574 Tunis Annexed by Ottomans MulhollandDrive #1580 Portuguese-Spanish Union sandintoes #1597 Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots rich4eagle #1607 Jamestown founded, first permanent English colony in American Les Horowitz #1609 Galileo constructs the first astronomical telescope Bill #1610 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson's Bay / Galileo discovers Jupiter moons jlallen #1613 Neptune discovered by Galileo Neocon #1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock melinda abplanalp #1624 Dutch West India Company purchases Manhattan Lather.Rinse.Repeat. #1632 Galileo publishes "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" truedog #1633 Galileo renounces the Copernican system before the Inquisition in Rome truedog #1642 Galileo Galilei dies chalu2 #1643 Articles of the United Colonies of New England Neocon #1665 Cell discovery by Robert Hooke Neocon #1666 Great London Fire sandintoes #1692 Salem Witch Trials melinda abplanalp #1712 Piston steam engine invented by Thomas Newcamen rich4eagle #1724 Modern mercury thermometer invented rich4eagle #1734 Daniel Boone is born sandintoes #1752 Ben Franklin discovers lightning is electricity Gemini #1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born Gemini #1769 Nicolas Cugnot invents the motorized carriage rich4eagle #1770 Ludwig van Beethoven is born sandintoes #1773 Boston Tea Party rich4eagle #1774 First Continental Congress Gemini #1775 Second Continental Congress / Marine Corps founded Neocon #1776 Declaration of Independence rich4eagle #1777 Articles of Confederation melinda abplanalp #1778 Captain James Cook discovers Hawaii / Franz Mesmer uses hypnotism truedog #1779 Austria declares war on France Neocon #1780 Laurens, former president of the Congress captured by British Charleymane #1781 Final ratification of the Articles / Uranus discovered / Washington recommends a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer sandintoes #1782 Continental Congress Thanksgiving Proclamation truedog #1783 End of the War for Independence rich4eagle #1784 First colony in Alaska, founded by Russian Grigorii Shelekov Elect #1785 Russians settle Aleutian Islands rich4eagle #1786 Small earthquake in New Hampshire sandintoes #1787 Constitutional Convention / Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Neocon #1788 Statehood: Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, and New York rich4eagle #1789 Washington's First Inaugural Address / French Revolution / North Carolina statehood Gemini #1790 Rhode Island statehood melinda abplanalp #1791 Vermont admitted to the Union chalu2 #1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Kentucky admitted to the Union rich4eagle #1793 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are beheaded sandintoes #1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies rich4eagle #1795 Metric system adopted in France sandintoes #1796 Washington's Farewell Address / Tennessee statehood / Smallpox vaccination invented Gemini #1797 John Adam's Inaugural Address Charleymane #1798 Napoleon extends French conquests to Rome and Egypt chalu2 #1799 Washington dies at Mt Vernon /Alessandro Volta invents the battery Gemini #1800 Napoleon conquers Italy / Herschel discovers infrared rays chalu2 #1801 Jefferson's First Inaugural Address truedog #1802 John Dalton introduces atomic theory into chemistry jpmac #1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty / Ohio statehood chalu2 #1804 Beginning travels of Lewis and Clark / Whiskey Rebellion Gemini #1805 Lord Nelson defeats the French-Spanish fleets at Battle of Trafalgar chalu2 #1806 Rockets introduced as weapons into British army jpmac #1807 Newberry invents circular saw Lizzie Tudor #1808 US prohibits importation of slaves from Africa Gemini #1809 James Madison's First Inaugural Address sandintoes #1810 Napoleon divorces Josephine / Appert technique for canning food Lizzie Tudor #1811 Avogadro writes on the molecular composition of glass mark silvers #1812 War of 1812 / Louisiana statehood / Napoleon invades Russia in June and is forced to retreat in winter chalu2 #1813 Drais builds on early version of the bicycle Gemini #1814 French defeated by allies, Napoleon exiled to Elba mark silvers #1815 War of 1812 ends / Lafitte, Battle of New Orleans / Tambora, largest eruption in 10,000 years / Napoleon defeated by Wellington at Waterloo sandintoes #1816 Indiana statehood / Laennec invents stethoscope Lizzie Tudor #1817 Monroe's First Inaugural Address / Mississippi statehood chalu2 #1818 Illinois statehood / Steam ship crosses the Atlantic chalu2 #1819 Alabama statehood / Hans Oersted discovers electromagnetism Neocon #1820 Maine statehood / Liberia founded for repatriation of Negroes Gemini #1821 Missouri statehood / Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics chalu2 #1822 Accordion invented / Fourier writes "Analytical Theory of Heat" jpmac #1823 Monroe Doctrine warns Europe not to interfere in America Neocon #1824 Mexico becomes a republic, 3 years after declaring independence jpmac #1825 John Quincy Adams' Inaugural / First passenger railroad in England chalu2 #1826 Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph Neocon #1827 Sulfur friction matches introduced by John Walker chalu2 #1828 Construction of first railroad in the US (Baltimore-Ohio) Neocon #1829 Andrew Jackson's Inaugural / Henry constructs electric motor jpmac #1830 Robert Brown discovers the cell nucleus in plants Neocon #1831 Ross determines position of the magnetic North Pole chalu2 #1832 Word 'socialism" comes into use in English and French Neocon #1833 Webster publishes his own revision of the King James Bible / Slavery abolished in British Empire jpmac #1834 Jacobi invents first practical electromotor / George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film Charleymane #1835 First test to propel trains by electric batteries Charleymane #1836 Texas Declaration of Independence / Arkansas statehood / Battle of the Alamo Les Horowitz #1837 Martin Van Buren's Inaugural Address / Michigan statehood / Samuel Morse debuts the telegraph Les Horowitz #1838 Ozone discovered / Dickens publishes "Oliver Twist" Gemini #1839 First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China / Charles Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber Gemini #1840 Lower and Upper Canada united / First postage stamp in Britain truedog #1841 James Polk's Inaugural Address / Saxophone invented truedog #1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty defines US-Canadian border truedog #1843 SS Great Britain built, first propeller ship to cross Atlantic truedog #1844 Texas Treaty of Annexation / YMCA founded jlallen #1845 Harrison's Inaugural Address / Florida and Texas statehood jlallen #1846 Mexican War / Iowa statehood / Neptune discovered jlallen #1847 Salt Lake City founded / British Factory Act restricts workday jlallen #1848 Mexican War ends / Wisconsin statehood / 1st safety matches / Marx and Engels: "Communist Manifesto" jlallen #1849 Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address / safety pin patented jlallen #1850 Fugitive Slave Act / California statehood jlallen #1851 Howe invents precursor to the zipper / Singer sewing machine jlallen #1852 Treaty with the Apache / "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written / Term evolution coined by Herbert Spencer jlallen #1853 Pierce's Inaugural / Convention with Britain / Mexico Treaty / Crimean War begins as Turkey declares war on Russia jlallen #1854 Republican Party formed / Kansas-Nebraska Act / Japan Treaty jlallen #1855 David E. Hughes invents printing telegraph Brumar89 #1856 Neanderthal skull found / Bechstein piano factory started Les Horowitz #1857 James Buchanan's Inaugural / First safety elevator chalu2 #1858 Minnesota statehood / California Gold Rush / Pro-slavery constitution rejected in Kansas chalu2 #1859 Oregon statehood / Darwin publishes Origin of Species / John Brown raids Harpers Ferry; is captured and hanged chalu2 #1860 Winchester's arms company, adapts a breech-loading rifle chalu2 #1861 Lincoln First Inaugural / US Civil War / Kansas statehood truedog #1862 Treaty with Great Britain to the Suppress the Slave Trade / Emancipation Proclamation truedog #1863 West Virginia statehood / Gettysburg Address chalu2 #1864 Nevada statehood / Gen. Sherman's Atlanta campaign truedog #1865 US Civil War ends / Lincoln Assassinated / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published Lizzie Tudor #1866 Third TransAtlantic cable finally works properly chalu2 #1867 Nebraska statehood / Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital truedog #1868 Impeachment of Andrew Johnson / Cro-Magnon skeleton found truedog #1869 Trans-Continental railroad is achieved /Suez Canal completed chalu2 #1870 J.D. Rockefeller Founds Standard Oil Company Brumar89 #1871 Great Chicago Fire / British Parliament legalizes labor unions jlallen #1872 Mubridge photographs a horse in motion (early moving picture) chalu2 #1873 Jeans invented by Levi Struass Brumar89 #1874 H. Solomon introduces pressure cooking for canning foods truedog #1875 Richard Hoe invents rotary printing press chalu2 #1876 US Centennial / Colorado statehood / Bell invents telephone / Nikolaus Otto invents internal combustion engine in Germany Gemini #1877 Edison invents phonograph / First refrigerated shipping Gemini #1878 Salvation Army founded / Anti-Socialist Law in Germany enacted truedog #1879 Edison invents light bulb / First electric tram in Berlin Gemini #1880 Pasteur cholera vaccine / Laveran discovers malaria parasite chalu2 #1881 Garfield Assassinated / Gunfight at the OK corral Gemini #1882 Edison designs first hydro electric plant in Wisconsin chalu2 #1883 Krakatau erupts in Indonesia / 1st 10 story skyscraper chalu2 #1884 First underground railroad / Twain writes "Huckleberry Finn" pezz #1885 Benz builds gasoline car engine / Eastman photographic paper pezz #1886 France gives Statue of Liberty to the United States / Tarawera erupts in New Zealand chalu2 #1887 Goodwin invents celluloid film pezz #1888 Jack the Ripper makes headlines in London pezz #1889 N Dakota, S Dakota, Montana, Washington statehood Achilles #1890 Idaho, Wyoming statehood / Sherman Antitrust Act / Wounded Knee / Moving-picture shows in New York / 1st US steel-framed building truedog #1891 Beginnings of wireless telegraphy / Judson invents zipper truedog #1892 Automatic phone switchboard / Pithecanthropus erectus discovered truedog #1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the vote 1st Ford car built / 1st Benz car built / Diesel patented truedog #1894 Louis Lumiere invents the cinematograph truedog #1895 X-rays discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen Neocon #1896 Utah statehood / Becquerel discovers radioactivity Neocon #1897 Alaska Gold Rush / Ross discovers malaria bacillus Neocon #1898 Spanish-American War / "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells Neocon #1899 1st magnetic sound recording / Asprin first manufactured jlallen #1900 Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams" jlallen #1901 McKinley Assassinated / Spindletop launches Texas oil boom / Christmas tree lights are introduced by Edison General Electric jlallen #1902 Aswan Dam completed / Enrico Caruso's 1st gramophone recording / The teddy bear is created by a Russian immigrant to the USA Brumar89 #1903 Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina pezz #1904 St. Louis World's Fair / New York City subway opens pezz #1905 Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity Bill #1906 Great San Francisco earthquake and fire / Alzheimer's identified Les Horowitz #1907 Oklahoma statehood / Lumiere developes color photography / Boy Scouts founded in Great Britain lallen #1908 First Model T Ford / General Motors Corporation formed jlallen #1909 1st Plastic patent by Baekeland / Peary reaches North Pole / Louis Bleriot crosses English Channel in airplane Bill #1910 China abolishes slavery / Portugal becomes a republic / Boy Scouts of America incorporated in the US Bill #1911 Amundsen reaches South Pole / Rutherford atomic theory Les Horowitz #1912 New Mexico, Arizona statehood / Titanic sinks jlallen #1913 Bohr formulates own theory of atomic structure Bill #1914 Panama Canal completed / Goddard begins rocketry experiments jlallen #1915 United States Air Force founded chalu2 #1916 Blood for transfusion refrigerated / Theory of Shell Shock Achilles #1917 Russian Revolution / US enters World War I Achilles #1918 Word War I ends / Czar Nicholas II executed in Siberia Gemini #1919 US Prohibition begins / 1st experiments with shortwave radio rich4eagle #1920 US Women receive vote (19th) amendment ratified / League of Nations holds first meeting at Geneva Les Horowitz #1921 BBC is founded / WWI reparations set off inflation of German Mark rich4eagle #1922 Insulin 1st given to diabetics / Soviet States form U.S.S.R. Neocon #1923 Tokyo earthquake kills 120,000 Bill #1924 Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin becomes head of USSR rich4eagle #1925 Scopes Monkey Trial / Wyoming elects nations 1st woman governor Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf" Bill #1926 US Marines quell Nicaragua revolt / Woman swims English Channel Gemini #1927 Lindbergh flies 1st solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris / Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in the season jlallen #1928 Fleming discovers penicillin / Byrd begins Antarctic expedition jlallen #1929 Stock Market Crash / Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago / Edwin Powell Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe jlallen #1930 Pluto discovered / France begins to build Maginot Line Bill #1931 Empire State Building completed Neocon #1932 Lindbergh kidnapping / Huxley publishes "Brave New World" Bill #1933 FDR introduces "New Deal" / 1st US aircraft carrier launched / The chocolate chip cookie is invented Neocon #1934 Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by Nazis / Hitler becomes Führer / USSR admitted to League of Nations jlallen #1935 FDR signs Social Security Act / Radar device built by Watt Neocon #1936 Hoover Dam completed / Hitler-Muussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis Neocon #1937 Amelia Earhart lost in Pacific on round-the-world flight / Hindenberg disaster / Focke builds helicopter jlallen #1938 Ballpoint pen invented / Hahn finds evidence of nuclear fusion Neocon #1939 Germany invades Poland / Nylon stockings appear / "Gone with the Wind" and "Wizard of Oz" released Gemini #1940 Successful US helicopter flight / 1st electron microscope Neocon #1941 Pearl Harbor is Bombed / US enters WWII Gemini #1942 Fermi splits atom / Manhattan Project begins Neocon #1943 US Income tax withholding introduced / Hofmann discovers LSD Lizzie Tudor #1944 Allies invade Normandy on D-Day / G.I. Bill of Rights enacted / Bretton Woods Conference creates IMF and World Bank jlallen #1945 Atomic Bombs used at Hiroshima & Nagasaki / WWII ends Neocon #1946 First meeting of UN General Assembly opens in London / Microwave oven invented by Raytheon Lizzie Tudor #1947 Truman proposes "Truman Doctrine" to resist communist expansion Neocon #1948 Israel is founded / Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi jlallen #1949 USSR tests atomic bomb / NATO formed / Orwell writes "1984" Lizzie Tudor #1950 Korean War begins/ McCarthyism begins / China occupies Tibet / Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb Les Horowitz #1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to USSR / "I Love Lucy" begins / color TV intoduced in US jlallen #1952 US tests hydrogen bomb / Contraceptive pill produced Les Horowitz #1953 Korean War ends / Hillary climbs Everest / USSR tests H-Bomb / Smoking linked with cancer / Cave paintings discovered in France Les Horowitz #1954 "under God" added to Pledge / Nautilus launched / Elvis debuts / School segregation unconstitutional / Bannister breaks 4-minute mile mark silvers #1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus in Alabama / Martin Luther King leads black boycott / UHF waves produced at MIT jlallen #1956 Trans-Atlantic telephone service is established / Woody Guthrie composes This Land is Your Land. Bill #1957 The Little Rock Nine integrate Arkansas high school / USSR launches Sputnik truedog #1958 US launches Explorer I / Van Allen Belts discovered Bill #1959 Alaska, Hawaii statehood / Castro takes over Cuba / 1st Xerox copier mark silvers #1960 USSR shoots down US U-2 spy plane / Bathyscaphe dives to 38,810 feet truedog #1961 Alan Shepard first American in space / Bay of Pigs invasion fails / East Germans erect Berlin Wall to stop fleeing refugees truedog #1962 John Glenn orbits the Earth / Cuban Missile Crisis truedog #1963 Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, LBJ becomes president / Martin Luther King delivers I have a dream speech jlallen #1964 LBJ War on Poverty / Vietnam War / The Beatles Starduster234 #1965 Martin Luther King, Jr arrested / Malcolm X shot to death Starduster234 #1966 Miranda rights born / Black teenagers riot in Watts / De Gualle requests removal of NATO forces from France Starduster234 #1967 Apollo 1 burns on launch pad killing 3 astronauts. The next Apollo mission will be Apollo 7, skipping flight numbers 2 through 6 / China tests H-Bomb / Barnard performs 1st heart transplant jlallen #1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated / Apollo 8 orbits Moon / Pulsars are discovered Bill #1969 Moon Landing / Mariner sends back pictures of Mars / Concorde tested / Woodstock attracts 300,000 people jlallen #1970 Clean Air Act /4 killed at Kent State / Aswan Dam finished Bill #1971 Communist China joins UN / India invades Pakistan jlallen #1972 Vietnam War ends / Clean water Act / Terrorist group Black September attacks Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics jlallen #1973 Roe vs Wade / Endangered Species Act / LBJ dies jlallen #1974 Nixon resigns / Privacy Act of 1974 / Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army jlallen #1975 Watergate trials / Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior Starduster234 #1976 Viking Probes land on Mars / UK Race Relations Act / Earthquakes kill 780,000 worldwide Bill #1977 US gives up Panama Canal / Carter pardons draft evaders / Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions. Bill #1978 Smallpox eradicated / First Birth Due to Invitro silvers #1979 Soviets invade Afghanistan / Iran takes hostages at US embassy Neocon #1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption / American nuns killed in El Salvador / Hostage rescue attempt in Iran Fails jlallen #1981 Reagan shot / Pope shot / Reagan fires air traffic controllers Bill #1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies / Falklands War mark silvers #1983 US peacekeepers killed in Lebanon / US invades Grenada / First compact disks Starduster234 #1984 AIDS discovered / Indira Gandhi murdered jlallen #1985 Reagan tax reform / Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader / Air India jet explodes over Atlantic killing 329 Bill #1986 Challenger explodes / Chernobyl melts down / Marcos flees Philippines mark silvers #1987 World Stock Market crash / Palestinian intifada Bill #1988 Bomb blows apart Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland jlallen #1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall / Savings and Loan bailout jlallen #1990 Gulf War Begins / Germany United / Mandela Freed truedog #1991 Gulf War ends jlallen #1992 Windows 3.1 is introduced / Clinton is elected truedog #1993 SuperConducting Super Collider cancelled jlallen #1994 An asteroid passes earth at only 160 000km / Chunnel between England and France opens for traffic truedog #1995 Tokyo subway attacked with nerve gas mark silvers #1996 Same-sex marriages prohibited under the Defense of Marriage Act / Discovery of planet orbiting 4th closest star to Earth truedog #1997 Socialist Parties win national elections in Britain and France / Scottish researchers clone lamb from adult sheep DNA Starduster234 #1998 Pope visits Cuba / Pakistan adopts Islamic legal system truedog #1999 NATO air attacks on Serbia / 1st balloon flight around the world jlallen #2000 DNA sequencing of human genome roughly completed / Bush narrowly wins presidency / Pope visits Jerusalem Starduster234 #2001 World Trade Center Towers and Pentagon attacked by Terrorists. jlallen #2002 Hubble shows Universe to be approximately 14 billion years old Starduster234 #2003 Senate to vote on new Majority Leader January 2003 * * *