Major Events in Sarah Fewell's Life

By Anakin
  • First direct US military involvement in Vietnam

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Kennedy Assasination

  • Boston Strangler, Albert Desalvo, is captured

  • Lyndon B. Johnson announces his program to create Medicare

  • Vietnam Protests

  • The Fisrt Super Bowl

  • Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • First man on the moon

  • Apollo 13 mission abandoned

  • Federal Express started by Fred Smith

  • Terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics

  • Roe vs. Wade makes abortion a US constituional right

  • Nixon becomes the first president to ever resign

  • The Vietnam war ends

  • The US Bicentennial is celebrated

  • Jimmy Carter is elected president

  • Cult leader Jim Jones, instructs 400 people to commit suicide

  • Three mile island nuclear accident

  • Ronald Reagan elected president

  • Sandra Day O'Connor is nominated to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court

  • Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide killed 7

  • The first mobile phones are introduced by the Motorolla Company

  • Aids virus is identified by a french immunologist

  • FDA approves blood testing for Aids

  • Space shuttle Challenger exploded

  • Disposable contact lenses become available to the public

  • Pan Am plane exploded from bomb

  • The Berlin Wall is dismantled

  • US sent troops to Kuwait due to the Iraq invation

  • Internet is made available to the public

  • Bill Clinton is elected president

  • Bombing of the World Trade Center by islamic fudamentalists

  • MLB goes on strike and their season is canceled

  • Oklahoma City federal building is bombed

  • Ebay was started

  • Princess Diana died in a car accident

  • President Bill Clinton was impeached

  • World prepares technology for the new millenium in fear of computers shutting down

  • Disputed election between Bush and Gore

  • Terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon

  • Euro became the official currency for 12 European Union members

  • Saddam Hussein is captured

  • President Bush is relected for his second term

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • 12 coal miners die in Sago mine disaster

  • Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker for the US congress

  • President Bush signs $700 billion bailout/Rescue Package Bill

  • Barrack Obama is elected president

  • Financial crisis and high unemployment

  • Osama Bin Laden killed