1. 1980-2013
Kiana Brown
and
Jessica Chinwuba

2. THE MIRACLE ON ICE: 1980 (SPORTS)
 The “Miracle on Ice” is the name is the name of an
American ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter
Olympics on February 22nd. The US team, made up of
amateur and college players and coached by Herb
Brooks, defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly
every world championship and Olympic tournament
since 1954. Team USA went on to win the gold by
winning its last match against Finland.

3. MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER: 1983-
1984 (ENTERTAINMENT)
 Michael Jackson’s album Thriller was the best
selling album for 2 years (1983 and 1984). Thriller
enabled Jackson to break down racial barriers in
pop music through his appearance on MTV and
meeting Ronald Reagan at the White House.
Thriller went on to win eight Grammys in 1984
and sell 110 million copies worldwide.

4. THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW: 1986
 The first nationally syndicated episode of the
Oprah Winfrey Show aired on September 8, 1986.
The show was highly influential, and many of its
topics penetrated into the American pop-cultural
consciousness.

5. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991 (CIVIL
RIGHTS)
 On November 21, 1991, Congress enacted the Civil
Rights Act of 1991. The act made some modifications
to the employment discrimination laws, which made it
illegal to discriminate in the workplace based on race,
sex, age, national origin and age. Among the decisions
that Congress addressed were Price v. Waterhouse v.
Hopkins (1989) and Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Antonio
(1989).

6. THE FIRST TEXT MESSAGE: 1992
(TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES)
 20 years ago the first text message was sent. It
was Dec. 3, 1992, and Neil Papworth, an engineer
working in the UK, sent the world's first short
message service or SMS. It read "Merry
Christmas."

7. MOTO STARTAC: 1996
(TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT)
 The Moto StarTac was the first ever flip-phone and
the first to offer any real style, released on
January 3rd, 1996 Weighing in at just 3.1-ounces, it
was the smallest and lightest handset ever, and
incorporated vibrating alerts for the first time. A
massive favorite among businessmen, it
established Moto as a fashion phone

8. THE BITE FIGHT: 1997 (SPORTS)
 Holyfield-Tyson II is the name of the boxing match
between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on June 28,
1997, in which Tyson bit Holyfield's ear. The fight was a
follow-up rematch of the first Tyson-Holyfield fight, and
due to the biting, has earned the nickname, "The Bite
Fight".

9. THE LEWINSKY SCANDAL: 1998
(SCANDAL)
 The Lewinsky scandal was a political scandal emerging in
1998 from a relationship between United States President Bill
Clinton and White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. On Jan. 17,
1998, Clinton himself was questioned, becoming the first
sitting president to testify as a civil defendant. The Lewinsky
scandal led to Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 by the US House
of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate.

10. FADS OF 2000
 The fads of 2000 was the * Cha Cha Slide
released on September 19, 2000, Napster,
an Internet service that allowed users to
share typically music, and the Playstation
2.

11. 9/11: 2001 (POLITICAL DOMESTIC
EVENT)
 Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 Al-Qaeda
terrorist so they could be flown into buildings in suicide
attacks. Two of the planes , American Airlines Flight
11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the
North and South towers, of the World Trade Center
complex in New York City. We call this area Ground
Zero.

12. TWILIGHT: 2005 (BOOKS)
 Twilight is a young-adult vampire romance novel
by Stephenie Meyer. First published in hardback
in October 5, 2005 and reached number 5 on the
New York Times Best Seller list within a month
of it’s release and eventually reached number 1.

13. THE HUNGER GAMES: 2008 (BOOK)
 The Hunger Games was first published in
hardcover on September 14, 2008. On its initial
release, the book 200,000 copies and entered
the New York Times Best Seller list in
November 2008, where it would feature for over
100 consecutive weeks.

14. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: 2011
(POLITICAL LEADER)
 On May 2, 2011 United States President
Barack Obama organized Operation
Neptune Spear to kill terrorist leader,
Osama Bin-Laden.

15. SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SHOOTING: 2012 (CONTROVERSIAL EVENT)
 On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot
twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass
murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village
of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut. The incident
is the second deadliest mass shooting by a single
person in American history.

16. BOSTON BOMBING: 2013 (POLITICAL
DOMESTIC EVENT)
 April 15, 2013, two pressure cooked bombs
exploded at 2:49 P.M., killing 3 people and injuring
264 people. The bombs exploded about 13
seconds and 210 yards apart near the finish yard
on Boylston Street. The FBI took over the
investigation and on April 18, released photos and
surveillance video of two suspects.