MY PENNY PROJECTCienna Ribblett

1996 (Newborn) Jan. 26- Senate ratifies

major arms reduction treaty.

April 10- President Clinton blocks ban on late-term abortions.

Aug. 22- President Clinton approves the welfare reform bill earlier passed by Congress.

1997 (1 year old) May 16- President Bill Clinton

issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.

June 12-The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more difficult to counterfeit.

October 1- Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and open fires, killing 2 girls after killing his mother earlier that morning.

1998 (2 years old) March 4- Gay Rights: Oncale vs.

Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also applies when both parties are the same sex.

June 25- Clinton vs. City of New York: The United States Supreme Court rules that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

December 19- Lewinsky Scandal: President Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted of any wrong doing.)

1999 (3 years old) February 12- The Senate acquits

President Clinton of his impeachment charges.

April 20- Columbine Shootings: Columbine, Colorado. Two seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and on teacher. They also injured 21 students directly and 3 students were injured trying to escape the building. Then the 2 shooters committed suicide.

July 31- NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon.

2000 (4 years old) January 17- Almost 50,000

people marched in Columbia, South Carolina to protest the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol.

March 27- The Phillips Explosion kills 1 person and injures 71 people in Pasadena, Texas.

April 22- Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, age 6, is at the center of an international dispute. He is reunited with his father after a federal raid of his relatives’ homes in Miami.

2001 (5 years old) June 19- An American

missile landed in a soccer field in Iraq killing 23, and wounding 11.

September 11- Terrorists attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with another flight crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. A day that will live in infamy.

October 7- The first attack in the war on terrorism that the US conducts.

2002 (6 years old) October 2- The Beltway

Sniper Attacks begin with 5 shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland.

November 8- The United Nations, with MAJOR support from the US, passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face “serious consequences.”

November 25- President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law.

2003 (7 years old) February 1- Space shuttle

Columbia explodes upon reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.

March 19- Invasion of Iraq by the US and Allied forces begins the Iraq War.

December 13- Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the Us 4th Infantry.

2004 (8 years old) May 17- Massachusetts

legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. (Goodridge vs. Department of Public Health)

July 4- Groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York City.

November 2- 11 American states BAN gay marriage.

2005 (9 years old) March 1- The Supreme

Court of the United States rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles under the age of 18. (Roper vs. Simmons)

October 15- A riot occurs in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues. 114 people were arrested.

October 26- The US death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000.

2006 (10 years old) March 17- US strikes its 2

remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.

October 6- A hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes, releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents.

December 14- US spy satellite USA-193 is launched and the malfunctions.

2007 (11 years old) April 16- Virginia Tech

massacre in Blacksburg, Virginia. The killer, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded 23 others before committing suicide.

May 3- The US House of Representatives passes the Matthew Shepard Act, first gay rights bill brought to the floor for a vote. First law to extend legal protection to transgendered people.

August 1- The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed during rush hour, killing 13 people.

2008 (12 years old) March 6- A small bomb goes off

in Times Square, New York City. Nobody is injured.

May 15- California becomes the second state to legalize same-sex marriage.

December 24- Covina Massacre in Covina, California. Bruce Pardo, dressed in a Santa costume, killed 9 people either by gunshots or by the house fire the Pardo started. There were 3 people injured, 2 from gunshots and one from trying to escape through a second story window. Pardo later committed suicide at his brother’s house.

2009 (13 years old) February 18- President Obama

orders the deployment of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

September 8- President Obama gives a speech encouraging students to study hard and get a good education.

November 9- The United States Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the co-conspirator in the 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks that killed 10 and seriously injured 3 others. He was executed the following day.

2010 (14 years old) April 20- Deepwater Horizon

Oil Rig explosion kills 11 workers. The rig sinks 2 days later which begins a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (BP Spill)

July 1- Texting while driving bans go into effect in Iowa, Wyoming, Alabama, and Georgia.

August 31- Iraq War is declared to have all combat over by President Obama.

2011 (15 years old) January 6- The U.S.

Constitution is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time in history.

April 19- Fidel Castro resigned from the leadership of the Communist Party.

May 1- President Obama declared the Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and is the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, was killed.