Justin Michael Garcia1987 through 2026
1946-1989 The Cold War
1952-2022 Reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England
1961-1989 Berlin Wall
1961-1991 7th Cholera Pandemic
1981-1988 Ronald Reagan president of US
1985-2050 Era of effective Machine Learning
1987 2000th satellite launched: USSRs Cosmos
1988 Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax
1988 Pacific trash patch discovered
1989 Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion
1989 Breakup of the Soviet Union
1989-1992 George Bush president of US
1989 Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff
1989 Fall of Berlin Wall
1989 US Invades Panama, topples Noriega
1990 World Wide Web
1990 Hubble space telescope deployed
1991 Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq
1991-2003 8th Cholera pandemic
1992 Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, LA, US
1992 Invention of the smartphone
1993 Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center
1993-2000 William Clinton president of US
1993 Catholic Church apologizes for abusing Galileo
1994 South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system
1994 Smartphones come into use
1995 American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City
1996 DVD video recordings
1997 Mars pathfinder lands
1997 Cloning living beings
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp reaches magnitude -1 or so
1997 Heaven's Gate mass suicide
1998 Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th.
1998 US attacks Iraq, again
1998 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU
1999 US attacks Bosnia
2000 North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August
2000 Playstation II ships
2000 Working draft of human genome completed
2000 2nd Coming, 2nd time; unfulfilled prophesy
2001 Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths
2001 Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th
2001-2009 George W. Bush president of US
2001 X-Box console released
2001 Wikipedia goes online
2001 Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid
2001 Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin
2001 Netherlands first country to legalize same-sex marriage
2001-2020 US war in Afghanistan, October 7th
2002 Euro currency introduced
2002 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar
2002 Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali
2003 28,000 die in Iran earthquake
2003 Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st)
2003-2020 US war in Iraq
2003-2026 Cholera has become endemic
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26
2004 Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered
2004 Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander
2004 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain
2004 Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight
2005 Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th
2005 Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered
2005 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep
2005 Microsoft ships Xbox 360
2005 Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th-Aug 10th
2005 NASAs Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1
2005 Kashmir earthquake kills more than 74,000
2006 Israel attacks Lebanon
2006 Americans lose habeas corpus
2006 Twitter launched
2006 Wii ships from Nintendo
2006 PS3 ships from Sony
2006 Blu-Ray recordings
2007 Amazon launches the Kindle reader
2007 Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright
2008-2010 Global Recession
2008 Tesla begins delivering electric vehicles to the public
2008 Cyclone Nargis kills more than 138,000
2008 Sichuan Earthquake kills more than 69,000
2009 Population of Africa reaches one billion
2009 Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth
2009-2016 Barack Obama president of USA
2010 Haiti earthquake - 220k dead, 300k injured
2010-2025 US improves heathcare for millions with ACA
2011 Craig Venter creates first artificial lifeform: Mycoplasma laboratorium
2011 Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico
2011 Macular degeneration curable
2011 Space shuttle fleet retired
2011 Japan 9.1 earthquake and Tsunami - 10K dead
2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, rad release
2012 Mayan calendar cycle ends
2012 Voyager I crosses the heliopause
2013 Meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk
2013 Embryonic stems cells created via cloning
2013 First nation to legalize cannabis -- Uraguay
2013 XBox One launched
2013 PS4 launched
2014 Gay marriage in England, Wales
2014 NATO ends combat ops in Afghanistan
2014 Amazon launches the Echo voice-command server
2014 Laser weapons deployed on naval platforms
2015 Dawn probe reaches Ceres
2015 New Horizons probe reaches Pluto
2015 Cuba and USA reestablish diplomatic relations
2015 Mecca Hajj stampede kills 2200+, injures 900+, 600+ missing
2015 Liquid water found on Mars
2015 Hurricane Patricia record winds 200 MPH+, 879mb pressure
2015 Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage
2015 First controlled landing of spacecraft booster
2016 North Korea tests nuclear weapon
2016 Chinese 500m radio telescope begins ops
2016 4k Blu-Ray recordings
2017 New phase of matter: "Time Crystal"
2017 Machine learning (ML) system beats human Go champion
2017-2020 Donald Trump president of the US
2018 Women allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia
2018 OpenAI releases GPT-1 LLM Machine Learning system
2019-2020 Over one billion animals perish in Australian bush fires
2019 US President Trump impeached December 18th
2019 Facebook fined $5B dollars by FTC
2019-2026 COVID-19
2019-2026 Measles cases surge in the US
2019-2026 ACA crippled by non-enforcement of individual mandate
2020 COVID-19 reaches pandemic levels
2020 Cultured meat goes on sale (Singapore)
2021 Assault on US Capital
2021 COVID vaccines developed
2021 Malaria vaccine approved by WHO
2021 Direct injection CRISPR Cas-9 gene editing
2021 James Webb IR telescope launches
2021 US President Trump impeached for 2nd time
2021 Diffusion-based generative imaging ML systems
2021-2024 Joseph Biden President of the United States
2022 Webb IR telescope goes live
2022 Polio re-emerges, beginning in NYC, USA
2022 Monkeypox spreading internationally
2022-2026 Reign of King Charles III of England
2022-2026 Russia invades Ukraine, commits multiple war crimes
2022 SCOTUS regresses women's healthcare 50 years
2023 CRISPR gene editing therapies approved (US, UK)
2023 Ex-President Trump convicted of Sexual Abuse
2023-2025 Palestinian/Hamas terrorist atrocity; Israel responds
2023 Cultured meat legal to sell in US
2024 Ex-president Trump convicted of 34 felonies
2024 Warmest year (on records kept since 1880)
2025-2026 Donald Trump president of US
2025 Robotaxis deployed in some US cities
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