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2008 - Fidel Castro steps down in Cuba 2007 - Colts Finally Win Superbowl 2006 - Record Storm Socks Northeast 2005 - Hurricane Katrina Devastates Gulf Coast 2004 - Saddam Hussein Captured 2003 - UN Weapons Inspectors Search Iraq 2002 - Patient Gets First Totally Implanted Artificial Heart 2001 - Rolling Power Blackouts in California 2000 - World Enters New Century Smoothly 1999 - DOW Industrial Average Surges Past 10,000 1998 - First Planet Outside Solar System Photographed 1997 - Princess Diana, 36, Killed With Two Others In Paris Car Crash 1995 - Terrorist's Car Bomb Blows Up Oklahoma City Federal Building 1994 - Time's Man of the Year Pope John Paul III 1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Appointed To Supreme Court 1992 - Bush and Yeltsin Proclaim a Formal End To The Cold War 1991 - Gorbachev Resigns as Last President of USSR 1990 - Iraq Invades Kuwait U.N. Sanctions Imposed 1989 - San Francisco Earthquake Delays World Series 1988 - "Phantom Of The Opera" Opens On Broadway 1987 - Reagan Visits Berlin To Mark Its 750th Anniversary 1986 - Reactor Problems at Chernobyl, Kiev, U.S.S.R. 1985 - U.S.A. For Africa Record "We Are The World" 1984 - U.S. and French Teams Independently Discover AIDS Virus 1983 - Sally Ride Is The First Woman In Space 1982 - Vietnam Veterans' War Memorial Dedicated 1981 - First U.S. Space Shuttle, "Columbia," Makes Maiden Flight 1980 - Lech Walesa Becomes Chairman of Solidarity Party 1979 - Nuclear Disaster Narrowly Averted at Three Mile Island 1978 - "Test-tube baby" Born in England 1977 - U.S. Space Shuttle Makes Its First Manned Flight 1976 - Alex Haley: "Roots" 1975 - Margaret Thatcher Leader of Conservative Party 1974 - Worldwide Inflation Causes Dramatic Price Increases 1973 - Roe V. Wade Case is Decided By U.S. Supreme Court 1972 - President Nixon Visits China And Russia 1971 - "Fiddler on the Roof" Becomes Longest Running Musical 1970 - Paris Peace Talks 1969 - Neil Armstrong Walks on Moon 1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is Assassinated In Memphis 1967 - Stanford Biochemists Produce Synthetic Version of DNA 1966 - Indira Gandhi Becomes Prime Minister of India 1965 - Race Riots in Watts 1964 - Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963 - President John F. Kennedy Assassinated 1962 - Sonny Liston, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1961 - Alan Shepard Makes First U.S. Space Flight 1960 - John F. Kennedy Elected President 1959 - Hawaii Becomes 50th State of the U.S. 1958 - U.S.establishes NASA 1957 - U.S.S.R. Launches Sputnik I and II 1956 - Oral Vaccine for Polio Developed by Albert Sabin 1955 - Popular Song "Rock Around the Clock" 1954 - U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Tested at Bikini 1953 - U.S.S.R. Explodes Hydrogen Bomb 1952 - John Steinbeck "East of Eden" 1951 - Color Television Debuts in U.S. 1950 - Ray Bradbury "Martian Chronicles" 1949 - Ongoing U.S. Airlift Breaks Berlin Blockade 1948 - First World Health Assembly Meets In Geneva 1947 - The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in Wadi Qumran 1946 - Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech In Fulton, Missouri 1944 - WW II: D-Day Landings In Normandy On June 6 1943 - Casablanca Conference Between Churchill And Roosevelt 1942 - Japanese Force March ("Bataan Death March") 1941 - Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor 1940 - F.D. Roosevelt Re-Elected President for Third Term 1939 - World War II: Britain and France Declare War on Germany 1938 - 40-hour Work Week Established in the U.S. 1937 - F.D. Roosevelt Signs U.S. Neutrality Act 1936 - Boulder ( Hoover) Dam in Nevada is Completed 1935 - Roosevelt Signs Social Security Act 1934 - F.B.I. Shoots John Dillinger "Public Enemy No. 1" 1933 - Amelia Earhart Is First Woman To Fly Across The Atlantic 1932 - Work Begins on San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge 1931 - Pearl S. Buck writes "The Good Earth" 1930 - Sigmund Freud "Civilization And Its Discontents" 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1928 - Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic 1927 - Charles A, Lindbergh Flies "Spirit Of St. Louis" 1926 - Werner Heisenberg Further Develops Quantum Theory 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation Founded By Walter P. Chrysler 1923 - Sigmund Freud Writes "The Ego And The Id" 1922 - Soviet States Form U.S.S.R. 1921 - Albert Einstein Wins Nobel Prize for Physics 1918 - Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Points for World Peace 1917 - Russian Revolution 1916 - Francisco "Pancho" Villa Raids Columbus, New Mexico 1914 - Panama Canal Opened 1913 - Henry Ford Develops First Moving Assembly Line 1912 - S.S. "Titanic" sinks on her maiden voyage Commencement Photos and Videos 2001 Spring Commencement 2000 Winter Commencement 2000 Spring Commencement, More Photos 1999 Winter Commencement 1999 Spring Commencement 1998 Spring Commencement More Photos from the Campus Tour Page. |
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