We Didn't Start The Fire

Beaten by L.A. Police

After the Not Guilty verdict of the police officers who beat Rodney King, all hell broke loose:

Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. The incident had been videotaped by George Holliday, who was a bystander to the incident, and was heavily broadcast in various news and media outlets.

California is notorius for earthquakes

April 19th, 1995 Timothy McVeigh planted bombs in the OKC Building and bombed the building

Lead Singer of Nirvanna dies in 1994

Pre-cursor to Facebook

Genetically Modified Organisms

June 25th 2009

MArch 11th 2011

In March 2018, media outlets broke news of Cambridge Analytica's business practices. The New York Times and The Observer reported that the company had acquired and used personal data about Facebook users from an external researcher who had told Facebook he was collecting it for academic purposes.

Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong Un becomes dictator of North Korea

Once he got clean and sober, he starred in the movie that revived his carrer

2016

Barack Obama elected POTUS

2013

The Black Parade is the third studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, first released on October 23, 2006

Year 2000 "bug". Fear and panic ensue. People fear their computers would reset to 1900 at the start of the New Millenium

The UK leaving the EU

PM of the UK

2 Netflix Series

2 massacares where lone gunmen enter a school and shoot students and teachers

Sandra Bland:

Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence against her.

Tamir Rice: Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old Black child who was shot and killed by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio. The shooting death of Tamir Rice in 2014 brought increased attention to the national debate on interactions between police officers and African Americans. Surveillance video of the shooting garnered worldwide attention, which led to Rice becoming a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement.

On 8 July 2022, at around 11:30 JST, Abe was shot and killed while he was delivering a campaign speech at the Yamato-Saidaiji Station, Nara.[

Duchess of Sussex

NES Game in the 1980s

Tallest building in the world. Dubai, UAE

The Fermi Paradox highlights the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life and the lack of evidence for such civilizations.

Tennis superstars

2006

The following week, and throughout the regular season, Kaepernick kneeled during the anthem. The protests received highly polarized reactions, with some praising his protests and others denouncing the protests.

Feb 2021: Texas' independent power grid failed and freak winter weather plunged Texas into an "Ice Age"

CEO of Amazon

White rhinos are not extinct, strictly speaking, but the northern white rhino is functionally extinct, with only two females remaining, while the southern white rhino population has recovered significantly.

he Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.

Ancient Aliens. became a meme

TESLAs

Queen Elizabeth II

9/11 Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center