US Historical Events2002-2013Parallel Timeline

Date: September 23, 2015

2002February 8, 2002 – The Olympic Games start in Salt Lake City, Utah.

November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441. It forces Hussein and Iraq to disarm.

2003February 1, 2003 - the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes. (All seven astronauts inside are killed.)

December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein is captured in a small bunker.

2004July 4, 2004 - The groundbreaking ceremony at Ground Zero occurs in NYC.

November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection.

2005July 26, 2005 - Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely.

August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast.

inundating the city of New Orleans. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States.

2006September 25, 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after Hurricane Katrina damage.

October 17, 2006 - The population of the United States reaches three hundred million.

2007January 4, 2007 - Nancy Pelosi

becomes the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

June 2, 2007 - A terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York City is stopped.

July 4, 2007 - The flag of the USA becomes the longest flying flag in history! (after flying over forty-seven years)

2008August 17, 2008 - Michael Phelps wins his 8th Gold Medal in the Olympics.

August 29, 2008 - The first time a presidential election included both an African-American candidate and a woman.

November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama becomes first African-American president in the history of the US.

2009June 1, 2009 - The H1N1 virus, named the Swine Flu, is deemed a global pandemic.

October 31, 2009 - The economic recession continues with the unemployed reaching 10.2%.

2010March 25, 2010 - The U.S. House of Representatives finalizes the Health Care legislation.

April 20, 2010 - A BP oil rig explodes in causing the largest oil spill in the history of the United States.

2011April 30, 2011 - Osama Bin Laden is killed.

July 21, 2011 - The final shuttle flight lands at the Kennedy Space Center.

2012May 2, 2012 - The highest

payment for a work of art, the Scream by Edwin March, is paid, ($120 mil.)

October 29, 2012 - Hurricane Sandy attacks the east coast.

November 6, 2012 - President Obama wins a second term in office.

2013April 15, 2013 – Bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

(killing three and injuring hundreds in a terrorism attack coordinated by two brothers associated with radical Islam.)

2014

Feb – Jay Leno hosts his last The Tonight Show.

March - A Malaysian airplane goes missing.

2015

Feb. - New England Beats Seattle to Take Fourth Super Bowl