Dates

Dates

1993In 1993, the Missouri and Miississippi river flooded.
Michael Jordon retires - for the 1st time.After his father was killed, and allegations of gambling, Michael Jordon retires to play minor league baseball. 17 months later he returns to basketball.

1994
South African Black Get to Vote, AprilMandela got 60 percent of the vote, far more than FW de Klerk who began dismantling aparthaid 5 years earlier. The flag was also changed to help erase some of their past.

Ocmulgee River Flooded
The River flooded in Macon, Georgia and Hawkinsville, Georgia (where I resided) among many other area in Georgia.l
1995
O.J. Simpson acquitted of double murder

1996
Summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta 27 July Olympic Park in Atlanta bombed

1997
Britain's Princess Diana tragically killed in Paris car crash.

1998
In what becomes the largest merger in history, Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for 40 billion dollars.
1999

2000
President Bush won his second term as President by the Electoral College but his opponent, Democratic Nominee Al Gore won the popular vote for President.

2001
Suicide Terrorists Strike the United States.
Suicide terrorists flew planes, two minutes apart into the towers, demolishing each and killing everyone on each plane and thousands in both towers. Two other planes were hijacked by terrorists at the same time, one flown into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. killing all on board the plane and hundreds in the Pentagon section hit and the second plane’s hijackers were overtaken by passengers but was ultimately crashed in a field in Pennsylvania killing all on board but saving many by avoiding the original target site.

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2008
The first African-American, Barak Obama, was elected President of the United States of America, although he is bi-racial.

2009
President Barak Obama, having served for less than half a year of his first term, won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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