21st Century Timeline of Events by Berneisha Curtis https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j en-us 2017-05-17 03:17:54 UTC 2026-03-17 16:53:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Berneisha Curtis was born (December 1998) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172244582 On December 5, 1998 a star was born and that star name is Berneisha Curtis. She is a Florida Native. Born and raised in the county of Dade. She currently attends Miramar High School and will soon be taking her talents to Florida State University to earn her degree in Marketing. She is a strong minded, confident, boss who is preparing for the real world.]]> 2017-05-17 04:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172244582 Columbine Massacre (April 1999) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172246818 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, dressed in trench coats, began shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School. The pair then moved inside the school, where they gunned down many of their victims in the library. Klebold and Harris had killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded more than 20 other people. Shortly the two teens turned their guns on themselves. In the aftermath of the shootings, many schools across America enacted “zero tolerance” rules regarding disruptive behavior and threats of violence from students. Columbine High School reopened in the fall of 1999. Mark Manes, the man who sold a gun to Harris was sentenced to six years in prison. Another man, Philip Duran, who introduced Harris and Klebold to Manes, also was sentenced to prison time. Some victims and families of people killed or injured filed suit against the school and the police; most of these suits were later dismissed in court.
Source: History.com COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Source: CNN.com Facts about Columbine shooting , April 5, 2017]]> 2017-05-17 05:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172246818 Patriot Act (October 2001) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172247519 The USA PATRIOT Act, as it is officially known, is an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.” The law was intended, in Bush’s words, to “enhance the penalties that will fall on terrorists or anyone who helps them.” The act increased intelligence agencies’ ability to share information and lifted restrictions on communications surveillance. Law enforcement officials were given broader mandates to fight financial counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering schemes that funded terrorists. The Patriot Act’s expanded definition of terrorism also gave the FBI increased powers to access personal information such as medical and financial records. The Patriot Act superseded all state laws.
Source: History.com

George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act

October 26,2016

]]> 2017-05-17 05:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172247519 9/11 Attack (September 2001) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172248733 On September 11, 2001 an American Airlines plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, after the first plane hit, a plane appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. America was under attack.
Source: History.com]]> 2017-05-17 05:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172248733 Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172249536 On this day in 2003, President George W. Bush addresses the nation via live television and announces that Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun. Bush authorized the mission to rid Iraq of tyrannical dictator Saddam Hussein and eliminate Hussein’s ability to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Operation Iraqi Freedom illustrated the Bush administration’s pledge to use unilateral, pre-emptive strikes if necessary against nations believed dangerous to American national security.
Source: History.com

Bush announces the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom

March 19, 2016

]]> 2017-05-17 05:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172249536 Facebook is Launched (2004) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172250123 Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile
Source: thegaurdian.com]]> 2017-05-17 05:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172250123 Space Shuttle Columbia (2003) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172250534 On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster occurred minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. An investigation later determined the catastrophe was caused by a problem that took place shortly after launch on January 16, when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the shuttle’s propellant tank and damaged the edge of the shuttle’s left wing. The Columbia disaster was the second major tragedy in the history of the space shuttle program after the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after launch on January 28, 1986, and all seven astronauts on board perished.
Source: History.com]]> 2017-05-17 05:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172250534 Hurricane Katrina (2005) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172251021 Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. Levee breaches led to massive flooding, and many people charged that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the people affected by the storm. Hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.
Source: History.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172251021 Global Financial Crisis (2008) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172251559 In 2008 the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The contagion, which began in 2007 when sky-high home prices in the United States finally turned decisively downward, spread quickly, first to the entire U.S. financial sector and then to financial markets overseas. The American auto industry, which pleaded for a federal bailout, found itself at the edge of an abyss. Still more ominously, banks, trusting no one to pay them back, simply stopped making the loans that most businesses need to regulate their cash flows and without which they cannot do business. In December the National Bureau of Economic Research, the private group recognized as the official arbiter of such things, determined that a recession had begun in the United States in December 2007, which made this already the third longest recession in the U.S. since World War II.
Source: thebritinnica.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172251559 Us Airways Flight Crash (2009) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172252465 On January 15, 2009, about 1527 eastern standard time, US Airways flight 1549, an Airbus Industrie A320-214, N106US, experienced an almost complete loss of thrust in both engines after encountering a flock of birds and was subsequently ditched on the Hudson River about 8.5 miles from LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York. The flight was en route to Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, and had departed LGA about 2 minutes before the in-flight event occurred. The 150 passengers, including a lap-held child, and 5 crewmembers evacuated the airplane via the forward and overwing exits. One flight attendant and four passengers were seriously injured, and the airplane was substantially damaged. The scheduled, domestic passenger flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
Source: ntsb.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172252465 BP Oil Spill (2010) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172252752 On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations.
Source: epa.gov]]> 2017-05-17 06:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172252752 Obama Becomes President (2008) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172253732 On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. He was subsequently elected to a second term over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.]]> 2017-05-17 06:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172253732 Osama Bin Laden is Killed (2011) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172254077 On May 1, 2011, American soldiers killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at his compound near Islamabad, Pakistan. Intelligence officials believe bin Laden was responsible for many deadly acts of terrorism, including the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. He had been on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for more than a decade.
Source: History.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172254077 Nelson Mandela Dies (2013) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172254693 The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights. A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, he was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa. His actions landed him in prison for nearly three decades and made him the face of the antiapartheid movement both within his country and internationally. Released in 1990, he participated in the eradication of apartheid and in 1994 became the first black president of South Africa, forming a multiethnic government to oversee the country’s transition. after retiring from politics in 1999, he remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world until his death in 2013 at the age of 95.
Source: History.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172254693 Boston Marathon Bombing (2013) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172255639 On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day. Investigators later concluded that the Tsarnaevs, who spent part of their childhoods in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan but lived in the United States for about a decade prior to the bombings, planned and carried out the attack on their own and were not connected to any terrorist organizations.
History.com]]> 2017-05-17 06:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172255639 Michael Brown (2014) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172256112 Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on 9 August 2014, speculation over the details followed as distrust between citizens and city authorities reached new heights. Considering the evidence, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson in November 2014 - sparking further unrest. Months later in March of this year, two thorough US Department of Justice reports on the shooting filled in the blanks and exposed institutionalised racism and hardship in Ferguson Police .
Source: independent.co.uk]]> 2017-05-17 06:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172256112 Michael Jackson (King of Pop) Dies (2009 berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172257686 On June 25, 2009, Jackson suffered cardiac arrest in his Los Angeles home. He was rushed to the hospital after his heart stopped and CPR attempts failed, and died later that morning. He was 50 years old.
Source: Biography.com ]]> 2017-05-17 06:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172257686 Baltimore Riots (2015 berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172258311 Legal prosecution of those responsible for Gray's death; an end to police brutality. 113 police officers injured, 2 people shot. ... On April 12, 2015, BaltimorePolice Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American resident of Baltimore, Maryland.]]> 2017-05-17 06:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172258311 Charleston Shooting (2015) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172259108 The Charleston church shooting (also known as the Charleston churchmassacrewas a mass shooting and act of terrorism that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston on the evening of June 17, 2015. During a prayer service, nine people were killed by gunman Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist. Three other victims survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested Roof in North Carolina. Roof confessed to committing the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war. The shooting targeted one of the United States' oldest black churchs, which has long been a site for community organization around civil rights.
Source: Biography.com]]> 2017-05-17 07:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172259108 Beyonce drops Lemonade (2016) berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172260229 Beyonce has released her sixth studio album, "Lemonade,” via Tidal on the heels of an HBO premiere of her musical special of the same name. The special featured voice-over narration from Beyonce telling the story of a woman’s anguish over a romantic betrayal, interspersed with clips of Beyonce performing songs revolving around themes of anger, heartbreak and defiance. One sequence included a audio clip of Malcolm X’s famous declaration “the most disrespected person in America is the black woman” intercut with images of African-American women.]]> 2017-05-17 07:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172260229 Brexit Vote (2016 berneishacurtis237 https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172261388 Brexit is a mixture of two words. Britain and Exit referring to the UK's decision in a June 23, 2016 referendum to leave the European Union. Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum and campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU, resigned on July 13.]]> 2017-05-17 07:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/berneishacurtis237/qo9v5nk7w63j/wish/172261388