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My Penny Project

Cienna Ribblett. My Penny Project. 1996 (Newborn). Jan. 26- Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty. April 10- President Clinton blocks ban on late-term abortions. Aug. 22- President Clinton approves the welfare reform bill earlier passed by Congress. 1997 (1 year old).

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My Penny Project

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  1. Cienna Ribblett My Penny Project

  2. 1996 (Newborn) • Jan. 26- Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty. • April 10- President Clinton blocks ban on late-term abortions. • Aug. 22- President Clinton approves the welfare reform bill earlier passed by Congress.

  3. 1997 (1 year old) • May 16- President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families. • June 12-The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more difficult to counterfeit. • October 1- Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and open fires, killing 2 girls after killing his mother earlier that morning.

  4. 1998 (2 years old) • March 4- Gay Rights: Oncale vs. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also applies when both parties are the same sex. • June 25- Clinton vs. City of New York: The United States Supreme Court rules that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. • December 19- Lewinsky Scandal: President Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted of any wrong doing.)

  5. 1999 (3 years old) • February 12- The Senate acquits President Clinton of his impeachment charges. • April 20- Columbine Shootings: Columbine, Colorado. Two seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and on teacher. They also injured 21 students directly and 3 students were injured trying to escape the building. Then the 2 shooters committed suicide. • July 31- NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon.

  6. 2000 (4 years old) • January 17- Almost 50,000 people marched in Columbia, South Carolina to protest the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. • March 27- The Phillips Explosion kills 1 person and injures 71 people in Pasadena, Texas. • April 22- Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez, age 6, is at the center of an international dispute. He is reunited with his father after a federal raid of his relatives’ homes in Miami.

  7. 2001 (5 years old) • June 19- An American missile landed in a soccer field in Iraq killing 23, and wounding 11. • September 11- Terrorists attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with another flight crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. A day that will live in infamy. • October 7- The first attack in the war on terrorism that the US conducts.

  8. 2002 (6 years old) • October 2- The Beltway Sniper Attacks begin with 5 shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland. • November 8- The United Nations, with MAJOR support from the US, passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face “serious consequences.” • November 25- President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law.

  9. 2003 (7 years old) • February 1- Space shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board. • March 19- Invasion of Iraq by the US and Allied forces begins the Iraq War. • December 13- Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the Us 4th Infantry.

  10. 2004 (8 years old) • May 17- Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. (Goodridge vs. Department of Public Health) • July 4- Groundbreaking for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New York City. • November 2- 11 American states BAN gay marriage.

  11. 2005 (9 years old) • March 1- The Supreme Court of the United States rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles under the age of 18. (Roper vs. Simmons) • October 15- A riot occurs in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally on racial issues. 114 people were arrested. • October 26- The US death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000.

  12. 2006 (10 years old) • March 17- US strikes its 2 remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship. • October 6- A hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes, releasing chlorine gas, and resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents. • December 14- US spy satellite USA-193 is launched and the malfunctions.

  13. 2007 (11 years old) • April 16- Virginia Tech massacre in Blacksburg, Virginia. The killer, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded 23 others before committing suicide. • May 3- The US House of Representatives passes the Matthew Shepard Act, first gay rights bill brought to the floor for a vote. First law to extend legal protection to transgendered people. • August 1- The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed during rush hour, killing 13 people.

  14. 2008 (12 years old) • March 6- A small bomb goes off in Times Square, New York City. Nobody is injured. • May 15- California becomes the second state to legalize same-sex marriage. • December 24- Covina Massacre in Covina, California. Bruce Pardo, dressed in a Santa costume, killed 9 people either by gunshots or by the house fire the Pardo started. There were 3 people injured, 2 from gunshots and one from trying to escape through a second story window. Pardo later committed suicide at his brother’s house.

  15. 2009 (13 years old) • February 18- President Obama orders the deployment of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. • September 8- President Obama gives a speech encouraging students to study hard and get a good education. • November 9- The United States Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the co-conspirator in the 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks that killed 10 and seriously injured 3 others. He was executed the following day.

  16. 2010 (14 years old) • April 20- Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion kills 11 workers. The rig sinks 2 days later which begins a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (BP Spill) • July 1- Texting while driving bans go into effect in Iowa, Wyoming, Alabama, and Georgia. • August 31- Iraq War is declared to have all combat over by President Obama.

  17. 2011 (15 years old) • January 6- The U.S. Constitution is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time in history. • April 19- Fidel Castro resigned from the leadership of the Communist Party. • May 1- President Obama declared the Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and is the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, was killed.

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