What are 15 Major US Events that occured in 1992 till current time?

Question

what are significant US events that has occured in 1992 till this current time?

Answer 1

1992:

Bush and Yeltsin proclaim formal end to cold war.

Bill Clinton elected president

Bush pardons former Reagan administration officials involved in Iran-Contra affair.

1993:

Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault .

Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of WTC in New York

Two police officers convicted on federal civil rights charges in Rodney King beating

Clinton signs Brady bill regulating firearms purchases

1994:

Major earthquake jolts Los Angeles; 51 dead

Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing

Major league baseball players strike

Small plane crashes into White House

Baseball owners end season and cancel World Series

G.O.P. wins control of House and Senate

1995:

Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California

U.S. rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program

Many killed as car bomb blows up Oklahoma City federal building

Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to DC

1996:

FBI arrests suspected Unabomber

Clinton signs line-item veto bill

Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia

747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish

Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta

Clinton signs bill to raise minimum wage

Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. secretary of state

1997:

Tornadoes wreak havoc in Arkansas, Ohio, and Kentucky

Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California

Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in Masters golf tournament

U.S. jobless rate for May reported 4.8%, lowest since 1973

Two convicted in New York World Trade Center bombing

1998:

President Clinton outlines first balanced budget in 30 years.

US courts rule line item veto unconstitutional.

House Speaker Gingrich steps down.

House impeaches President Clinton along party lines

FDA approves Viagra, male impotence drug

1999:

Senate acquits President Clinton of impeachment charges

“Melissa” computer virus spreads through the Internet

Dr. Jack Kevorkian convicted of second-degree murder

Two Colo. students go on shooting spree in Columbine High School, killing 15, including themselves

Judge finds Microsoft to be a monopoly

2000:

Wary investors cause stock plunge; beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom

Gun maker Smith & Wesson limits the manufacture and distribution of handguns in light of lawsuits  

South Carolina removes Confederate battle flag from capitol dome

Republican convention picks Texas governor George W. Bush as presidential candidate

Republicans file federal suit to block manual recount of Florida presidential election ballots sought by Democrats

Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certifies Bush as winner by 537 votes

Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5–4; rules there can be no further recounting

2001:

George W. Bush is sworn in as 43rd president

Bush abandons global-warming treaty (Kyoto Protocol)

Race riots in Cincinnati continue for several days following a shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer

Bush signs new tax-cut law, cutting taxes by $1.35 trillion over 11 years, the largest tax cut in 2 decades  

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed  

Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh. Toll of dead is more than 3,000.

Within days, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist network are identified as the parties behind the attacks

Anthrax scare rivets nation, as anthrax-laced letters are sent to various media and government officials. Several die after handling the letters

Enron Corp., one of world's largest energy companies, files for bankruptcy

2002:

U.S. takes Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners to Guantanamo Bay  

President Bush's first State of Union address labels Iran, Iraq, and North Korea “an axis of evil”  

U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

U.S. and Russia reach landmark arms agreement to cut both countries' nuclear arsenals by up to two-thirds over the next ten years

U.S. abandons 31-year-old Antiballistic Missile treaty

WorldCom, after admitting to misstating profits, files for bankruptcy  

Snipers prey upon DC suburbs, killing ten and wounding others  

2003:  

White House announces huge deficits expected to top $200 billion in 2003  

In State of the Union address, Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate  

Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all seven astronauts  

UN Security Council members France, Germany, and Russia insist that “the military option should only be a last resort” concerning Iraq

The United States and Britain launch war against Iraq  

The United States declares official end to combat operations in Iraq  

Bush signs ten-y