2010-2019

Presidency of Barack Obama

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• 2010 - The Digital Age advances across the U.S. and worldwide with things like the advent of smartphones.

• 2010 - Instagram founded
• 2010 — The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
• 2010 — In the 2010 Midterm elections, the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
• 2011 — U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman went on a shooting spree, killing federal judge John Roll and five other people, and wounding at least 13 others, at an event Giffords was hosting in suburban Tucson, Arizona
• 2011 — The ATF gunwalking scandal emerged, wherein thousands of guns were allowed to "walk" through interdiction to Mexico, supposedly to aid in the capture of criminals.
• 2011 — A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
• 2011 — Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs.
• 2011 — Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
• 2011 — A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
• 2011 — Casey Marie Anthony is acquitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
• 2011 — STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
• 2012 — A gunman kills 12 and injures 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
• 2012 — U.S. presidential election, 2012: Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.
• 2012 — A gunman kills 26, including 20 children, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
• 2012 - Hurricane Sandy strikes the Eastern Seaboard.
• 2013 — President Obama and Vice President Biden begin their second terms.
• 2013 — Christopher Dorner murders three people in Southern California, starting the largest manhunt in Los Angeles history. His spree ends in Big Bear Lake, California where he barricades himself in a cabin, kills a second officer, before committing suicide.
• 2013 - Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
• 2013 — Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
• 2013 — A tornado devastates suburbs near Oklahoma City, killing 24.
• 2013 — The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.
• 2013 — The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.
• 2013 — Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against what it sees as widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
• 2014 — A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area.
• 2014 - "The Lego Movie" was released, at first attracting 81 million people.
• 2014 — The Republicans win the Senate in the Midterm elections.
• 2015 — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is convicted and sentenced to death for committing the Boston Marathon bombing.
• 2015 — Same-sex marriage is legalized in all 50 US states.
• 2015 — Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik carried out an attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and seriously injuring 22 others.

• 2016 — Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 58 at the Pulse nightclub
• 2016 — U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president
• 2016 - Dozens killed in Oakland Warehouse Fire
• 2016 - John Glenn dies.
• 2017 — Esteban Santiago-Ruiz opens fire inside near the Terminal 2 baggage claim inside the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, killing 5 and injuring 6. 30 to 40 others were injured in the panic that followed the incident.

Presidency of Donald Trump

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• 2017 — Donald Trump becomes the 45th President, Mike Pence becomes Vice President. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office.
• January 6, 2017 — Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.
• 2017 — Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.
• 2017 — Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.
• April 2017 — The United States drops missiles and bombs on Syria.
• 2017 — A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness.
• 2017 — Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
• 2017 — Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
• 2017 — Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.
• 2017 — A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 58 people and injuring 546. This is the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
• 2017 — Film producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual harassment in a New York Times expose, marking the beginning of the Me Too movement.

• 2018 — A gunman kills 17 people and injures 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
• 2018 — Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
• 2018 — The entire West Virginia Supreme court of Appeals is impeached
• 2018 — America was distraught after the death of Stephen Hawking in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He left a legacy in theories of the universe and astrophysics.
• August-September 2018 — A criminal case: In the small town of Celina, Ohio, owners of the China Wok Buffet Restaurant Kang Yong Chen, 46 years old, and his wife (Mei Yu Zheng), 45 years old, was charged with human trafficking. They may be tied to a larger ring of criminal human trafficking occurrences.
• 2018 — In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate.
• 2018 — Creator of Spongebob Squarepants Stephen Hillenberg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November.
• 2018 — Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.

• 2019 — All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States.
• January 1, 2019 — Washington State bans anyone under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle
• January 25th, 2019 — The longest government shutdown in American History (December 22nd, 2018 -January 25th, 2019), or 35 days, officially ends.
• January 30th, 2019 — Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero. It occurred for fifty-two straight hours.
• February 1st, 2019 — President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• February 3rd, 2019 — Super Bowl LIII (54) is hosted at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Quarterback Tom Brady wins his sixth championship. It is the most ever won by an NFL player. The Halftime show featured Maroon 5. The game ended with a historically low score. The New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13 to 3.
• 2019 — Mexican drug boss/lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all ten counts at a drug-trafficking trial in New York.
• February 22nd, 2019 — Singer R. Kelly charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as the year 1998.
• February 27th, 2019 — 2019 North Korea - United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
• March 26, 2019 — Vice President Mike Pence orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years, using either government or private carriers.
• 2019 — Supreme Court case Bucklew V. Precythe the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution
• April 4th, 2019 — The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes 247-175 to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
• April 2019 — The first image of a black hole is taken.
• April 2019 — James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December of 2018.
• April 27th, 2019 — A 19 year old gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue.
• May 31st, 2019 — A city employee for Virginia Beach entered a municipal building with a gun and kills 12 people.
• June 8th, 2019 — President Trump reached an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.
• June 9th, 2019 — A construction crane fell on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.
• June 14th, 2019 — One person died and two more were injured after a gunman entered a Costco in Southern California.
• July 26th, 2019 — The Supreme Court ruled to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his wall. The court ruled in a 5-4 vote.
• August 3rd, 2019 — A 21-year-old gunman entered a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The gunman killed 20 people and injured another 26.
• August 3rd, 2019 — A gunman opened fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio. He killed 9 people and injured another 27.
• 2019 – Financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances.
• September 24th, 2019 — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
• December 18th, 2019 — The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.