Y:Events That Shaped the Millennial Generation

What has shaped the views of this "Live For Today" generation? Below is a timeline of the late 80s that may have aided in forming their opinions. In the upcoming weeks, I will finish out the timeline, running through present day 2006.

1986
• Challenger explosion 74 seconds after take off
• Nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, USSR
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day first recognized

1987
• Baby Jessica rescued from a well
• Condom commercials begin to appear on TV for first time
• CD ROM introduced by IBM
• Black Monday stock market down 22% Oct.19

1988
• Yellow Stone National Park fire destroys nearly 150,000 acres
• First well-known computer virus strikes 6,000
• Human Genome project begins
• CDs outsell vinyl for first time
• End of Cold War
• President Bush elected, famous quote begins "read my lips…"

1989
• Berlin Wall comes down
• Exxon Valdez spills nearly 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska
• Beijing massacre in Tiananmen Square, 5,000 killed
• San Francisco 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes before third game of the World Series
• Arsenio Hall 1st African American nighttime talk show host