Hello readers!

I wanted to finish my historical events timeline and post it on the Action Heroes Wanted blog. As some readers might recall, I wrote briefly about my grandmother and her recent passing (see Sunday, December 2, 2012 posting). She lived through many historical events and saw great progresses take place in technology, medicine and human rights. The chart below starts with the year 1978, picking up where I left off. I also thinking it might be fun to produce and post a timeline that projects out into the future. It would highlight events and development that I think will take place in the next 25, 50 or 100+ years. I might ask my dad to help me in producing this timeline because he is a technologist and a closet mad scientist / inventor. LOL!

-B

Year	International Events	Art, Culture & Politics	Science &	Religion &
			Technology	Philosophy
1978	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.			John Paul II becomes Pope
1979	Soviet-Afghan War begins as Soviet forces invade and occupy important locations throughout Afghanistan	(1) Iran declared an Islamic republic by Ayatollah Khomeini
		(2) Saddam Hussein Becomes President of Iraq
		(3) Shah of Iran flees country
		(4) Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain.
1980
1981	Israeli troops bomb the PLO headquarters in Beirut	Anwar Sadat assassinated; Mohamed Hosni Mubarak becomes president of Egypt	(1) Voyager 2 reaches Saturn	Pope John Paul II shot
			(2) Personal Computer introduced
			(3) First reported case of AIDS
1982	(1) Israel invades Lebanon		Mary Rose raised
	(2) Falklands War
1983			Sally Ride first American woman in space
1984		United States President Ronald Reagan wins reelection in a landslide over Democrat Walter Mondale	First release of Apple's Macintosh computers; First successful personal computer with graphical interface
1985		Mikhail Gorbachev elected by the Politburo as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.	(1) Hole in the Ozone layer discovered
			(2) Titanic found
1986			(1) Chernobyl nuclear plant accident	(1) Cary Grant dies
			(2) Voyager 2 reaches Uranus	(2) Sultan Qaboos University founded
			(3) Marlin Perkins dies
1987	(1) Iraqi Exocet missile hits American Destroyer USS Stark; 37 crewmen are killed.			Andy Warhol dies
	(2) Palestinian uprising 'Intifada' breaks out in Gaza strip
1988	The USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian Airbus Flight #655; 290 civilians are killed		A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
1989		(1) In response to massive protests, the East German government allows East Berliners to cross into West Berlin. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall begins shortly after		(1) U. S. actress Bette Davis dies.
		(2) Solidarity wins landslide victory over the Communist Party in first free elections in Poland		(2) Globe Theatre found
		(3) Hungarian parliament adopts democratic reforms and pressures Soviet Union to remove military forces		(3) Salvador Dali dies
		(4) During the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia, protesters force the Communist government to adopt democratic reforms		(4) Laurence Olivier dies
1990	Iraq invades Kuwait, beginning the Persian Gulf War	German reunification officially completed according to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany
1991	U.S. led coalition defeats Iraqi military forces and liberates Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm	(1) Communist hard-liners launch a failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev in the U.S.S.R.
		(2) Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union; Effective legal dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
1992		Democratic candidate Bill Clinton elected 42nd President of the United States
1993	(1) The European Community establishes a unified European market by removing trade barriers			(1) Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List
	(2) 19 American soldiers die during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia			(2) President Bill Clinton announces "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning gays serving in the U.S. military
1994	Hutu militias kill 500,000-1,000,000 Tutsis during Rwandan Genocide		Shoemaker-Levy Comet strikes Jupiter
1995	Dayton Agreement ends Bosnian War and confirms Bosnian independence.			(1) O.J. Simpson acquitted
				(2) Timothy McVeigh bombs the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 and wounding 450
1996			(1) IBM's Deep Blue chess computer defeats world champion Gary Kasparov	George Burns dies
			(2) Dolly the sheep is born, becoming the first cloned mammal
1997		Collapse of the currency of Thailand sparks the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis	Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars	Mother Teresa dies
1998		Suharto forced to resign as president of Indonesia after 31-year reign Decline in commodity prices triggers financial crisis in Russia and discredits the government of President Boris Yeltsin		U.S. singer Frank Sinatra dies
1999	NATO engages in 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia for occupation of Kosovo	Vladimir Putin becomes acting President of the Russian Federation after Boris Yeltsin resigns
2000	(1) Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon
	(2) USS Cole Attacked in Aden
2001	Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York City and damage the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
2002	U.N. Security Council passes resolution demanding that Iraq disarm
2003	United States and allied forces invade Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom		(1) Edward Teller, "Father of the H-Bomb," dies.	(1) U.S. actress Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96.
			(2) Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry over Texas	(2) Former U. S. poet laureate Josephine Jacobsen dies.
2008		Democratic candidate Barack Obama elected to be 44th President of the United States