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ments. At Maryknoll, the accomplishments have been Co-editors Eliza
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the motivational words of our guest speakers, pono def­ their advisor Mr
initely shines through everyone in Maryknoll. The T r i b ­ liott Chamizo. i
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the first day of high school seemed like yesterday. layouts for a f
We’ve been looking forward to this special year for a deadline.
long time, partly because it is the year 2000, but mostly
because it's the year we graduate and begin our jour­
ney into adulthood. Over these past four years, we have
grown up individually, and together as a class.
. Years from now, this special edition of the T r i b u t e
2 0 0 0 will hopefully serve as a reminder of this extraordi­
nary year. As co-editors, we’ve had fun working on this
yearbook. We would like to say thank you to all those
who have helped us along the way, especially the staff
members: Abby, Jon, Melody, Vince, along with the
journalism classes that often put their workload aside
for us. Most of all, we couldn't have done it without the
"Big Kahuna" himself, Mr. "Cho-cho” Chamizo, who al­
ways lightens up the stress of yearbook deadlines with
his quirky humor. As members of the graduation Class
of 2000, we would like to wish everyone the best of luck
in this new millennium.

Candy Leung and Elizabeth Tsui ’00
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EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic On October 12, the world’s official population
Ocean on October 31, killing all 217 people hits 6 billion. The designated 6 billionth human
on board. Although suspicious actions of a is a baby boy born in Sarajevo.
pilot are under scrutiny by American and
Egyptian officials, the cause of the crash
remains a mystery.

AP/Wide World Photos

As part of Rome’s continuing restoration, the AP/Wide World Photos
city unveils a plan to create an 18,000-square-yard
rambling space connecting the Imperial Forums
with the Roman Forum.

In September, In an October coup, the Pakistani army dismiss
more than elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and
300,000 Japanese his government after Sharif announces the
are checked removal of his powerful military chief, General
for radiation Pervaiz Musharraf.
exposure after
an inadvertent Nearly a million ethnic Albanians flee Yugoslavia AP/Wide World Photos
nuclear reaction and thousands are killed after Serbs begin a
at a uranium violent ethnic cleansing campaign in 1998.
processing plant. Seventy-eight days of NATO bombing bring the
war to an end in June. An international tribunal
APAVide World Photos later charges Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic with crim es against humanity.
AP/Wide World Photos_ _ _ _ _ _ _ AP/Wide World Photos
Britain’s Prince Edward marries
longtime girlfriend Sophie Rhys-Jones
on June 19.

Cuban Elian Gonzalez, 6, becomes
the center of a bitter citizenship
debate after surviving a November
boat wreck off the Florida coast in
which his mother dies.

In a violent October coup, gunmen storm In India, two trains collide head-on in August,
the Armenian Parliament and assassinate killing 285 people and injuring more than 300.
Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and six it is one of the worst train disasters in the
other top officials. country’s history.

Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper" is In September, Russia begins a military campaign
unveiled in June after 21 years of restoration. against Chechen nationalists to regain control of
The centimeter-by-centimeter rehabilitation the breakaway republic. More than 200,000 people
flee the region, but a fierce rebel resistance
cost $7.7 million and involved stays to fight for control of the capital, Grozny.
electronic microscopes.

Liaison Agency AP/Wide World Photos/Robert King

In June, Thabo Mbeki succeeds President Nelson After almost nine years in power, Russian President
Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically ™ Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation in January
elected president.
2000. Yeltsin names Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
acting president pending elections in March.

In Septem ber and October, powerful earthquakes Archaeologists
’ strike around the globe, killing 15,000 people in excavate 105
Turkey, 1,450 in Taiwan and at least 122 in Greece. mummies in a
2,000-year-old
underground
Egyptian tomb
believed to contain
a total of 10,000
mummies. The
necropolis will shed
new light on the
Greco-Roman era
and will allow
scholars to chart
demographic data
and the incidence
of disease.

Kenneth Garrett/NGS Image Collection

A tropical depression producing heavy
rain hits Mexico in November. The
resulting floods kill more than 350
people and cause 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 to evacuate.

In August, the U.S. pays $ 4 .5 million to
victims of NATO’s accidental bombing
of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Three Chinese are killed and 27 are
wounded in the May 1999 bombing.

On Decem ber 31, the U.S. returns control of m December, torrential rains cause Venezuela
■ the Panama Canal to Panama. Opened to the worst natural disaster of the century. Mudslide
and flash floods kill up to 30,000 people, while
world in 1914, the canal is considered one of damage estim ates run into the billions of dollar
the greatest construction achievem ents in
American history.

Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz retires in January As a way to boost tourism, Chicago displays
2000, bringing an end to PEANUTS, America’s 301 life-size, fiberglass cows decorated by local
most popular comic strip for almost 50 years. artists. The public art exhibit lasts all summer
Schulz dies in February, the night before his last until the cows are auctioned for charity.
strip runs in the national newspapers.

Reuters/Mike Segar/Archive Photos People Weekly © 1999 William R. Sallaz

In July, John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, his wife, Carolyn " PEANUTS © United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
B essette Kennedy, 33, and her sister, Lauren
B essette, 34, die in an airplane crash in the Lewis and Clark’s Native
Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard. Kennedy, American guide Sacagawea
a relatively inexperienced pilot, is believed to is featured on a new
have becom e disoriented in heavy fog. gold-colored dollar coin
released into circulation
Hurricane Floyd in early 2000.
strikes the East
Coast in September, Beginning in 1999, the U.S. Mint
killing 51 people and releases specially designed
destroying over
4,000 homes. North state quarters, the first
Carolina is hardest ,V V five representing
hit with total damages ; ' '% Connecticut,
estimated at a record
$6 billion. ■$jflf Georgia, Delaware,
/ / Pennsylvania and
The drought of 1999 causes severe damage to
New Jersey. By 2008,
Northeastern and mid-Atlantic farms. Several \ each state will have

states impose mandatory water use restrictions 0 S|f its own quarter.
and emergency federal loans are made available

in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia

and West Virginia.

APAVlde World Photos_ _ _ _ _ _ _ '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In August, a rare tornado strikes Dave McDermand/Biyan-College Station Eagle/Corbis Sygma
downtown Salt Lake City. Winds up
to 112 miles per hour make it Utah’s
second-worst tornado in history.

In July, Air Force Colonel Eileen
Collins, 42, becomes the first
woman to command a U.S. space
shuttle mission.

President Clinton announces the removal of In November, a 60-foot log tower collapses at
the American bald eagle from the endangered Texas A&M University, killing 12 students and
species list. In 1999, there are over 5,800 injuring 27. The tower was to be burned at a
breeding pairs, an increase from 417 in 1963. traditional bonfire pep rally.

On April 20,1999, In an effort to ease the burden on the traditional
students go on a shooting rampage at Columbine courts, most states now offer teen court for
High School in Colorado, wounding 23 and killing juvenile offenders. After determining guilt, a jury of
15, including them selves. Schools across the teens along with a judge decides the sentence,
country take extensive security measures to typically community service and financial restitution.
ensure the safety of students and staff.

Timothy C. Sharp

In November, protesters at the World Trade Despite
■Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle provoke a 30 years
show of force by local, state and federal officers. of official denial,
Protesters blame the WTO for eroding human in Decem ber a
rights and labor and environmental standards. jury finds the
assassination of
Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr.
was the result
of a conspiracy,
not the act of a
lone gunman.

An epidemic of rampage
” r ' shootings intensifies America’s growing concern
over gun control. Many state legislatures pass new
gun-control measures despite nationwide controversy
over restrictions vs. Second Amendment rights.

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In August, a female panda is born at the San In the first such admission by a cigarette
Diego Zoo. Hua Mei, which can mean “China USA” manufacturer, Philip Morris publicly
or “Splendid Beauty,” is the first panda born in concedes tobacco is addictive and can
the Western Hemisphere in nearly a decade. cause serious diseases.

Hillary Clinton announces her candidacy Reuters/Jeff Christensen/Archive Photos
for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
As law requires, Clinton establishes New
York residency in suburban Chappaqua.

A A bumper sticker invites drivers to call a In September, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates
toll-free number to report reckless driving. and his wife Melinda announce the creation of the
Officials hope the system will help parents stay Gates Millennium Scholars Program. The Gateses
informed about their teenagers’ driving habits. will donate $1 billion over the next 20 years to
finance scholarships for minority college students.

FEELit technology allows users to experience Fifteen-year-old Amber Ramirez undergoes surgery
computer technology through their mouse. Users in which half of her brain is removed to stop the
can “feel” buttons, text, the weight of a stuffed spread of a rare neurological disease. Doctors
desktop folder and the groove of a scroll bar. hope the remaining portion of Ramirez’s brain will
compensate for the removed tissue.

AP/Wide World Photos

i In August, NASA releases photos from the Chandra
■X-ray orbiting telescope of a hot cloud of gas from a
star that exploded more than three centuries ago.
The telescope took 23 years and $1 billion to develop.

Courtesy of Dallas Semiconductor In an epilepsy treatment
breakthrough, surgeons
implant a “pacemaker”
into the chest with a

seizure-preventing
nerve stimulator
connected to
the brain. The
computer-controlled,
battery-powered
unit can last up to

five years.

The Java Ring contains a computer chip providing The body of a 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth is
electronic access into buildings for students. ' discovered in October frozen in the Russian tundra.
Eventually the ring could be used as a library card, Study of the preserved fur, organs and soft tissue
digital wallet, electronic ID and authentication for could unlock the mystery of why the species died out.
students’ online homework.
Cyberonics, Inc.

Gulbrandsen/SPL/Photo Researchers Researchers announce in July the
creation of a cancerous human cell by
genetically altering a normal one. This On August 11, the last total solar eclipse of
significant breakthrough is an important the millennium crosses the globe. Thousands
step toward developing drugs that could of people from Canada to India experience
potentially wipe out cancer. daytime darkness during which the moon
completely covers the sun.
In December, IBM announces a $10 0
million research initiative to build a
supercomputer 500 times more
powerful than current models.

In August, U.S. surgeons begin using computer-
enhanced robotic technology for heart bypass
surgery. Because the chest cavity is never
opened, this technique reduces pain and
shortens recovery time.

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Researchers at y are discovered in Madagascar in October. Dated
Massachusetts
General Hospital to the early Triassic period, 230 million years
reveal in July that ago, the bones could be the oldest dinosaur
they have successfully fossils ever found.
regenerated the
^^(j^O O ^niolodiscJnc. central nervous Reuters/Scott Olson/Archive Photos
system of lab rats
with severed spinal
cords. Applications
for human paralysis
treatment are
very encouraging.

Parents, with help from their doctor, select In October,
the gender of their baby using a technique biologists isolate
called MicroSort, which separates X-bearing one of the
(female-determining) and Y-bearing enzymes that
(male-determining) sperm. The success sets Alzheimer’s
rate is about 92 percent for females and disease in motion.
69 percent for males. This scientific
discovery will
A new board game, MEDICAL lead to new
STATION treatments and,
possibly, a cure.
Infection, hits stores in July. Over 4 million
Americans,
Fun and educational, players race around the board including former
President Ronald
catching diseases, described in detail, and trying to Reagan, are living
with the disease.
be cured.
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Boeing Media In October, Sea Launch Company, a multi-national
' consortium, launches the first commercial satellite ■ landing, astronaut Neil Armstrong’s lunar
into space from a floating platform in the Pacific footprint is featured on a 1999 postage stani]
Ocean. Boeing is a major partner in the venture,
along with companies in Russia, Ukraine and Norway.

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In June, scientists announce the
creation of two new elements. The
nucleus of new, super-heavy element
118 decays into element 116 within
a millisecond.

Scientists studying Albert Einstein's
preserved brain report it has unique
characteristics. The region governing
mathematical ability and spatial
reasoning is significantly larger
than normal.

A Researchers report they have successfully
■^jp~ altered the learning and memory behavior of

mice by inserting a gene into their brains.
This genetic-engineering breakthrough may be
helpful in treating human learning disorders
and Alzheimer’s disease.

I NEW The fashion accessory of 1999 goes by many Airlines begin installing elaborate in-flight
nam es-pow er beads, mood beads and prayer entertainment systems that allow passengers
s gxPBBM beads. Many sellers claim the beads boost to watch movies, play computer games, listen to
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Cosmetic companies increasingly use
entertainment celebrities instead of models for
their advertisements. Sarah Michelle Gellar,
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Lopez and Shania
Twain are among the celebs who appear in ads.

With the huge A continuation of the
increase in cell cargo pants trend,
phones, many m essenger bags with
cities enact laws pockets galore hang
restricting their at the hips of teens
use while driving. everywhere.
Restaurants and
theaters are also In August, a Levi Strauss & Co. megastore opens
requiring patrons in San Francisco. The store features a hot tub
to turn phones where shoppers can soak in their jeans for the
off as a courtesy perfect fit and a computer-scanning system to
to others. help custom ers get the right size.

In December, Honda introduces Insight, Courtesy Aromapharmacy
a car that combines a conventional
gasoline engine with a small electric A new line of scented candles called Aromapharmacy
motor, decreases ozone and carbon com es in amber glass containers and looks like
dioxide emissions and gets 80 mpg. prescription drug bottles with creative names such
as Ritalert, Cramprin and Valiumello.
Several companies offer “digital wallets’
for teens who want to shop online
but don’t have credit cards. Parents
deposit money into an online account;
then teens can spend the money at
designated Web sites.

Apple Computer introduces its new iBook laptop
in September. The super-slim, neon-colored
units follow the highly successful launch of the
translucent iMac desktop.

Shawls and wraps Inline skaters can now power them selves alortg
show up everywhere with the new Roller Cycle Personal Power
in the fashion Accelerator featuring a 1.5-hp-driven w heel. An
world. Hollywood optional spiked rubber tire for traction makes it
celebrities like also possible to use while cross-country skiing.
Salma Hayek sport
Reuters/Kimimasa Mayama/Arcliive Photos the fashion trend
in all colors
and fabrics.

W ireless Web access becom es a reality in Stretchy nylon
September when Sprint PCS announces the jewelry that looks
first nationwide w ireless data service. Shortly like skin tattoos
thereafter, several other providers debut similar is a big hit in 1999.
service for hand-held Web phones. The nylon bands
are worn around
A Gap TV ^ M necks, wrists,
advertisement arms and ankles,
for vests starts a trend across and com e in
America that has teenagers wearing several colors.
the fashionable sleeveless jackets.

Several rappers start their own clothing lines,
making hip-hop wear big business. Popular
artist labels include FUBU, Roc-A-Wear, Phat
Farm, Wu Wear, Sean John and X-Large.

Teenagers need an average of nine A growing number of U.S. school cafeterias offer
hours and 15 minutes of sleep a night, pruneburgers, a healthy low-fat combination
according to research at Brown of hamburger and prune puree. Other prune
University’s Bradley Hospital. The study items in the works include hot dogs, pizza sauce,
also shows a direct correlation between barbecue sauce and gingerbread cookies.
school grades and duration of sleep.

An influx of dot-com companies
advertise on television. Ads during the
Super Bowl sell for an average of $2.2
million per 30-second commercial.

Magellan, a satellite navigation system for
motorists, offers com plete U.S. mapping data,
voice and visual instructions in seven languages,
turn-by-turn directions and a library of points

Video game fans snap up a record 15,000 copies __
of Sega’s highly anticipated Dreamcast system in ABC’s summer fill-in quiz show “Who Wants
the first 24 hours after its launch in September. to Be a Millionaire,” with host Regis Philbin,
returns in November and is a huge hit with
viewers. By January 2000, several major networks
launch quiz shows of their own.

TheSixth Sense with Bruce Willis and Haley Launched in January 1999, MTVs “The Tom Green
■Joel Osment is the No. 1 box office hit for five Show” becom es one of the season's most popular
consecutive w eekends in the summer. shows. The Canadian host’s bizarre man-on-the-
street pranks are the show's main attraction.
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After 19
nominations,
Susan Lucci finally
wins an Emmy
Award for best
actress in a
daytime drama
series for her role
as Erica Kane on
the ABC soap opera
“All My Children.”

TheBlair Witch Project, the year’s surprise movie
■hit, is the documentary-style footage of three

students lost in the Maryland woods and
threatened by the presumed Blair Witch. The film
costs $100,000 to make and grosses $140 million.

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return as the In June, Mike Myers’ sequel Austin Powers: The
voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear Spy Who Shagged Me proves to be a bigger hit
in the animated feature Toy Story 2. than the 1997 original. Dr. Evil’s alter ego Mini-Me
The sequel breaks box-office records is extremely popular even though he has no lines.
during its Thanksgiving release and
wins a Golden Globe award.

In a botched stunt, WWF wrestler Owen
Hart falls from the rafters at Kemper
Arena and dies in front of 16,300 fans.

Jennifer Love Hewitt leaves “Party of Five” to star in
her own Fox television drama, “Time of Your Life.”
The show focuses on Hewitt’s character trying
to make it in New York while searching for her
biological father.

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In December, American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey, Annette
actor Jim Carrey Bening and Thora Birch, captures the Golden
portrays zany Globe Best Drama Award. The dark satire of
comedian Andy suburbia and family dysfunction receives a total
Kaufman in Man of six Golden Globe nominations.
on the Moon.
Kon.mil Corporation o( America, Inc. Carrey wins a
Golden Globe
award for his
performance.

Photofest

The new arcade game Guitar Freaks features *♦
■two guitar controllers and a screen to help
players follow along to popular songs. Medusa, the
world’s first
Set in 1980, the critically acclaimed NBC floorless roller
show “Freaks and Geeks” follows two groups coaster, opens
of teens trying to make their way through in August at Six
high school. Flags Great
Adventure in
The long-awaited prequel Star Wars: Episode I The New Jersey.
"PhantomMenace hits theaters in May 1999, taking The 4,000-foot,
in a record-breaking $28.5 million on its opening toe-dangling
day and going on to gross more than $420 million. ride has enough
drops, loops,
rolls and
corkscrews
to thrill
every rider.

Six Flags Great Adventure

Michael J. Fox announces in January The Everett Collection
2 0 0 0 he will leave the popular ABC
sitcom “Spin City” at the end of the
season to promote awareness of
Parkinson’s disease in hopes of
finding a cure.

After 10 seasons, Fox cancels the
hit show “Beverly Hills, 9 0 2 1 0 .” The
show followed characters through
high school, college and careers.

In September, the New Roc City entertainment The TalentedMr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon,
■center opens in New York. The complex includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett,
an amusement park ride on the roof, two skating opens in Decem ber and earns popular and
critical praise.
rinks, 19 movie screens, restaurants, an arcade, a
health club, a supermarket and a hotel.

U.S. sales of music by Latin artists shoot up Superstar Mariah Carey releases Rainbow in
48 percent in the first quarter of 1999 thanks November and begins a world tour in February
to artists such as Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, 2000. Carey is named Billboard Music Awards Artist
Enrique Iglesias and Marc Anthony. of the Decade and is awarded the distinguished
American Music Award of Achievement.

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Released in June, Santana’s Supernatural shoots Saturday Night Live: The
up the Billboard album chart, sells over 6 million
copies, and earns 10 Grammy nominations. Musical Performances

Britney Spears’ Volumes 1 and,? are
album ...Baby released in September.
One More Time is The CDs feature 30 of the
the second-best- 600 musical acts that have
selling album appeared on SNL over the
of 1999,earning past 25 years.
Spears the
Billboard Music
Awards Female
and New Artist of
the Year Awards.

Limp Bizkit leads the way in the resurgence of
rock music, along with Kid Rock and Korn. In
September, MTV showcases the trend by airing
“1999: Return of the Rock,” which examines the
history and future of rock music.

Sheryl Crow, Eric Clapton and the Corbis Images
Dixie Chicks are a few musicians
who rock Central Park in a first-ever

f trimulcast concert seen and heard

on the radio, television and Internet.

More than 1 million viewers tune
in each weekday to vote on their
favorite videos on MTV’s “Total
Request Live” with host Carson Daly
and popular musical guests.

Computer games feature big music stars on Backstreet Boys’ Millennium wins the Billboard
their soundtracks. Sheryl Crow contributes her Music Awards Album of the Year and becom es
talent to the Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack, the best-selling album of the year with over 10
Metallica to Hot Wheels Turbo Racing and million copies sold.
Naughty by Nature to NBA Live 2000.

4 “NetAid,”a concert dedicated to relieve hunger
and poverty, airs live in October on MTV VH1,
Lou Bega’s the BBC, as well as radio stations in 120
rhythmic “Mambo nations, making it the widest-heard musical
No. 5” hits the performance in history.
Top 40 in August
after selling 2
million copies
overseas and
topping the chart
in 15 countries.

AP/Wide World Photos/Chris Pizzello

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In a strange twist, Garth Brooks releases the album Shania Twain becom es
■TheLifeofChris Gaines in which he pretends to the first woman since
be a fictional rock star. Gaines will be the main 1986 to win the Country
character in a movie called TheLamb, currently Music Association’s
in development. Entertainer of the Year
Award at the 33rd annual
awards show.

MP3, technology AP/Wide World Pholos
that com presses sound into a very small
file, becom es a popular alternative to
the CD. MP3 files are downloaded from
the Internet onto computers or portable
player units, making it possible to take
a personal music selection anywhere.

VHl’s “Concert of the Century” spotlights the
importance of music education in schools. The
all-star show includes Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, Eric
Clapton and B.B. King, as well as high-profile actors.

After a successful New Year’s Eve Ricky Martin takes the music industry by storm
reunion performance, the Judds after his show-stopping performance at the 1999
begin their first tour in almost 10 Grammy Awards show. Martin’s first chart-topping
years in February 2 0 0 0 . Since single, “Livin’ la Vida Loca," helps him win the
they disbanded in 1991, Naomi has Billboard Music Award for Male Artist of the Year.
recovered from Hepatitis C.

Best New Artist Grammy nominee
Christina Aguilera gives an exciting
performance during the Super Bowl
XXXIV halftime show.

Fiona Apple releases her long-awaited second
' album to rave reviews in November and begins

a tour in February 2000. The album features a
90-word title, which is commonly shortened to
When the Pawn.

Lance Armstrong wins the 1999 Tour de France The Dallas Stars beat the Buffalo Sabres 2-1
in July. Armstrong, who survived a three-year in triple overtime to win the 1999 Stanley Cup
battle with testicular cancer, becom es the championship, four games to two.
second American to win the event.

AP/Wide World Photos/Jeff Zelevansky

David Cone of the New York Yankees pitches AP/Wide World Photos
a perfect game against the Montreal Expos in
July. Cone's feat is the 14th perfect game in ■4
modern baseball history.
In September,
^ Golf tennis phenom
™ champion Serena Williams,
Payne Stewart is 17, overpowers
killed in a bizarre Martina Hingis
airplane accident to win the 1999
in October. After U.S. Open title.
the airplane’s
takeoff from The St. Louis Rams stop the T ennessee Titans
Florida, an at the 1-yard line on a final play to save their
apparent loss of 23-16 Super Bowl XXXIVvictory.
cabin pressure
incapacitates
everyone aboard.
The aircraft flies
on autopilot for
four hours until it
runs out of fuel
and crashes in
South Dakota.

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AP/Wide World Photos Both Detroit Lions running back AP/Wide World Photos/Terry Renna
Barry Sanders and German tennis
star Steffi Graf announce their
retirement in 1999.

On February 7, 200 0 , Tiger Woods
wins his sixth consecutive PGA Tour
event, tying Ben Hogan’s 1948
winning record.

The Houston Comets earn their third straight Dale Jarrett wins the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup
WNBA championship in September, beating championship after a four-victory season.
the New York Liberty 59-47 to win in three
straight games.

In the January Andre Agassi wins the French Open in June
2000 Sugar Bowl, and becom es the fifth man ever to com plete a
No. 1 Florida career Grand Slam. Agassi goes on to win the
State beats No. 2 U.S. Open in September.
Virginia Tech
46-29 to capture
the National
Championship.

Travis Pastrana, 15, wins the gold medal in the X AP/Wide World Photos
Games’ inaugural Moto X freestyle motocross event.
In July, the U.S. w om en’s soccer team wins the The fifth year of this ESPN-sponsored competition
1999 World Cup by beating China 5-4 in penalty is held in San Francisco in June and July.
kicks following a 0-0 tie. More than 90,000 fans
attend at the Rose Bowl and another 40 million A In June,
watch on television. * * the San
Antonio Spurs win
their first NBA
championship by
defeating the New
York Knicks four
games to one.

AP/Wide World Photos/Charles Krupa The New York Yankees win the 1999 World
Series in a four-game sw eep against the
Atlanta Braves.

In July, many major league baseball AP/Wide World Photos
umpires announce their resignation as
a labor protest. The strategy backfires Twenty-year professional hockey veteran Wayne
when owners accept the resignations Gretzky announces his retirem ent in A p ril 1999
and in September, 22 umpires lose after setting or tying 61 records. Two months
their jobs. later, “The Great One" is inducted into the
Hockey Hall of Fame.
AP/Wide World Pholos In January 2000, Michael Jordan returns AP/Wide World Photos
to pro basketball as part owner and
President for Basketball Operations of
the NBA’s Washington Wizards.

The U.S. team beats the European team to win 2 0 0 0
golf’s Ryder Cup at Brookline, M assachusetts, in
September. The American’s stirring comeback
is marred by unruly galleries and a premature

victory celebration.

Reuters/Jim Young/Archive Photos Clock lower
Ottawa, Canada

Pyramids A )
Cairo, EgyptT

Times Square
* New York City,

New York

As time zones welcom e the new millennium
on January 1, the world celebrates with
grandeur, pageantry and spectacular
fireworks. President Clinton gives a hopeful
speech in the minutes before midnight at
the Washington Monument, and 2 million
people gather in Times Square to watch
the specially built 1,000-pound Waterford
crystal ball drop at midnight.

Reuters/Anthony Bolante/Archive Photos_ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Eiffel Tower
Paris, France

♦ Space Needle
Seattle, Washington

Steve Liss/Corbis Sygma The public and private sectors spend
hundreds of millions of dollars to ward
Fearing the collapse of the world’s banks, utilities off the Y2K bug. The world lets out a A surprising number of people, appalled by the
and transportation systems, thousands of people sigh of relief after midnight strikes and exorbitant costs of travel and events, decide to stay
stock up on food, water, money, ammunition and no major computer malfunctions occur. home on New Year’s Eve. Many companies and
generators. After midnight, it soon becom es performers drastically slash prices as a last-minute lure.
apparent that the preparations were unnecessary. The FBI warns of possible terrorist acts
on New Year’s Eve and stays on national
alert throughout the celebration. After
the arrest of one man with bomb-making
materials, Seattle decides to cancel its
Space Needle celebration.

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route to the spice-rich tagecoaches offer public passenger service,
East Indies, Christopher and covering 15 miles a day is considered a
Columbus lands in the good speed. The coaches travel in stages,
Bahamas. At the time of changing horses at each stop. As a result, the
first European contact, stagecoach line is born.
about 90 million Native
Granger Collection Americans live in North
and South America.

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Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes
"t T introduces horses from Spain into the New

World, changing transportation and culture
for Native Americans. Cortes carries out a
harsh conquest of Montezuma and the Aztecs.

Pilgrimages to religious sites are seen as
Ml-acts of faith. Roads and towns develop along

the pilgrim routes, expanding trade and
communication in Europe. Beginning in
1096, Crusades to the distant Holy Land
expose Europeans to Arab culture.

Leil Ericson Chinese Invent M arco Polo m M ercator creates First Vulcanized robber Transcontinental
reaches North magnetic compass. travels to China. wagons are I Is Invented. railroad spans U.S.
Am erica. his w orld map.

Gondolas lies! London Bridge Portuguese M ayflow er lands Lewis and Clark P ra c tic a l Public rides
appear In Venice. is built. explorers start at Plymouth Rock. llrs l escalator.
( J J ) slave trade. ^ explore Am erican West. Internal combustion

) ^ e n g i n e appears. ^

Pirates terrorize A During the Revolutionary War, a submarine is
the seas between "VfiP" used in battle for the first time. Built by American
1690 and 1730. One of the David Bushnell, the one-person vessel is powered by a
most notorious pirates is hand-cranked propeller. Twentieth-century submarines
Edward Teach, known as are complex, nuclear-powered craft used for defense and
“Blackbeard.” The fictional scientific purposes.
Captain Hook first appears
Granger Collection in the 1904 play “Peter The first practical wheelchairs provide new France’s
Pan” which inspires mobility for those unable to walk. Early Montgolfier
books, musicals and films models of wheelchairs have three wheels brothers launch the
throughout the century. and hand cranks to propel the chair forward. first hot-air balloon.
Filled with smoke,
Birchbark canoes provide transportation for the silk balloon rises
many Native Americans. The canoes are made to 6,000 feet. Later
with a light wood frame covered with pieces that year, the first
of bark sewn together and made watertight passengers go
with melted pitch. aloft— a rooster, a
duck and a sheep.

Subways
provide a new
way to get around in
ever-more-crowded
cities. The world’s
first underground
railway opens in
London in 1863. By
1904, New York City
inaugurates its first
rapid-transit subways.

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Travel by rail revolutionizes land transportation. Humans Henry Ford’s moving
British engineer Richard Trevithick invents the achieve assembly line makes cars
first steam locomotive in 1804, but it is 1825 powered flight. The affordable to the masses.
before railroads haul passengers. first flight of Wilbur Ford produces the first
and Orville Wright’s Model T in 1908. In 1964,
Flyerlasts 12 seconds the sporty Ford Mustang
and carries Orville rolls out at $2,368 and
to a height of 10 feet sets an all-time record
above the beach at for first-year sales of a
Kitty Hawk, N.C. new model.

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^ First drive-in gas Lindbergh flies 4© orbit Earth. passenger spacecraft leaves and Sojourner
station opens. solo, nonstop zeppelin crashes. flight begins. solar system . enplore M ars.
over Allantic.

Cleveland, Ohio, P a rltin g Jet airline M c D o n a ld 's NASA develops "Chunnel" links
pioneers m eters appear. passenger starts drive- space shuttle. U.K. to France.
traffic lights. service begins. ^ ^ through service.
^ ^

On her maiden Man walks on
voyage, the great the moon.
steam passenger ship Apollo 11 astronauts
Titanic, thought to be Neil Armstrong and
unsinkable, goes down Buzz Aldrin plant the
after hitting an iceberg in American flag 238,000
the North Atlantic. Of the miles from Earth as an
more than 2,200 persons estim ated 600 million
aboard the ship, about people on Earth watch
1,500 perish. Inc. on television.

Patrick Ward/Corbis Freeways change the nature and pace of
travel in America. In 1956, President
Eisenhower authorizes construction of the
Interstate Highway System. By the 1990s,
this nationwide network includes more than
42,500 miles of highways.

a First built in 1903, the Harley-Davidson Orbital construction of the International
1 ^ - becom es America’s best-known motorcycle in Space Station (ISS) begins in 1998 when
space shuttle Endeavor crew members
the 1950s. Raw power and a distinctive rumble connect the station's first two sections.
appeal to rebels of the 1950s and 1960s and ISS is to becom e the largest cooperative
to business executives of the 1990s. space mission in history.

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fr New World takes his servants to bring him his meat between
Europe by storm. two pieces of bread. This way he can eat with
■ Brought to Spain from one hand while continuing to play cards with
1 Mexico, chocolate is the other. The term “sandwich” is born.
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food is plain and often scarce. Feasting on 'T ^ " coffeehouse
meat is reserved for the wealthy. Table opens in England. By
utensils include only a knife; most people 1700, there are 2,000
just eat with their hands. Slabs of dense coffeehouses in London
bread, called trenchers, serve as plates. alone. Early coffeehouses
are important places to
transact business. Lloyd’s
Coffeehouse evolves into
Lloyd’s of London, the
giant insurance brokerage.

1 9 Spices are 11 Spice trade Native Am ericans Potato famine new treat. is introduced. become available.
costly luxuries. introduce popcorn sw ells Irish
inspires to colonists. em igration.
exploration.

W orld's first Forks first 1 Boston Tea Parly Canned loods F irst com m ercial Pop-top cans Organic toed
restaurant opens appear in stores. pizzeria opens. are created. sales soar.
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Swanson creates
the TV dinner,
sold in boxes designed to
look like television sets.
Frozen dinners are
possible because of
Clarence Birdseye's 1929
invention of early methods
for freezing food.

sold for use in kitchen ice chests. It is the America's first large self-service supermarket
early 1930s before reliable electric home opens, followed by the invention of the grocery
refrigerators are in common use. shopping cart in 1937. During the Depression,
supermarkets become a significant part of the
Alexander food distribution network.
Campbell,
Brooklyn, is the Choices expand in school lunch programs.
first to deliver milk A growing number of public schools begin
in glass bottles. featuring national fast-food outlets and soft
For many years the drink brands in the school lunchroom.
neighborhood
milkman is the
most common way
to obtain fresh milk,
before the age
of supermarkets.