1964 Civil Rights Act passes 1968 President Kennedy assassinated 1969 US lands on the moon 1975 Vietnam War ends 1975 Personal computers available 1983 CDs invented 1986 Space shuttle Challenger explodes 1999 Persian Gulf War 2001 Twin Towers attacked

1962 Cuban missile crisis 1965-1975 Vietnam War 1973 Arab oil embargo 1979 Soviets invade Afghanistan 1990 Break-up of Soviet Union 1994 Rwandan Civic War 1994 South African apartheid ends 1997 Hong Kong returned to China