Chapter 15 Timeline

For Chapter 15, you might ask of each decade: Which events have the most direct significance for the issues of your culture, community culture, and family-school relations discussed in this chapter?
1960's
1962	Students for a Democratic Society formed at Port Huron, Michigan
1980s
1981	IBM personal computer is marketed
1981	Launch date of MTV (music television)
1983	First cell phones are test-marketed in the United States
1985	Nintendo Entertainment System video game comes to the United States
1990s
1991	Release of the first browser (software for accessing the World Wide Web)
1995	Walt Disney Company acquires Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion; Chase Manhattan Corporation merges with the Chemical Banking Corporation to create the largest bank in United States
1996	Federal Trade Commission approves merger between Turner Broadcasting and Time‑Warner, creating largest media company in the world
1998	Students at schools in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Springfield, Oregon, open fire on students and teachers, killing seven and injuring many others
1999	In Littleton, Colorado, 2 students kill 12 other students and 1 teacher, wounding 20 before killing themselves
1999	Viacom acquires CBS for $37.3 billion
1999	Federal Communications Commission loosens restrictions on any one company controlling too much of the cable industry, allowing AT&T to win more than a third of the nation’s TV, phone, and high‑speed Internet franchises
1999	College student Shawn Fanning founds Napster to share commercial files for free, a practice soon outlawed after record companies sue Napster
2000
2000	A team of U.S. scientists and one British scientist announce they have determined the structure of the human genome
2001	Top-selling video game is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2001	September 11, 2001. Two highjacked commercial airliners destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City marking the worst-ever terrorist attack on American soil. A third highjacked airliner crashes into the Pentagon in Washington DC, while a fourth crashes into rural Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people are killed.
2001	A Massachusetts company announces the first-ever cloned embryo
2001	Studies indicate that children and teens watch an average of 20 hours of TV a week
2001	Studies show 65 percent of 10 to 13 year olds and 75 percent of 14 to 17 year olds have Internet access, together making up the largest user group
2002	73.5 million Americans subscribe to cable TV
2002	DVD players become the fastest growing consumer electronic product in history, with sales up 50 percent from last year
2002	The motion picture industry grosses $9.5 billion, up 13 percent from 2001
2002	166 million Americans have some Internet access up from 3 million in 1994
1995-2002	The wireless communications market triples in size, with over 140 million cell phone subscribers in 2002
1996-2002	Computer and video game sales nearly double to $7 billion
1987-2002	Rap/Hip Hop share of total music sales go from 4 to 14 percent, while rock music sales love over 20 percent of their share
2003	Federally funded study of 76,000 students nationwide shows that drug testing in schools does not deter drug use among teenagers in the U.S.
2003	The space shuttle Columbia breaks up upon reentry, killing all seven aboard
2003	Apple launches iTunes and the iPod music player to download digital music legally at 99 cents per song
2003	North Korea announces that it has nuclear weapons and has begun making weapons-grade plutonium