Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present

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• 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
• 2010 – In the 2010 Midterm elections, the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
• 2011 – U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is severely wounded in an assassination attempt

• 2011 – A series of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs.
• 2011 – Flooding devastates the Mississippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
• 2011 – A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 and injuring over 1,000, making it the deadliest single U.S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
• 2011 – Casey Marie Anthony is acquitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
• 2011 – STS-135: The Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.

• 2012 – U.S. presidential election, 2012: Barack Obama reelected president, Joe Biden reelected vice president.

• 2012 – Hurricane Sandy strikes the Eastern Seaboard.
• 2013 – President Obama and Vice President Biden begin their second terms.

• 2013 – Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
• 2013 – Terrorists attack the Boston Marathon by detonating two bombs at the finishing line of the race, killing three and injuring 283 runners and spectators. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then led Boston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after.
• 2013 – A tornado devastates suburbs near Oklahoma City, killing 24.
• 2013 – The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history burns nearly 16,000 acres and kills two people.
• 2013 – The Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal recognition of same-sex marriages and refused to recognize the legal standing of proponents of Proposition 8, which resulted in the re-legalization of same-sex marriage in California.
• 2013 – Black Lives Matter emerges as a political movement, protesting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
• 2014 – A grand jury decides not to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown inciting protests and riots against racism and police brutality in the St. Louis area Causing riot.
• 2014 – The Republicans win the Senate in the Midterm elections.

After the Supreme Court announced the legalization of same-sex marriage following Obergefell v. Hodges, the White House is lit up in the colors of the rainbow pride flag

• 2015 – Following Obergefell v. Hodges, same-sex marriage is legalized nationwide.

• 2016 – U.S. presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump elected president, Mike Pence elected vice president.

Presidency of Donald Trump

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• President Barack Obama meets with Donald Trump before his inauguration
• 2017 – Donald Trump becomes the 45th president, Mike Pence becomes the 48th vice president. Trump is the first person without prior military or government service to hold the office.
• 2017 – Trump fires FBI director James Comey, precipitating the Mueller investigation.
• 2017 – Relations between the U.S. and the U.N. and North Korea strain after the country tested missiles in various places.
• April 2017 – The United States drops missiles and bombs on Syria.

• 2017 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in the United States, flooding broad swaths of Texas and Louisiana and causing tens of billions of dollars of damage, making it one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history.
• 2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of damage. Irma also wrecks the Caribbean Islands.
• 2017 – Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 5 hurricane, killing hundreds and knocking out the island's power.

• 2018 – Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
• 2018 – The entire West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is impeached.
• 2018 – In the 2018 United States elections, the Democrats retake the House while the Republicans keep the Senate.
• 2018 – Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants Stephen Hillenburg and Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee both die in November.
• November 30, 2018 – Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred.
• 2019 – All the works published in 1923 except for sound recordings (2022 scheduled events) enter the public domain in the United States.
• January 1, 2019 – Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle.
• January 25, 2019 – The longest government shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to *January 25, 2019 (35 days), officially ends.
• January 30, 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero. It occurred for fifty-two straight hours.
• February 1, 2019 – President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

• February 27, 2019 – 2019 North Korea – United States Hanoi Summit held in Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
• March 26, 2019 – Vice President Mike Pence orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years, using either government or private carriers.
• 2019 –The Supreme Court case Bucklew V. Precythe rules 5 to 4 that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
• April 4, 2019 – The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
• April 2019 – The first image of a black hole is taken.
• April 2019 – James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December 2018.

• June 8, 2019 – President Trump reaches an agreement with Mexico to avoid tariffs.
• June 9, 2019 – A construction crane falls on an apartment complex in Dallas, killing 1 person and injuring 6.

• July 26, 2019 – The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 vote to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his wall.

• August 12, 2019 – An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, claiming that the two sought foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election. This complaint would lead to an investigation into the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

September 24, 2019 – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.

• December 18, 2019 – The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.

2020s

  2020s in the United States: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029.

• January 3, 2020 – President Donald Trump approves the targeted killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad, Iraq.
• January 16, 2020 – The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate.
• January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus.
• January 26, 2020 – Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and 7 others, perish in a helicopter crash.
• February 5, 2020 – The majority of the United States Senate votes to acquit Donald Trump of charges related to the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

• February 29, 2020 – The Trump administration and the Taliban sign a conditional peace agreement in Doha, Qatar as part of a process to end the War in Afghanistan.
• March 3, 2020 – Super Tuesday 2020 takes place.
• March 5, 2020 – The U.S. Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• March 11, 2020 – The World Health Organization officially declares COVID-19 a global pandemic.
• March 13, 2020 – President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds.
• March 16, 2020 – The Dow Jones falls by −2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second largest percentage drop ever at −12.93%, a larger crash than the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Most schools are also closed by this date.
• March 18, 2020 – President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law and announces he will invoke the Defense Production Act to improve U.S. medical resources as well as directing the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) to suspend evictions and foreclosures of federal housing until the end of April.
• March 24, 2020 – The U.S. box office records zero revenue for the first time ever.
• March 26, 2020 – The Trump administration indicts Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government of drug trafficking and narcoterrorism and offers a $15 million reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest.
• March 27, 2020 – President Trump signs the CARES Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• April 8, 2020 – Senator Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
• April 11, 2020 – The U.S. becomes the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 deaths: over 20,000, overtaking Italy.
• April 14, 2020 – President Trump announces that he will suspend U.S. funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation into its early response to the outbreak.
• April 15, 2020 – Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer faces two federal lawsuits accusing her of violating constitutional rights during the state's containment efforts. Thousands of people attend a protest in Lansing as anti-lockdown sentiment spreads.
• April 16, 2020 – It is revealed that nearly 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment within a single month due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
• April 21, 2020 – Oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.
• April 27, 2020 – The US Pentagon releases three UFO videos.
• April 30, 2020 – Armed protesters enter the Michigan State Capitol building to demand an end to lockdown measures.
• May 15, 2020 – The Trump administration formally announces Operation Warp Speed, a public–private partnership for accelerating the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
• May 25, 2020 – George Floyd, an African-American man living in Minneapolis, is murdered by Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on his neck during an arrest. Subsequently, nationwide protests ensued.
• August 28, 2020 – Actor Chadwick Boseman passes away from colon cancer.
• May 27, 2020 – The official nationwide COVID-19 death toll surpasses 100,000—more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and approaching that of the First World War, when more than 116,000 Americans died in combat.
• September 18, 2020 – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies.
• October 2, 2020 – President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are diagnosed with COVID-19. The former is taken to Walter Reed hospital.
• October 8, 2020 – The FBI announces that thirteen men have been arrested for plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer.
• November 3, 2020 – U.S. presidential election, 2020

Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

• November 7, 2020 – Four days after election day, former Vice President Joe Biden is elected the 46th president, defeating Donald Trump. Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, is elected the 49th vice president, becoming the first woman to hold that office.
• December 14, 2020 – The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are given out in the United States.
• January 6, 2021 – Trump-supporting rioters storm the United States Capitol, forcing Congress to evacuate and interrupting the Electoral College vote count that certified Joe Biden's victory.
• January 13, 2021 – Trump becomes the only president to be impeached for a second time. Ten Republicans join all Senate Democrats in voting to impeach Trump.

Presidency of Joe Biden

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• January 20, 2021 – Joe Biden becomes the 46th president and Kamala Harris becomes the 49th vice president. Harris is the first woman to hold her office.

President Biden signs his first executive orders reversing several Trump administration actions, including rejoining the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization, repealing the 2017 travel bans, ending funding for the United States–Mexico border wall, and revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

• February 13, 2021 – Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate in his second impeachment trial. Seven Republicans joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump.
• February 13–17 – A major winter storm kills 58 people in the United States (and 12 in Mexico) and causes over 9,724,000 power outages across 13 states in the Midwest and Southwest, with Southwest Power Pool declaring an "energy emergency".
• February 15 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces that Congress will establish a 9/11-styled commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol.
• March 7, 2021 – Floods in Hawaii leave one missing, destroy six homes, force evacuations, and leave 1,300 without electricity.
• March 11, 2021 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is passed.

• April 2, 2021 – The Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is placed under lockdown after a suspect rams a car into a barricade on Constitution Avenue and exits the vehicle holding a knife. Two police officers are injured in the attack and taken to a hospital, where one dies from his injuries. The suspect is killed by Capitol Police.
• April 2021 – January 2022 – Arizona's Maricopa County conducts an audit of the 2020 presidential election ballots, claiming election fraud.

• June 17, 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is passed, making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
• June 24, 2021 – A condominium in Miami collapses, killing ninety-eight people and injuring eleven others.

• August 30, 2021 – The United States withdraws its remaining troops from Afghanistan, ending its 20-year involvement in the War in Afghanistan.
• October 13, 2021 – Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board the Blue Origin NS-18, launched from Texas.

• November 15, 2021 – The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is signed into law.
• November 17, 2021 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 223–207 to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) after he posted a photo-shopped anime clip of him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–NY) and threatening President Biden, making him the first lawmaker to be censured since Charlie Rangel in 2010.

• December 10, 2021 – A late season tornado outbreak occurs in the Southern and Midwestern United States, causing major damage and killing at least 94 people.

• June 24, 2022 – Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court.
• November 2022 – In the 2022 United States elections, the Republicans retake the House while the Democrats keep the Senate.
• January 2023 – Kevin McCarthy is elected speaker of the House of Representatives on the fifteenth ballot.
• March, April 2023 – Former president Donald Trump is indicted and arraigned. He pleads not guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.