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• Population of the earth reaches six billion.
• Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander are both lost.
• Global warming is finally taken seriously.
• Neutrinos are proven to have mass.
• The former principal engineering specialist formerly known as Norm has been retired for a year and is now known as Pono.
• Pono has been enjoying Hawaii for nearly four years.

• WWW is three years old.
• Human genome project has been going for two years.
• Preserved body of Otzi, the Alpine Ice Man just found.
• Massive riots in LA at end of police trial in Rodney King case.
• Desert Storm was just last year.
• Norm has been with Rockwell for a year.

• IBM PC has been out for a year.
• First space shuttle mission was just launched.
• AIDS was just recognized.
• Barney Clark gets first artificial heart.
• Compact disks about to debut.
• Norm shops for his first personal computer.

• Smallpox is eradicated from the world.
• Freon is found to be destroying ozone layer.
• Voyagers 1 and 2 are launched.
• Preparation for first Global Positioning Satellite launch.
• First and last moon landings are history.
• Norm has been working Space Shuttle activities.

• IBM just introduced FORTRAN, first programming language.
• Sabin developed live polio vaccine last year.
• Sputnik 1 was launched last year.
• James Van Allen discovers radiation belt around the earth.
• Integrated circuits for computers are being developed.
• Norm is working for the Michigan State Highway Department.
• Norm is dragged away screaming to the U.S. Army.

• Diners Club card is first plastic money.
• WW II clean up efforts still go on in Europe and Asia.
• Saddleshoes, poodle skirts, slimy shirts, flat tops.
• Korean war cease-fire talks begin.
• Direct long distance dialing debuts.
• Norm graduates from high school, starts college.

• Cousteau and Gagnan just invented Aqua-Lung.
• Fermi just obtained first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
• The world is in the throes of World War II.
• Gas, coffee, meat, sugar are rationed.
• Tin cans are topped, washed, flattened for recycling.
• Milkweed pods are gathered for life preservers.

• Scotch Tape just hit the market.
• Orson Welles airs War of the Worlds.
• Ballpoint pen is invented.
• Teflon and nylon are first used.
• Norm skips school, hides under Grandma's porch.
• Norm prepares to lead the grand march at Senior Prom.

• Hoover Dam is completed, Lake Mead starts filling.
• Catalytic cracking of petroleum is developed.
• Chester F. Carlson develops xerography.
• People flock away from the Dust Bowl.
• Queen Mary ocean liner goes into service.
• Lindbergh baby kidnapper, Hauptmann, is executed.

• Richter and Gutenberg introduce the Richter scale.
• Ernest O. Lawrence experiments with the cyclotron.
• The Curies produce the first artificial radioactivity.
• Enrico Fermi splits the uranium atom.
• Radar is invented.
• The Social Security Act becomes law.
• First paperback books are published.

• Edwin Hubble lectures on expansion of the universe.
• Beebe and Barton are the first to explore ocean depths.
• Clyde Tombaugh just discovered Pluto.
• Auguste Piccard just ballooned to the stratosphere.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated to his first term as president.
• The world recovers from the stock market crash and the depression.