Our Family History

The Genealogy of Robert and Christina Barritt

1981 - 2005 (~ 24 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1981	1981: UK - Worst April blizzards of 20th century 1981: London, UK - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 1981: UK - Assassination Attempt on Pope John Paul II 1981: USA - Ronald Reagan president 1981-1989. 1981: USA - Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan 1981: UK - AIDS Identified 1981: UK - Pac-Man is Extremely Popular 1981: USA - Personal Computer (PC) Introduced by IBM 1981: Seattle, WA, USA - MS-DOS invented. 1981: Falkland Islands - Argentina invades Falkland Islands
2	1982	1982: UK - Unemployment reaches 3 million 1982: Berkshire, UK - Women's peace protests against cruise missiles begin at Greenham Common 1982: USA - E.T. Movie Released 1982: UK - King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised from seabed After 437 Years 1982: New York, NY, USA - Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden 1982: USA - Human growth hormone genetically engineered. 1982: UK - Margaret Thatcher wins landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209
3	1983	1983: UK - 1983: USA - Ronald Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars 1983: USA - Soviet Union Shoots Down a Korean Airliner 1983: Grenada - United States Intervention 1983: UK - Soft bifocal contact lens invented. 1983: USA - First Cabbage Patch Kids sold. 1983: USA - Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term virtual reality. 1983: UK - Miners' strike - High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
4	1984	1984: Bhopal, India - Huge Poison Gas Leak from Union Carbide chemical plant 1984: India - Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards 1984: UK - The CD-ROM invented. 1984: CA, USA - The Apple Macintosh invented. 1984: UK - BBC launches EastEnders as soap rival to Coronation Street
5	1985	1985: Ethiopia - Famine shocks the world 1985: Antarctica - Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered 1985: USSR - Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika 1985: UK - Wreck of the Titanic Found 1985: Seattle, WA, USA - Windows operating system created by Microsoft 1985: Libya - US bombing of Libya
6	1986	1986: Chernobyl, USSR - Chernobyl nuclear accident 1986: LiveAid, the biggest music event staged to date 1986: Cape Canaveral, FL, USA - Seven dead in Challenger space shuttle disaster 1986: Phillipines - Ferdinand Marcos Flees 1986: UK - Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds 1986: USSR - Mir Space Station Launched 1986: Japan - Fuji introduced the disposable camera. 1986: UK - Margaret Thatcher wins record third term as prime minister
7	1987	1987: UK - DNA First Used to Convict Criminals 1987: Hague, Netherlands - Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison 1987: New York, NY, USA - New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on Black Monday 1987: Moscow, USSR - West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Red Square 1987: UK - The first 3-D video game invented. 1987: UK - Disposable contact lenses invented. 1987: Lockerbie, Scotland - Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed
8	1988	1988: UK - U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner 1988: UK - Digital cellular phones invented. 1988: UK - The RU-486 'morning after' pill invented. 1988: UK - Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler. 1988: UK - Prozac 1988: Harvard, MA, USA - The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart. 1988: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Wall Falls
9	1989	1989: Alaska, USA - Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline 1989: Beijing, China - Students Massacred in Tiananmen Square 1989: Panama - Invasion of Panama: United States vs Panama 1989-1990. 1989: USA - George H.W. Bush president of the USA 1989-1993. 1989: USA - High-definition television invented. 1989: UK - John Major Prime Minister to 1997 (Conservative)
10	1990	1990: Kuwait - Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering first gulf war 1990: London, UK - Violence flares in London Poll Tax demonstration 1990: London, UK - Margaret Thatcher quits as UK prime minister 1990: South Africa - Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela freed from prison after 27 years 1990: Cape Canaveral, FL, USA - Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space 1990: Poland - Lech Walesa Becomes First President 1990: Geneva, Switzerland - The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. 1990: UK - Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier
11	1991	1991: USSR - Collapse of the Soviet Union 1991: Iraq - Operation Desert Storm 1991: South Africa - Apartheid Laws Repealed 1991: UK - The digital answering machine invented. 1991: Official End of the Cold War
12	1992	1992: Waco, TX, USA - Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
13	1993	1993: Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially 1993: New York, NY, USA - World Trade Center Bombed 1993: USA - William Jefferson Clinton president of the USA 1993-2001. 1993: USA - The pentium processor invented. 1993: Europe - Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France
14	1994	1994: USA - Lorena Bobbit Takes Brutal Revenge 1994: South Africa - Nelson Mandela Elected President 1994: USA - O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder 1994: Rwanda - Rwandan Genocide Begins 1994: UK - HIV protease inhibitor invented. 1994: Zaire - Ebola Virus Spreads
15	1995	1995: Tokyo, Japan - Gas Attack in Subway 1995: UK - Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated 1995: Balkans - Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina: United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia 1995-1996. 1995: USA - The Java computer language invented. 1995: USA - DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented. 1995: UK - Mad Cow Disease Hits Farms
16	1996	1996: UK - Two Royal Divorces 1996: UK - Web TV invented. 1996: UK - UK General Election: Labour routs Tories and Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
17	1997	1997: Hale-Bopp Comet Visible 1997: Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong Returned to China 1997: Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars 1997: Paris, France - Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash 1997: Scotland - Scientists Clone Sheep 1997: UK - Daimler Benz and Toyota launched prototype fuel-cell powered cars 1997: Asia - India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons
18	1998	1998: UK - Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever 1998: USA - U.S. President Clinton Impeached 1998: USA - Viagra on the Market 1998: Europe - The Euro the New European Currency
19	1999	1999: Fear of Y2K Bug 1999: USA - Killing Spree at Columbine High School 1999: Serbia - NATO Attacks Serbia 1999: Panama - Panama Canal Returns to Panama 1999: UK - Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h (318 mph). 1999: UK - Fuel protests paralyse Britain for seven days
20	2000	2000: UK - World celebrates New Millennium: UK opens unpopular dome visitor attraction at Greenwich 11 Sep 2000: New York, NY, USA - Attacks on US destroy World Trade Centre
21	2001	2001: UK - Outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease in UK. Millions of animals slaughtered and burned across the nation 2001: UK - General Election - Labour returned to power in UK 2001: USA - George W. Bush re-elected president of the USA. 2001: Windsor, UK - The Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon dies, aged 101 years
22	2002	2002: Iraq - Invasion of Iraq: United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq
23	2003	2003: UK - General election returns Labour to power for third term under Tony Blair

Our Family History

The Genealogy of Robert and Christina Barritt

Benjamin Thomas BRITT