VIDEO GALLERY
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- Ted Turner launches CNN
Ted Turner launches CNN
- Iran hostage crisis ends
- CNN first to report Reagan shot
- Lady Diana wed Prince Charles
- Sandra Day O’Connor first female Supreme Court Justice
Lady Diana wed Prince Charles
- CNN2 launches, today’s HLN
CNN2 launches, today’s HLN
- Sally Ride first American woman in space
- Terror attack on Beirut US Marine barracks
Sally Ride first American woman in space
- Soviet Union boycotts Los Angeles Olympics
- CNN live coverage of TWA 847 hijacking
- Live Aid event raises funds for famine relief
- CNN begins 24-hour transmission to Europe
Live Aid event raises funds for famine relief
- CNN Exclusive – Shuttle Challenger live coverage
- Chernobyl nuclear disaster
CNN Exclusive – Shuttle Challenger live coverage
- Live continuous coverage of Iran-Contra hearings
- Rescue of “baby Jessica” from Texas well
- Dow drops 22% on Black Monday
Rescue of “baby Jessica” from Texas well
- Bomb destroys Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
Bomb destroys Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
- CNN Live: Student Uprising at Tiananmen Square, China
- Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaskan coast
- Massive San Francisco earthquake
- Fall of Berlin Wall
- Longest running sitcom in US history The Simpsons first airs
CNN Live: Student Uprising at Tiananmen Square, China
- Iraq invades Kuwait
- Nelson Mandela released from South African Prison
Nelson Mandela released from South African Prison
- CNN live from Baghdad – largest audience for non-sporting event in TV history
- CNN live exclusive coverage of Soviet coup attempt
CNN live from Baghdad – largest audience for non-sporting event in TV history
- US and Russia declare formal end to Cold War
- Rodney King trial verdict sparks Los Angeles riots
- Hurricane Andrew devastates south Florida
- World Trade Center Bombing
- Record ratings for CNN’s Larry King Live NAFTA Debate
- Branch Davidian standoff ends in 76 dead
- Oslo Accords signed by Israelis and Palestinians
- European Union formally goes into effect
CNN’s Larry King Live NAFTA Debate
- Live coverage of OJ Simpson Bronco chase
- Rwandan genocide
Live coverage of OJ Simpson Bronco chase
- 168 killed in bombing of Oklahoma City Federal Building
- Gavel–to-gavel coverage of OJ Simpson trial
- CNN.com launches
Bombing of Oklahoma City Federal Building
- Atlanta Olympic Park bombing
- The death of Tupac Shakur
Atlanta Olympic Park bombing
- The death of Biggie Smalls
- CNN interviews little-known terrorist Osama Bin Laden
- CNN en Español debuts
- Britain hands Hong Kong to China
- The death of Princess Diana
The death of Princess Diana
- The Pope Visits Cuba
- McGwire-Sosa home run chas
- President Bill Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives
The Pope Visits Cuba
- NATO air strikes in Kosovo conflict
- Columbine High School Shooting
Columbine High School Shooting
- AOL/Time Warner merger
- USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers, while in port in Aden, Yemen, for refueling
- First resident crew boards International Space Station
- Florida Presidential Election recount
AOL/Time Warner merger
- September 11th World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks
September 11th World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks
- Terror attack in Bali, Indonesia kills 202
- WHO says that SARS is now “a worldwide health threat”
- Second Gulf War in Iraq begins
- CNN breaks story of Shuttle Columbia disaster
- CNN first to broadcast capture of Saddam Hussein
CNN first to broadcast capture of Saddam Hussein
- South Asia earthquake and tsunami kills nearly 200,000
- Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf Coast region
Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf Coast region
- Mumbai Train bombings kill 209
- The U.S. population officially passes 300 million
- Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as the first female speaker of the House
- 33 killed at Virginia Tech University mass shooting
- Apple launches the iPhone
Apple launches the iPhone
- American swimmer Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals, an Olympic record, at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China
- Barack Obama elected first African American President
Barack Obama elected first African American President
- US Airways 1549 makes “miracle” landing on Hudson River
- The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 virus a pandemic, the first such declaration in more than 40 years
- The death of Pop icon Michael Jackson
- Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as a justice on the Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court
The death of Pop icon Michael Jackson
- Haiti earthquake kills more than 200,000
- Oil rig explosion and spill ravages US Gulf Coast
- 33 Chilean miners rescued after 69 days
- Start of Arab Spring that spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in 2011
33 Chilean miners rescued after 69 days
- US Navy Seals mission kills Osama Bin Laden
- The Occupy Wall Street movement begins in New York City. Over the next months, the protests spread across the U.S. and the world
US Navy Seals mission kills Osama Bin Laden
- Superstorm Sandy hits Northeast US
- Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary
- Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation due to age and declining health. He is the first pope to resign in almost 600 years
Massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown airs on CNN kickstarting the CNN original series franchise
- Boston Marathon bombing
- Death President Nelson Mandela
- The Senate votes to confirm Janet Yellen as the first woman to head the Federal Reserve.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown airs on CNN kickstarting the CNN original series franchise
- Malaysian Airlines 370 disappears
- Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
- Malaysian Airlines 17 shot down during Ukraine conflict
- Ebola epidemic becomes global health crisis
- Protest in Ferguson over Michael Brown murder
Ebola epidemic becomes global health crisis
- Terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo newspaper office and Hypercacher supermarket in Paris
- 50th Anniversary of Selma March
- US racial unrest (Baltimore specifically after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody)
- Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage nationwide
- Terror attacks in Paris kill 130 people and wound 494. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city
Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage nationwide
- President Barack Obama visits Cuba
- Prince dies
- Pulse Nightclub mass shooting
- Britain votes to leave the European Union
- Colin Kaepernick sits during the national anthem
- AT&T announces its intention to purchase Time Warner, which included HBO, Warner Bros. and the Turner cable networks
Prince dies
- Russia Probe
- Terror attack at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England
- White supremacist rally in Charlottesville turns deadly and fuels civil unrest in the United States
- Take a Knee protests
- Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico, leaving more than two thousand dead and more than 10,000 in shelters
- The Las Vegas mass shooting. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history
- #MeToo movement
- Mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas
- Justice Department sues to stop the AT&T/Time Warner deal on antitrust grounds
#MeToo movement
- Mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
- Actor Bill Cosby found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault
- Targeted mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Annapolis, Maryland
- Thailand cave rescues
- Pope Francis acknowledges “with shame and repentance” the Catholic Church’s failure to act on allegations of sexual abuse
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CNN files suit against Trump Administration when Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials are revoked
CNN Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta
- Terror attack targeting two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch
- Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris devastates large parts of the 850-year-old church
- Hong Kong extradition bill protests
- El Paso Walmart mass shooting
- President Donald J. Trump confirms ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a US military raid in Syria
- President Donald J. Trump impeached by the House of Representatives
- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station
- President Donald J. Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, becoming the first sitting US president to enter North Korea
- The United States formally withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
Hong Kong extradition bill protests
- The US killed Iran’s top military commander in a drone strike near Baghdad’s International Airport, ordered by President Donald J. Trump
- Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna among the nine casualties from a helicopter crash in Calabasas, CA
- The Republican-led U.S. Senate acquits President Donald J. Trump of both articles of impeachment. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah votes to convict Trump, along with all Democrats
- The Coronavirus Pandemic