What important event happened in 2015?

Answer 1

The election of the first black president.

Answer 2

One important event is when someone tried to assassinate our congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. This happened when Gabrielle Giffords was giving a speech in Arizona outside of a grocery store. There was only three people killed but 13 injured!

Answer 3

• People began signing up for Obamacare (The Affordable Care Act).
• Two terrorists set off a bomb at the Boston Marathon.
• Edward Snowden exposed the Federal Government's extensive secret and widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens
• Nelson Mandela died

The most important non-happening: Again, not a single person responsible for causing the worst depression since the 1930s was sent to prison.

Answer 4

There was a major measles outbreak in the summer of 2008 affecting in people in 15 states.
Few things may have been as historically important as Election 2008 for the US.