12 Chapter 11 Timelines

TIMELINE OF DEREK JETER'S LIFE 1974 Derek Sanderson Jeter is born, June 26th, in Pequannock, New Jersey 1980 Goes to first Yankee game 1988 Makes high-school varsity baseball team as a freshman 1992 Graduates from high school, is drafted by the Yankees 1995 Makes major league debut on May 29th, against Seattle Mariners 1996 Named Yankees starting shortstop Wins Rookie of the Year Award First World Series win 1998 First All-Star appearance 2000 Named MVP of the All-Star Game and World Series MVP 2001 Makes "flip play" against Oakland A's in the playoffs Nicknamed "Mr. November" in the World Series against Arizona Diamondbacks 2003 Named Yankees captain 2004 Wins first Gold Glove Award 2006 Wins first Silver Slugger Award 2011 Homers for his 3,000th hit

2014 Makes fourteenth and last All-Star appearance Becomes #6 on list of all-time hits leaders Retires

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1974 37th US president Richard Nixon resigns from office 1980 US hockey Olympic team upsets rival Soviet Union team to win gold US boycotts Moscow summer Olympics to protest Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan 1988 NBA adds expansion teams Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets New York City temperature is 88 degrees on 8/8/88 1992 Euro Disney opens outside Paris 1995 The DVD is developed and named for "digital versatile disc" or more commonly, "digital video disc" 1998 Google is launched 1999 Nelson Mandela steps down as president of South Africa 2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate while still First Lady 2001 9/11: terrorists fly planes into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon near Washington, DC 2003 The last old-fashioned Volkswagen Beetle is built

2004 Ireland is the first country to ban smoking in all workplaces 2006 Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first female leader in all of Africa 2011 A series of 355 tornadoes hits 21 states from April 25 to 28, the largest outbreak in US history 2014 Children's book authors Walter Dean Myers (Fallen Angels), Eric Hill (Spot the Dog picture books), and Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole) pass away