13 Timelines

TIMELINE OF WAYNE GRETZKY'S LIFE 1961 Wayne Douglas Gretzky born, January 26 1963 Puts on ice skates for first time 1968 At age seven, ends first season scoring one goal 1975 Moves to Toronto, joins Junior B team 1977 Plays in Ste. Sault Marie with Junior A team 1978 Goes pro with Indianapolis Racers 1979 Traded to Edmonton Oilers 1982 Scores fifty goals in thirty-nine games 1984 Leads Oilers to first Stanley Cup 1988 Leads Oilers to fourth Stanley Cup Marries Janet Jones Traded to Kings 1994 Becomes all-time leading goal scorer 1996 Traded to St. Louis Blues Signs with New York Rangers 1998 Plays for Canada in the Nagano Olympics 1999 Retires from playing 2001 Joins Phoenix Coyotes organization 2002 Coaches Team Canada for Olympic gold 2010 Lights Olympic torch in Vancouver

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1961 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the thirty-fifth US president Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto 1963 Zip codes introduced in the United States Beatles release first album 1968 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated 1975 Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen 1977 Star Wars opens in movie theaters 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is issued Margaret Thatcher is elected prime minister of the United Kingdom 1982 USA Today first published 1984 Space shuttle Discovery makes its first flight 1988 Australia celebrates its bicentennial (two hundredth birthday) 1994 Channel Tunnel ("The Chunnel") opens, connecting England and France 1996 US president Bill Clinton elected to second term 1999 Bicyclist Lance Armstrong wins first of seven Tour de France championships; titles later taken away for drug use 2001 9/11: terrorists hijack four US airplanes, crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in

Pennsylvania 2002 Kelly Clarkson wins first American Idol 2010 The tallest building in the world, the 163-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, opens