Overview

• Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention on August 27, 2008.
• The catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 caused massive tsunamis, claiming 36,000 lives.
• Rickey Henderson set a single-season stolen base record in 1982 that remains unmatched.
• Stevie Ray Vaughn and four others died in a helicopter crash in 1990.
• Hurricane Katrina prompted mass evacuations in 2005 as it approached New Orleans.