200-196: I’m Lovin’ It

200: Entrepreneur Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois, ft. biographer and author of Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it all Away, Lisa Napoli

199: An American U2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union. Pilot Gary Powers successfully ejects and is captured.

198: Hurricane Katrina slams into the Gulf Coast states, killing more than 1,500 and causing $108B in damage ft. distinguished scholar, Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, John M. Barry

197: Edison’s kinetoscope premiered at his New Jersey lab.

196: Two high school students open fire on their teachers and classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO in a pre-planned attack, murdering 13.