1956 -- Warwick Kerr brings the first queens to Brazil from Africa.1957 -- Swarms escape from Rio Claro Apiary and begin process of Africanization by mating in the wild and displacing European honey bees.
1965 -- Following reports of mass attacks in Brazil, TIME magazine runs a story on the phenomenon and uses the term "killer bee."
1976 -- "Killer bees" reach Venezuela, and within a few years, hundreds of deaths are attributed to them.
1981 -- Roxx Regime form in Cypress, CA.
1982 -- First Africanized bee swarm is discovered in Panama.
1983 -- Roxx Regime change name to Stryper.
1984 -- Stryper release The Yellow and Black Attack.
1985 -- Stryper reach Top 40 with "Winter Wonderland."
1986 -- Africanized honey bees enter southern Mexico.
1987 -- Stryper play a show in Hidalgo, TX, the first such attack on U.S. soil.
1988 -- On July 15th, 82-year-old Lino Lopez becomes the first fatality from "killer bees" at a Stryper show in Brownsville, TX.
1990 -- Stryper undergo processes of deafricanization and dechristianization, release Against the Law featuring songs with secular lyrics, and return to their natural habitat.
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