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| =2000 | - 10 Jan 2000: AOL-Time Warner
formed - 4 Feb 2000: “The Sims” launches - 17 March 2000: Julia Roberts collects $20 million for "Erin Brockovich" - 17 May 2000: Final episode of "Beverly Hills, 90210" airs - 21 May 2000: Former president James Garfield’s spine put on display for final day - 8 July 2000: Venus Williams wins Wimbledon for the first time - 25 July 2000: Concorde jet crashes, killing everyone aboard - 29 July 2000 Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston wed - 12 Aug 2000: Russian sub, the "Kursk," sinks with 118 onboard - 23 Aug 2000: First "Survivor" finale airs - 19 Sept 2000: Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel debuts - 12 Oct 2000: USS Cole attacked by terrorists - 2 Nov 2000: First residential crew arrives aboard the International Space Station - 7 Nov 2000: - Presidential election results between Al Gore and George Bush too close to call - Link, - Hillary Clinton is elected to the U.S. Senate - 25 Nov 2000: First International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - 13 Dec 2000: - Al Gore Concedes presidential election - Link, - Texas Seven prison break - |
| =2001 | - 6 Jan 2001: Congress
certifies George W. Bush winner of 2000 elections,
Link, - 9 Jan 2001: Apple launches iTunes, revolutionizing how people consume music - 15 Jan 2001: Wikipedia launches - 18 Feb 2001: Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Killed in crash - 6 March 2001: The death spiral of Napster begins - 25 March 2001: Icelandic pop singer Björk makes splash at the Oscars - 20 June 2001: Andrea Yates drowns her five children - 21 June 2001: Actor Carroll O'Connor died at age 76 - 22 June 2001: Blockbuster hit movie "The Fast and the Furious" released - 27 June 2001: Actor Jack Lemmon died at age 76 - 29 June 2001: Boston doctor found guilty of killing wife - 1 Sept 2001: First Muslim holiday U.S. postage stamp is issued - 11 Sept 2001: Attack on America - 5 Oct 2001: Seattle Mariners set American League record for wins in a season - 7 Oct 2001: U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins - 8 Oct 2001: The Office of Homeland Security is founded - 26 Oct 2001: President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act - 10 Nov 2001: President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism - 12 Nov 2001: Plane crashes in Rockaway, New York - 15 Nov 2001: Microsoft releases Xbox gaming console - 16 Nov 2001: First Harry Potter film opens - 29 Nov 2001: George Harrison, lead guitarist for the Beatles, dies - 2 Dec 2001: Enron files for bankruptcy - 7 Dec 2001: "Ocean's Eleven" remake opens in theaters - 15 Dec 2001: Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens - 22 Dec 2001: “Shoe bomber” Richard Reid attempts to detonate bombs on Paris-Miami flight - |
| =2002 | - 8 Jan 2002:
President George W. Bush signs No Child Left Behind Act into law - 27 Jan 2002: Explosions trigger deadly panic in Nigeria - 29 Jan 2002: George W. Bush describes Iraq, Iran and North Korea as "axis of evil" - 1 Feb 2002: Journalist Daniel Pearl is murdered - 7 Feb 2002: President George W. Bush announces plan for "faith-based initiatives" - 12 Feb 2002: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes - 15 Feb 2002: IOC finds fraud, awards second gold in Winter Olympics skating event - 7 March 2002: Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial - 24 March 2002: Halle Berry becomes first Black woman to win Best Actress Oscar - 17 Apr 2002: "General Hospital" airs 10,000th episode - 1 May 2002: Former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams indicted for manslaughter - 4 May 2002: Nigerian aircraft crashes in crowded city - 5 May 2002: "Spider-Man" becomes first movie to top $100 million in opening weekend - 10 May 2002: Robert Hanssen, FBI agent turned Russian spy, is sentenced to life in prison - 22 May 2002: Chandra Levy's remains found - 7 June 2002: Michael Skakel convicted of 1975 murder in Greenwich - 10 June 2002: Doughnut truck thief arrested - 10 July 2002: Bill to allow airline pilots to carry guns was approved - 16 July 2002: President Bush unveils strategy for homeland security - 5 Aug 2002: Divers recover U.S.S. Monitor turret - History.com, - 4 Sept 2002: Kelly Clarkson wins first "American Idol" - 9 Sept 2002: 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punches a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face - 20 Sept 2002: Avalanche thunders into Russian village - 11 Oct 2002: Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize - Link, - 12 Oct 2002: Terrorists kill 202 in Bali - 23 Oct 2002: Hostage crisis in Moscow theater - 5 Dec 2002: TV producer Roone Arledge dies - |
| =2003 | - 22 Jan 2003: Hispanics
are officially declared the largest minority group in the
U.S. - 1 Feb 2003: Columbia Space Shuttle mission ends in disaster - 5 Feb 2003: Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at UN, justifies US Invasion of Iraq - 15 Feb 2003: Millions protest against the Iraq War in coordinated day of action - 18 Feb 2003: Arsonist sets fire in South Korean subway - 20 Feb 2003: Rhode Island nightclub burns - 12 March 2003: - Police recover Elizabeth Smart and arrest her abductors - The Dixie Chicks backlash begins - 16 March 2003: 23-year-old peace activist Rachel Corrie is crushed to death by Israeli bulldozer - 19 March 2003: War in Iraq begins - 1 April 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued - 9 April 2003: Baghdad falls to US forces - 29 May 2003: Bob Hope celebrates 100th birthday - 4 June 2003: Martha Stewart indicted for securities fraud and obstruction of Justice - 26 June 2003: - Former US Senator Strom Thurmond dies - Lawrence v. Texas is decided - 29 June 2003: Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96 - 1 July 2003: Kobe Bryant accuser goes to police - 3 July 2003: US put a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein lesser amounts for his 2 sons - 5 July 2003: World Health Organization declares SARS contained - 12 July 2003: USS Ronald Reagan, first carrier named for a living president, commissioned in Norfolk, VA - 22 July 2003: - Jessica Lynch gets hero's welcome - Qusay and Uday Hussein killed - 30 July 2003: Last classic VW Beetle rolls off the line - 10 Aug 2003: Temperatures in UK top 100 for the first time during European heat wave - 14 Aug 2003: Blackout hits northeast US - 28 Aug 2003: Britney Spears and Madonna kiss at the VMAs - 30 Aug 2003: Movie tough guy Charles Bronson dies - 8 Sept 2003: RIAA begins suing individual sharers of copyrighted mp3 files - 12 Sept 2003: Walt Received a Certification of Military Service - Image - 7 Oct 2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes California governor - 24 Oct 2003: The Concorde makes its final commercial flightt - 29 Oct 2003: LeBron James debuts in the NBA - 17 Nov 2003: - "The Terminator" becomes "The Governator" of California - Washington, D.C. sniper John Muhammad convicted - 19 Nov 2003: An arrest warrant is issued for Michael Jackson - 20 Nov 2003: Music producer Phil Spector indicted for murder of actress - 13 Dec 2003: Saddam Hussein captured - Link - 17 Dec 2003: Third and final "Lord of the Rings" movie opens - |
| =2004 | - 3 Jan 2004: Mars
Exploration Rover "Spirit" safely lands on Mars -
Link, - 19 Jan 2004: The Howard Dean scream - 1 Feb 2004: "Nipplegate" controversy at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show - 4 Feb 2004: FarceBook launches - 25 Feb 2004: "The Passion of the Christ" opens in the United States - 4 March 2004: Mianne Bagger becomes first transgender athlete to play in pro golf tournament - 11 March 2004: Terrorists bomb trains in Madrid - 11 Apr 2004: Phil Mickelson wins first major at Masters - 20 Apr 2004: WW 2 Monument opens in Washington, D.C. - History.com, - - 22 Apr 2004: Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan - 28 Apr 2004: U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib - 29 Apr 2004: - WW 2 Monument opens in Washington, D.C. - History.com, - End of the road for Oldsmobile - 30 Apr 2004: U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib - 5 May 2004: - Human remains found in suitcase near Virginia Beach - 6 May 2004: Final episode of "Friends" airs on NBC - 7 May 2004: Marine biologist Richard Thompson coins the term “microplastics” - 17 May 2004: First legal same-sex marriage performed in Massachusetts - 22 May 2004: Controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" wins Palme d'Or prize - 23 May 2004: George W. Bush recovers from bicycle accident - 1 June 204: Opening statements begin in Scott Peterson murder trial - 3 June 2004: Resignation of CIA Director George Tenet - 5 June 2004: - Ronald Reagan dies - Jennifer Lopez marries Marc Anthony - 21 June 2004: First privately owned spacecraft, SS1, travels beyond the earth’s atmosphere - 1 July 2004: Actor Marlon Brando died in Los Angeles at age 80 - 21 Aug 2004: Michael Phelps wins eighth medal - 29 Aug 2004: Brazilian marathoner assaulted at Olympics - 1 Sept 2004: Chechen separatists storm Russian school - 3 Sept 2004: Russian school siege ends in bloodbath - 12 Sept 2004L First season of “Entourage”—a TV show about life in Hollywood—comes to an end - 13 Sept 2004: Oprah gives away nearly 300 new cars - 8 Oct 2004: Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize - 10 Oct 2004: Superman Christopher Reeve dies at age 52 - 15 Oct 2004: "Funeral coaches" exempted from car-seat law - 27 Oct 2004: Red Sox win first championship since 1918 - 9 Nov 2004 Best-selling Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson dies at 50 - 12 Nov 2004: Scott Peterson convicted of murder - 19 Nov 2004: NBA players and fans brawl at infamous "Malice at the Palace" game - 30 Nov 2004: "Jeopardy!" contestant's record winning streak ends (Ken Jennings) - 26 Dec 2004: Tsunami devastates Indian Ocean coast - |
| =2005 | - 25 Jan 2005: BTK
killer sends message - 26 Jan 2005: George W. Bush appoints Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state - Condoleezza Rice sworn in as first Black female secretary of state - 3 Feb 2005: Alberto Gonzales becomes first Hispanic U.S. attorney general - 12 Feb 2005: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" opens in New York's Central Park - 4 March 2005: Martha Stewart is released from prison - 13 March 2005: Disney names Robert Iger as new chief executive - 16 March 2005: Actor Robert Blake acquitted of wife's murder - 2 April 2005: Pope John Paul II dies - 8 Apr 2005: Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty - 9 Apr 2005: Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles wed - 20 May 2005: Convicted sex offender Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim - 28 May 2005: Murder suspect spends third day perched on crane - 29 May 2005: Danica Patrick becomes first woman to lead Indy 500 - 31 May 2005: Identity of "Deep Throat" source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal, is revealed - 15 June 2005: Police search Van der Sloot home in Holloway disappearance - 19 June 2005: Controversy at U.S. Grand Prix - 24 June 2005: Tom Cruise jumps on couch, "Today" Show interview - 1 July 2005: Last Ford Thunderbird produced - 7 July 2005: Terrorists attack London transit system at rush hour - 21 July 2005: Bombers attempt to attack London transit system - 22 July 2005: "March of the Penguins" debuts - 24 July 2005: Lance Armstrong wins 7th Tour de France - 7 Aug 2005: Trapped Russian Sub rescued - 29 Aug 2005: Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast - 26 Sept 2005: IRA officially disarms - 29 Sept 2005: Reporter Judith Miller released from prison - 30 Sept 2005: Michael Eisner resigns as Disney CEO - 1 Oct 2005: Suicide bombers stage attacks in Bali - 22 Nov 2005: Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor of Germany - 27 Nov 2005: Aerosmith and 50 Cent headline a $10 million bat mitzvah - |
| =2006 | - 2 Jan 2006: 13 coal miners are trapped
in Sago Mine disaster; 12 die - 24 Jan 2006: Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar - 26 Jan 2006: Oprah Winfrey confronts author James Frey over lying - 3 Feb 2006: "World's Fastest Indian" makes U.S. debut - 10 Feb 2006: Final episode of "Arrested Development" airs on Fox - 18 Feb 2006: Shani Davis becomes first Black athlete to win individual gold medal at Winter Games - 22 Feb 2006: Gang commits largest robbery in British history - 27 Feb 2006: Effa Manley becomes first woman elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - 10 March 2006: Cuba plays in World Baseball Classic - 28 March 2006: Duke lacrosse team suspended following sexual assault allegations - 28 May 2006: Barry Bonds hits 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on MLB list - 13 June 2006: Jurors begin deliberations in Susan Polk trial - 19 June 2006: Construction on Global Seed Vault begins - 27 June 2006: Constitutional Amendment to ban desecration of the American flag died in Senat - 28 June 2006: DaimlerChrysler announces Smart's arrival in US - 15 July 2006: Twitter launches - 4 Aug 2006: "Talladega Nights" released in theaters - 15 Aug 2006: Wife of slain minister released from jail - 23 Aug 2006: Austrian teen escapes after eight years in captivity - 24 Aug 2006: Pluto is demoted - 30 Aug 2006: California Senate passes Global Warming Solutions Act - 5 Sept 2006: Katie Couric makes historic network anchor debut - 29 Sept 2006: School principal murdered by student in Wisconsin - 2 Oct 2006: Gunman kills five students at Amish school - 27 Oct 2006: Chick-fil-A founder takes last Ford Taurus - 14 Nov 2006: Last day for Texas' celebrated drive-in Pig Stands - 2 Dec 2006: 649-day tree sit-in at the University of California, Berkeley begins - |
| =2007 | - 4 Jan 2007: Nancy Pelosi
becomes first female Speaker of the House (Democrat) -
Link, - - 9 Jan 2007: Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone - 19 Jan 2007: First McDonald's drive-through opens in Beijing - 22 March 2007: News Corp and NBC announce new internet venture - 4 Apr 2007: Radio host Don Imus makes offensive remarks about Rutgers' women's basketball team - 16 April 2007: Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead - 3 May 2007: Three-year-old Madeleine McCann goes missing in Portugal - 20 May 2007: "The Simpsons" airs 400th episode - 10 June 2007: Last episode of "The Sopranos" airs - 28 June 2007: Bald Eagle removed from list of threatened species - 21 July 2007: Final Harry Potter book released - 27 Aug 2007: POS Michael Vick pleads guilty in dogfighting case - 29 Aug 2007: Richard Jewell, hero security guard wrongly accused as Olympic bombing suspect, dies - 9 Sept 2007: NFL nabs New England Patriots in “Spygate” scandal - 13 Sept 2007: UN’s watershed Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted - 26 Sept 2007: Mistrial declared in Phil Spector murder case - 12 Oct 2007: Al Gore wins Nobel Prize in the wake of "An Inconvenient Truth" - Link, - 5 Nov 2007: Writers strike stalls production of TV shows, movies - 27 Dec 2007: Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated - |
| =2008 | - 6 Jan 2008: Disney-MGM
Studios becomes Disney's Hollywood Studios - 10 Jan 2008: World's cheapest car debuts in India (Nano) - Cost: About $2500.00 - 22 Jan 2008: Heath Ledger dies of accidental prescription drug overdose - 12 Feb 2008: Hollywood writers' strike ends after 100 days - 16 March 2008: Bear Stearns collapses, sold to J.P. Morgan Chase - 20 April 2008: Danica Patrick becomes first woman to win an Indy race (NOT the Indy 500) - 1 June 2002: Universal Studios fire - 3 Aug 2008: Multimillion-dollar baby photos published (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Twins) - 8 Aug 2008: 5-day long Russo-Georgian War begins - 29 Aug 2008: Republican John McCain selects Sarah Palin as his running mate - 10 Sept 2008: CERN Large Hadron Collider is powered up - 15 Sept 2008: Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy - 21 Sept 2008: Last baseball game played at historic Yankee Stadium - 29 Sept 2008: Dow suffers largest single-day drop - 31 Oct 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto publishes a paper introducing Bitcoin - 4 Nov 2008: - Barack Obama elected as America's first Black president - Proposition 8 is passed in California, banning same-sex marriage - 11 Dec 2008: Billionaire conman Bernard Madoff arrested - |
| =2009 | - 2 Jan 2009: Rare
Bugatti found in British garage - 15 Jan 2009: Pilot Sully Sullenberger performs "Miracle on the Hudson" - 18 Jan 2009: GM auctions off historic Cars - 20 Jan 2009: Barack Obama is inaugurated - 21 Jan 2009: Toyota officially passes GM as planet's biggest car maker - 11 March 2009: Toyota sells 1 millionth hybrid in U.S. - 30 March 2009: President Obama announces auto industry shakeup - 8 Apr 2009: Somali pirates hijack Maersk Alabama ship - 13 Apr 2009: Former MLB All-star Mark "The Bird" Fidrych dies in truck accident - 27 April 2009: GM announces plans to phase out Pontiac - 15 May 2009: GE finally initiates cleanup of polluted Hudson River (Pollution took place 1947-1977) - 1 June 2009: GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - 25 June 2009: - Michael Jackson dies at age 50 - Farrah Fawcett, dies at age 62 - 29 June 2009: Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his multibillion-dollar fraud - 8 Aug 2009: Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court - 16 Aug 2009: Usain Bolt sets 100-meter dash world record - 25 Aug 2009: Ted Kennedy, “liberal lion of the Senate,” dies at 77 - 12 Sept 2009: Tea Party protest draws thousands to Washington, D.C. - 8 Oct 2009: Self-help guru's sweat lodge ceremony turns deadly (James Arthur Ray near Sedona, Arizona - 5 Nov 2009: Army major kills 13 people in Fort Hood shooting spree - 4 Dec 2009: Amanda Knox convicted of murder in Italy - 10 Dec 2009: "Avatar" makes its world premiere in London - 16 Dec 2009: Blockbuster sci-fi film "Avatar" opens in U.S. theaters - 23 Dec 2009: "Balloon Boy" parents sentenced in Colorado - |
| =2010 | - 11 Jan 2010: Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank, dies at 100 -
History.com, - 12 Jan 2010: Massive earthquake strikes Haiti - 18 Feb 2010: WikiLeaks publishes the first documents leaked by Chelsea Manning - 19 Feb 2010: Tiger Woods apologizes for extramarital affairs - 7 March 2010: Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar - 20 April 2010: Massive oil spill begins in Gulf of Mexico (Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig) - 8 May 2010: Betty White becomes oldest "Saturday Night Live" host (88) - 28 May 2010: Terrorists attack Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan - 3 June 2010: Joran van der Sloot arrested for murder in South America - 29 June 2010: Larry Kind announced he would step down from his CNN show after 25 years on the air - 3 July 2010: President Obama awarded $2 billion in funding for new solar plants - 6 July 2010: Queen Elizabeth II addressed UN for first time since 1957 - 10 July 2010: Robotic submarines removed a leaking cap from a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico - 9 Aug 2010: JetBlue flight attendant quits job via escape slide - 13 Oct 2010: Chilean miners are rescued after 69 days underground - 17 Dec 2010: Street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolates in Tunisia, igniting the Arab Spring - |
| =2011 | - 8 Jan 2011:
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords injured in shooting rampage -
Link, - 24 Jan 2011: Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport is bombed by Chechen terrorists - 18 Feb 2011: Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder - 11 March 2011: Fukushima nuclear disaster - 17 March 2011: Clark pleads guilty in Yale grad student slaying - 23 March 2011: Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 - 29 April 2011: Prince William weds Kate Middleton - 2 May 2011: Osama bin Laden killed by US forces - 22 June 2011: Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger is arrested - 21 July 2011: NASA's final space shuttle mission comes to an end - 19 Aug 2011: "West Memphis Three" released from prison after 18 years - 17 Sept 2011: Occupy Wall Street begins - 20 Sept 2011: "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" is repealed - - 3 Oct 2011: Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned in Italy - 4 Oct 2011: Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA (Michael Morton) - 5 Oct 2011: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies - 20 Oct 2011: Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi is killed - 29 Nov 2011: Dr. Conrad Murray receives four-year sentence in Michael Jackson's death - 15 Dec 2011: U.S. declares an end to the War in Iraq - 17 Dec 2011: Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea, dies - |
| =2012 | - 11 Jan 2012:
Joran van der Sloot admits to Peru murder - 5 Feb 2012: Husband of missing Utah woman kills self and two young sons - 11 Feb 2012: Pop superstar Whitney Houston dies at age 48 - 26 Feb 2012: Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed - 18 April 2012: Dick Clark, host of "American Bandstand" and "New Year's Rockin' Eve," dies - 26 Apr 2012: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor found guilty of war crimes - 18 May 2012: FarceBook raises $16 billion in largest tech IPO in US history - 15 June 2012: Nik Wallenda walks across Niagara Falls on tightrope - 20 July 2012: Aurora shooting leaves 12 dead, 70 wounded - 4 Aug 2012: Oscar Pistorius becomes the first amputee runner to compete at the Olympics - 24 Aug 2012: Killer in Norway massacre is sentenced - 20 Sept 2012: Amish convicted in beard-cutting attacks - 22 Oct 2012: Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles - 4 Dec 2012: Typhoon "Pablo" kills over 1,000 people in the Philippines - 14 Dec 2012: Sandy Hook school shooting - 21 Dec 2021: "Gangnam Style" becomes the first YouTube video to reach one billion views - |
| =2013 | - 17 Jan 2013:
Bolshoi Ballet artistic director attacked with acid - 1 Feb 2013: "House of Cards," Netflix's first original series, starts streaming - 28 Feb 2013: Pope Benedict resigns - 4 Apr 2013: Movie critic Roger Ebert dies - 8 April 2013: Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, dies - 15 April 2013: 3 people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing - 6 May 2013: Ohio kidnap victims rescued after years in captivity - 5 June 2013: Edward Snowden discloses U.S. government operations - 6 June 2013: Ohio kidnap victims rescued after years in captivity - 19 June 2013: James Gandolfini, TV's Tony Soprano, dies at 51 - 23 June 2013: Nik Wallenda makes Grand Canyon crossing on high wire - 26 June 2013: Lawrence v. Texas is decided - 13 July 2013: the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter first appears, sparking a movement - 22 July 2013: Prince George, first child of Prince William and Kate Middleton, is born - 2 Sept 2013: Diana Nyad, 64, makes record swim from Cuba to Florida - 16 Sept 2013: Gunman kills 12 in D.C. Navy Yard massacre - 5 Dec 2013: South African president Nelson Mandela dies at 95 - |
| =2014 | - 2 Feb 2014: Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman dies at age 46 - 10 Feb 2014: Iconic child star Shirley Temple dies at 85 - 22 Feb 2014: "El Chapo", the world's most-wanted drug kingpin is captured in Mexico - 23 Feb 2014: Jason Collins, first openly gay athlete to play in NBA, makes U.S. sports history - 8 March 2014: Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes with more than 200 people aboard - 22 March 2014: Mudslide in Washington state kills more than 40 people - 18 Apr 2014: Mt. Everest sees its single deadliest day - 25 April 2014: The Flint water crisis begins - 16 May 2014: Pioneering TV journalist Barbara Walters signs off - 19 June 2014: Felipe VI becomes King of Spain after Juan Carlos I abdicates - 17 July 2014: - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down over the Ukraine-Russia border - Eric Garner dies in NYPD chokehold - 9 Aug 2014: Michael Brown is killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri - 11 Aug 2014: Actor Robin Williams dies at age 63 - 12 Aug 2014: Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall dies - 4 Sept 2014: Comedy legend Joan Rivers dies - 3 Oct 2014: "Serial" debuts, inaugurating the podcast boom - 8 Oct 2014: First person in U.S. diagnosed with Ebola dies - 10 Oct 2014: Malala Yousafzai, 17, wins Nobel Peace Prize - 3 Nov 2014: One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin Towers - Link, - |
| =2015 | - 7 Jan 2015: 12
people die in shooting at "Charlie Hebdo" offices (France) - 24 March 2015: Germanwings pilot intentionally crashes plane, killing 150 people - 11 April 2015: Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama - 25 April 2015: Magnitude 7.8 earthquake kills thousands in Nepal - 23 May 2015: Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage - 2 June 2015: - FIFA president Sepp Blatter announces resignation amidst corruption scandal - Harlem Hellfighter Henry Johnson awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor - 14 June 2015: Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee, found stabbed to death - 17 June 2015: Charleston church shooting - 26 June 2015: Same-sex marriage is made legal nationwide with Obergefell v. Hodges decision - 27 June 2015: Activist Bree Newsome removes Confederate flag from South Carolina State House - 30 June 2015: Misty Copeland becomes American Ballet Theater’s first Black principal dancer - 13 July 2015: Sandra Bland dies in jail after traffic stop confrontation - 31 Aug 2015: Angela Merkel says “Wir schaffen das” (We can do this) on accepting refugees - 14 Sept 2015: Muslim teen arrested for bringing reassembled clock to school - 13 Nov 2015: ISIL stages series of terrorist attacks in Paris, culminating in massacre at Bataclan theater - |
| =2016 | - 8 Jan 2016: Infamous drug lord
"El Chapo" is captured by Mexican authorities - 21 April 2016: Legendary musician and megawatt star Prince dies at 57 - 19 May 2016: EgyptAir flight 804 disappears over the Mediterranean Sea - 3 June 2016: Muhammad Ali died at a hospital in Arizona at age 74 - 12 June 2016: Terrorist gunman attacks Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL - 14 July 2016: Terrorist drives truck through Bastille Day celebration - 28 July 2016: Hillary Clinton accepts Democratic nomination for president, becoming first woman to lead a major U.S. political party - 26 Aug 2016: Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits during national anthem, gives interview about it for the first time - 4 Sept 2016: Mother Teresa becomes a saint - 24 Sept 2016: The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens - 3 Nov 2016: Chicago Cubs win first World Series title since 1908, snapping "curse" - 4 Nov 2016: Paris Agreement comes into effect - 9 Dec 2016: World Anti-Doping Agency accuses Russia of widespread cheating at Olympics - |
| =2017 | - 20 Jan 2017: SAD DAY in
AMERICA: Trump Inaugurated - 21 Jan 2017: Women's March - 13 Apr 2017: U.S. military drops "Mother of All Bombs" on ISIS tunnel complex - 22 May 2017: Manchester Arena bombed during Ariana Grande concert - 3 June 2017: Terrorists attack London Bridge - 13 June 2017: Otto Warmbier returns from North Korean prison in a coma - 14 June 2017: - five people shot, including Republican congressman, at charity baseball game - Grenfell Tower fire kills 72 in London - 8 August 2017: Glen Campbell died, 81, after battling Alzheimer's disease - 1 Oct 2017: Gunman opens fire on Las Vegas concert crowd, wounding hundreds and killing 58 - 5 Oct 2017: New York Times publishes bombshell investigation into allegations against Harvey Weinstein - 24 Nov 2017: Terrorists attack mosque in Sinai, Egypt |
| =2018 | - 24 Jan 2018: Larry Nassar, a
former doctor for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to prison for sexual
assault - 14 Feb 2018: Teen gunman kills 17, injures 17 at Parkland, Florida high school - 25 March 2018: Adult Star Stormy Daniels accused disclosed sexual encounter with POG - 16 Apr 2018: Kendrick Lamar becomes the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize - 19 May 2018: Prince Harry weds Meghan Markle - 23 June 2018: Thai soccer team becomes trapped in cave - 10 July 2018: Last of Thai soccer team rescued from cave - 6 Sept 2018: Off-duty police officer mistakenly enters neighbor's apartment and shoots its owner to death - 28 Sept 2018: Arctic shipping lane opens due to ice melt; cargo ship completes the journey - |
| =2019 | - 15 March 2019: Christchurch,
New Zealand mosque attacks - 30 April 2019: Japan's Emperor Akihito abdicates - 7 July 2019: U.S. women's soccer team wins record 4th World Cup title - 4 Aug 2019: Dayton, Ohio shooting becomes second mass shooting in 24-hour period - 11 Dec 2019: 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg named Time's Person of the Year - 18 Dec 2019: Trump impeached for the first time (See 13 Jan 2021 for #2) - |
| =2020 | - 2 Jan: Live
Gambling, Hoosier Park, Anderson - Doc5536.pdf - 3 Jan: US Attacks Iran, kills General - Doc5537.pdf - 20 Jan 2020: First confirmed case of COVID-19 found in U.S. - 26 Jan 2020: Basketball star Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash - 5 Feb 2020: POG acquitted by US Senate - 11 Feb 2020: World Health Organization officially names novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 - 23 Feb 2020: Ahmaud Arbery is shot dead while out jogging - March 2020: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - 11 March 2020: Trump addresses the nation on COVID-19; announces travel ban - 12 March 2020: Broadway goes dark due to COVID-19 pandemic - 13 March 2020: Breonna Taylor is killed by police in botched raid - 15 March 2020: Christchurch, New Zealand mosque attacks - 25 May 2020: Murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN by Policeman Derek Chavin (Chavin later convicted) - George Floyd is killed by a police officer, igniting historic protests - 6 July 2020: Charlie Daniels, age 83, died today - 9 July 2020: Supreme Court rules in McGirt v. Oklahoma - 17 July 2020: John Lewis, 80, Civil Rights Leader dies today in Atlanta, Georgia - - 18 Sept 2020: Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at age 87 (Supreme Court Justice) - (First woman to lie in state at the US Capitol) - 2 Oct 2020: Trump announces he and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19 - 13 Nov 2020: Kim Ng named first female MLB general manager - 12 Dec 2020: - Charley Pride, Country Singer died age 18, from Covid-19 - John ElCarre, Author, Died, abe 89 - - |
| =2021 | - 6 Jan 2021: US
Capitol attacked by domestic terrorists incited by the Trump, his son
Trump, Jr., Rudy Guilani, and others- They were aided and encouraged by
148 House Republicans and 8 Republican Senators. - First time in US History that a President refused his constitutional duty to transfer power peacefully to the next - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jan-6-committee-recommends-criminal-charges-against-trump-for-capitol-attack - 13 Jan 2021: Trump impeached for the second time in his term of office - 20 Jan 2021: Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - Kamala Harris becomes first female vice president - 20 Apr 2021: Derek Chavin found guilty on all 3 counts of murder in the death of George Floyd! - 24 June 2021: 98 people die in Surfside condo collapse - 2 July 2021: U.S. withdraws from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan - 15 Aug 2021: Kabul falls to the Taliban after U.S. withdrawal - 23 Aug 2021: FDA fully approves the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine - 13 Oct 2021: William Shatner goes to space - - |
| =2022 | - 24 Feb 2022:
Russia invades Ukraine - 23 Aug 2022: FDA fully approves the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine - 8 Sept 2022: Queen Elizabeth II of England died, her son Charles becomes King - 28 Sept 2022: Hurricane Ian made landfall at Caya Costa, Florida (Near Fort Myers and Cape Coral) at 304 pm, with winds around 150mph winds (Category 4 hurricane) - the area was devastated - the Sanibel Causeway (3 miles long) was impassable and ripped apart in many places - Large boats that had been on the Caloosahatchee River were carried by the storm surge and flooding into downtown Fort Myers streets. - |
| =2023 | - 4 Apr 2023: Trump
indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records (First
ex-president to be charged with a crime) - 6 May 2023: Who (World Health Organization) downgrades Covid-19 - no longer a Health Emergency - 12 June 2023: Bridge collapse on I-95 near Philadelphia, 1 death - 13 June 2023: Trump indicted on 37 counts relating to mishandling of classified Documents in Federal Court, Miami, FL - (First Ex-president to be indicted on Federal charges) - 1 Aug 2023: Trump indicted (3rd Indictment) on 4 Counts in relation to the Jan 6, 2021 Attack on the Capitol in Washington, DC - 3 Aug 2023: Trump Arrested and arraigned (3rd time) in relation to the Jan 6, 2021 Attack on the Capitol in Washington, DC - 14 Aug 2023: Trump Indicted for the 4th Time!! This time in Georgia for attempting to rig the Georgia election results - 41-count indictment against POG and 18 other defendants including Rudy Guliani - 24 Aug 2023: Trump arrested - Mug Shot: Ph13422.jpg - Inmate# P01135809 - Fulton County, Georgia Jail - 29 Sept 2023: Diane Feinstein, longest-serving female US Senator dies at age 90 - 3 Oct 2023: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was removed from the office, First time in history - making history as the first speaker to ever be removed through a vote of his colleagues - 19 Nov 2023: Rosalyn Carter, 96, died at her home in Georgia - 29 Nov 2023: Henry Kissinger dies at 100 - 1 Dec 2023: - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Died at 93 - Link, - George Santos, House Member (Republican) from New York was expelled (6th member of Congress ever expelled - |
| =2024 | - 25 March 2024:
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday
morning after it was struck by a large ship - 27 March 2024: Joe Lieberman died - 29 March 2024: Louis Gossett, Jr, dead at 87 - 8 Apr 2024: Total Solar Eclipse seen from Mexico to Maine - 10 Apr 2024: O. J. Simpson Dies at 76, Prostate Cancer - 13 Apr 2024: Iran attacks Israel with over 300 drones and rockets - 15 Apr 2024: Trump Goes on Trial in New York City - Hush Money payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016 and falsifying Business Records to cover it up - New York City Courthouse, New York City, New York - (First former President to stand trial on a Felony Charge) - 16 Apr 2024: Carl Erskine, 97, died at Community Hospital, Anderson, Indiana - 30 May 2024, 420 pm: Trump found guilty on all 34 felony counts in New York Court - Jury deliberated for 12 hours - (Sentencing: 11 July 2024, 10am) - 3 June 2024: Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, goes on trial for gun-related charges in a federal case (Jury Selection) - (First child of a sitting president to go on trial) - 11 June 2024: A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. The conviction marks the first time a president’s immediate family member has been found guilty of a crime during their father’s term in office, though his crimes predate Joe Biden’s tenure as president. - 18 June 2024: Willy Mays Dies at 93 - 20 June 2024: Actor Donald Sutherland dead at 88 - 13 July 2024: Trump wounded by assassination attempt, 611, 43 sec pm, Butler County, Pennsylvania while he was speaking at a campaign rally. Shooter: 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks - Shot in his right ear - 1 spectator killed, two in serious condition - The Shooter was also killed by Secret Service Snipers - 18 July 2024: Bob Newhart Dies, Age 94 - 21 July 2024: - 146pm: President Joe Biden, will step aside and throws his endorsement behind Vice President Kamala Harris to run for election for President - Letter from Biden: Doc6887.pdf - - 9 Sept 2024: Actor James Earl Ray died at 93 - 15 Sept 2024: Assassination Attempt on Trump (Florida) - Shots fired at 130pm (by the Secret Service, not the shooter), Trump International Golf Course, - Shooter: Ryan Wesley Routh, 58 yrs old - - 1 Oct 2024: Former President Jimmy Carter turned 100 today - 3 Nov 2024: Quincy Jones, Musical Innovator dies at 91 - 5 Nov 2024: An insane convicted felon is elected president - 1 Dec 2024: President Biden pardons his son Hunter - |