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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 - 9 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 - 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 - 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: 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 - 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 flight - 30 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 27 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 - 25 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 - 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 a 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 - 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 dies at age 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 - 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 Sept 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 - 5 May 2013: Ohio kidnap victims rescued after years in captivity - 6 June 2013: - Edward Snowden discloses US Govt operations - 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 - 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: 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 - 3 Nov: 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 - 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 - 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 - 24 Sept 2016: The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens - 2 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 - 12 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 - 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 - 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 - 13 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) - 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 - 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 - |