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February 8: The Algerian Civil War ends. February 27 – March 1: Riots and mass killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave 1,044 dead. March 14: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk. April 11 - 13: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt fails to overthrow president Hugo Chavez. May 20: East Timor gains independence.
- Smartphones Are Everywhere. What did we ever do before the invention of the smartphone? KARRASTOCK/Getty Images. Apple rolled out its first smartphone — a hand-held computer and mobile phone mashed into one — in 2007.
- Social Media Sites Take Off. With the handiness of a computer in our pockets, social media became the method of communication for billions around the world.
- We Now Connect Via WiFi. "We stand," declared Wired magazine in 2003, "at the brink of a transformation." The article was titled "The Wi-Fi Revolution," and the technology, indeed, was ground-shaking.
- Memes and Emojis Spread Like Wildfire. Memes, like "the distracted boyfriend," are now part of our everyday lexicon. Wikimedia. That smiley face, that shrugging guy, the finger gun, the tears of joy.
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- 2000 — The world welcomes the Millennium (and the bug doesn’t destroy everything) From firework displays to souvenir postage stamps, every country around the world celebrates the turn of the Millennium in their own unique way.
- 2001 — The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers shocks the world. Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda conduct a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States of America.
- 2003 — Combined troops invade Iraq, commencing the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion begins the protracted armed conflict that overthrows the government of Saddam Hussein and occupies the Middle Eastern country.
- 2004 — Facebook is formed by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. The young entrepreneur launches the online social media and networking service along with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
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As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development in history, vaccines by Pfizer and Mod...
January 6 Insurrection On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died in the chaos either shortly before, during or following the event, including a Capitol police officer. Lawmakers from both political parties, in...
U.S. Rejoins Paris Climate Accord and WHO In his first hours as president, Biden signed a letter signaling the return of the United States to the global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, adopted by nearly 200 nations in Paris in 2015. The nation had officially withdrawn from the Paris accord in late 2020...
Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday In June, President Biden signed legislation officially establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The new holiday marks the anniversary of the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in...
Mass Shootings in Atlanta and Boulder Two mass shootings within a week of each other in March—at three spas in the Atlanta area on March 16 and a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22—proved a devastating reminder of the ongoing scourge of gun violence in the United States. Of the eight people killed in Atlanta, six were Asian women, fueli...
Verdicts in Three Prominent Murder Trials In April, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, which sparked protests against systemic racism and police violence in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and 60 countrie...
NASA Rover Lands on Mars Launched in late July 2020, the NASA rover Perseverance spent months traveling through space, covering some 292.5 million miles before touching down on Mars on February 18. As the space agency’s most sophisticated rover yet, Perseverance spent the rest of the year exploring Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake, collec...
Among the notable people we lost in 2021 was Colin Powell, the celebrated military leader who became the nation’s first Black secretary of state, who died in October of complications from COVID-19 while suffering from multiple myeloma, a blood cell cancer that suppresses the immune system, as well as Parkinson’s disease. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank...
Amy McKeever, “U.S. surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 deaths as Omicron looms.” National Geographic, December 15, 2021. CNN Editorial Staff, “Covid-19 Pandemic Timeline Fast Facts.” CNN, November 23, 2021. Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch, “FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated.” Reuters, August 20, 2021. Devan Cole and Paul LeBlan...
- 9/11. September 11 attacks were a number of terrorist suicide attacks on American soil. They were committed in the year 2001, and are associated with the al Qaeda, and Islamic extremist groups.
- Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a deadly tropical cyclone that caused damage and death in the southeastern part of the United States. The Hurricane happened in August 2005 and took more than 1,800 lives and costing millions of dollars, ranking as the most expensive natural disaster that ever happened in the United States.
- Pluto Is A Dwarf. Fourteen years ago, the International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto would no longer be considered a planet, but a dwarf planet.
- No More VCR's. After more than 40 years of VHS VCR, this revolutionary invention reached the end of its life in 2016, with Funai (the last remaining VHS maker) ceasing their production and putting an end to an era of home entertainment.
2000- USS Cole Attacked. 2000-Hilary Clinton Elected to Senate. 2000-George W Bush Elected President. 2001- Large Tax Cut Passed. 2001. 2001-9/11Attack on New York and Washington. 2001-U.S. and Great Britain Attack Afghanistan. 2001- Anthrax Attacks U.S. 2001-Enron Bankruptcy.
Feb 28, 2020 · The Most Impactful Moments Of The 21st Century. The 21st century marks the time when humans arguably started to make some of the most significant advancements ever. Barack Obama was elected for U.S. president on November 4th, 2008. Same-sex marriage became legal in the entirety of the United States on June 26th, 2015 as a result of a Supreme ...
