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October 7 – December 17: The United States invades Afghanistan and topples the Taliban regime, resulting in a long-term war. October 23: Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod. November 12: Crash of American Airlines Flight 587. December 3: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a series of scandals.
- 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.
Chronology. See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline.
The 21st century is the current century in the Anno Domini or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100. It is the first century of the 3rd millennium.
The major events in American history in the 21st century. Starting from the purchase of Time Warner by AOL and going to the latest events; including COVID-19 and its impact on the US.
Things have changed, all right; some for the better and some, undoubtedly, for the worse. Here are 20 groundbreaking developments of the first two decades in the 21st century, in no particular order.
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Although the 21 st century officially began in the year 2001, many historians believe that the story of the 21 st century begins with the pulling down of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. For 40 years, the world had been pulled in opposite directions by the two super-powers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
