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WastelandCowboy 03/14/18 10:56:44 PM #11: | 2000: Turn of the millennium Pyrenean Ibex extinction Burst of the dot-com bubble Vladimir Putin is elected Concorde crashes in France Personal home PCs break 1 GHz barrier Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia 2001: Wikipedia launches George W. Bush's presidency 9/11 Space station Mir is deorbited Apple launches the iPod World's first space tourist 2002: Euro enters circulation Apple introduces iMac G4 Dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered Terrorism in Kuta, Indonesia 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Invasion of Iraq Human Genome Project completes MySpace launches Record heatwaves in Europe China launches first manned space mission 2004: Web 2.0 First recorded earthquake in South Atlantic George W Bush is reelected Olympic Games in Athens, Greece Train bombings in Madrid Hubble Ultra Deep Field Mars exploration rovers First privately-funded human spaceflight Worlds first 1 GB SD card Facebook launches Indian Ocean earth/Tsunami in Indonesia 2005: Huygens probe reveals images of Titan's surface YouTube launches Deep Impact probe collides with comet 9P/Tempel USB flash drives replace floppy disks Suicide bombers in London Hurricane Katrina Angela Merkel is elected 2006: Crude oil production reaches plateau Twitter launches Pluto is demoted to "dwarf planet" statis North Korea conducts first nuclear test West Afican rhino is declared extinct Saddam Hussein is executed 2007: Global economic downturn Nicolas Sarkozy elected President of French Republic Brown succeeds Blair as PM of Great Britain Debut of Apple's iPhone Suicide bombings in Kahtaniya Arctic sea ice hits record low Amazon releases the Kindle Google Street View is launched Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan 2008: Dmitry Medvedev elected President of Russia Cyclone Nargis in Burma Oil prices hit record high Internet boom Scientists extract images directly from brain Facial CGI breakthrough Olympic Games in Beijing, China 2009: Barack Obama elected President of USA Cancer research breakthroughts Mouse genome fully sequenced New plastics without use of fossil fuels Water discovered on moon Kepler searches for Earth-like planets Discovery of first exoplanet that could hold liquid water Mercury 98% mapped Mind control headsets enter video game market 3D Scanning Africa population reaches one billion ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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