The 00's Thread

[goddess_nemesis]

2005: The Michael Jackson trial commences in Santa Barbara, California, 14 months after Jackson was arrested with much publicity.

 

[milagros317]

2006: North Korea test fires missiles in the Sea of Japan.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2007 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

 

[milagros317]

200&: Oil prices rise above $140 per barrel. 😱

 

[Tick L]

2000: The Sony Playstation 2 is released.

 

[milagros317]

2001: March 1 - Three senior advisers tell House panel that then President Bill Clinton overruled them when he granted a pardon to Marc Rich on last day in office.

 

[paracarl44]

2002.

February 8th to the 24th: The Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

[Tick L]

2003: Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advance SP, an enhanced version of its popular Game Boy Advance handheld game console.

 

[makeUsquirm]

2004: Janet Jackson experiences a "wardrobe malfunction" at the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII

 

[paracarl44]

2005.

April 2nd: Pope John Paul II Dies. He had been in ill health for several weeks.

 

[makeUsquirm]

2006: Jimmie Johnson wins Daytona 500, Brickyard 400, and Nextel Cup Championship all in the same year

 

[Tick L]

2007: Halo 3 is released and grosses US$170 million in a 24-hour period, a record for the highest grossing opening day in video game history.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2008: (February 19) Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba, to be effective on February 24.

 

[paracarl44]

2000.

July 25th: Air France Flight # 4590, a Concorde Jet, crashes into Hotel Genesse. This is the first major crash of a French Supersonic Passenger Jet that kills 109 people aboard, and 4 people in the hotel.

 

[..Glamorous..]

2001 : Wikipedia is founded.

 

[milagros317]

2002: Pennsylvania miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a dark, flooded mine shaft (July 28).

 

[paracarl44]

2003.

February 1st: Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas on reentry, killing all of the 7 astronauts aboard.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2004: (June 5) Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, dies at his home in Bel-Air, California at the age of 93. A six-day state funeral follows after his death.

 

[..Glamorous..]

2005: Blink 182 announces the band is on Indefinite hiatus.

 

[makeUsquirm]

2006: After finishing only 4 games above .500 in the regular season, the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series, beating the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 1.

 

[..Glamorous..]

2007: (I think this is HILARIOUS btw!) The Mooninite scare occurs in Boston, when devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force are mistaken for improvised explosive devices.

 

[huskys]

2008: A brand new radio station ......... TMF RADIO .......... hits the airwaves!!!

 

[paracarl44]

2000.

January 1st: Many people were worried that their computers would not work because of changing date from 99 to 2000. However the Y2K event never happened because computer software was updated beforehand.

 

[KrazieDog]

2001

Anthrax scare rivets nation, as anthrax-laced letters are sent to various media and government officials. Several postal workers die after handling the letters (throughout October).

 

[paracarl44]

2002.

March 1st: US troops invade Afghanistan. Operation Anaconda begins in Eastern Afghanistan.