The 00's Thread

[Ray<3tiklishft]

2000

Was NOT the beginning of the new millenium.

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

2001

Was the beginning of the new millenium.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2002: (January 5) Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.

 

[paracarl44]

2003.

March 19th: Bombs start falling on Baghdad, Iraq because Saddam Hussein and his sons, refuse to leave Iraq.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2004: (May 29) The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.

 

[paracarl44]

2005.

February 10th: North Korea announces that they have nuclear weapons.

 

[ParanoidChant]

2006

June 25th - Billionaire Warren Buffet donates 83% of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is still a billionaire.

 

[paracarl44]

2007.

July 17th: Michael Vick, Quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, and three other men were charged with dogfighting that happened on Vick's property in Virginia.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2008: (May 25) NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars.

 

[milagros317]

2000

January 1: The Y2K scare turns out to be no problem at all, there is minimal or no disruption of anything.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2001: (June 20) Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She is sentenced to life in prison.

 

[milagros317]

2002

May 30: East Timor becomes a new nation.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2003: (September 29) Hurricane Juan lands at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as a category 2 storm, killing 2 directly and 5 indirectly.

 

[milagros317]

2004:

The Summer Olympics take place in Athens, Greece.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2005: (February 25) Wichita, Kansas police apprehend the so-called BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.

 

[paracarl44]

2006.

September 25th: the New Orleans Superdome re-opens after it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

 

[milagros317]

2007

March 11: French President Chirac announces his retirement.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

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

 

[milagros317]

2000

The first Subway Series since 1956 is played with the New York Yankees winning over the New York Mets.

 

[makeUsquirm]

2001: An unknown New England Patriots quarterback named Tom Brady comes off the bench when Drew Bledsoe gets hurt, and the rest is history.

 

[milagros317]

2002

October 12: Terrorist bomb in Bali placed by Jihadists kills hundreds of innocent civilians.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

2003: (April 14) The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.

 

[milagros317]

2004

After an extremely bitter, nasty, dirty, polarizing election campaign (do we have any other kind these days?), George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States.

 

[paracarl44]

2005.

January 31st: Michael Jackson's trial gets underway in Santa Barbara, California.

 

[milagros317]

2006

The St. Louis Cardinals upset the Detroit Tigers, winning the World Series 4 games to 1.