An Australian speedskater won that country's first-ever gold medal in a Winter Games because of sheer crazy luck. The long term effects of the attacks are still being felt today, and will continue to shape the world for years to come. The Guardian. I almost drowned. Celebrities and teenagers alike took part in the "In My Feelings" challenge, centred around a Drake song of the same name. 14. I left about then. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Live 8 concerts happen in members of the G8 cities around the world to put pressure on the Leaders of the G8 countries to do more for the world's poor. Screenshot via YouTube. Having reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium, its time to look back at all the things that helped shape the cultural heritage of our ever globalizing society. It stands out as the most conventional action in a war that has rewritten the rules on conflict. The medication that led to his death prompted an investigation of Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. We just aren't wired very well to deal with this uncertainty, and the Great Clown Scare is proof [source: Romm]. Mary Jo survived and later divorced her husband. Oct. 18, 2016. On May 7th, 2021, U.S. oil pipeline company Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of an international criminal hacking group. Slumdog Millionaire took the world by storm, grossing $377 million. We wouldn't say things were simpler a decade ago, but they were certainly interesting! The first film was so successful (no surprise there), that Warner Bros. chose to make. Behind the US dollar, the euro has become the second largest reserve currency and the euro also has the more value in circulation than any other currency. James Barrett James is a journalist covering everything from travel, interviews, personal essays to lifestyle and entertainment. That was the terrifying reality during the D.C. sniper attacks of 2002. Toonacious Published 08/03/2022 in Funny. He was carried across the finish line by his handlers. The first months of the year were full of X-rays, surgeon visits and physical therapy. 43rd US President George W. Bush. Interestingly, there are studies being done that argue iPods are making kids more anti-social, because they can turn on their music instead of socializing. The movement of the seafloor thrust a tsunami in all directions, like the ripples of a stone tossed in a pond. Even if you are a PC, you must admit that Apple was doing something right when they introduced the iPod. Making things worse, a recently-discovered technique known as spectroscopy was used to analyze the composition of the comet, and scientists learned something unsettling namely that the tail contained a toxic gas known as cyanogen. There was an unexplained explosion (thought to be a deep-sea mine), causing the boat to sink quickly. He started as a ship's cat aboard the Nazi ship Bismarck, which was sunk by the British ship HMS Cossack in 1941. "Y2K Bug." For that brief time, PepsiCo had the 6th largest military in the world, until it sold all of the ships and submarines for scrap recycling. "Interview with Robert McNamara." December 31, 2020 6:34pm Updated. In 1944, he was captured in Yugoslavia after the rest of his command was injured or killed by mortar fire. The Oklahoma City ThunderThe Oklahoma City Thunder quickly became one of basketball's most dominant teams after relocating from Seattle in 2008. What stirred everyone into a tizzy was the new discovery that Earth was actually on track to pass through the comet's 15.5-million-mile (25-million-kilometer) tail. Still, the problem played on people's lingering fear of technology, and the belief among some Christians that Jesus might return 2,000 years after his birth only escalated the concern [source: Sheesley]. Jeff Zucker, the Chief Executive of a rival network remarked that, I think Idol is the most impactful show in the history of television. You didn't mean it! In other words, we become scared superheroes ready to fight hard or run fast depending on the situation. Reporting on what you care about. This story happened at Disneyland Paris. On June 29, 2009, U.S.forces withdrew from Baghdad, but the situation in the region is still unstable. Here are the worst things that have happened. Millenials could never have grasped the significance of the Egyptian revolution without telling it in Jurassic Park gifs, right!? Scientists believe climate change will continue to affect the planet through this century and beyond [source: NASA, "The Consequences"]. Some of the events that rocked the world in the 2000s continue to reverberate years later. Yep, anything to cope with fear. Many African counties have also adopted it unofficially and some countries have negotiated usage. We have been busting out Kevin James ' Hitch dance moves since the movie dropped in 2005. On Oct. 2, John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo climbed into a blue Chevrolet Caprice and headed toward an Aspen Hill, Maryland, craft store on a deadly mission. Runners-up: 2000 Bush/Gore Florida election, 2009 Iranian Elections. Apparently, this has happened before. It's unclear whether Hemingway involved any actual guano (bird or bat droppings) in the process. St. Helens eruption of 1980 [source: Lowenstern et al.]. While different shows can fit the general description of reality TV, it really began with in the UK with Pop Idol in 2001. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows! The Aviator nabbed the most Academy Award nominations (11) and wins (5), but Leo walked away empty-handed. In the celebrity equivalent of a zoom gig, all the stars got together to perform for us for Lady Gaga 's One World concert, where stars . 1 /18. YouTube quickly gained popularity as users began to upload and share videos on the site in record numbers. The largest of these eruptions was the oldest one, which created a volcanic formation known as the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff. American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole off Yemen were among them. 6. He didn't have a lot of screen time on the film but he did happen to take things too far when all was said and done. The U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld refuses the United Nations commission access to inmates at the Guantnamo Bay detention center, Typhoon Damrey strikes China's island province of Hainan killing 16, President George W Bush at the G8 summit tells other leaders he will not support legally binding reductions on carbon emissions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wins a landslide victory on June 25th in Iran's presidential poll, Terrorist Attacks in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt kill 90, Prisoners go on hunger strike at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Nearly 3,000 people died in the country's worst terrorist attack, which made al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden household names. 2012 was the year of many things, because of 2012 we learned that we the Mayan's calendar just happened to end on that date. With close to 500 million people worldwide using the euro, its use and expanding use will help shape our future and hopefully lead us into a stage of macroeconomic stability. Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks.com article: by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images, Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images. The global war on terror was sparked by the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks on U.S. soil, though Osama bin Laden's group had previously struck U.S. targets. Oct. 8, 2016. There were countless natural disasters in 2022, stoking concerns that the consequences of climate change have finally arrived. Kim, Drizzy and Miley Many of the personas that dominate the headlines were totally off the radar in 2005. "Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic EruptionsWhat's in Yellowstone's Future?" Take a second to imagine what that would be like. Well, doctors and other spectators would often watch these surgeries from the gallery, which was much more up close and personal than medical galleries today. In fact, they swept the Cardinals in 4 games to win the championship, in what analysts would later call the greatest story baseball ever told. On the line was national pride and confidence in the country's ability to compete with its Soviet rivals. London wins the right to stage the 2012 Olympic Games. The whole problem started back in the 1960s when computer programmers, concerned about expense and limitations of digital storage, wrote code that only allowed two digits for the year. May 2, 2016. The woman was using her phone in the Olympic National Forest when she fell into the toilet. Kristen Wiig made her debut on Saturday Night Live, and she's been making us laugh ever since! The story was unsubstantiated, but copycats soon emerged. If this happened in March, it might have been safe to assume that this was . After John Paul's burial, the world watched in anticipation as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope on April 19, 2005. Oscar survived again and was rescued along with the remaining crew, and given the nickname "Unsinkable Sam." Calculations for everything from interest rates at banks to safety checks at nuclear power facilities would be incorrect. American Idol was still the top TV show, and George W. Bush was "the decider.". Journalist Bridget Johnson has covered news and foreign policy for USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Feb 23 Slovakia Summit 2005 begins; George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend - 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia. Earth Passes Through the Tail of Halley's Comet Washington, D.C., Sniper Attacks Cuban Missile Crisis The United States Nearly Loses John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Spacecraft 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 10: Y2K Perhaps more frightening than Y2K is the size of our old computer monitors. Anyway, he was arrested and charged with a double homicide in 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Eight years later, its hard to find a teenager or young adult without an iPod. By. Waco Burning. Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Jan. 2, 2009. Every decade is defined in part by some quirky event or fad. He has 70 point IQ: In "Making a Murderer," Reesa Evans, Avery . Robert Liston, a surgeon in the 1800s, performed an operation with a. Multnomah County Chair Linn, Oregon announced the county would begin granting licenses for same-sex marriages. If you're a 10-year-old reading about these things for the first time: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey were like the Prince William and Kate Middleton of our timebut alastheir love burned too bright and now Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica serves as the sole time capsule to remember what romance is, or should we say, was. The Live 8 benefit concerts are held during July.There were ten simultaneous concerts were organized by Bob Geldof who had run the first Live Aid concerts 20 years earlier in 1985.The concerts were held in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Edinburgh, Cornwall, Johannesburg, and . Dec. 25, 2014. The Spanish flu virus is reconstructed and shown to be closely related to the Avian flu virus. Game 5 went to 14 innings, and game 6 was decided by just two runs. We were so innocent then! Oct. 5, 2016. In just a few months, people had reported more than 100 clown sightings and threats in the United States, and the phenomenon began to spread to other countries, including England, Canada and Australia [source: Shilling]. The triumph of change was approved all around the world. But the town decided to make things seem more exciting there after the Transcontinental Railroad opened in 1869 and passed through Palisade. The Darfur conflict began in 2003 in western Sudan. A series of explosions led to an enormous fire at one of Britain's largest oil depots Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. Churchill participated in a number of raids throughout the war, including one in Norway where he jumped off the landing craft playing "March of the Cameron Men" on his bagpipes before throwing a grenade and charging into battle. The Guardian. Over 400 million copies of the books have been translated into 67 different languages. October 6, 2016. Sept. 29, 2012. Consider that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, but it took facebook less than 9 months to reach 100 million users. Here are the facts. Those in vulnerable areas, like the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati, are particularly concerned but determined to fight back. Like other recent food product successes, Taco Bell relied heavily on social media marketing to make the Locos Tacos fad go viral. How I Met Your Mother premiered its first legen (wait for it) dary. All the decor is real and handpicked by a small team of dedicated, very talented, Tennessee men. Danny Boyle created a masterpiece in 2008 with his film Slumdog Millionaire. Let me tell about all the crazy things that happened to us in 2015. "The Definitive Map of America's Creepy Clown Epidemic." 3. Oh, and Jennifer Aniston divorced Brad Pitt so he could become one-half of Brangelina. Some of the consequences of a warming planet are already happening, including accelerated sea rise, more intense rainfall, more severe heat waves, increased wildfires and decreased water availability. "Remember Y2K? October 23, 2001 Apple Introduces the iPod. In October 2020, an Italian farmer's dog gave birth to a litter of five puppiesincluding one that had green fur. The Crow (1994) The Crow has become a moody, gothic cult classic. New York City's Transport Workers Union goes on strike for three days, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services. In December 2007, the U.S. experienced its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. What about the third death? This prompted what has been called the largest Christian pilgrimage ever, with four million mourners descending on Rome for the funeral. Fear is an ancient emotion. It all started on Dec. 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean with the force of 23,000 atomic bombs. Let's hop back a decade and remember why your friends couldn't stop quoting Hitch. While such actions may seem crazy now, they could one day prove necessary. Just two hours later, before the family had been informed of the death, the man's twin brother rode his own bicycle across the exact same stretch of highway. It also won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film made instant sensations out of its fresh-faced stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. Well, here are the ten moments, ideas, and innovations which defined the decade. He even performed actual work by helping transport supplies, including heavy boxes of ammunition. Did anyone think they would be holding a powerful phone in their pocket and take that power for granted today, ten years ago? He is an ethnically Italian Argentine and the first Jesuit Pope. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He was taken to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, but escaped along with a Royal Air Force officer shortly after. Daniela Jovanovska-Hristovska / Getty Images. Feeling safer yet? Britain implements The Civil Partnership Act granting civil partnerships "which include same sex partnerships" with rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage. Feb. 14, 1999. Finally, yes, the biggie. It seems amazing that it was nearly ten years ago when the entire world rang in the new millennium with style. Most of their criticism has been ignored, especially by the college students playing quidditch matches on campus, and Oxford English Dictionary, who in 2003 entered muggle into its lexicon. Cracker Barrel is the real deal. That nation's leader directed a Japanese firm draw up plans for a floating island to sustain part of the country's population and purchased land on nearby Fiji to evacuate the rest [source: Worland]. A star-studded memorial service took place for the singer at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. RELATED: The biggest company blunders of 2014. Runners-up: Spain Wins Euro 2008, Zinedine Zidanes Headbutt, 2008 New York Giants. Thus, three people died during an operation that was meant to save one life. It released a whopping 585 cubic miles (2,450 square kilometers) of molten rock and created a caldera measuring some 60 miles (96.6 kilometers) across. "What Would Happen if Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?" Why Bush and Lincoln Both Suspended Habeas Corpus, 14 of Hillary Clinton's Major Accomplishments, What Is Interventionism? "The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962." 4. The AP reported that Avery poured gasoline on a cat and threw it into a bonfire. Steve Jobs didnt invent the mp3 player, but he did revolutionize it. "Climate Change: How Do We Know?" "Unsinkable Sam" was the nickname given to this cat, who was actually named Oscar. Even wilder theories emerged suggesting that the comet's gravity might throw off Earth's tides and cause the Pacific to empty itself into the Atlantic. Katrina claimed 1,836 lives, and 705 people were categorized as missing. World War I Two drinking buddies, British Commander Edmund Rhoades and German Captain Berndt, found themselves on opposite sides when war broke out. Brazil President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao, Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schrder Till 22 November, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel From 22 November, India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Russia / Soviet Union General Secretary of the CPSU Vladimir Putin, South Africa State President Thabo Mbeki, United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, Copyright 2022 All Rights Reserved thepeoplehistory.com Copyright 2022. Citizens from both sides of the wall uses hammers and axes to smash away at the wall until nothing was left. A Concert for Hurricane Relief. The 1904 marathon was one of the most bizarre Olympic events ever staged, as the organizers knew almost nothing about . Jan. 21, 2011. on his bagpipes before being knocked unconscious by a grenade. The euro, primarily used by members of the European Union, is also used by millions of people on other continents. On that day, according to the BBC, a 70-year-old man rode his bicycle down a stretch of highway in Raahe, Finland, when he was hit and killed by a passing truck. Runners-up: Janet Jacksons Super Bowl Show, Live 8, Napster, death of Michael Jackson. The second largest recorded earthquake in history occurred on December 26, 2005, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Funeral mass of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005, Vatican City. Here are 22 terrible moments in history that all happened during the month of April. Whether that's applied for the the righteous or the trivial is up to the tweeter. The world is a strange, surprising place, in ways large and small, serious and trivial. A young girl discovered a severed human foot in a sneaker in the Strait of Georgia during the summer of 2007. News of his death, which garnered massive worldwide attention, also revealed a major shift in the news media. By Paramore, by becoming the first band actually from the Nashville area to go platinum - the curse existed for twenty years. 7. It's been a full nine years since The Huffington Post emerged into the virtual world, and in that time the world has become wildly different place. Aside from a few minor, isolated incidents, everything was fine. There are 900 million television sets in use around the world; 201 million are in the United States. But, their job was not done yet. 5. The 1950s had UFO sightings, the 1970s had Disco Demolition Night and the 1990s had people going into survivalist mode in the months leading up to Y2K. Based on the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup, the movie tells the tale of an impoverished young man and his chance to make millions on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He answers question after question based on chance encounters throughout his life, such as how he knows who is on a US 100 dollar bill. President George W. Bush acknowledged he'd personally authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. following Sept. 11, President George W. Bush signed the new act making it harder for those with large debts to wipe clean their financial slates by declaring bankruptcy under Chapter 7 "New Bankruptcy Law". 17. 3. Here's just a couple of them: 1) One time I was driving home, dirt roads midday, and I had to stop. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/10/clowns-are-scary-because-people-cant-handle-uncertainty.html, Rothman, Lily. The concerts were held in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Edinburgh, Cornwall, Johannesburg, and Barrie. What, then, would happen if there were another such eruption? He claimed he did it "as a joke.". The Nashville Curse was broken! Earthquake struck off Sumatra, magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965. It was the original Internet platformsomething virtually every technology startup now aspires to be. But there may be something more fundamental. "Is Our Survival Instinct Failing Us?" More for you. Could an astronomical event impact the Earth and all life on it? 6. Along with tie-in merchandise and movie deals, the franchise is worth an estimated 15 billion. Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall as Category 3 status at 6:10 AM local time near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana with sustained windspeeds of 140 MPH, Storm Surge in Area Affected up to 22 foot New Orleans, Storm Surge in Area Affected up to 30 foot Biloxi-Gulfport Mississippi, Breaches to 53 different levees in greater New Orleans. Hopefully you can somehow convince the superstitious executioner that you aren't a witch, but if not, you'll be hanged, beheaded or burned at the stake. After sacking the city of Antioch in 540 CE, Sasanian Emperor Khosrow I built a new city that looked almost exactly the same and called it "Weh Antiok Khusrau," which, Public Domain / Library of Congress / Via. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/top-news-stories-of-the-decade-3555536. There are now 23 countries using currencies directly pegged to the euro. Oct. 9, 2015. The Guardian. In the end, nearly 230,000 people were killed, missing, or presumed dead. 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