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2000-2009 timeline contents
2000
• The world celebrates the turn of the millennium |
• The Pyrenean Ibex goes extinct |
• The dot-com bubble bursts |
• Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia |
• Euro 2000 is hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands |
• Concorde crashes in France, killing 113 |
• Personal home computers break the 1 GHz barrier |
• Sydney hosts the Olympic Games |
2001
• Wikipedia is launched |
• George Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the USA |
• Space station Mir is deorbited |
• The world's first space tourist |
• A devastating terrorist attack leaves 3,000 dead in America |
• Apple launches the iPod |
2002
• The Euro enters circulation |
• Apple introduces the iMac G4 |
• The world's first cyborg |
• The dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered |
• The deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia |
2003
• Space Shuttle Columbia disaster |
• The invasion of Iraq |
• The Human Genome Project is completed |
• Record heatwaves kill tens of thousands in Europe |
• MySpace is launched |
• China launches its first manned space mission |
2004
• The emergence of Web 2.0 |
• Graphene is isolated |
• The first recorded hurricane in the South Atlantic |
• George W. Bush is re-elected |
• Athens hosts the Olympic Games |
• Train bombings in Madrid kill nearly 200 people |
• Hubble Ultra Deep Field |
• Mars exploration rovers |
• The first privately funded human spaceflight |
• Facebook is launched |
• World's first 1 gigabyte SD card |
• London's skyline gets a new landmark |
• Asia gets a new tallest building |
• Indian Ocean earthquake leaves a quarter of a million dead |
2005
• Huygens probe reveals images of Titan's surface |
• YouTube is launched |
• The Deep Impact probe collides its impactor with comet 9P/Tempel |
• USB flash drives replace floppy disks |
• Suicide bombers in London kill 56 people, injure 700 others |
• Hurricane Katrina floods New Orleans |
• Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany |
2006
• Crude oil production is reaching a plateau |
• Twitter is launched |
• Pluto is demoted to "dwarf planet" status |
• North Korea conducts its first nuclear test |
• The West African black rhino is declared extinct |
• Saddam Hussein is executed |
2007
• Global economic downturn |
• Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of the French Republic |
• Brown succeeds Blair as Prime Minister of Great Britain |
• Apple debuts the iPhone |
• Multiple suicide bombings kill 796 people in Kahtaniya, northern Iraq |
• Arctic sea ice hits a record low |
• Amazon releases the Kindle |
• Google Street View is launched |
• Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Pakistan |
2008
• Dmitry Medvedev is elected president of Russia |
• Cyclone Nargis devastates Burma |
• Oil prices hit a record high |
• The Internet continues to boom |
• Scientists extract images directly from the brain |
• Breakthrough in facial CGI |
• Beijing hosts the Olympic Games |
2009
• Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the USA |
• Major breakthrough in cancer research |
• The mouse genome is fully sequenced |
• Scientists engineer new plastics without the use of fossil fuels |
• Water is discovered on the Moon |
• Kepler searches for Earth-like planets |
• Discovery of the first exoplanet that could hold liquid water |
• Mercury is 98% mapped |
• Mind control headsets enter the video games market |
• 3D scanning enters the consumer market |
• The tallest man-made structure in history is completed |
• Africa's population reaches one billion |
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