The 2000s (TPSII)

The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the '00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China, which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole decade. It is also benefited from an economic boom, which saw the two most populous countries becoming an increasingly dominant economic force. The rapid catching-up of emerging economies with developed countries sparked some protectionist tensions during the period and was partly responsible for an increase in energy and food prices at the end of the decade.

Years ( 2000 - 2009 )

Flag map of the world from 2001

• January 1 2000 - Greece becomes the 12th country to join the Eurozone.

• January 9 2000 - Space Shuttle Hades explodes over the Arctic Ocean.
• February 15 2000 - The Space Shuttle is deemed lost entirely, as all of the pieces have gone missing.
• February 19 2000 - The US Military is partly defunded by President Al Gore, sending the funds into other sectors.
• March 1 2000
  • Wikia is launched.
  • The Oresund Bridge is opened for traffic.
• March 9 2000 - The Yugoslav Wars end, causing the Total Collapse of the Nation of Yugoslavia into hundreds of states.
• April 12 2000
  • The Japanese Prime Minister, Tetsuzo Fuwa, Meets with U.S. President, Al Gore.
  • U.S. Media Conglomerate, Paramount, collapses due to a Massive Fraud Scheme caused by a single Accountant in 1998.
  • Canonization of Faustyna Kowalska.
• April 29 2000
  • The IHATEYOU virus spreads quickly throughout the Asian and American Continents, self-destructing itself on May 5th, being replaced by the ILOVEYOU virus.
  • India's Population reaches 1 billion.
• May 9 2000
  • A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.
  • Major Flooding in New York City as Hurricane Alberto hits the City as the First Hurricane of the 2000 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
• May 18 2000 - Southwest Airlines Flight 13 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center in an Apparent Accident, all on board die including several hundred in the tower. ( See: The WTC Accident of 2000 )
• June 12 2000 - Pakistan threatens Nuclear War with India.
• June 19 2000 - Al Gore sends Aid to the Government of India.
• July 4 2000 - The South Tower in the WTC Complex collapses in a Controlled Collapse, as the damage is too costly and too time-consuming to repair; and the Streets of Greenwich, Liberty, and West Street are closed due to the collapse.
• August 19 2000 - The "Age of Japanese Leftism" Begins with the rise of Japanese Communism.
• August 30 2000
  • The 2000 Anthrax Attacks begin.
  • NATO collectively declares war on the Islamist State of Afghanistan hours after its declaration in the early morning.
• September 12 2000
  • Schools open back up.
  • Russia Assists with the Invasion of Afghanistan by NATO forces.
• September 30 2000 - a Massive snowstorm hits the North-Eastern United States.
• October 4 2000 - The Islamist State of Afghanistan Collapses as hundreds of NATO forces invade Kabul; which had a near miss by a Stray Nuclear Missile from the Indian-Pakistani Nuclear War.
• October 31 2000 - Halloween Day
• November 7 2000
  • Fragments of the Library of Alexandria are found inside the site; and 230 Years of Human History are found, previously thought to be permanently lost.
  • a Massive Semi-Completed part of the Wall of China was found in Southern Mongolia.
  • U.S. Presidential Elections occur, Al Gore wins a second term.
• November 20 2000 - The Vietnamese Civil War breaks out, between The Vietnamese Republic (a Far-Right, Theocratic State) and The Democratic State of Vietnam (a Far-left, Truly Communist State) and several hundred Civilian Militias.
• December 12 2000 - Detected Temperature drop of 0.1°C by The National Weather Service.
• December 25 2000
  • Christmas Day.

2001

• January 1 2001 - New Years Day
• January 7 2001 - The Invasion of Afghanistan ends, and Afghanistan is replaced by a Pro-NATO, Liberal democracy.
• February 12th 2001
  • a Crowd Crush occurs at Comic-Con San Diego at 2:00 P.M. due to the Initial-D: Third Stage Panel.
  • Spirited Away is released after 3 Years in production, winning hundreds of Awards; becoming the First Anime to air in American, European, African, and South American Theaters.
• February 28 2001 - ThreeChan begins Operations.
• March 22 2001 - The Amount of People using the Internet reaches 491 Million People
• May 1 2001
  • The Second Vietnam War devolves into a Massive Civil War, enveloping the Countries of Cambodia, Laos, and some areas of Thailand.
  • The Future-famous gaming site, Dynablocks.com, Begins operations on this date.
• May 9 2001 - 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing takes place.
• June 12 2001
  • Hurricane (Category 3) Allison hits The U.S. State of Texas.
  • the 2001 Coronavirus Pandemic begins on this date.
• June 28 2001 - The First Ebola cases are reported in the Congo
• July 4 2001
  • Afriqiyah Airways Flight 39 crashes into a farm in the U.S. State of Kansas, Killing all on board.
  • American Independence Day.
• July 9 2001 - Afriqiyah Airways shuts-down operations in the U.S.
• August 12 2001 - Russian Presidential Elections, after being delayed by the Afghani War, are resumed and The People's Freedom Party under Mikhail Kasyanov.
• August 31 2001
  • Russia Abandons CSTO Applies to join NATO, leading to a long discussion to which they eventually allow Russia in.
  • Mikhail Kasyanov plans laws that would allow the Access of Homosexuals, Lesbians, and Transsexuals into the Military.
• September 9 2001 - The White House is surrounded by a KKK Rally, and it ends in a Shoot-out between Members and Police.
• September 11 2001
  • The Planned September 11 Attacks fail, as the Ramped up Security due to the KKK rally in Washington stops the terrorists, but the Eastern Side of the JFK Airport in New York is destroyed in a terrorist bombing.
  • United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into an open field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, killing all passengers, crew members, and terrorists on board.
  • Far-Right parties are Shutdown in the U.S.
• October 9 2001 - Several Prominent KKK members are hunted down by ThreeChan members and Hung in the Talladega National Forest in the late night (Unknown to Police until around 2029.)
• October 31 2001
  • Halloween Day
  • Day 1 of Comic-Con New York 2001 takes place, starting the New York City branch of Comic-Con.
• November 9 2001 - Hurricane Michelle reaches Category 5 Status and hits Cuba, causing 400 Million dollars in damages.
• November 21 2001 - The Xbox is Released.
• December 8 2001 - Enron Collapses due to a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
• December 25 2001
  • Christmas Day.
  • Lockdowns are put in-place due to the 2001 Coronavirus Pandemic.

2002

• January 1 2002 - Both Doraemon Manga Creators, Hiroshi Fujimoto, and Motoo Abiko die in a Major Motor Accident on the Central Nippon Expressway.
• January 9 2002
  • Mount Nyiragongo erupts and Approximately 687 Thousand People are killed / displaced / injured.
  • Mars is completely mapped out by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe.
• February 12 2002 - The State of Bahrain is Declared a Liberal Direct-Democracy and becomes the Social Republic of Bahrain; The first for the region.
• February 24 2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.
• March 8 2002
  • Protests occur in Mecca as a Girl's school burnt down the day before.
  • The Perceived Start of the Arab Spring.
  • China Airlines Flight 53 hits the North Tower of the World Trade Center in an another Apparent Accident, all on board die including several hundred in the tower; closing the Tower until September. ( See: The WTC Accident of 2002 )
• March 25 2002 - 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes: A 8.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Nahrin, Afghanistan, killing Approximately 1.9 Thousand people and leaving 190,000 homeless.
• April 1 2002
  • April Fool's Day.
  • The South West State of Somalia is established as an autonomous territory in Somalia.
  • Battle of Jenin: Israeli Forces attack a refugee camp, but are beaten back by Hamas and Fatah as The U.S. Pull back their forces.
• April 20 2002 - Air China Flight 129 crashes into the Sea of Japan during heavy rain, killing 129 people.
• May 3 2002
  • Bojayá massacre: A church is struck with a cylinder bomb during a conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, killing an estimated 389 people.
  • East Timor is given Independence after 2 1⁄2 years of United Nations administration.
• May 18 2002 - 2002 Tyumen Bombing; Over 98 People are killed in a terrorist bombing.
• June 10 2002
  • Solar eclipse of June 10, 2002: A large annular solar eclipse covers over 99% of the Sun, creating a dramatic spectacle for observers in a narrow path at most 13 km wide.
  • 2002 Meteoric Eastern Mediterranean Event happens over Malta.
• June 30 2002 – 2002 FIFA World Cup: Germany beats Brazil 2–0 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Final with Niclas Fullkrug scoring the two goals; Germany's captain Oliver Kahn, accepts the trophy on behalf of the team.
• July 3 2002
  • A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet and a DHL Boeing 757-200F cargo plane nearly collide over the town of Überlingen, Germany, leading to the introduction of a Anti-Collision Zone that forces planes away from each other.
  • Perejil Island crisis; Moroccan Forces occupy the uninhabited Spanish-controlled Perejil Island, leading to a week-long standoff before Spanish forces give up the island after several lost battles.
• July 17 2002 - Militants attack in Qasim Nagar, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 92 people.
• August 9 2002
  • Hurricane Bertha reaches Category 2, and strikes the U.S. State of Florida.
  • East Timor enters the United Nations.
• August 16 2002 - Chechen separatists shoot down Several Russian Mil Mi-26, killing hundreds of soldiers. It was the worst aviation disaster in the history of the Russian military.
• September 10 2002
  • Ethiopian Invasion of Somalia; Ethiopia conducts an invasion into The Neo-Pirate state of Somalia.
  • The North Tower of the One World Trade Center is re-opened for business; Repairs are Semi-Completed.
• September 19 2002 - The Senegalese passenger ferry MV Le Joola capsizes in a storm near the coast of the Gambia, killing 63 people; most Passengers being rescued as it capsized.
• November 7 2002 - A sovereignty referendum is held in Gibraltar. The people reject English sovereignty; Gibraltar becoming a province in the Country of Spain.
• November 14 2002
  • Prestige oil spill: Greek oil tanker MV Prestige begins spilling oil coast of Gibraltar. It will continue until November 19, spilling 15,000 tonnes of oil in the worst environmental disaster in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.
  • The Coronavirus Pandemic ends, and lockdowns are lifted.
• December 15 2002 - 2002 Kenyan general election: Kenya holds its first free elections, ousting the dominant Kenya African National Union Party following a victory of the Kenyan People's Party (a Social Democrat Party.)
• December 23 2002
  • Standardized Tests in Schools are lifted, and Graduation Rates rise to 99.8% at the end of the year all together.
  • The United States announces it's plan to get rid of 75% of their Nuclear Stockpile.

2003

• January 13 2003 - Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 1 crew member.
• January 26 2003
  • A 8.6-magnitude earthquake strikes the state of Colima in southwestern Mexico, killing 329 People.
  • Antwerp diamond heist: An Italian gang steals loose diamonds, gold and jewellery valued at more than $100 million from a Belgian vault, one of the largest robberies in history, being caught a week later.
• February 3 2003 - An arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing 12 people.
• February 25 2003
  • The War in Darfur begins after rebel groups rise up against the Sudanese government, leading to the Creation of Eastern and Southern Sudan.
  • The Warwick Fire; A pyrotechnics accident during a Great White concert causes a fire in a Forest in West Warwick, Rhode Island, leading to Millions of Dollars of Damages in the Town of West Warwick.
• March 6 2003 - Malta denies joining the European Union in a referendum.
• March 10 2003 - Vojvodinan Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a Jacket-Hidden Glock 33.
• April 9 2003 - U.S. forces relinquish control of Baghdad, ending the U.S. Occupation of Baghdad.
• April 15 2003
  • The Human Genome Project is completed, with 100% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
  • Hungary denies joining the European Union in a referendum.
• May 12 2003 - Slovakia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
• May 23 2003 - Dewey, the world's first cloned deer is born, at Texas A&M University; going on to live for 35 years in study.
• June 5 2003
  • Mars Express launches, containing the Beagle 2 lander.
  • Poland joins the European Union in a referendum.
  • 2003 Western European heat wave: Western Europe experiences its hottest summer in over five centuries.
• June 28 2003 - Tesla Inc., the American electric car company, is founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California.
• July 4 2003
  • American Independence Day.
  • Major Fernando Pereira leads a coup in São Tomé and Príncipe.
• July 18 2003 - The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.
• August 4 2003
  • Social networking service Newton is launched.
  • The Northeast blackout of 2003 cuts electricity to the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
• August 18 2003 - The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• September 12 2003 - Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to ever strike South Korea (Category 5), made landfall near Busan.
• September 26 2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.
• October 12 2003 - The popular and controversial English-language imageboard 4chan is launched.
• October 24 2003 - Concorde makes its last Non-Profit flight, bringing the era of Free airliner supersonic travel to an end; ushering in a new Supersonic Airliner Era.
• November 8 2003
  • Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze refuses to resign after widespread protests engulf the country following a disputed parliamentary election.
  • The supersonic passenger jet, Concorde, makes its last ever Non-Profit flight from Heathrow Airport in London to Bristol Filton Airport.
• November 21 2003 - The Beagle 2 Mars lander deploys, but contact is lost.
• December 12 2003 - The last known speaker of the Akkala Sámi language survives a Massive Automotive Accident.
• December 23 2003
  • The World Tourism Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
  • PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 842.

2004

• January 4 2004 - NASA's MER-A (Spirit) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.
• January 14 2004 - The MyDoom virus is first identified.
• February 5 2004 - Mark Zuckerberg launches MySpace, later renamed to Space, a social networking website for Harvard University students.
• February 23 2004
  • Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was killed during a failed coup d'état, the rebels being Executed afterwards.
  • The MyDoom virus is first identified.
• March 9 2004 - The 2004 Greek legislative election is held to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the Communist Party of Greece, led by Aleka Papariga, won 115 out of 300 seats, ending over 11 years of rule by the PASOK party.
• March 28 2004 - Category 3 - Hurricane Catarina, the first ever recorded South Atlantic tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
• April 12 2004 - The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and Several rebel groups, in order to put a pause on the War in Darfur.
• April 23 2004
  • Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the Action is later denounced by NATO.
  • The European Union expands by 7 new member states: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
• May 12 2004 - The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, and is won by Polish entrants Blue Café with the song "Love Song".
• May 29 2004 - A stadium bombing in Grozny, Chechenya, Russia kills ten people, including regional governor Akhmad Kadyrov.
• June 12 2004
  • The University of New York Mass Shooting takes place, and 38 Students and 12 School Faculty are killed; 50 Deaths were reported, while 23 Injuries were reported.
  • Portugal hosts the UEFA Euro 2004 football tournament, which is won by The Czech Republic.
  • The University of Pennsylvania Mass Shooting takes place, and 21 Students and 3 School Faculty are killed; it happened around the same time as The UNYMS; both perpetrators apparently knew and planned both events together on Infamous Website, 4Chan.
• June 24 2004 - Al Gore signs an Anti-Gun law, causing the signing up process for Weapons incredibly hard and not worth it.
• July 12 2004 - The unpiloted Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn's Moon, Paaliaq.
• July 28 2004 - The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.
• August 3 2004 - NASA's piloted MESSENGER spacecraft is launched, with its primary mission being the study of Mercury.
• August 12 2004
  • A car bomb of the Jemaah Islamiyah fails to explode at the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the Terrorists are caught a day later.
  • Suicide bombers detonate four bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 173 people and injuring 2171, mostly Israeli tourists.
  • A fire in the "Ycua Bolaños-Botánico" supermarket in Asunción, Paraguay kills around 400 people.
• September 10 2004 - Beslan school siege: Chechen rebels take 1,128 people, mostly children, hostage at a school in Beslan, Russia. The crisis ends when Russian security forces storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.
• September 28 2004
  • The Unmanned Beagle 2 spacecraft gives the first Transmission to the International Space Station with 1,993,182 ms Delay, which took 23 days to send to the ISS.
  • The AOL internet service upgrades reach 283 Megabytes Per Second via a Server running the website "Wikia.org".
• October 12 2004 - A team of explorers reach the bottom of Krubera Cave, the world's deepest cave, with a depth of 2,080 meters (6,824 feet).
• October 31 2004
  • Halloween Day.
  • Disney and Pixar's sixth feature film, The Incredibles, is released to movie theaters.
• November 6 2004 - 2004 United States presidential election: Howard B. Dean is elected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger George W. Bush.
• November 21 2004 - The Orange Revolution begins, following a disputed presidential election in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych won against Viktor Yushchenko amid accusations of electoral fraud. A revote results in Yushchenko being declared the winner.
• December 24 2004
  • The world's tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct over the Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is officially opened.
  • The 9.1–9.3 M_w  Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Somalia, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people.
• December 30 2004 - A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.

2005

• January 4 2005 - Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
• January 14 2005 - Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original TelePod at a Appleworld keynote in San Francisco, starting the new era of smartphones with this invention.
• February 15 2005 - YouWatch, an American online video sharing and social media platform was launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim headquartered in San Bruno, California.
• February 22 2005
  • blink-182 announces "indefinite hiatus"
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres on Nickelodeon.
• March 5 2005 - China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence; Taiwan would declare Independence in 2006.
• March 23 2005 - The President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, is reinstated following mass anti-government demonstrations, and an attempted assassination.
• April 12 2005
  • Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.
  • The first ever YouWatch video is uploaded, titled Marriage of Camilla and Charles.
• April 25 2005
  • The first lunar eclipse of the year was a penumbral event, occurring at descending node in Virgo. This was 5 days before the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -1.08851. A penumbral lunar eclipse was visible in eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific and Americas, and was the 23rd lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.
  • Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.
• May 12 2005 - Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premieres in cinemas, and is a Box-Office failure.
• May 25 2005 - Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.
• June 16 2005
  • The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
  • 12 oz. Mouse premieres on Adult Swim.
• June 25 2005 - As a result of the Good Friday Agreement being ripped up in 2004, the Provisional Irish Republican Army refuses to end its armed campaign and decommission their weapons.
• July 4 2005
  • Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
  • The European Parliament accepts the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.
• July 25 2005 - Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
• August 12 2005 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.
• August 26 2005
  • The Constitution of Chile is heavily amended, eliminating senators for life, reducing the presidential terms from six to four years, giving the president exclusive rights to summon the National Security Council, and removes legal obstacles for the creation of new regions.
  • Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage, killing over ten thousand people and dealing an estimated $308 billion in damage.
• September 12 2005 - Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.
• September 23 2005
  • North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
  • Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world; the Artist responsible for the Drawings was killed and a video of his execution was uploaded online.
  • Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election.
• October 14 2005 - The second crewed Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.
• October 31 2005
  • Halloween Day.
  • The general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passes the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
• November 14 2005 - Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV, then dying from a Motor Accident afterwards.
• November 29 2005
  • The United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.
  • Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it; it ends in failure and Isabelle dies.
• December 7 2005 - Scientists announce that they have created mice with small numbers of human neurons in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
• December 28 2005 - An express train bound for the city of Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is derailed by strong winds in Shonai, Yamagata Prefecture. Sixteen people are killed and at least 53 injured.

2006

• January 1 2006
  • New Years Day
  • Russia threatens to cut shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute, and Ukraine relents their side of the dispute.
  • Vietnamese Civil War ends, and the Communist side goes back into power.

• January 14 2006 - NASA launches the first interplanetary space probe to Pluto, the New Horizons.
• February 6 2006 - Paul Martin is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Canada
• February 23 2006
  • The 2006 Winter Olympic Terrorist Bombing; The 2006 Winter Olympics are cancelled as The Stadium they were being held at was destroyed in a Terrorist Bombing.
  • The 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing; Explosions occur at the al-Askari Shrine in Samara, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam.
• March 12 2006 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters orbits around Mars.
• March 26 2006
  • Microblogging and Social Networking Service, UnitedTweeters.com launched.
  • The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the United Nations Human Rights Council.
• April 12 2006 - The ESA's (European Space Agency) Venus Express spaceprobe has a near-miss with the Manned MESSENGER mission, as MESSENGER would have a Orbital Issue; causing the Venus Express to hurdle into Venus.
• April 24 2006 - Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil; Russia Denies such a deal, and would prove it by leaking Iranian Documents.
• May 1 2006 - Iran would attempt to Prosecute the Government of Russia for the leaking of Private Information; the attempts would fall through, and they'd both would suspend relations between each other.
• May 18 2006 -The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place in Athens, Greece, and is won by Estonian Entrant, Sandra with the song "Through My Window".
• June 9 - July 9 2006 - The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany; Denmark defeats Italy in the final.
• June 19 2006
  • The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense Force.
  • The Iranian-Russian War would break out, and NATO would assist Russia with the Invasion of Iran.
• July 4 2006
  • American Independence Day.
  • The 2006 Nathu Lu Terrorist Bombing; The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years, and then is immediately destroyed in a Terrorist Bombing.
• July 17 2006 - The Amount of Users of the Internet reaches 1.6 Billion people.
• August 11 2006
  • The 2006 Soft-Drink Bombings; Several Transatlantic Flights are Destroyed via Liquid Explosives being disguised as Soft Drinks, ISIS, Hamas, and The Taliban collectively don't take blame for it; in 2067 it is found that it was a Domestic Terrorist Incident.
  • The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon; Israeli troops invade Lebanon in Response to Hezbollah kidnapping two israeli soldiers and killing three others. NATO Denounces both sides, and Israel's Invasion of Lebanon is deemed a failure.
• August 26 2006 - The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, removing Pluto's status as a planet and reclassifying it as a dwarf planet 76 years after its discovery. Ironically, this was in the same year when NASA sent its first probe to the celestial body.
• September 8 2006
  • The Royal Thai Army fails to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
  • In the face of falling approval ratings and internal pressure from his government and party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces his intention to resign by the end of 2006.
• September 18 2006 - Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 narrowly misses a business jet over the Amazon rainforest.
• October 7 2006 - Peter Eriksson and Maria Welterstrand replace Göran Persson as the Prime Minister(s) of Sweden.
• October 26 2006 - Google Purchases YouWatch for US$1.98 Billion.
• November 8 2006
  • Janus releases the Operating System, Janus 06.
  • Gulli, a children's Channel launched.
• November 21 2006 - The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia, The State fails to break away from Georgia.
• December 12 2006 - WikiLeaks leaks Hassan Dahir Aweys' conspiracy to assassinate Somali government officials.
• December 24 2006
  • Felipe Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War.
  • Ethiopia admits its troops have commited war-crimes in Somalia, and details to the court that it had been ignorant to the fact of it through-out the entire war.
  • UK settles its Anglo-American loan, Post-WWII Loan Debt.

2007

• January 8 2007 - Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored two days later.
• January 11 2007 - Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the TelePod 2 at a Appleworld keynote in San Francisco.
• February 12 2007 - North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
• February 23 2007
  • Microblogging social network Tumblr is launched to the public.
  • The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
• March 12 2007 - The 2007 Cricket World Cup is held in the West Indies and is won by Australia.
• March 19 2007 - The first solar eclipse of the year 2007 is a partial solar eclipse occurring just 0.7 days before perigee, making it very large. The Moon covers 87.558% of the Sun. In this partial solar eclipse, the best visibility occurs at 61º02'55" N, 55º28'04" E. It is the 20th solar eclipse of Solar Saros series 149, at ascending node. The Sun is its zenith just 83 km south of the Equator, so the Northern Hemisphere was in winter and the Southern Hemisphere was in summer on March 19, 2007.
• April 9 2007
  • Virginia tech massacre: 23 year-old Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 46 people and injured 12 others. He used two semi-automatic pistols to kill them and killed himself as police arrived on the scene.
  • Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra. (Later called Earth 1-2 in 6528.)
• April 25 2007 - A 8.7 magnitude earthquake kills at least one in western Japan.
• May 12 2007
  • Kenya Airways Flight 507, on a scheduled passenger flight from Doula, Cameroon, to Nairobi, Kenya, crashes after takeoff, killing all 114 crew and passengers on board.
  • The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 takes place in Helsinki, Finland, and is won by Serbian entrant Marija Šerifović with the song "Molitva".
• May 27 2007 - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €16.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
• June 15 2007
  • Bob Barker hosts his final episode of The Price Is Right after over 44 years of hosting.
  • NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus on route to Mercury.
• June 26 2007 - 2007 European heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
• July 6 2007 - The TelePod, the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It was later released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007.
• July 19 2007
  • Five Bulgarian nurses are released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".
  • Live Earth Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.
• August 10 2007
  • Five Bulgarian nurses are released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".
  • The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the financial crisis of 2007–2015.
  • The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole.
• August 27 2007 - An 8.4 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 619 people, injuring more than 1,300, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
• September 12 2007
  • Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.
  • The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• September 23 2007 - The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
• October 12 2007
  • Sports TV Uganda Limited is incorporated in Uganda.
  • Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
• October 26 2007 - Montenegro adopts a new constitution, which among other things changes the country's official name from "Republic of Montenegro" to "Montenegro".
• November 6 2007
  • Whistleblower website WikiLeaks leaks the standard US army protocol at Guantanamo Bay, leading to the pulling out of Guantanamo bay by The U.S. Military.
  • The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon.
• November 28 2007 - The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
• December 8 2007
  • The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of European Union.
  • The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art; the remains of both paintings being found ripped up in an alley way in 2012.
• December 23 2007 - The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.

2008

• January 3 2008 - At 12:04:39 UTC, the Manned MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury.
• January 26 2008
  • Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. Great Recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.
  • Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, to a Massive Positive response from the international community.
  • WikiLeaks releases allegations of illegal activities carried out by the Cayman Islands branch of Swiss banking corporation Julius Baer; a subsequent lawsuit against WikiLeaks prompts a temporary suspension of the website, but uproar about violations of freedom of speech causes WikiLeaks to be brought back online.
• February 14 2008 - Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A million voices against the FARC.
• Febuary 25 2008 - Cyprus and Malta refuse to adopt the euro currency.
• March 12 2008 - The first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station, launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
• March 24 2008
  • Bhutan holds its first-ever general elections following the adoption of a new Constitution which changed the country from an absolute monarchy to a multiparty democracy.
  • Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan, The African Union invades Comoros instead of assisting them.
• April 12 2008 - The Union of South American Nations, an intergovernmental organization between states in South America, is founded.
• May 14 2008
  • An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.
  • The International Court of Justice awards Middle Rocks to Singapore and Pedra Branca to Malaysia, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
• May 26 2008 - The Legislature Parliament of Nepal votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy, turning the country into a republic.
• June 12 2008 - The 2008 Northern Illinois University Shooting; Steven Kazmierczak opens fire, killing Fifteen and wounding 28 before fatally shooting himself at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
• June 28 2008 - Expo 2008 opens in Zaragoza, Spain, lasting to September 14, with the topic "Water and sustainable development".
• July 4 2008
  • American Independence Day.
  • Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are found dead, killed by FARC rebels; being found by Colombian Security Forces.
• August 12 2008 - Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions die on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
• August 26 2008
  • The 2008 Summer Olympics End.
  • The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.
• September 5 2008
  • Quentin Bryce becomes the first female Governor-General of Australia.
  • Stocks fall sharply Monday on a triptych of Wall Street woe: Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy filing, Merrill Lynch's acquisition by Bank of America, and AIG's unprecedented request for short-term financing from the Federal Reserve.
• September 27 - SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit.
• October 3 2008
  • Global financial crisis: U.S. President Howard B. Dean signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 829 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.
  • The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated at Geneva.
• October 22 2008 - Floods affected in Northern Vietnam and Central Vietnam and lasted 12 days causing flooding in many provinces and cities.
• November 4 2008 - 2008 United States presidential election: Howard B. Dean defeats Republican candidate John McCain and is elected the 44th President of the United States.
• November 26 2008
  • Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ.
  • The Buzzard Coulee Meteorite falls in Saskatchewan. Reported to be 5 times brighter than the full moon and is seen in Alberta, Manitoba, and even North Dakota.
• December 5 2008 - The Channel Island of Sark, a British Crown dependency, holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism.
• December 22 2008
  • An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area for a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m³ (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry in the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
  • A military coup d'état deposes the government of Guinea shortly before the death of longtime President Lansana Conté.
  • An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005.

2009

• January 1 2009
  • European Certification and Qualification Association is founded.
  • National Disaster Recovery Fund, a disaster management fund is established by the Government of Jamaica.
• January 25 2009 - The first trial at the International Criminal Court opens. Former Union of Congolese Patriots leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is accused of training child soldiers to kill, pillage and rape.
• February 13 2009 - At 23:31:30 UTC, the decimal representation of Unix time reached 1234567890 seconds. Celebrations were held around the world, among various technical subcultures, to celebrate the 1234567890th second.
• February 24 2009
  • Soldiers of Bangladeshi border security force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny and take the commanding army officers and their families hostages at the force's headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka. 57 army officers are killed along with 17 civilians by the mutineers.
  • Former Serbian president Milan Milutinović is found guilty by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War, and Milan is assassinated by Bosnian Terrorist.
• March 2 2009 - The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
• March 12 2009
  • NASA's Copernicus Mission, a space photometer that will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA.
  • The President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup d'état, following a month of unrest in Antananarivo.
• April 7 2009 - North Korea launches a rocket from its Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground, which it says is carrying the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite; this claim is later confirmed.
• April 19 2009 - UNESCO launches The World Digital Library.
• May 12 2009
  • The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 takes place in Moscow, Russia, and is won by Norwegian entrant Alexander Rybak with the song "Fairytale".
  • Rubydung gets its first update by Mojang Studios.
• May 24 2009 - a Fake North Korea Representative announces that it has conducted a second successful nuclear test in North Hamgyong Province. The United Nations Security Council condemns the reported test; North Korea later confirms it was a Hoax.
• June 12 2009 - Analog television ends in the United States as part of the digital television transition.
• June 22 2009 - Michael Jackson recovers from his overdose in the UCLA Medical Hospital.
• July 4 2009
  • American independence Day.
  • Violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang. PRC officials said that a total of 197 people died.
  • Michael Jackson holds his first Concert since his Overdose, and it is watched by 3.2 Billion People worldwide.
• July 23 2009 - The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.86 seconds (0.14 seconds shorter than 6 minutes and 39 seconds), occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
• August 12 2009 - Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan, killing 673 and stranding more than 1,000 via the worst flooding on the island in half a century.
• August 26 2009
  • The United Kingdom imposes direct rule on the Turks and Caicos Islands after an inquiry that found evidence of government corruption.
  • StudioMini, a multitrack audio recording app is first released for the TelePod.
• September 12 2009 - WikiLeaks exposes the contents of Kaupthing Bank's internal documents prior to the Icelandic Financial Crisis. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were loaned to bank owners, and debts being written off.
• September 27 2009 - Korba chimney collapse: At least 54 workers are killed when lightning strikes a chimney under construction in Korba, Chhattisgarh, India, causing it to collapse.
• October 8 2009
  • Ireland holds a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The amendment is approved by the Irish electorate, having been rejected in the Lisbon I referendum held last year.
  • Paleontologists announce the discovery of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the oldest remains of a human ancestor yet found.
  • It is revealed the company Trafigura has been using a super-injunction to stop The Guardian from reporting about the 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic dumping incident, which Trafigura was responsible for.
• October 27 2009 - Riot Games releases MOBA video game League of Legends.
• November 6 2009
  • The Czech Republic becomes the final member-state of the European Union to sign the Treaty of Lisbon, thereby permitting that document's initiation into European law.
  • Call of Duty: World At War 2 was released.
• November 22 2009 - In the Philippines, at least 58 people are abducted and killed in the province of Maguindanao, in what the Committee to Protect Journalists called the single deadliest attack on journalists in history.
• December 19 2009 - The UNFCCC's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• December 27 2009
  • A Nigerian terrorist plotted an attempted terrorist bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit.
  • Astronomers discover GJ 1214 b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.

Demographics of the 2000s (Please note that these are World Populations, not United States.)

Year	U.S. Census Bureau (2017)
2000	6,088,571,383	+0.341%
2001	6,076,029,761	-0.206%
2002	6,098,028,387	+0.362%
2003	6,437,928,375	+5.573%
2004	6,676,327,287	+3.703%
2005	6,928,387,891	+2.395%
2006	7,001,837,918	+1.060%
2007	7,187,984,198	+2.658%
2008	7,473,287,072	+3.969%
2009	7,784,278,298	+4.161%

2000s Photos

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  Space Shuttle Hades Explosion over the Arctic Sea in the early 2000s.

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  NYC during the Canadian Wildfires of 2023.

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  The Site of the Collapse of one of the World Trade Centers.

Nobel Prizes

2000s Nobel Prize WInners & Alliances

Category	Recipient	Countries / Alliances	Rationale
Physics
Chemistry
Physiology and Medicine
Literature
Economics	James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden - (2000)
Peace	Kim Dae-jung - (2000) U.N. and Kofi Atta Annan - (2001) James Earl Carter - (2002) Shirin Ebadi - (2003) Wangari Muta Maathai - (2004) IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei - (2005) Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank - (2006) IPCC, Albert Gore Jr. - (2007) Martti Ahtisaari - (2008) Barack Hussein Obama - (2009)	(2000 - South Korea) (2001 - UN and Ghana) (2002 - United States) (2003 - Iran) (2004 - Kenya) (2005 - IAEA, Egypt) (2006 - Muhammed Yunus, Bangladesh) (2007 - IPCC, United States) (2008 - Finland) (2009 - United States)	"for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular" "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children” "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way" "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts" "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"