2000

• Y2K

2001

• february 13: el salvador earthquake killed 400
• may 24: 15-year-old sherpa temba tsheri = youngest person to climb mount everst
• september: 9/11 attack
• october 23: creation of the iPod

2002

• january 18: sierra leone civil war finally declared over
• january 23: reporter daniel pearl kidnapped in karachi, pakistan. (he was later killed.)
• september 27: timor-leste joined the UN

2003

• US invasion of iraq
• march: darfur genocide began

2004

• december 26: indian ocean earthquake/tsunami

2005

• august 23: hurricane katrina

2007 december 5: von maur shooting

2008

• february 13: australia's PM kev rudd finally apologises to indigenous australians + the stolen generations
• february 28: thai PM thaksin shinawatra arrested on corruption charges
• march 24: bhutan is offically a democracy
• may 2: cyclone nargis in myanmar
• may 31: usain bolt broke the 100m sprint record (9.72s)
• october 13: lehman brothers declared bankruptancy, leading to a global financial crisis

2009

• january 3: israeli ground forces invade gaza
• january 20: barack obama elected as USA's president
• june 25: Michael Jackson's death

2010

• january 12: haiti earthquake, killed 230 000
• april 14-15: icelandic volcano erupted, ash from volcano caused closure of airspace in most of europe
• august 14: youth olympic games started in singapore
• september 4: canterbury earthquake in new zealand

2011

• january 8: successful assassonation of arizona congresswoman, gabrielle giffords
• january 25: beginning of the egyptian revolution of 2011
• february 14: bahrain uprising (ironic b/c it's valentine's day)
• february 15: libyam protests
• february 22: earthquake in christchurch
• march 11: 9.0 earthquake in japan + nuclear accident (because of that earthquake)
• may 2: e. coli outbreak in europe
• may 2: osama bin laden killed
• may 21: rapture
• july 22: norway's twin terror attacks in central oslo + utøya
• august 22: the day i realized i will always love X
• september 1: tony tan sworn in as singa's prez
• september 11: 10-year remembrance of 9/11