21 CENTURY MAJOR EVENTS By mdd.tq Jan 1, 2000 Manga international popularization Oct 7, 2001 Afghanistan US Invasion (7-X-2001) Jan 1, 2002 "The corrections" By: Jonathan FranzeN Jun 21, 2002 "Shantaram"By: Gregory Jan 1, 2003 Mars exploration rovers launched Apr 9, 2003 Iraq's president Saddan Hussein statue falls Apr 25, 2003 "Middlesex" By: Jeffrey Eugenides Feb 4, 2004 Facebook is launched Dec 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami killed 200,000 people Mar 25, 2005 "Free culture" By: Lawrence Lessig (2005) Aug 11, 2005 "Saturday" By: Ian McEwan (2005) Sep 26, 2006 "The road" By: Cormac McCarthy (2006) Oct 3, 2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test Sep 4, 2007 "Tree of smoke" By: Denis Johnson (2007) Sep 29, 2008 "Tree of smoke" By: Denis Johnson (2007) Nov 4, 2008 Barack Obama wins the 2008 election Jan 1, 2010 Flight 1549 floats Hudson river after crash May 11, 2010 Brown succeeds Blair as prime minister of Great Britain Jun 23, 2010 Kiki is saved from Hiti earthquake ruins Apr 20, 2012 The US rover, Curiosity takes a selfie Mars Jul 16, 2012 "Gone girl" By: Gillian Flynn (2012) Sep 5, 2013 "The Luminaries" By: Eleonor Catton Dec 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela dies Apr 12, 2014 "The Silkwon" By: Robert Galbraith (2014) Aug 11, 2014 Michael Brown killer break out Ferguson Jan 1, 2016 Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorist Dec 10, 2016 The nobel prize was awarded to Bob Dylan Dec 13, 2016 2000 killed in northeast Nigeria after Boko
