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Y2K Fiasco
This is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. A twentieth-century date in such programs could cause various errors, such as the incorrect display of dates and the inaccurate ordering of automated dated records or real-time events. -
Bush VS. Gore
Bush v. Gore, was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. The ruling was issued on December 12, 2000. On December 9, the Court had preliminarily halted the Florida recount that was occurring. Eight days earlier, the Court unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. The Electoral College was scheduled to meet on December 18, 2000, to decide the election. -
Hanging "Chads" in Florida
the outcome of the U.S. presidential race plunged into uncertainty. About the time that the TV networks announced that Vice President and Democratic candidate Al Gore had won the crucial state of Florida over Republican Gov. For 36 days, who won the White House was in unclear, as Bush and Gore were so close that the margin was almost not there, complicated by voting difficulties in Florida and the election law. -
Bush/Gore Race
The gov. of Texas George W. Bush ran as republican. Al Gore the vice president at the time ran for the democratic party. At the time of this race it was the tightest race in history. Bush ended up winning the election with more electoral votes than Gore. -
Bush inaugurated as POTUS
The first inauguration of George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States took place on Saturday, January 20, 2001. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George W. Bush as President and Dick Cheney as Vice President. Chief Justice William Rehnquist administered the oath of office at 12:01 p.m.An estimated 300,000 people attended the swearing-in ceremony. -
Timothy Mcveigh Put to Death
McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at 7:14 a.m. on June 11, 2001, at the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the first federal prisoner to be executed by the United States federal government since Victor Feguer was executed in Iowa on March 15, 1963. -
Timothy McVeigh Put to Death
He was found guilty on all counts in 1997 and sentenced to death. was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution was carried out in a considerably shorter time than most inmates awaiting the death penalty; most convicts on death row in the United States spend an average of fifteen years there. -
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9-11 terror attack
19 groups al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C, and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush. -
Patriot Act Passed
This was in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11 of that same year. The Patriot Act allows the various branches of the U.S. government to research and “obstruct” any person, group, or idea believed to support or advertise any domestic or foreign terrorist activities. -
Patriot Act Passed
President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law drawn up in response to the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Expanded definition of terrorism also gave the FBI increased powers to access personal information such as medical and financial records. The Patriot Act superseded all state laws. -
Enron Scandal
To this day, many wonder how such a powerful business, at the time one of the largest companies in the U.S, disintegrated almost overnight and how it managed to fool the regulators with fake holdings and off-the-books accounting for so long. -
North Korea admits testing nuclear weapons
North Korea revealed that it has a clandestine nuclear weapons program during a meeting with a high-ranking U.S. official. The United States made public October 16, indicates that Pyongyang has violated several key nonproliferation agreements, concerns worldwide. North Korea’s nuclear program violates terms under several international agreements: the Agreed Framework, the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), Pyongyang’s safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). -
Enron Scandal
The Enron scandal, publicized in October 2001, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas, and the de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world. In addition to being the largest bankruptcy reorganization in American history at that time, Enron was cited as the biggest audit failure. Omaha, Nebraska, United States (1985) it was to post the biggest corporation -
Shuttle Columbia Explosion
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on February 1, 2003, while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster occurred over Texas, and only minutes before Columbia was scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center.an investigation board issued a report revealing that it would have been possible either for the Columbia crew to repair the damage to the wing or for the crew to be rescued from the shuttle. -
War Begins in Iraq
The United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address. President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction. -
Capture of Saddam Hussein
Soldiers found Saddam Hussein hiding in a six-to-eight-foot deep hole, nine miles outside his hometown of Tikrit. The man once obsessed with hygiene was found to be unkempt, with a bushy beard and matted hair. He did not resist and was uninjured during the arrest. A soldier at the scene described him as “a man resigned to his fate.” -
Former President Reagan Death
Suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for several years before his death. At his home in Los Angeles, California, according to his presidential library. He was 93. -
SE Asia Tsunami
A massive undersea earthquake occurs just off the coast of Indonesia at a few minutes before 8 a.m. local time. With a magnitude of 9.3, the quake was the most powerful of the last 40 years and the second largest earthquake in recorded history. It set off a deadly tsunami that, in the final estimate, killed an estimated 230,000 people and wreaked untold devastation on a wide swath of coastline from Somalia on the east African coast to Sumatra in Southeast Asia. -
Death of Pope John Paul
Pope John Paul II died at age 84, Vatican officials said. One of the most influential leaders of the 20th and early 21st centuries, he worked tirelessly to build a moral foundation in the modern world, while playing a crucial role in overthrowing communism and fostering peace. -
Elected of Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 to 2013. Benedict's election occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. On 11 February 2013, Benedict announced his resignation in a speech in Latin before the cardinals, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body" due to his advanced age. -
Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale–it brought sustained winds of 100–140 miles per hour–and stretched some 400 miles across. The storm itself did a great deal of damage, but its aftermath was catastrophic. -
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Hurricane Rita Hits Texas
pummeled east Texas and the Louisiana coast Saturday, battering communities with floods and intense winds. But residents were relieved the once-dreaded storm proved far less fierce and deadly than Katrina. -
Democrats take control of House and Senate
Democrats had picked up 24 seats in the House, knocking off Republican incumbents from New Hampshire to Florida, officials in both parties said. Although results from the West Coast had not yet come in, neither party anticipated that the basic outcome would change once all votes were counted. -
Saddam Hussein Executed
Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. -
Nancy Pelosi
As the leader of the Democratic Party in the House under a Republican president, Pelosi was sometimes a divisive figure. A vocal critic of President George W. Bush's stance on the war in Iraq, she advocated for the withdrawal of troops from the region -
Mccain and Obama race
McCain, who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election, is seeking a sixth term in the Senate this year and faces a competitive Republican primary in August. -
Steroids in baseball scandal
20-month investigation. Following a sharp rebuke by a U.S. congressional committee in 2005, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig hired former Sen. George Mitchell to investigate steroid use in baseball. The investigation named Roger Clemens among other baseball players as steroid users. Clemens denied the allegation. -
First "bailouts" Begin
The US government seized control of american international group. One of the worlds biggest insurers in an $85 billion deal that signaled the intensity of its concerns about that danger a collapse could pose to the financial system. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. At the time, the country was experiencing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Private employers had already cut almost 4 million jobs, trillions in dollars in household wealth had been wiped out, and the economy’s total output was in the midst of its sharpest downturn of the postwar era. -
Operation Geronimo
The first indication for President Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed came when a Navy SEAL sent back the coded message to Washington that said simply, "Geronimo-E KIA." Geronimo was the code name for the operation that sent two teams of 12 SEALS zooming by Blackhawk helicopters to a walled compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, on Sunday to kill or capture the most wanted man in the world.