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Austrailia hosts the Olympics
Austrailia hosts the 2000 summr olympics and it is viewed 3.7 billion people. -
September 11th 2001
The world trade center attacked was by Al Queda. Three plains were high jacked one was sent to fly directly to The White House one was sent to go the pentagon and another to The other to the world trade center. The white house and and pentagon attacks failed, but the wourld trade center was complety destroyed -
Indonesia has a deadly trerrorist attack
A suicide bomber and a large car bomb goes to the Indonesian Island of Bali killing 202 people. The people were from foreign countries. They exploded near 2 very popular night clubs. -
US Navy ends Bombing excersise
The navy ends there last bombing excersise on Puerto Rico. People protested because of the bad air quality due to the bombs. Politions were concerned that it was causing health problems. -
Madrid Train Bombing
200 dead and 1,800 wounded under a series of cordnitnated train bombing events. The inspiration of the events came from Al Queda. -
Youtube is Launched
Youtube is Launched it started geting a $million per day and 100million views per day. Its founders were former paypal employees.It is now at a billion views per day. -
Twitter is Launched
Within in a short period of the the format of the website micro-blogging became very popular. Daily 1.6 billion tweets were being posted. The founderts are Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass,
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The first Iphone is released
The first iPhones are avalable to the public. It was known by time magazine as the invention of the year. It had a camera for pictures and video. And a GPS system. By 2010 42 million are sold. -
Oil Prices Reach Record High
$147 per barrel is the price of oil in 2008 because of Iranian missel tests. By the end of december prices went back down to $33 per barrel. -
Barack Obama is Elected 44th President
President Barack Obama was the first african american president. Many people dislike him as a president for many reasons. His popularity did grow some when he athorized the NAVY SEALs to take out Osama bin Laden. -
Taliban commander captured
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Taliban comander is captured by American and Pakistani forces. The comader was referred to as a 'shadow govenor'. It is the most sighnificant human capture since 2001. -
Steve Jobs dies
Steve Jobs was the founder of apple inc. He was a genuis he created many revoluntionary items. He lived from Febuary 24, 1955 to October 5, 2011. -
India is hit by power outage
700 million people in India are hit by power loss. 22/28 states are left without power. The reason is unknown but they are still developing their power grid and think that has something to do with it.
