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WalMart Becomes the Worlds Largest Retailer
WalMart is the worlds third largest public corporation. It is the biggest probate employer in the world with over two million employees, but it is the largest retailer in the world. Walmart is still a family owned buisness as the company is controlled by the Waltons who own a 48% stake in walmart. Aside from being ranked high up on many scales it is one of the worlds most valuable companies. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was created to keep people on the east and the west side of Germany. People started getting a tast of "Vacationing" so they demanded the wall be taked down. The wall was put up and tore down both, because of the people. You can find parts of the wall all around the world. -
First Website Created
21 years ago, Berners Lee published the worlds first website in the Swiss Alps. Was created to explain the WWW to newcomers -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
It acknowledge the independence of all 15 republics in the Soviet Union. The dissolution was the worlds first and largest Communist state and also was the end of the Cold War. -
First SMS text EVERRR sent
NEil Papworth sent the first SMS message to Richard Harvis. It simply red "Merry Christmas". But there was no way to reply. -
When Netscape Went Public
It gave us the first broud and popular commercial browser to surf the Internet. Became the opperating system used by most people world wide. -
China Joins WTO
Trade nubusters frin across the world have offically approved Chinas entry approbed Chinas entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). China's entry is expected to boost economic reforms started in teh worldds most popular nation more than 20 years ago and open the huge market to the rest of the world. -
Y2K
Y2K was a widespread practice in all computer softwares to use two digits for representing a year rather than using all 4 digits. This was done to save computer disk and memory space because these resources were relatively expensive. -
9/11/01
On September 11, 2001, a series of four coordinated sucicide attacks upon the US in New Yourk City and in the Washington D.C areas. The hijackers intentionally flew two of thoes palnes into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center Complex in New York city -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
OFI is the U.S led coaliation military operation in Iraq that launched with the immediate stated goal of the remobing Saddam Hussein's regime and destroyed its ability of the use of WMD or to make them avalible to terrorists. Ober time the focus of OIF mobed from regime remobal to the more open ended mission of helping the Government of Iraq improve security, establish a system of gobernance and foster economic development. -
Facebook was Created
Mark Zuckerberg was the co-creater of Facebook. Facebook was incorporated in mid-2004 and the enterpeneur Sean Parker, who had been informally adcising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. -
India ends economic Isolationism
U.S lawmakers gave a final stamp of approval for a landmark nuclear cooperation initiative envisaged by the governments in Washington and New Delhi, paving way for ending India's three-decade long nuclear isolation.
Following the passage of the so-called Henry J Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006 (named after a retiring Congressman who co-wrote the bill), President Bush was the one to sign it into law in a White House ceremony. -
YouTube Created
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by these former PayPal employees in Febuary, 2005on which users can upload and share videos. -
#Twitter'sBirthday
Twitter #isanonlinesocialnetworkingserviceandmicrobloggingservice #Itenablesitsuserstosendandreadtext-basedmessagesofupto #140Characters alsocalled #TweetsCreator #JackDorseyhashtag -
The Arab Spring
The Arab spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests and wars occuring in the Arab. To date rulers habe been forced from power in Tunisia, Egept, Libya and Yemen. -
Completion of an around the world Fiber Optic Cable
Is a 28,000 kilometer long submarine communication cable containing optical fiber that connects the United Kingdon, Japan and many places in between. The cable is operated by India's flag telecom, which is a subsidary of reliance communications. The system is the fourth longest cable in the world.
