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Y2K everyone was worried in 1999 that once the year 2000 began, the world would basically end.
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Air France flight 4590 hits a metal object during takeoff blowing a tyre and puncturing a fuel tank leading to a fire killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members when it crashed into a hotel
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On September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United State killing 2,977 people
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Jan 9th Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the century award at the American music awards
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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is arrested for sexual assault
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Train bombing in Madrid kill nearly 200 people
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Hurricane Katrina floods New Orleans
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North Korea conducts it's first nuclear test
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Apple debuts the first iphone
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Oil prices hit a record high
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Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the USA
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Haiti is struck by a devastating earthqauke
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the death of Osama bin Laden
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the 2012 summer Usain Bolt runs his way in the history books of achievement
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the Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack
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the first gay marriages are held in England and Wales
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Electric car ownership reaches 1 million worldwide
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United State Presidential Election