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....body of History: Gossip well told!  It can enlighten or shame, cause laughter and tears.  You cannot bring it back or wish it away.  Might as well enjoy it!  The third millennium actually started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000, or even more correctly, on 31 December 1995

2000 - Final Peanut comic strip published. Largest ever corporate merger as AOL buys Time-Warner for $162 billion. Vladimir Putin elected President of Russia. George W Bush defeats Al Gore to become US President. The Tate Modern opens in London. Summer Olympics is held in Sydney, Australia. Reality TV introduced in the form of Survivor, based on Swedish game show Operation Robinson.


2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands on asteroid 433 Eros, a first. Dale Earnhardt killed during Daytona 500 race. 32-year old Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado, becomes first blind person to reach summit of Mount Everest. Wikipedia started. On September 11, Al Qaida terrorists fly jet aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, killing around 3,000 people. The US launch against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Act of the War on Terrorism is signed by President Bush. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the movie, debuts.


2002 - Euro banknotes and coins released. Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, Utah. New order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, announced. East Timor becomes independent state. Brazil wins Football World Cup. The planetoid Quaoar discovered. Jimmy Carter awarded Nobel Peace prize.


2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard. Coalition forces launch against Iraq, ending Sadam Hussein's rule. Last old-style Volkswagen Beetle produced in Puebla, Mexico. Arnold Schwarzenegger voted Governor of California. Concorde makes its last commercial flight. Dan Hanebrink invents the Ice Bike. England wins the Rugby Union World Cup defeating Australia 20-17. Earthquake in Bam, Iran on December 27, kills more than 26,000 people.


2004 - NASA's Mer-A (Spirit) lands on Mars. Britney Spears's marriage to Jason Allen Alexander annulled after 55 hours. Cruise liner Queen Mary 2 launched. Facebook founded. Kyushu Shinkansen high-speed rail line opens in Japan. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban released. Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece. Largest Tsunami disaster ever recorded, killing 225,000 people in 14 countries.


2005 Pope - John Paul II dies April, 2. German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected as 265th pontiff, Benedict XVI. First successful partial face transplant, France. July 7 London terrorist bombings. Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Earthquake kills about 80,000 people in Kashmir. YouTube launched.


2006 - Montenegro gains independence and becomes the 192nd member of the UN. Australian Dr Ian Frazer develops vaccine for cervical cancer. Winter Olympics held in Torino, Italy. Football World Cup won by Italy. Microsoft launches Vista operating system. 80% of world land surface has coverage by cellular networks for mobile phone use. Mandarin passes English as the most prevalent language on the Internet. Twitter launches.


2007 - Romania and Bulgaria join the EU. Australia win Cricket World Cup. The New Seven Wonders of the World announced. Apple launches the iPhone. July 1, nationwide public smoking ban introduced in England. BBC launches iPlayer. Homer Simpson movie released. Abel Gonzales Jr. introduces Deep-Fried Coca-Cola. State of celebriphilians (persons who desire romantic relationship with celebrity) more evident than ever on online video channel YouTube.


2008 - Beijing Olympics. Dmitri Medvedev elected President of Russia as Vladimir Putin reaches end of his term. Kosovo declares independence. NASA WMAP progam declares the universe is flat. Recession hits West worst; world power starts shifting from West to East.

2009 - Barack Hussein Obuma becomes first black US President. Obuma receives Noble Peace Prize. Barbie dolls turns 50. Microsoft launches Windows 7. World leaders meet (unsuccessfully) in Copenhagen to discuss global warming


2010 - Google launches Nexus One cell phone. Record cold weather in many countries. One of the deadliest earthquakes on record hits Haiti on January 12. Apple launches the iPad. Massive deep sea oil leak in Gulf of Mexico – British Petroleum held responsible. Spain wins Football World Cup


2011 - Earthquake of 9.0 magnitude hits Japan in March 11, triggering 32 ft (10 m) tsunami, killing more than 12,000 people and causing partial melt-down of Fukushima nuclear reactor north of Tokyo – 7.1 magnitude earthquake on April 7 worsens catastrophe. Apple launches iPad2. Facebook reaches 700 million membership mark. MySpace, which was bought for $580m in 2005 is sold for $35m. GooglePlus social network launched. Arab Spring.


2012 - Mayan and other calendars end


2060 - End of world according to Isaac Newton.
http://www.isaac-newton.org/update.html

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....body of History: Gossip well told!  It can enlighten or shame, cause laughter and tears.  You cannot bring it back or wish it away.  Might as well enjoy it!

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1975
South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnamese Communists troops. Junko Tabei of Japan becomes first woman to reach Everest summit. Soviet Soyuz 19 docks with Apollo 18. IBM launches the laser printer. Popular Electronics announces Altair, the first "personal computer".

1976
Viking I lands on Mars. 14-year old Romanian Nadia Comaneci scores 5 perfect 10′s at Montreal Olympics. Konica introduces automatic focus camera. Apple computers founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak. The Eagles become the first group to go platinum, with a million sales of their Greatest Hits LP.

1977
Apple II becomes the first mass-produced home computer. Star Wars debuts. Rings around Uranus discovered.

1978
Karol Wojtyla of Poland becomes Pope John Paul II. Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz is first woman to sail around the world. Taito Corp launches first arcade video game, Space Invaders. In England, Louise Brown is the first test-tube baby. Superman the movie debuts, starring Christopher Reeve.

1979
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. Russia invades Afghanistan. Nobel prize awarded to Mother Teresa. Sony launches the Walkman. Frank Rudy designs first air-cushioned running shoe, the Nike Tailwind.

1980
Philips invents the CD. US ice hockey player Scott Olson develops roller blades. Italian Reinhold Messner makes the first solo ascent of Mount Everest. World Health Organization declares end of smallpox. John Lennon is shot by Mark Chapman.

1981
IBM launches their PC. BMW develops the first in-car computer. PacMan hits the arcades. Shuttle Columbia launched. Prince Charles and Lady Di wedded.

1982
Barney Clark receives artificial heart – operation by Dr William de Vries. European doctors offer liposuction. Rings around Neptune discovered. First papal visit to Britain since 1531. PacMan is Time Magazine's Man of the Year. The New King James Version Bible (NKJV) published.

1983
HIV virus identified. Cabbage Patch Kids debuts, as does Madonna. Sally Ride is first US woman in space. Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to travel beyond the solar system. Grandson of Alexander Graham Bell answers first commercial cell phone call. Computer hackers break into US defense computers. Programmer Jaron Lanier coins the term "virtual reality".

1984
Apple Computers launch the Macintosh. Canadian writer invents the word "cyberspace". Dr William Clewall perform the first operation on an unborn fetus. Bruce McCandless becomes the first man to fly in space without a safety line.

1985
British scientist Joe Farman discovers the hole in the ozone. Dr Alec Jeffreys discovers genetic fingerprint, using DNA, at Leicester University. Lasers are first used in surgery. Clive Sinclair introduces the battery-operated car. Commercial whaling banned.

1986
Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeagar makes the first non-stop non-refuelling flight around the world. Nuclear reactor explodes in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Soviet Union launches Mir space station. Fuji introduces disposable camera. Tom Cruise stars in Top Gun.

1987
World population reaches 5 billion. World stock exchanges collapse on Black Monday, 20 Oct. First optic cable is laid across Atlantic Ocean. Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand make first transatlantic hot air balloon crossing. GM invents active suspension, on Lotus F1 car.

1988
US introduces the F-117 stealth fighter. Prozac launched, as is RV486, an abortion-inducing drug. Bombs set by Lybian terrorists explodes on Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" is published.

1989
One of the last unspoiled areas on earth threatened when the tanker Exxon Valdes runs aground in Alaska. CFC gases banned. Russia quits Afghanistan. Tiananmen Square protests by students. Berlin Wall comes down. Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web.

1990
Gulf War erupts as NATO defends Kuwait from Iraqi invasion. Germany reunites. Breakthrough in the Channel Tunnel. Hubble space telescope launched.

1991
End of the Soviet Union. Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait. Helen Sharman becomes the first British astronaut, on Soyuz TM-12. 5,000 year old frozen body is discovered in Alps, named "Otzi", with tattoos on his back, knees and ankles.

1992
World's first damages award made for illness causes by passive smoking, in Sydney. Fighting breaks out in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Samsung launches 64MB DRAM.

1993
World Wide Web goes graphic with the launch of the Mosaic browser. Plan to map the entire genetic structure of humans, Human Genome Project, launched in San Diego. Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to pay income tax.

1994
An asteroid passes earth at only 160 000km (100,00 miles). Channel Tunnel opens for business. Wiki invented by Ward Cunningham

1995
Microsoft launches Windows95. A national computer data base of DNA records opens in UK. 26-year old trader Nick Leeson single-handedly brings down Britain's oldest bank, Barings, by running up losses of 620 million Pounds.

1996
Same-sex marriages in the US is prohibited under the Defense of Marriage Act. NASA scientist announce the discovery of proof of living organisms on a Mars meteorite in Antarctica.

1997
First ever space funeral when Timothy Leary's ashes is launched into space. US space probe pathfinder lands on Mars. Scientists at Roslin Institute in Scotland clones a sheep, "Dolly". Lady Di killed in car crash. World's first university, where Aristotle and Socrates taught, is discovered in Athens.

1998
Microsoft launches Windows98. The law against mixed race marriages is abandoned in South Carolina, US. Frenchman Benoit Lecomte swims across the Atlantic Ocean.

1999
NATO launch air attacks on Serbia. Citizens of Alabama, USA get chance to vote on law against mixed race marriages. Scientists measure fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h (318 mph) inside a tornado that struck Oklahoma City. World population reaches the 6 billion mark.

The first millennium consisted of 365,250 days.  The second millennium of 365,237 days.  The third millennium will consist of 365,242 days.  The third millennium actually started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000.  Basically, the year 2000 is celebrated one year earlier because the year 0 was not calculated.  It is the THIRD millennium, of course, because the Gregorian calendar has already observed two thousand years after Christ.[/font][/size]