President Obama had some strong ideas and plans for the future, and only time will tell if he can truly come through with them. A Mysterious Object Is Being Dragged Into the Supermassive Black Hole at the Milky Way's Center. The elderly, conservative Ratzinger took the name Pope Benedict XVI, and the new German pontiff meant that the position would not immediately go back to an Italian. "Climate Change: How Do We Know?" May 10, 2005. You didn't mean it! Jan. 2, 2009. Ultimately, there was a vote among three officers on whether or not to launch a nuke, with Arkhipov being the lone "no" vote. YouTube quickly gained popularity as users began to upload and share videos on the site in record numbers. Really tense. Feb. 24, 2023 An object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy . "Y2K Bug." Having reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium, its time to look back at all the things that helped shape the cultural heritage of our ever globalizing society. 2005. Nicknamed the "Yorkshire Witch," Mary Bateman's career began when she pretended to be the go-between for a couple of fake psychics named "Mrs. Moore" and "Miss Blythe." She actually made a pretty tidy living selling potions, fortunes, and curses, but greedy people are never happy with "a pretty tidy living." George W. Bush starts his second term as 43rd President of the United States. The popular video sharing website YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim during February of 2005. That nation's leader directed a Japanese firm draw up plans for a floating island to sustain part of the country's population and purchased land on nearby Fiji to evacuate the rest [source: Worland]. 5. Carrie Underwood won Season 4 of American Idol. How I Met Your Mother premiered its first legen (wait for it) dary. ThoughtCo. Previously, mp3 players were unpopular because they were fragile, had short battery life, or were simply not sexy and fashionable. 4. The News Feed -- now the homepage of the site -- wasn't introduced until 2006. Oscar survived that attack as well, and afterward retired to Belfast, where he lived in a seaman's home. We wouldn't say things were simpler a decade ago, but they were certainly interesting! "Y2K: The New Year's Disaster That Never Happened." The man went missing on Friday night but was only found on Saturday afternoon completely naked a . It led to an argument at the United Nations about what constitutes genocide and what necessitates U.N. action. The outcome was mass murder and displacement of civilians leading to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Liston was performing a leg amputation, but worked so fast that he accidentally cut off two fingers on his assistant's hand. In 2005, Drake was still wheeling around Degrassi and Miley Cyrus hadn't yet debuted on Hannah Montana, let alone appropriated twerking. After the war, he was placed in the Edinburgh Zoo where he lived out the rest of his days until he died at age 21. 25 Crazy Things People Believe Could Happen In 2022. RELATED: The biggest company blunders of 2014. The search for the missing and involved over 130 people. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow engage in a very public and nasty custody battle over their three children. Natural disasters ensued around the world. Ah, 2005. 3. Whenever I think of that, still make me chuckle. (Oct. 10, 2016) http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/, National Security Archive. There were ten simultaneous concerts were organized by Bob Geldof who had run the first Live Aid concerts 20 years earlier in 1985. (Oct. 12, 2016) http://people.com/crime/clown-sightings-2016-stephen-king-twitter-reacts/, Clark, Stuart. 1 Russia Invades Ukraine On February 24th, 2022, Russia announced the beginning of its "special military operation" against Ukraine and shortly after began attacking Ukraine using missiles, rockets, and airstrikes. Here's a stress ball, just in case that helps.. So how do we handle these situations? "The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962." (2021, August 31). James Barrett James is a journalist covering everything from travel, interviews, personal essays to lifestyle and entertainment. "D.C. Sniper Attacks of 2002." Danny Boyle created a masterpiece in 2008 with his film Slumdog Millionaire. Oct. 5, 2016 (Oct. 10, 2016) http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/, NASA. solidsnake4545. Then, at midnight, nothing happened. Y2K was a computer bug. 6th January African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) known as American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders called murders of three civil rights workers. Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher shot the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco (pronounced Butt-a-foo-co), Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face. 2012 was the year of many things, because of 2012 we learned that we the Mayan's calendar just happened to end on that date. Oscar died in 1955, a full 14 years after the sinking of the Bismarck. A new cadre of internet citizen has been created since 2005: The social media editor. All this begs the question: Why clowns? Social networking is fundamentally changing the way the world communicates. George W. Mike Myers' face. While most astronomers weren't actually that worried, a nervous public latched on to the claims of people like French astronomer and author Camille Flammarion, who claimed the poison would smother all life on the planet. Katrina Makes Landfall As Category 3 Louisiana. What defines the 2010s? By 2006, search engine Google purchased the company for $1.65 billion in Google stock. The purpose of the event was to raise money for charities fighting against poverty around the world. As early as 1705 astronomer Edmond Halley identified its orbit and predicted its reappearance every 75 to 76 years. But however much it might feel like it, a pandemic was not the only thing to happen in 2020. 9. The winner of the first season was Will Young, who has had a modest career since. A version of Khutulun (played by Claudia Kim, pictured above) appears as a character in Netflix's Marco Polo, as the explorer met and wrote about Khutulun in his travels. Daniela Jovanovska-Hristovska / Getty Images. In the 1980s, we wanted our hair to be as big as possible, our fanny packs to be as bright as possible, and our spandex to be as tight as possible. Watch on YouTube 2. Earth Passes Through the Tail of Halley's Comet Washington, D.C., Sniper Attacks Cuban Missile Crisis The United States Nearly Loses John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Spacecraft 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 10: Y2K Perhaps more frightening than Y2K is the size of our old computer monitors. The rest of the world responded with relief aid estimated at over ten billion US dollars. The launch of the unmanned Cosmos 1 failed during June. But "hashtags" have emerged from the pack and represent a new way to organize language by grouping words into metadata. Pepsi, the soda company, once had the 6th largest military in the world. Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, and Prince Phillip died. National Geographic. "Lee Boyd Malvo, 10 Years After D.C. Area Sniper Shootings: 'I Was a Monster.'" Oct. 5, 2016. The U.S.-UK invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, toppled the brutal Taliban regime. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://time.com/4058851/kiribati-cliamte-change/, Special Offer on Antivirus Software From HowStuffWorks and TotalAV Security, Earth Passes Through the Tail of Halley's Comet, The United States Nearly Loses John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Spacecraft, Time: Everything You Need to Know About the 'Clown Attack' Craze. The pipeline transports diesel and jet fuel from Texas to New York and delivers roughly 45% of New England's fuel. "Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions What's in Yellowstone's Future?" In October 2020, an Italian farmer's dog gave birth to a litter of five puppiesincluding one that had green fur. 3. May 2, 2016. Runners-up: Darfur Genocide, Benazir Bhutto assassination, London train bombings. (Oct. 14, 2016) http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/interviews/, Oskin, Becky. Our heart rate increases, blood is redirected to critical body parts, adrenaline spikes, and our strength, stamina and senses are all heightened [source: Taylor]. And it was the proto-example of twentysomethings moving to California to create a company and. In a nation still bearing the scars of its Jim Crow past, the people of the United States made a huge move toward true racial equality in 2008 by electing Barack Obama, the nations first black president. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected as the new Pope, he has taken the name Pope Benedict XVI, MG Rover, the UK's sole remaining volume producer goes into receivership. In order to make it through the daily eight-hour makeup session it took to transform him into the titular character in How the. 11th March 2004 Madrid train bombings or Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. A series of explosions led to an enormous fire at one of Britain's largest oil depots Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. Many times, things you may have assumed to be true (for years!) Glancing into the rearview mirror, we see a 2005 that lacks some of the mainstays of our 2014 existence. Despite reassurances from experts, people were worried. It released a whopping 585 cubic miles (2,450 square kilometers) of molten rock and created a caldera measuring some 60 miles (96.6 kilometers) across. Dec. 20, 2012. World War I Two drinking buddies, British Commander Edmund Rhoades and German Captain Berndt, found themselves on opposite sides when war broke out. Consider that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, but it took facebook less than 9 months to reach 100 million users. #HashtagsThe digital revolution has spawned a seemingly endless range of techy buzzwords with ambiguous meaning. But when you realize that it was John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, taking about a possible nuclear strike against the United States, it's downright terrifying. Leopold's father made his fortune in the shipping industry, and Loeb's father was vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Company. 2. Many African counties have also adopted it unofficially and some countries have negotiated usage. The aftermath 1 week after the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami. Runners-up: The Da Vinci Code, Oprahs book club. What Happened in 2005 Major News Events, Popular Culture, History Prices Live 8 benefit concerts. Feeling safer yet? Aside from a few minor, isolated incidents, everything was fine. Leicester Hemingway sailed a barge made mostly out of bamboo, roughly 8 foot by 30 foot, out to sea and declared it a micro-nation that was half independent and half part of the United States. In 1997 an unknown writer named Joanne Rowling finally got her break upon the publication of a novel she had been working on for seven years, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. It seems amazing that it was nearly ten years ago when the entire world rang in the new millennium with style. The Darfur conflict began in 2003 in western Sudan. The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, The IRA announces end to armed conflict and gives up its weapons to independent weapons inspectors, Israeli settlers are forced to leave settlements in the Gaza Strip as part of peace settlement, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon ending its twenty nine year military occupation, The Disneyland Resort celebrates it 50th birthday, F3 tornado strikes Evansville, Indiana killing 25 people making it one of the deadliest single tornadoes on record, Four Robotic vehicles complete the difficult task of crossing 240km across Nevada's Mojave desert, Indonesia suffers the worst power outage blackout in history with 100 million affected, Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tours de France before his scheduled retirement, Civil unrest continues in Paris suburbs, President Jacques Chirac announced a national state of emergency, Dennis Rader, the BTK ( Bind, Torture and Kill, ) serial killer, is charged with 10 counts of murder in Wichita, Kan. In the 1960s space technology was viewed as a critical component in the nuclear arms race. Perhaps it was an elaborate plot to cover up the planned murder of Muhammed's ex-wife, or even part of a bigger plan to extort the federal government. Well, on second thought, there was one big difference: A scorned neighbor in the late Renaissance Europe might accuse you of being a witch. "I was young and stupid," he said in the series. (Oct. 12, 2016) http://www.salon.com/2005/02/01/witch_craze/, NASA. The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse. Apparently Pepsi was a big hit, but there was a problem: Soviet money wasn't generally accepted worldwide. People actually believe there will be football this fall. Feb 23 Slovakia Summit 2005 begins; George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend - 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia. 1 Coronavirus Outbreak. Oil prices rise sharply throughout the year caused by Trouble in the Middle East, and later Hurricane Katrina. Even the venerated Time magazine set up a generator-powered "war room" in the basement of their building. Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. By the late 1700s, the witch craze was largely over, but not before some 40,000 to 100,000 people had been killed under such outrageous circumstances as those mentioned above. The organizer of the race purposefully withheld water in order to test the effects of dehydration. Jessop was a stewardess aboard the RMS Olympic, one of the Titanic's sister ships, when it collided with another ship in September of 1911. I'd like to think we respond with thoughtful, positive action, but judging from these events it seems mass hysteria is a more common reaction. "For us, the single biggest story was the storming of the US Capitol and Trump's attempts to overturn the election results. The public reaction was frightening as well. October 23, 2001 Apple Introduces the iPod. We learn that the young man, played by Dev Patel, is not interested in the money, but in finding his lost girlfriend. By. What stirred everyone into a tizzy was the new discovery that Earth was actually on track to pass through the comet's 15.5-million-mile (25-million-kilometer) tail. Hurricane Katrina Causes the Loss of life of 1,577 in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina Causes the Loss of life of 238 in Mississippi, Many Of Those who stay behind take refuge on rooftops ( Water is over 15 feet deep ) waiting for rescue, The United States Coast Guard begin rescue operations soon after the worst of the storm is over, many are taken to Louisiana Superdome, Mississippi 90% of the buildings along the Biloxi-Gulfport coastline are destroyed worst effected areas Hancock County ( Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pearlington, and Clermont Harbor. Will a regional conflict become global and spark World War III? And everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief [source: National Geographic]. "Unsinkable Sam" was the nickname given to this cat, who was actually named Oscar. Weve come a long way since. Wentworth Miller played Mariah Carey's love interest in her "We Belong Together" music video, which served as a sexual awakening for soooo many millennials. Earthquake magnitude 7.6 strikes Kashmir leaving an estimated 70,000 dead and 70,000 more injured. "Meet the President Trying to Save His Island Nation From Climate Change." In December 2007, the U.S. experienced its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Oct. 18, 2016. The morning of September 11, 2001, would end with two hijacked airliners flown into each of the WTC towers, another plane flown into the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashing into the ground in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the cockpit. The Crow (1994) The Crow has become a moody, gothic cult classic. One guy accidentally swallowed their precious plutonium. An entire town in Nevada basically invented the concept of the "Wild West" by staging gunfights, bank robberies, and other Western cliches from 1800s dime novels. May 20, 2016. Eight years later, its hard to find a teenager or young adult without an iPod. Let me tell about all the crazy things that happened to us in 2015. Each time a suitor wanted to challenge Khutulun, she required them to wager some of their horses in case she was the winner. After John Paul's burial, the world watched in anticipation as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope on April 19, 2005. The world is a strange, surprising place, in ways large and small, serious and trivial. Countries that didn't prepare were no worse off than those that did. 16. On Dec. 31, 1999, people watched with a little more anxiety and a little less celebration as the clock ticked towards potential Armageddon. Wikipedia. 10. Dec. 25, 2014. Don't lose too much sleep over this one, though: Scientists say that the chances of a Yellowstone super-eruption are exceedingly low at least over next few thousand years [source: Diggles]. (Oct. 14, 2016) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis, U.S. Geological Survey. A star-studded memorial service took place for the singer at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Both the patient and the assistant died later of gangrene, most likely due to the saw being unclean. Remember the guy that leaned out the window in Boyz N the Hood and used a shotgun to almost blow Ricky in half? They influence government policy, disaster response, military strategy, and more. But, their job was not done yet. He said, "give me that.". Got a gun pointed at my crotch by the girl whose apartment the party was at. Making things worse, a recently-discovered technique known as spectroscopy was used to analyze the composition of the comet, and scientists learned something unsettling namely that the tail contained a toxic gas known as cyanogen. As you can imagine, people were rattled. Runners-up: Spain Wins Euro 2008, Zinedine Zidanes Headbutt, 2008 New York Giants. The first stage of the Volna rocket that was supposed to launch the spacecraft failed and the craft was unable to achieve orbit and instead crashed into the Barents Sea less than a minute and a half after launch. Rural Europe was no different during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Fortunately, they weren't, as the sensor that raised the alarm turned out to be faulty, and Glenn landed in the Atlantic without incident. During the procedure, Liston accidentally swiped near an elderly doctor with a blade, slicing the fabric of the doctor's suit coat. Hopefully you can somehow convince the superstitious executioner that you aren't a witch, but if not, you'll be hanged, beheaded or burned at the stake. Will a natural disaster happen and wipe out your town? Had it been successful, it would have been the first orbital spacecraft to use a solar sail to increase its speed in space. Oct. 8, 2016. Other times, however, the threat was less obvious and fear lay in the dark unknown. In the celebrity equivalent of a zoom gig, all the stars got together to perform for us for Lady Gaga 's One World concert, where stars . Thus, three people died during an operation that was meant to save one life. Robert Liston, a surgeon in the 1800s, performed an operation with a. The plan was to use the publicity of the act to raise money and have the raft serve as an oceanographic research facility, but unfortunately a tropical storm destroyed New Atlantis in 1966, two years after it was created. Here are nine things we somehow got by without before 2005: 1. 14. With close to 500 million people worldwide using the euro, its use and expanding use will help shape our future and hopefully lead us into a stage of macroeconomic stability. Based on the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup, the movie tells the tale of an impoverished young man and his chance to make millions on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? He answers question after question based on chance encounters throughout his life, such as how he knows who is on a US 100 dollar bill. A young girl discovered a severed human foot in a sneaker in the Strait of Georgia during the summer of 2007. Runners-up: Dotcom bust, real estate collapse. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident who was from South Korea, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic . Katrina claimed 1,836 lives, and 705 people were categorized as missing. Instead of a traditional press outlet, the celebrity gossip website TMZ broke the story that Jackson died. Here are 16 of the wildest experiences actors and crew had on set: 1. An entire generation grew up along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, reading thousands of pages in a time where most children are watching TV. From a deadly pandemic to a global movement for racial justice, the year 2020 . "2021 has been a complete blur. Or maybe you get upset with someone and make a half-joking quip wishing him harm. A freak occurrence involving sunlight reflecting off of high-altitude clouds confused the satellite system, causing it to indicate that there were five incoming missiles, assumed to be American. Did anyone really grasp the ability for computers and the internet to permeate every aspect of our day to day lives? 2005: 1 sharply throughout the year caused by Trouble in the basement of their building downturn since the Depression... 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