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### *POP*Culture: 2000 

**ICONS:** September 11, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama
                          - The "dot.com" technology bubble, spanning from 1995 to 2000, peaks when intraday trading on the NASDAQ exchange reaches 5132.52.
                          - Hijacked airliners crash into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, PA, September 11, 2001.
                          - On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer unveils the first Ipod.
                          - The Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart during reentry, killing the seven astronauts onboard, February 1, 2003.
                          - On December 26, 2004, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded (approximately 9.3 magnitude) creates a tsunami that devastates South Asia leaving more than 230,000 dead.
                          - Author Stephenie Meyer publishes  Twilight  the first in her wildly popular series about "Bella" Swann and a vampire named Edward Cullen.
                          - Hurricane Katrina, the costliest hurricane in U.S. history, hits southeast Louisiana, August 29, 2005.
                          - Author J.K. Rowling publishes the final installment of her Harry Potter series,  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , July 2007.
                          - Senator Barack Obama is elected president on November 4, 2008.
                          - In January 2009, Nickelodeon celebrates the 10th anniversary of the hit children's television program "SpongeBob SquarePants."

| The 2000 Census    |   | 10 Largest Urban Places |
|--------------------|--------|-------------------------|
| 281,421,906        |
| 79.6               | 1      | New York, NY            | 8,008,278 |
| 13.1               | 2      | Los Angeles, CA         | 3,694,820 |
| April 1            | 3      | Chicago, IL             | 2,896,016 |
| 50                 | 4      | Houston, TX             | 1,953,631 |
| $6.5 billion (est) | 5      | Philadelphia, PA        | 1,517,550 |
| 2309.0 (est)       | 6      | Phoenix, AZ             | 1,321,045 |
|                    | 7      | San Diego, CA           | 1,223,400 |
| 550,000 (est.)     | 8      | Dallas, TX              | 1,188,580 |
| Kenneth Prewitt    | 9      | San Antonio, TX         | 1,144,646 |
| 7                  | 10     | Detroit, MI             | 951,270 |
| 52                 |

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