2000s (decade)

The 2000s, also known as the noughties was the decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.
Events
November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush is elected President of the United States. The results were not known until December 12, 2000 due to the state of Florida being too close to the results.
January 13, 2001 - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes El Salvador killing at least 400 people.
February 20, 2001 - An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurs in the United Kingdom and over 10 million sheep and cattle were killed.
July 2, 2001 - The first artificial heart is implanted in a human being.
September 11, 2001 - Terrorist attacks are carried out on the World Trade Center in New York City and The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. by members of the Islamic extremist group Al Qaeda. The attacks involve the hijacking of four American passenger planes. Almost 3,000 people die. Two of these planes fly directly into the two towers of the World Trade Center, causing both towers to collapse. A third plane flies into a section of the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashes in a field in Pennsylvania after the terrorists are overpowered by passengers.
September 18, 2001 - Letters containing anthrax spores are mailed to several American media offices and two American senators. Twenty-two people are exposed and 5 people die.
September 21, 2001 - A chemical factory explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people and seriously wounding over 2,500.
2001 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present) begins as the United States, with help from other countries, invades Afghanistan.
2002 - May 20: East Timor gains independence from Indonesia
2002-2003 - SARS outbreak
2003 - Invasion of Iraq
2003 - December 26: earthquake in Bam, Iran
2004 - March 11: Bomb attacks on Madrid's train network
2004 - June 5: President Ronald Reagan dies at 93
2004 - September 1: Beslan School hostage crisis in Russia
2004 - Orange Revolution in Ukraine
2004 - December 26: tsunami in the Indian Ocean
2005 - April 2: Death of Pope John Paul II
2005 - July 7: Bomb attacks on the London Underground
2005 - October 8: earthquake in Kashmir
2005 - November 22: Angela Merkel becomes Chancellor of Germany
2005 - 2005 Atlantic hurricane season is the worst on record.
2006 - January 16: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in Liberia becomes the first female president on the African continent.
2006 - July - August: war between Israel and Lebanon
2006 - December 30: Saddam Hussein is executed in Iraq.
2007 - May 16: Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France.
2007 - June 27: Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2008 - February 24: Cuban President Fidel Castro retires. He is succeeded by his brother Raul Castro.
2008 - May 3: Burma is hit by Cyclone Nargis.
2008 - May 12: China's Sichuan province is hit by a major earthquake.
2008 - November: Mumbai terrorist attacks
2008-2009 - war in the Gaza Strip
2009 - January 20: Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American President.
2009-2010 - The flu pandemic turn out to be a global pandemic.
2009 - June 12:The end of analog television broadcast all across United States switch off analog transmitter and translation to Digital Television.
2009 - June 25: Death of Michael Jackson
People
Pope John Paul II, Pope from 1978 to 2005
Pope Benedict XVI, Pope from 2005 to 2013
Elizabeth II, Monarch of the United Kingdom and other commonwealth countries since 1952
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia from 2000 to 2008
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia from 2008 to 2012
Bill Clinton, President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
George W. Bush, President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Barack Obama, President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Joseph Estrada, President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
Fidel Castro, President of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Raul Castro, President of Cuba from 2008
Johannes Rau, President of Germany from 1999 to 2004
Horst Koehler, President of Germany from 2004 to 2010
Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany from 2005
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq from 2006 to 2014
Jacques Chirac, President of France from 1995 to 2007
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France from 2007 to 2012
Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2012
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia from 2004
John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010
Akihito, Emperor of Japan since 1989
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe since 1987 to 2017
Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda since 1986
Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011
Muammar Gaddafi, Leader of Libya from 1969 to 2011
Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen from 1990 to 2012
Bhumibol Adulyadej, Monarch of Thailand from 1946 to 2016
Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002
Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon from 2008 to 2014
Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008
Klagema Motlanthe, President of South Africa from 2008 to 2009
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa from 2009
Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan from 1989
Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria from 1971 to 2000
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria from 2000
Ezer Weizman, President of Israel from 1993 to 2000
Moshe Katsav, President of Israel from 2000 to 2007
Shimon Peres, President of Israel from 2007 to 2014
Benjamin Netanyehu, Prime Minister of Israel from 2009
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006
Ehud Omert, Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia from 2006
Queen Beatrix, Monarch of Netherlands from 1980 to 2013
King Albert II, Monarch of Belgium from 1993 to 2013
King Abdullah II, Monarch of Jordan from 1999
Juan Carlos I, Monarch of Spain from 1975 to 2014
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