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1/13/01
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 944 people.
1/16/01
Assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1/26/01
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Gujarat, India, causing significant casualties.
2/13/01
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 315 people.
6/23/01
An 8.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Peru, causing a destructive tsunami.
9/11/01
September 11 attacks: Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four planes, crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,977 people.
2/3/02
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey, killing 41 people.
2/23/02
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kidnap presidential candidate Íngrid Betancourt.
3/25/02
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Nahrin, Afghanistan, killing 800 people.
6/4/02
The ringed dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered.
8/19/02
Chechen separatists shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-26, killing 127 soldiers.
10/12/02
Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate bombs in Bali, killing 202 people.
10/23/02
Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow, leading to a hostage crisis.
11/16/02
The first case of the SARS epidemic is recorded in Guangdong province, China.
1/5/03
Tel Aviv central bus station: Two Palestinian suicide bombers attack a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, killing at least 23 people and injuring 103.
1/8/03
Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashed into a hangar upon takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 passengers and crew.
1/22/03
The last signal from NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft is received, some 12.2 billion kilometers from Earth.
2/1/03
At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
2/7/03
2003 El Nogal Club bombing: A car bomb goes off in the garage of the El Nogal club in Bogotá, Colombia, killing 36 people and injuring hundreds.
2/18/03
Daegu subway fire: An arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea, killing 192 people.
2/19/03
An Ilyushin Il-76 plane crashes near Kerman Airport in Iran, killing 270 military personnel.
2/20/03
A pyrotechnics accident during a Great White concert causes a fire at a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, killing 100 people.
3/12/03
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.
5/21/03
The 6.8 Mw Boumerdès earthquake strikes in Algeria, killing over 2,200 people.
8/19/03
In the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad 22 people are killed, among them United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello.
11/12/03
A suicide bombing at an Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, kills 17 Italian military police officers and nine Iraqi civilians.
12/26/03
The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes Iran, killing approximately 50,000 people.
1/3/04
Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
2/26/04
Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
3/11/04
Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.
8/1/04
A fire in the 'Ycua Bolaños-Botánico' supermarket in Asunción, Paraguay kills around 400 people.
8/24/04
Two Russian passenger planes explode and crash, killing all on board, due to female Chechen suicide bombers.
9/1/04
Beslan school siege begins, resulting in more than 330 deaths.
10/8/04
Suicide bombers detonate bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people.
11/2/04
George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States.
1/5/05
Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet, is discovered.
1/20/05
The most intense solar particle event in recorded history is observed.
2/14/05
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated.
3/28/05
The Nias–Simeulue earthquake strikes northern Sumatra.
3/31/05
The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered.
4/2/05
Pope John Paul II dies.
7/7/05
Four coordinated suicide bombings hit London.
7/23/05
Bombings in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, kill over 80 people.
8/14/05
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes in Greece.
8/16/05
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes in Venezuela.
8/29/05
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
8/31/05
The Al-Aimmah bridge disaster in Baghdad kills 953 pilgrims.
10/8/05
The Kashmir earthquake strikes Pakistan and nearby areas.
11/9/05
Suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan, kill at least 60 people.
11/11/05
Zamanbek Nurkadilov is found dead in Kazakhstan.
12/25/05
A train derailment in Japan kills five people.
1/12/06
A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 pilgrims.
1/29/06
The roof of a building at the Katowice International Fair collapses in Poland, killing 65 and injuring 170.
1/30/06
Jennifer San Marco goes on a killing spree in Goleta, California, leaving seven people dead before taking her own life.
2/4/06
Egyptian passenger ferry MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 sinks in the Red Sea, killing over 1,000 people.
2/17/06
A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines, killing an estimated 1,126 people.
2/22/06
Explosions at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, escalate sectarian violence into the Iraqi Civil War.
3/9/06
NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft announces a geyser-like emission on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
5/27/06
The Yogyakarta earthquake in Indonesia kills more than 5,700 and injures 37,000.
7/11/06
A series of bomb blasts in Mumbai, India, kills more than 200 people.
8/10/06
A terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives on flights is thwarted.
8/14/06
Sri Lankan Civil War: Chencholai bombing kills 61 female students.
8/22/06
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes, killing all 170 on board.
9/28/06
Typhoon Xangsane causes over 300 deaths in the Philippines and Vietnam.
9/29/06
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with an Embraer Legacy 600, killing all 154 on board the 737.
11/23/06
A series of car bombs in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people.
1/1/07
Adam Air Flight 574 crashes into the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 on board.
2/2/07
The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, concluding that global climate change is 'very likely' to have a predominantly human cause.
2/13/07
North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization.
4/16/07
Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho fatally shoots 32 people and injures 17 others.
4/24/07
Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered.
5/3/07
British three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
7/17/07
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crashes in São Paulo, killing all 187 passengers and crew, and 12 people on the ground.
9/6/07
Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria.
11/7/07
WikiLeaks leaks the standard US army protocol at Guantanamo Bay.
11/16/07
Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing up to 15,000 people.
12/27/07
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
1/21/08
Stock markets plunge globally amid fears of a U.S. Great Recession.
3/8/08
Barisan Nasional loses two-thirds majority in Malaysian general election.
3/19/08
GRB 080319B, the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, is observed.
5/3/08
Cyclone Nargis kills over 138,000 people in Myanmar.
5/12/08
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, China, killing an estimated 87,000 people.
5/21/08
Manchester United wins the UEFA Champions League in an all-English final.
7/2/08
Íngrid Betancourt and 14 hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombian forces.
7/21/08
Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia for war crimes.
8/20/08
Spanair Flight 5022 crashes in Madrid, killing 154 people.
9/20/08
Suicide truck bomb destroys Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.
11/1/08
Satoshi Nakamoto publishes 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System'.
11/4/08
Barack Obama is elected as the 44th President of the United States.
11/19/08
First successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ is performed.
11/26/08
Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba result in 164 deaths.
12/11/08
Bernard Madoff is arrested for operating the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
12/22/08
Coal fly ash spill in Tennessee becomes the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
1/3/09
The first block of Bitcoin's blockchain is established by Satoshi Nakamoto.
1/15/09
US Airways Flight 1549 ditches in the Hudson River, all 155 people are rescued.
2/7/09
Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, leave 173 dead.
2/25/09
Bangladeshi border security force mutiny results in 57 army officers and 17 civilians killed.
3/2/09
President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated.
3/4/09
ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes.
3/17/09
President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup.