With a historical event for every year.
2006 - Thailand has its first military coup in 15 years. Italy wins the World Cup.
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With a historical event for every year.
2006 - Thailand has its first military coup in 15 years. Italy wins the World Cup.
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial on charges of crimes against humanity. Levees break, drowning New Orleans.
2004 - 2 Rovers land on Mars
2003 - Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
2002--May 12 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U.S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2001 - Two hijacked planes strike each of the World Trade Towers, causing both to colapse and ending in excess of 3 000 lives.
2000--January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world, even though, provided you do not count 0 as a year, the new millennium did not technically begin until January 1, 2001. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that many in the news media had predicted.
1999 - The above-mentioned fuss over nothing continues. Mars Polar Lander go splat.
1998 - The arbitrarily declared International Year of the Ocean. Bill Clinton declares that he did not have sex with Monical Lewinsky. People care about this for some reason. Titanic wins eleven more academy awards than it deserves.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris
1996 ~ Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1995-- Oklahoma city bombinng also that year OJ simpson trial.
1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).
1993--January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). The man was a convicted pedophile and murderer, who requested hanging over lethal injection.
1992 ~ China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC. US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle