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- Russia uses her natural gas to become a world power again.
- An earthquake kills more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless in Indonesia.
- Italy wins the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- North Korea conducts its first-ever nuclear test.
- Google buys YouTube.
- War in Iraq
- War in Lebanon
- War in Somalia
- winter Olympics
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∙ 11y ago2003
February 1 - Space Shuttle Columbia blows up, killing 7 astronauts.
February 19 - Euro-Africa summit takes place
March 20 - US led invasion of Iraq begins.
April 9 - Fall of Baghdad
May 1 - Local elections take place in the UK.
May 12 - Terrorist attacks occur in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
May 24 - Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Riga. Turkey wins, however the UK infamously finishes on 0 points.
May 29 - 50th anniversary of first ascent of Mt. Everest.
June 2 - 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
July 6 - Roger Federer wins the first of five consecutive Wimbledon men's singles titles.
July 18 - Nelson Mandela celebrates his 85th birthday.
July 18 - British intelligence expert David Kelly is found dead.
July 27 - Bob Hope dies aged 100.
August - Europe is hit by its worst heatwave in decades.
September 10 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh is stabbed, and dies the following day.
October 3 - Roy, of Siegfried and Roy is attacked by his tiger and is critically wounded.
October - Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor of California.
November 15 - Istanbul is hit by a terrorist attack.
November 20 - Istanbul is hit by a second terrorist attack.
December 7 - Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands becomes a father after the birth of Princess Catharina-Amalia
December 10 - Nobel Prize ceremony takes place.
December 13 - Saddam Hussein is captured.
December 26 - The Iranian city of Bam is hit by a strong earthquake , killing thousands.
Births
May 12 - Madeleine McCann
December 7 - Princess Catharina Amalia of the Netherlands
Deaths
January 5 - Roy Jenkins (83), British politician
January 12 - Maurice Gibb (53), musician (BeeGees)
January 12 - Leopoldo Galtieri (76), former Military Leader of Argentina
January 24 - Giovanni Agnelli (81), Italian businessman
March 12 - Zoran Dindic (50), Serbian Prime Minister (assassinated)
May 15 - June Carter Cash (73), American musician
June 12 - Gregory Peck (87), American actor
June 26 - Marc Vivien Foe (28), Cameroon footballer
June 26 - Strom Thurmond (100), US senator
June 29 - Katherine Hepburn (96), American actress
July 4 - Barry White (58), American singer-songwriter
July 18 - David Kelly (58), British weapons expert
July 27 - Bob Hope (100), British-born comedian
August 16 - Idi Amin (78), Ugandan dictator
September 11 - Anna Lindh (46), Swedish foreign minister
September 12 - Johnny Cash (71), American musician
December 29 - Alan Bates (69), British actor
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∙ 13y agoHurricane Katrina, 838 killed in Iraq, Senate Confirmed Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State, Alberto Gonzales Confirmed as Attorney General, Rosa Parks Died October 24th, 2005.
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∙ 14y agothe world ended in an explosion
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