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G7
plus Russia summit meeting in Okinawa (7/21-23)
Euronext
forms from numerous European bourses (9/22)
USS
Cole is bombed in Aden, Yemen - killing 17 (10/12)
Albert
Fujimori
-
(Peru)
(1990-) President
Hovhaness,
Alan
1911-2000
Composer
Hundertwasser,
Friedensreich
1928-2000
Puente,
Tito
1923-2000
Musician
2001
Texaco
merges with Chevron
Massacre
of Nepalese Royal family purportedly by son Dipendra (6/1)
US
- China Agreement (6/14)
Twin
Towers destroyed in Manhattan by al-Qaeda terrorists (9/11)
US
invades Afghanistan
WTO
Doha Round (-present) - farm subsidies in Europe and tarrifs a
big stumbling
bloc to agreement
Adler,
Mortimer
1902-2001
Carlevaro,
Abel
1952-2001
Musician
Corso,
Gregory
1930-2001
Writer
Granz,
Norman
1918-2001
Musician
Kesey,
Ken
Elton
1935-2001
Writer
Rola,
Balthazar Klossowski de
(Balthus)
1908-2001
Sutton,
Ralph
1922-2001
Xenakis,
Yannis
1922-2001
Composer
2002
East
Timor gains independence from Indonesia (5/20)
SORT
(Moscow Treaty) is signed by Bush and Putin - limits operational
missiles to
1700-2200 each (5/24)
US
withdraws from ABM Treaty (6/13)
Sarbanes
- Oxley Act (7/30)
Cote
d'Ivoire army mutiny (9)
Road
Map for Peace by the Quartet of US, Russia, UK, and UN (9/17)
NORTHCOM
forms (10/1)
Jose
Alexandre Gusmao + (East
Timor)
(-present)
Cela,
Camilo
Jose
1916-2002
Hampton,
Lionel
1908-2002
Musician
Lawrence,
Jacob
1917-2002
Painter
Lindgren,
Astrid
1907-2002
Rawls,
John
1921-2002
Reisz,
Karel
1926-2002
Rivers,
Larry
1923-2002
2003
US
invades Iraq (3/19)
Baghdad
falls to US troops (4/9)
200
people in Fallujah protest occupation - 15 killed by US troops (4/28)
George
Bush proclaims "end of major combat operations in Iraq: "Mission
Accomplished" (5/1)
Saddam
Hussein captured (12/13)
Bush
lifts steel tarrifs (12)
Lackawanna
Six on Trial
Scooter
Libby provides classified NIE information to Bob Woodward about
strength of
Iraq's weapons (6/27)
Joseph
Wilson's Op-Ed Article debunks White House claim that Iraq tried to
procure
Uranium from Niger (7/6)
569
Roman Catholic Archdioceses and 2014 Dioceses
Sudanese
rebel groups take up arms against Government - start of civil war
Hu
Jintao
+
(China)
President
Tempest Fantasy
Moravek
Berio,
Luciano
1925-2003
Composer
Brim,
John
1922-2003
Kazanjoglous,
Elia
1909-2003
Peck,
Gregory
1916-2003
Actor
Plimpton,
George
1927-2003
Said,
Edward
1935-2003
2004
The
Passion (Mel Gibson)
Four
private military contractors are killed in Fallujah (3/31)
Mahdi
Army under Moqtada al-Sadr begins uprising in Sadr City (Saddam City)
Baghdad
(4/4)
Operation
Vigilant Resolve - abortive attack on Fallujah (4/4) -(4/28)
Operation
Vigilant Resolve ends (4/28)
George
Bush elected for 2nd term - defeats Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts
(11/2)
Operation
Phantom Fury begins- US siege of Fallujah (11/7) (-12/23)
Operation
Phantom Fury - US drops "Whiskey Pete" White Phosphorus - on Fallujah
- chemical weapon (11/8)
Operation
Plymouth Rock begins- US/British anti-insurgent sweep of area south of
Baghdad
(11/23)
Lean
Back Terror Squad
College Dropout
Kanye
West
Bresson,
Henri
Cartier-
1908-2004
Charles,
Ray
1930-2004
Musician
Crick,
Francis
H.C.
1916-2004
Jones,
Elvin
1927-2004
Musician
Shaw,
Artie
1910-2004
Musician
2005
Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory
Forty
Year Old Virgin
Brokeback
Mountain (Ang Lee)
Syriana
Munich
(Stephen Spielberg)
The
Squid and the Whale
Memoirs
of a Geisha
Friends
with Money
The
Da Vinci Code
Flight
93
Creation and Chaos
Paul
McCartney
Get Behind Me
Satan
White
Stripes
X &
Y
Coldplay
109th
US Congress (first session) convenes (1/4)
Naivasha
Treaty - ends Second Sudanese Civil War between North and South (1/9)
Car
bomb in Iraq kills 125 (wounds 150) in Hilla - deadliest
"insurgent"
attack since toppling of Saddam (2/28)
G8
Summit convenes in Edinburgh, Scotland amid mass protests (7/5)
Terrorists
attack London transportation system in the morning - killing forty
plus (7/7)
Terrorist
Attacks in Egyptian Red Sea tourist port (7)
CAFTA
passes
Bush
appoints John Bolton as US ambassador to the United States
Mars
Exploration Project launches probe that will orbit Mars atmosphere -
Michael
Myer chief scientist (8/12)
84000000
barrels a day global demand for oil - price per barrel $66 (8/12)
Hurricane
Katrina pounds New Orleans (8/29)
Iraq
Stampede kills 700+ on Bagdhad bridge
(8/30)
Chief
Justice Renquist dies (9/4) buried (9/7)
Senate
Confirmation hearings of Judge John Roberts begin (9/13)
World
Summit meets in New York - 191 UN member states speak (9/14-16)
John
G. Roberts confirmed and sworn in as 17th U.S. Supreme Court Justice 3
PM
(9/29)
Chad-Sudanese
officially begins (12/23)
John
Paul II
-
(1978-)
Benedict
VI + (4/19)
Burnside,
R.L.
1926-2005
Musician
Davies,
Hugh
1943-2005
Diamond,
David
1915-2005
Composer
Ferrer,
Ibrahim
-2005
Musician (Cuba) (8/7)
Giulini,
Carlo
Maria
1914-2005
Conductor
Jennings,
Peter
1938-2005
Journalist
(8/7)
Moog,
Robert
1934-2005
Rochberg,
George
-2005
Composer
Smith,
Jimmy
1925-2005
Musician
2006
US-IRAQ WAR ... (1991-)
ISRAELI-HEZBOLLAH WAR +-
(2006+-)
Alito
confirmed
Iran
- Russian nuclear negotiations
US
recognizes India's right to be a nuclear superpower - creates
international
contrroversy
Hamas
comes to power in Palestine - wins majority in election
Operation
Swarmer - US offensive
Al-Askari
Mosque Bombing - inflames Sunni Shiite violence - Iraq on the brink of
full
scale civil war (2/22)
Arab
League meeting (3)
French
Labor Protests (3/28)
Equador
presidential elections -
Belarus
presidential election - Alexander G. Lukashenko re-elected -
"Europe's
last dictator" (3/19)
Liberian
president visits UN in New York
Charles
Taylor, ex- Liberian president, apprehended trying to escape to
Cameroon -
extradited to Sierra Leone
Turkey
cracks down on Kurd insurgents in Diyarbakir, Kiziltepe, &Istanbul-
15
killed - 500 detained (4/1-4/5)
Thailand
Prime Minister Thaskin resigns (4)
Baratha
Mosque Bombed - kills 90 and wounds 175
Immigration
Bill in US stalls before two week recess (4/7)
Italian
general elections - Berlusconi vs. Romano Prodi (center left) in a
deadlock
(4/9/4/10)
Peru
holds first phase of presidential elections - none of the three
contenders get
majority (4/10)
Boat
sinks off Bahrain - killing 150+- mainly tourists out for a dinner
cruise
Immigrant
Rally Day in US cities
(5/1)
3
Darfur
Peace Agreement signed by Sudan government and Sudanese Liberation Army
(SLA)
(5/5)
Saddam's
trial resumes after three week hiatus (5/15)
Montenegro
votes on independence from union with Serbia (5/21)
First
Session of the UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva (6/19-23)
Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld (5-3) - military commissions to try Guantanamo
detainees are
deemed illegal (6/29)
Hezbollah
forces capture two Israeli soldiers in cross border raid from Lebanon -
sparks
war (7/12)
BP
announces a shutdown of the crude oil pipeline out of Prudhoe Bay, AK
for
repairs (2.5% OF US) (8/8)
Israeli
raid into Bodai, Lebanon to disrupt Hezbollah supply lines jeopardizes
five day
cease fire (8/19)
61st
Session of the United Nations convenes (9/12)
Senate
passes S. 3930 - allowing for indefinite detention of suspected
terrorists
(9/28)
Sadr
City Bombing - kills 200 in Baghdad (11)
109th
session of U.S. Congress ends at 4:40 AM - met for only 102 days
(12/9) Saturday
EU
Space program reaches Venus to go into orbit (4/11)
Ali
Farke
Toure
1939-2006
2007
SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR
US-IRAQ
WAR ... (1991-)
IRAQI
CIVIL WAR (2006-)
PALESTINIAN
CIVIL WAR ...
Haraj
Market Bombing - kills 88 in Baghdad (1/22)
Al-Sadriya
Market Bombing - kills 102 in central Baghdad (2/3)
Seven
Car Bombs in Kirkuk kill 5 injure 40 - targets Kurdish Dem. Party and
Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (2/3)
Turkey
cracks down on Kurd insurgents in Diyarbakir, Kiziltepe, &Istanbul-
15
killed - 500 detained (4/1-4/5)
Thailand
Prime Minister Thaskin resigns (4)
Baratha
Mosque Bombed - kills 90 and wounds 175
2008
US-AFGHAN WAR ... (2001-)
US-IRAQ
WAR II ... (2003-)
Barack
Obama is elected President of the United States - 1st African American to do so
(11/4)
Obama
meets with Bush at the White House for private conferrence (11/10)
Chrichton, Michael
Hubbard,
Freddie
Newman, Paul
2009
US-AFGHAN WAR ... (2001-)
US-IRAQ
WAR II ... (2003-)
Barack Obama inaugurated as 44th President (1/20)
Obama
gives press conference from East Room of White House on the $836
billion
Economic Recovery Plan (2/9)
Somali
pirates capture captain of US ship (4)
2010
2011
2012
Mitt
Romney wins Florida Republican Primary over Gingrich, Santorum, and Ron Paul (1/31) Tu
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