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The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the ' 00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long-predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China , which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole ...
During the event, a white supremacist rams his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing one. September: Two earthquakes strike Mexico on September 8 and September 19, killing over 400 people. October 1: 60 people are killed in a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas.
The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands") was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China, which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole decade. It is also benefited from an economic boom, which saw ...
2007 — The late-2000s recession officially begins in December. 2008 — The Super Tuesday tornado outbreak kills over 60 people and produces $1 billion in damage across Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. 2008 — A student kills five, injures 21, and then kills himself in the Northern Illinois University shooting.
April – The labor force participation rate hits a historical peak of 67.4%. April – The employment-population ratio reaches an all-time high of 64.8%. April 1 The 2000 United States Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906. Boomerang, a secondary digital Cartoon Network channel, debuts.
Dot-com collapse on March 10, 2000 – October 10, 2002. United States housing bubble, 2000–2006. Al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole at Aden in Yemen on October 12, 2000. George W. Bush becomes the 43rd president of the United States on January 20, 2001. Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
T. Timeline of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia; Timeline of the 2005–2006 Fijian political crisis; Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2009)
A map of uncontacted tribes, around the start of the 21st century Economics, education and retirement Economically and politically, the United States and Western Europe were dominant at the beginning of the century; by the 2010s , China became an emerging global superpower and, by some measures, the world's largest economy .