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Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including two 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
September 8, 2000 Atlantic City, New Jersey: 3 1 4: Three people were fatally shot and another injured in a car on Route 30 in Atlantic City. [68] September 4, 2000 Ava, Ohio: 7 [n 1] 0 7: A man fatally shot his wife and four children before setting a fire that killed himself and one of his sons. [69] May 24, 2000 New York City, New York: 5 2 7
Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" [1] to be tragic. Not every death is considered a tragedy. Rather, it is a precise set of symptoms surrounding the loss that define it as such. [2]
The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to "the '00s" and also known as "the aughts" or "the noughties") was the 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 ...
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.
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