The second Congo war, genocide in Darfur, 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill, piracy in Somalia, the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center the Pentagon and London's subways, the War on Terrorism, the ICC was formed, nonviolent revolutions known as the color revolutions overthrew governments in Georgia Ukraine Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon, North Korea conducted it's first nuclear missile test, America has it's first African American President, space tourism starts with it's first customer, Space shuttle Columbia explodes, scientists map the entire human genome, water is discovered on the moon, Pluto is demoted to a dwarf planet, dolly the sheep is cloned, H1N1 (swine flu) spreads across the globe, the first synthetic life form is created, fossils of the 'missing link' are discovered, tsunami in the Indian and Southern pacific oceans, Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake, global economic recession, the near depletion of our fossil fuels and along with it a major increase in renewable energy sources.
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The Ninth Century. The First Century was 1-100, the Second 101-200 and so on. 2000 was the last year of the Twentieth Century and 2001 the first year of the Twenty-first.
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At the very beginning of the twenty-first century, China's economy didn't rank very high. In the very first year of the century however, China entered the World Trade Organization and began to see sharp increases in their earnings and saw a growth of 7.3% in just that year. By 2011, China was the world's second largest economy.
Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution happened in 1951.
Leopold & Loeb killed Bobby Franks resulting in the first so-called "Crime of the Century".