Saturday, December 22, 2007

worldevents'2007

1997 - World Wide Finical Crisis
1998 - Hot Weather due to El Nino and La Nina occurences
1999 - Kosovo War; EU introduced a common currency2000 - Y2K Bug
2001 - USA WTC collasped due to terrorism; USA War in Afghanistan
2002 - SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome); Bali Bombings
2003 - The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War
2004 - Indian Ocean tsunami
2005 - H5N1 Bird Flu; The 2005 Sumatran earthquake strikes off Sumatra, three months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
2006 - Iran's Defiant Nuclear Program; North Korea Nuclear Test; Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad
2007 - Global Warming, causing Sea Levels to rise.