2016. It all started in August 2016 at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, where a boy told his mom about a frightening experience: Two clowns tried to lure him into the woods outside their building [source: Teague]. Will a natural disaster happen and wipe out your town? While most were horrified by the carnage, news footage from around the globe captured some people cheering in response to the attacks. The whole problem started back in the 1960s when computer programmers, concerned about expense and limitations of digital storage, wrote code that only allowed two digits for the year. The video-sharing website "YouTube" was founded. There have been 10 more feet found, and it remains a partial mystery as to identity of the owners. Buckle up kid, 2020 is one big rollercoaster of WTF. One guy accidentally swallowed their precious plutonium. The U.S.-UK invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, toppled the brutal Taliban regime. Coordinates. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows! The outcome was mass murder and displacement of civilians leading to a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Time. Mass protests during the G20 Economic Summit in 2009. The resulting tsunami killed nearly 230,000 people and displaced over one million. In fact, there are so many things we've been scared of over the years that it was hard to narrow down the list. Feb 23 Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006. Here's a stress ball, just in case that helps.. The launch of the unmanned Cosmos 1 failed during June. Stay in the loop: sign up to Out. It's been a full nine years since The Huffington Post emerged into the virtual world, and in that time the world has become wildly different place. Mercifully, police were able to identify Muhammed and Malvo as suspects and capture them at a rest stop, but not before they killed 10 people and injured three others. All the decor is real and handpicked by a small team of dedicated, very talented, Tennessee men. Jeva Lange. Oscar survived again and was rescued along with the remaining crew, and given the nickname "Unsinkable Sam." 1990: Nelson Mandela Was Released Nelson Mandela walked to freedom in 1990. Zac Efron had a "YOLO" tattoo. "I was young and stupid," he said in the series. Bed Bugs. So good! "Meet the President Trying to Save His Island Nation From Climate Change." You bring some food over to a neighbor who's just had a baby, and the next day the child comes down with a terrible illness. New York Magazine. Eighty percent of the city remained in stagnant floodwaters for weeks. Got a gun pointed at my crotch by the girl whose apartment the party was at. Whenever I think of that, still make me chuckle. Dec. 20, 2012. Then, at midnight, nothing happened. Mike said that this year has been a rather bad one, especially for the people living in the United States. We have been busting out Kevin James ' Hitch dance moves since the movie dropped in 2005. Calculations for everything from interest rates at banks to safety checks at nuclear power facilities would be incorrect. Let's revisit the anniversaries, major headlines and TV premieres that happened in 2007. The service drew the most heads of state in history: four kings, five queens, 70 presidents and prime ministers, and 14 heads of other religions. I left about then. That's exactly what happened on Feb. 20, 1962, when Americans held their collective breath as astronaut John Glenn and the Friendship 7 spacecraft orbited 160 miles (257 kilometers) above Earth at a face-melting 17,500 miles per hour (28,164 kilometers per hour). Many times, things you may have assumed to be true (for years!) R. Kelly weirded everybody out by playing all of the roles from his R&B opera "Trapped in the Closet" during the MTV VMAs. He was taken to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, but escaped along with a Royal Air Force officer shortly after. Kennedy had warned Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev not to do it, so when American spy planes identified missile launch sites on the communist island nation, things got tense. Before the company's founding in 2006, we had to get through our days without recognizing the 13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatum nor the 14 Cats Who Think Theyre Sushi. In December 2007, the U.S. experienced its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. With nearly 93% of college students using facebook or another form of social networking, these sites are already having a massive effect on human interaction. "Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions What's in Yellowstone's Future?" 25 October 2016. Jessop was a stewardess aboard the RMS Olympic, one of the Titanic's sister ships, when it collided with another ship in September of 1911. (Oct. 13, 2016) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Halleys-Comet, White, Josh. Here are the facts. "People Fear Clowns for the Same Reason They Fear Uncertainty." Maybe it was a way to drum up more tourism. Oct. 5, 2016. And back then, the smart phone wasn't an immediate smash hit, only selling 717,000 during its first quarter, according to Forbes. (Oct. 13, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/lee-boyd-malvo-10-years-after-dc-area-sniper-shootings-i-was-a-monster/2012/09/29/a1ef1b42-04d8-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html, Worland, Justin. He said, "give me that.". "10 Major News Stories of the 2000s." In the celebrity equivalent of a zoom gig, all the stars got together to perform for us for Lady Gaga 's One World concert, where stars . Social media has overtaken pornography as the #1 activity on the internet. Oscar survived that attack as well, and afterward retired to Belfast, where he lived in a seaman's home. During a live television broadcast of the siege, the structure housing members of the cult burst into flames. Tried for crimes against humanity, Hussein was hanged on Dec. 30, 2006, marking an official end to the Baathist regime. What stirred everyone into a tizzy was the new discovery that Earth was actually on track to pass through the comet's 15.5-million-mile (25-million-kilometer) tail. Jun 27 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations. Jessop had to jump out of the lifeboat she was on in order to avoid being sucked under the ship's propellors, and suffered a head injury in the process. The town of Palisade, NV like many other "Wild West" towns of the time was actually very peaceful and had so few crimes that it didn't even have an official sheriff. Oct. 9, 2015. The aftermath 1 week after the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami. Now that's a scary quote no matter who said it and what they were talking about. He correctly guessed its arrival in 1759, and the comet dazzled the night sky again in 1835. Yellowstone continues to be an active volcanic zone, as its numerous geysers and hot springs attest. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Events on the set of the 1968 classic Rosemary's Baby got real pretty quickly once shooting the movie began. American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole off Yemen were among them. Runners-up: Darfur Genocide, Benazir Bhutto assassination, London train bombings. In October of 2001, Apple introduced the world to the iPod, and perhaps they didnt even realize what they were doing. Ultimately, there was a vote among three officers on whether or not to launch a nuke, with Arkhipov being the lone "no" vote. The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush. Runners-up: Dotcom bust, real estate collapse. He even typed up a constitution, which was just a copy of the US Constitution with any occurrences of "United States" replaced with "New Atlantis.". Marathon, 1904 St. Louis Olympics. One of the soldiers took the bear in and named him Wojtek, and he was trained in part by a civilian refugee. Before the rise of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, there was no market for expertise in "crafting viral content." Other times, what you long believed to be a myth is actually fact.From an earthquake-proof cathedral that's made almost entirely of cardboard to an ancient Egyptian mummy with a modern-day passport, this list of crazy . The year started off unlike anything other for me with a very mutilated, broken finger . The British crew found the cat floating on a board hours after the ship sank, took him aboard, and named him Oscar. 17. All the hysteria prompted author Stephen King whose murderous clown character Pennywise from his novel It probably contributed to the clown craze to issue a statement calling for people to cool it [source: Carlson]. 11th March 2004 Madrid train bombings or Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people. "Apocalypse Postponed: How Earth Survived Halley's Comet in 1910." You didn't mean it! Runners-up: Spain Wins Euro 2008, Zinedine Zidanes Headbutt, 2008 New York Giants. 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They took out #1 and #3 of the 2000 Hottest 100 with 'My Happiness' and 'My Kind of Scene'. The Grim Reaper was not kind to 2021, claiming the lives of some beloved titans like Larry King, Alex Trebek, DMX, Norm McDonald, Stephen . "Mad Jack" Churchill, a British Army officer during WWII, was, At one point, the makers of Pepsi had the. This story happened at Disneyland Paris. An African woman leads the World Trade Organization. Johnson, Bridget. "Y2K: The New Year's Disaster That Never Happened." Despite the doomsday predictions, however, nothing happened. But as the examples above show, these killings weren't some kind of systematic cleansing by the Catholic Church to wipe out pre-Christian religions and the women who perpetuated them. In 1944, he was captured in Yugoslavia after the rest of his command was injured or killed by mortar fire. The rest of the world responded with relief aid estimated at over ten billion US dollars. In fact, they swept the Cardinals in 4 games to win the championship, in what analysts would later call the greatest story baseball ever told. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/10/clowns-are-scary-because-people-cant-handle-uncertainty.html, Rothman, Lily. solidsnake4545. Just two hours later, before the family had been informed of the death, the man's twin brother rode his own bicycle across the exact same stretch of highway. It's a reaction that's served us well: Scientists credit it as an important part of the survival of our species. Journalist Bridget Johnson has covered news and foreign policy for USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Most of their criticism has been ignored, especially by the college students playing quidditch matches on campus, and Oxford English Dictionary, who in 2003 entered muggle into its lexicon. By 1910 the sight of Halley's Comet wasn't a surprise. Doritos Locos Tacos This seemingly absurd food mashup -- a taco shell made of Doritos -- has been a smash hit, hauling in over $1 billion for Taco Bell since its creation in 2012. The woman was using her phone in the Olympic National Forest when she fell into the toilet. Final score: Mia Tucker. From the awe-inspiring to the downright bizarre, below we've handpicked the 22 most amazing things that happened in the UK this year (in no particular order). The list is broken into ten different categories, with at least one runner-up listed for each. Daniela Jovanovska-Hristovska / Getty Images. A Concert for Hurricane Relief. "Unsinkable Sam" was the nickname given to this cat, who was actually named Oscar. Whether that's applied for the the righteous or the trivial is up to the tweeter. Feb 23 Slovakia Summit 2005 begins; George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend - 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia. ThoughtCo. Well, doctors and other spectators would often watch these surgeries from the gallery, which was much more up close and personal than medical galleries today. 5. "D.C. Sniper Attacks of 2002." Negotiations went on for six days while the United States Strategic Air Command, which was responsible for the nation's strategic nuclear strike forces, stood at DEFCON 2, the highest level of readiness ever ordered [source: U.S. Department of State]. RELATED: The biggest company blunders of 2014. 4. In other words, we become scared superheroes ready to fight hard or run fast depending on the situation. Scientists believe climate change will continue to affect the planet through this century and beyond [source: NASA, "The Consequences"]. Even the venerated Time magazine set up a generator-powered "war room" in the basement of their building. May 5, 2016. Fear is an ancient emotion. The spacecraft was created by the Planetary Society, a non-profit space advocacy group. All rights reserved. Michael Jackson's death at age 50 on June 25, 2009, led to tributes all over the world. So the whole thing was a nightmare from the start. People. Everything was fine until the 1990s, when concern grew that computers might interpret the looming year 2000 known in computer-speak as "00" as 1900. And it was the proto-example of twentysomethings moving to California to create a company and. 42 of 68 43 of 68 Aug. 31, 2005 Express-News file photo Show More Show Less 44 of 68 Sept. 1, . The euro, primarily used by members of the European Union, is also used by millions of people on other continents. Patriot Act. The Aviator nabbed the most Academy Award nominations (11) and wins (5), but Leo walked away empty-handed. The Oregon Supreme Court nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples, Wild Fires Sweep Portugal leaving over 20 dead and thousands of acres destroyed. "10 Scare-inducing Moments in History" In the 1980s, we wanted our hair to be as big as possible, our fanny packs to be as bright as possible, and our spandex to be as tight as possible. 19. 6. iPhonesBelieve it or not, the iPhone wasn't invented until 2007. He got out shortly before the finish line and crossed it, which fooled some of the onlookers. After sacking the city of Antioch in 540 CE, Sasanian Emperor Khosrow I built a new city that looked almost exactly the same and called it "Weh Antiok Khusrau," which, Public Domain / Library of Congress / Via. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow engage in a very public and nasty custody battle over their three children. Probably people dressing up as creepy clowns and scaring the pants off of other people. Britain implements The Civil Partnership Act granting civil partnerships "which include same sex partnerships" with rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage. Harry Potter became famous for its cult-like following, with millions of kids everywhere waiting outside bookstores for midnight parties on release dates. 8. The AP reported that Avery poured gasoline on a cat and threw it into a bonfire. Ah, 2005. Churchill participated in a number of raids throughout the war, including one in Norway where he jumped off the landing craft playing "March of the Cameron Men" on his bagpipes before throwing a grenade and charging into battle. Consider that it took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, but it took facebook less than 9 months to reach 100 million users. A new cadre of internet citizen has been created since 2005: The social media editor. ThoughtCo, Aug. 31, 2021, thoughtco.com/top-news-stories-of-the-decade-3555536. Every decade is defined in part by some quirky event or fad. "As I walked out [of the President's Oval Office] I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night" [source: National Security Archive]. Wilderness-survival boot camps recruited participants like never before. 3. While some things will (hopefully) go back to normal as more and more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine, there are still some new ways of life that will probably stick around post-pandemic. Despite the efforts, the countries most affected are still in the process of rebuilding, and many may never be the same. People are in a crazy hoarding frenzy, eventually resulting in a Lysol shortage. He was carried across the finish line by his handlers. It has also changed the music industry itself. We wouldn't say things were simpler a decade ago, but they were certainly interesting! The brush with nuclear war was a wakeup call to the rival superpowers, which instituted a direct telephone line between the Kremlin and the White House as a result [source: State Department]. Eight years later, its hard to find a teenager or young adult without an iPod. 13. Screenshot via YouTube. Source: Newsweek Lots of insane things happened in 2017, and there's probably more in store in 2018. Very afraid [source: Shaftel]. Jan 3 Craig Ferguson becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, Jan 9 31st People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Matt LeBlanc & Marg Helgenberger win (TV). It has been acclaimed as being a small representative of the future of film, because of its international cast, crew, and audience. He would often sleep in bunks with the other soldiers, and he was said to be very fond of beer and cigarettes. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Citizens from both sides of the wall uses hammers and axes to smash away at the wall until nothing was left. Women Rescued Trying to Retrieve Phone Several firefighters in Washington state had to pull a woman out of an outhouse after accidentally falling into the hole after dropping her cell phone. Here are nine things we somehow got by without before 2005: 1. People began threatening to shoot clowns, and a mob even formed at Penn State University in response to a clown sighting. Today it sells that amount every two days, and more than 500 million iPhones have been sold in total. Runners-up: Hurricane Katrina, Victorian Bushfire, Climate Change. Oh, and Jennifer Aniston divorced Brad Pitt so he could become one-half of Brangelina. "2021 has been a complete blur. 43rd US President George W. Bush. Pope John Paul II, leader of the world's one billion Roman Catholics since 1978, died at the Vatican on April 2, 2005. 8. The Pacific Northwest and Midwest would be particularly hard hit, resulting in a short-term devastation of agriculture and waterways choked with gray sludge. Twice, the US and the USSR were likely saved from all-out nuclear war by just one person. 5. (Oct. 12, 2016) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/05/clown-sightings-south-carolina-alabama, U.S. Department of State. 1 Russia Invades Ukraine On February 24th, 2022, Russia announced the beginning of its "special military operation" against Ukraine and shortly after began attacking Ukraine using missiles, rockets, and airstrikes. First off, the entire course was very dusty and breathing in that dust caused all kinds of injuries, including one runner who was hospitalized with hemorrhaging after the dust tore his esophagus and stomach lining. Liston was renowned for being one of the fastest surgeons alive, which at the time was a very good thing. People jumped out of moving cars to perform a viral dance in what was possibly the most 2018 thing that happened in 2018. In the end, nearly 230,000 people were killed, missing, or presumed dead. Oct. 7, 2016. With close to 500 million people worldwide using the euro, its use and expanding use will help shape our future and hopefully lead us into a stage of macroeconomic stability. Earthquake struck off Sumatra, magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965. Hurricane Stan hits Mexico and Central America killing over 1,620 people. (Oct. 10, 2016) http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/, National Security Archive. Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. "Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)." See, the Indonesian island of Sumatra sits right next to a hyperactive fault zone. It all started on Dec. 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean with the force of 23,000 atomic bombs. Really tense. Even wilder theories emerged suggesting that the comet's gravity might throw off Earth's tides and cause the Pacific to empty itself into the Atlantic. Some of the top featured acts were U2, Paul McCartney, Elton, John, Pink Floyd, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and Green Day. 18/18. There are now 23 countries using currencies directly pegged to the euro. What defines the 2010s? The triumph of change was approved all around the world. After John Paul's burial, the world watched in anticipation as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope on April 19, 2005. If this happened in March, it might have been safe to assume that this was . Everyone was in on it, even the US Cavalry and a local Native American tribe, who would stage battles against each other for the entertainment of the passing railroad travelers. And the cause of all these changes, atmospheric carbon dioxide, has risen to concentrations that are unprecedented in human history. Any small musician, looking to make it big, can get his music in the iTunes store, and theoretically propel himself to stardom. Spoiler: The Force has awakened to the sound of more box office dollars. We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. In many of these instances, the danger was imminent and horrifyingly clear, like the sight of a mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima in 1945 or the tsunami wave rolling toward the beaches of Indonesia in 2004. It's unclear whether Hemingway involved any actual guano (bird or bat droppings) in the process. 20. Photodisc/Getty Images Adding to the crisis was the weak government response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, with the Coast Guard leading rescue efforts. They pumped his stomach and separated the plutonium back out. 12. Murder is one of the most heinous acts a person can commit, and unfortunately, it is all too common in our society. It was Powderfinger's year. I can't really remember what happened while I was in the water but I do remember throwing up once I got into the beach. Jan. 2, 2009. So what's the big deal? The resulting changes in rainfall patterns and severe frosts could lead to more widespread crop failure [source: Oskin]. Feeling safer yet? It was so popular Zac Efron even got a tattoo of the saying on his hand. The medication that led to his death prompted an investigation of Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. Dec. 25, 2014. The tsunami claimed victims in both poor villages and plush tourist resorts. Jackie Salo. Natural disasters ensued around the world. Runners-up: The Da Vinci Code, Oprahs book club. 6. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox Church called Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in . Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown unsuccessfully tried to push his "global new deal" in response, but most leaders agreed that better regulatory oversight was needed to prevent a similar crisis in the future. 2020 is a year where the essential goods section gets wiped clean, while toilet paper becomes the hot new currency in some countries. Sites like Facebook and MySpace expanded to include high school students, and our timelines were never the same. Funeral mass of Pope John Paul II on April 8, 2005, Vatican City. July 21, 2007 Final Harry Potter Book Released, November 12, 2008 Slumdog Millionaire Released, October 17, 2004 Boston Red Sox Begin Their Comeback. One decade ago was a wild time in pop culture history. Social networking is fundamentally changing the way the world communicates. If you're a 10-year-old reading about these things for the first time: Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey were like the Prince William and Kate Middleton of our timebut alastheir love burned too bright and now Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica serves as the sole time capsule to remember what romance is, or should we say, was. Atlas Obscura. Police arrested a man in Kentucky who was dressed like a clown and hiding in a ditch [source: Teague]. 17th March 2004 unrest in Kosovo known as Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Finally, yes, the biggie. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/y2k-the-new-years-disaster-that-never-happened/, Shilling, Erik. There were ten simultaneous concerts were organized by Bob Geldof who had run the first Live Aid concerts 20 years earlier in 1985. An Australian speedskater won that country's first-ever gold medal in a Winter Games because of sheer crazy luck. The people of the Gulf Coast braced themselves as the sixth strongest hurricane in Atlantic history hurtled their way. The Canadians ended a fifty year hockey drought with a win in the men's competition. 15. Then, rebel groups began fighting the government and its allied Arabic-speaking Janjaweed militia. From the real (climate change, tsunamis, supervolcanoes) to the perceived (Y2K, creepy clowns, Halley's Comet), scary events are a huge part of our shared human history. Just as scary as the tsunami itself is the possibility that a deadly event could happen again despite the installation of an early detection system in the Indian Ocean. Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-00652 / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Wikipedia. By. I almost drowned. In just a few months, people had reported more than 100 clown sightings and threats in the United States, and the phenomenon began to spread to other countries, including England, Canada and Australia [source: Shilling]. 10) People jumped out of cars for the 'In My Feelings' challenge. Making things worse, a recently-discovered technique known as spectroscopy was used to analyze the composition of the comet, and scientists learned something unsettling namely that the tail contained a toxic gas known as cyanogen. The largest of these eruptions was the oldest one, which created a volcanic formation known as the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff. 1. 21. Some of the consequences of a warming planet are already happening, including accelerated sea rise, more intense rainfall, more severe heat waves, increased wildfires and decreased water availability. But curiosity turns to panic as the swell nears land and amplifies into a 100-foot (30-meter) wave hell-bent on destroying everything in its path. By Paramore, by becoming the first band actually from the Nashville area to go platinum - the curse existed for twenty years. Since then, a number of countries have committed to the effort to stop global terrorism. Will a regional conflict become global and spark World War III? One of the biggest problems would be the massive amounts of ash thrown into the air, which winds would carry across the United States. 2. 5. So "10/15/1965," for example, would simply be coded as "10/15/65." In preparation, the United States spent millions of dollars updating military, transportation and financial computer systems [source: Rothman]. In 1997 an unknown writer named Joanne Rowling finally got her break upon the publication of a novel she had been working on for seven years, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. The shootings continued for the next three weeks, claiming victims at a gas station, home improvement store, middle school and other ordinary public places [source: Philofsky].
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