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  • DterMined2012
    DterMined2012 Posts: 540 Member
    Jan 16th, 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

    Feb 1st, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
  • indiedoll
    indiedoll Posts: 29 Member
    1990•Americas Favorite animated family "The Simpsons " is aired on Fox for the first time

    Actually it first ran in 1989, but they only ran one episode to see what kind of response they would get. They decided to run a full season that aired in 1990-91.
  • jesterx888
    jesterx888 Posts: 181
    19 March 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
  • jesterx888
    jesterx888 Posts: 181
    2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
  • indiedoll
    indiedoll Posts: 29 Member
    2005 - Pope John Paul II passed.
  • candidshot
    candidshot Posts: 5
    2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumes office as President of Liberia, the first female elected head of state in Africa.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    2007-



    Apple Inc's CEO and founder, Steve Jobs announces the first generation iPhone, the iPhone 2G
  • memmers
    memmers Posts: 112
    January 22, 2008 Heath Ledger died :(
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    2009-



    The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as "swine flu", is deemed a global pandemic,[45] becoming the first condition since the Hong Kong flu of 1967–1968 to receive this designation
  • Lib_B
    Lib_B Posts: 446 Member
    i know i'm going backward, but what about 2008 - United States elects first black president???
  • Lib_B
    Lib_B Posts: 446 Member
    2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes & kills 11; causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    i know i'm going backward, but what about 2008 - United States elects first black president???



    Guess Heath Ledgers death trumped it.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    2011-


    A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.[16]
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    February 11th 2012. One of the MOST amazing & influential women in the history of Music dies, Singer/Actress Whitney Houston.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    Awesome, guys! Thanks to everyone who played along.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    February 11th 2012 cokehe.......................nm.
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    Now lets keep it topic specific, Lets do Movies.
    1901- Excelsior! The Prince of the Magicians
  • whitehandlady
    whitehandlady Posts: 459 Member
    hate i missed this....this has to be.....hands down....THE coolest thread EVAR!!!!!!!
  • memmers
    memmers Posts: 112
    I felt like sharing something people might not know. Of course it doesnt trump the Obama election, but its what i put.
  • 13519485
    13519485 Posts: 264
    22 December 2012 - A lot of silly people slap themselves when they wake up to a world that still exists.
    23 December 2012 - "Those stupid Mayans" becomes a common verbal expression, though the reason for the expression will be false. :flowerforyou:
  • memmers
    memmers Posts: 112
    hehe :)
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    Now lets keep it topic specific, Lets do Movies.
    1901- Excelsior! The Prince of the Magicians

    LOL.


    1902-

    "A trip to the Moon" A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the moon. Starring Georges Melies
  • 13519485
    13519485 Posts: 264
    1903 - Alice in Wonderland is a 1903 British silent film and the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    1904:
    The Impossible Voyage (French: Voyage à travers l'impossible) is a 1904 silent film by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès. Like most of Méliès' films at this time, it made use of narrative, models, and trick photography.

    This sounds cool, I'd love to see it!
  • Nic620
    Nic620 Posts: 553 Member
    Bump
  • Lwillis1234
    Lwillis1234 Posts: 990 Member
    1905
    Esmeralda (French: Esméralda) is a 1905 short silent film based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame written by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché and Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset. There are two characters in the film, Esmeralda (Denise Becker) and Quasimodo (Henry Vorins). The film is the oldest film adaptation of the novel.
  • 05HeatherLouise05
    05HeatherLouise05 Posts: 178 Member
    1906 "The Story of the Kelly Gang" is a Australian film that traces the life of the legendary bushranger Ned Kelly (1855–1880).
  • lisa28115
    lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
    1907

    Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling books at that time
  • Qatsi
    Qatsi Posts: 2,191 Member
    1908

    "The Doctor's Experiment"

    Patients behave like apes after being given monkey-gland injections.
  • lisa28115
    lisa28115 Posts: 17,271 Member
    1909

    The Cowboy Millionaire is a 1909 American silent short western directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner. The film stars Tom Mix, Mac Barnes and William Garwood. It was the debut film of actor William Garwood.

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