2006: the 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy; Israel and Lebanon enter conflict; train bombings in Mumbai kill 209 people; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia.

2005: pope john paul eye-eye (II, or 2) dies, people were probably kinda bummed cus I think the guy was pretty important or smth (/lh, light hearted, ofc as the pope he was very important, don't nuke me for religion pls uwu)
First youtube video gets uploaded, that was pretty rad. Some guy went to a zoo.
A second is added to year at the end, the first since 1998 (leap second)

2004: Facebook, originally called TheFacebook, is launched by Mark Zuckerberg. NASA lands the Opportunity and Spirit rovers on Mars.

2003: The crew of the space shuttle [i]Columbia[/i] disintegrates upon reentry. NASA begins a slow slowdown of the space shuttle program, which will conclude in 2011.

"2002" is a song by English singer and songwriter Anne-Marie from her 2018 debut studio album 'Speak Your Mind'.

2001: y'all already know... (9/11, first head of state got tried for crimes against humanity, Gamecube and xbox release, release of mac OS and Windows XP, and the launch of wikipedia)

2000
Nope... they did not. Many tech upgrades and the fact that much of the question/predictions were fear mongering won the day.

1999: Will all the computers explode and crash next year?

1998: U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal

1997

The UK's lease over Hong Kong ends and hands it back to China

1996 Τurkish Forces invade Greek territorial waters, raising a Turkish flag on the small rocky island of Imia. For a moment, this incursion threatens to cause a war, but with the USA's intervention, it's avoided, though not before three Greek navy officers die. To this day, the Imia incident is a poisonous matter between the two countries.

1995 - April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh.

1994: The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated.

1993 is an Italian drama series, broadcast in 2017, based on the turbulent political landscape of 1990s Italy.

1992: After the acquittal of four police officers charged with using excessive force in the beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles experiences 6 days of widespread rioting.

1991: The Soviet Union dissolves the day after Christmas. The Cold War effectively ends.

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1989 - when looking this number up, you will not in fact have the year as the first result, you will have the Taylor Swift album instead. Interesting.
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You LOOK THESE THINGS UP? Princie Williamie and I just have these facts, dates, and mathematical elements in our brains! On the tip of our tongues!

Speaking of which...

1990: The date and time 12:34:56 on July 8, 1990, can be written as 1234567890 in American format. The next time this will happen is on July 8, 2090.

1989 - when looking this number up, you will not in fact have the year as the first result, you will have the Taylor Swift album instead. Interesting.

1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, starting the First of many Nagorno-Karabakh Wars.

1987: United States President Reagan sent Congress the first-ever $1 trillion budget proposal.