The Counting Game

[kingofthepirates]

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)

[Jamiet99uk]

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

[DarthPorg36]

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

[BaronVonRichthofen]

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

[kingofthepirates]

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)

[BaronVonRichthofen]

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.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

2007: WebDiplomacy user BaronVonRichthofen was born, and nothing else of importance happened.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

2008, the best show of all time “Breaking Bad” airs

[DarthPorg36]

2009 was an eventful year! Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president of the United States, Michael Jackson dies, and US Airways Flight 1549 crash-lands in the Hudson River with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson."

[Pengwinja]

2.01 × 10^3,
A ton of earthquakes happened this year, I was young at the time, I don’t remember them except I think one happened in hatiti?

[DarthPorg36]

2011: The nation of Samoa only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping December 30, 2011; it is now 24 hours ahead of American Samoa. The Arab Spring continues with a force, and the space shuttle program concludes.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

2012: The 2012 Summer Olympics were held in London, United Kingdom. Hurricane Sandy caused $70 billion in damage and killed 233 people. The Higgs boson, also known as "The God Particle", was discovered by CERN. NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars and took a selfie.

[kingofthepirates]

2013: new pope is in the house, Pope Francis comes into power

Also the 2013 honda accord comes out, that's pretty rad. Lots of memes spawned about it i think.

[DiplomacyandWarfare]

2014: Someone named "Peaches Geldof" died, apparently.
This is a prime example of "so famous I've never heard of them".

[dargorygel]

2015
Also known as quarter past 8, pm not am.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

2016: Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency, Russia interferes with the U.S. election, and Britain votes to leave the European Union.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

2017: Rohingya refugee crisis, the March on Washington, Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Opioids are declared a public health emergency, and Fortnite is released. What a year.

[DarthPorg36]

2018: March for Our Lives, PyeongChang Olympics, Tham Luang cave rescue, and SpaceX sends a car to space

[JECE]

SARS coronavirus 2 pays humanity a visit, creating COVID-19

[JECE]

2,020 years ago, Tiberius is adopted as heir and is sent to campaign in Germany