101 Facts About The 2000s

greetings mother factors my name is Sam and today I have been sequestered into a sweltering recording booth to relay you various edu taining facts about the 2000s but I would be remiss in my 101 fact duties for I not to mention the help I received in making this video from the great courses plus who coincidentally are the sponsors of this here video the great courses plus provide on-demand video learning services in the form of first-rate lectures and courses all from industry professionals Ivy League professors and experts for respected institutions like the Smithsonian National Geographic and even the Culinary Institute of America there's over 10,000 of these lectures to covering a wide range of topics like maths science history literature and so on for instance I'm getting stuck into the mysteries of modern physics course on time which will hopefully enable me to travel back in time to better research this video BRB ok plot twist I've just returned from 2004 just in time to record the rest of this intro see learning is fun for your own free trial just visit the crate courses + comport / 101 facts if you're feeling really lazy just click the link in the description below you're welcome but back to the matter at hand why was Beyonce's first solo album delayed why did the 30th of October 2000 mark the beginning of a new era for Humanity and whatever happened to the exclamation mark in panic at the disco where have you taken her Brendon Urie 2 out of 3 these questions are going to be answered so Baddeck yourself in rhinestoned denim ride the wave of a Chinese economic boom and drown in the sadness of knowing Clifford the Big Red Dog is probably dead by now as we count through 101 facts about the 2000s number mm was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on the first of January 2000 and guess what ended on the 31st of December 2009 it's also the very first decade of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium it was a big one guy is very important decade for the very important things number 2 fondly enough there was actually a bit of a discussion about what to call this decade as the established method of referring to previous decades such as the 70s 80s and 90s would dictate the period be called the zeroes what about the O's or even the booths mm appears to be the most dominant with other more colloquial terms like the naughties also being popular number through the decade was defined by the continued growth of the internet which contributed to increased globalization yeah we know long words thanks quite courses plus and even faster interpersonal communication throughout the world phones got smaller MSN Messenger and Skype rose to prominence and texting continued its rise to become the dominant method canceling plans you regret making number four one of the very first things to happen in the 2000s was nothing leading up to the dawn of the 21st century the entire world had worked itself into a frothy seizure of fear over the impending ill effect of y2k with some even suggesting that nuclear power plants could explode and planes would fall out of the sky well none of that actually turned out to happen and the effects of the so-called the millennium bug turned out to be fairly minor bit of a letdown realist number 5 on the 4th of March 2000 the PlayStation 2 was released in Japan the console ultimately sold over 155 million units making it the best-selling game console of all time I remember being nestled around the family ps2 basking in the warm glow of digital entertainment my father puffing on a pipe while my mother dance socks it was a simpler time number 6 throughout March of 2000 the so called dot-com bubble in which numerous online companies surged in popularity began to burst thousands of these companies quickly went out of business though some didn't manage to stay afloat a number of them such as eBay and Amazon recovered relatively quickly and since become enormous businesses number 7 in April of 2000 Metallica sued the music file sharing service Napster after an early unfinished version of their track I disappear was leaked on the application Napster and release a sword for the era of illegally downloaded music and corresponding litigation had only just begun number 8 on the 5th of May 2002 Filipinos for the names of Reno Ramona's and onel de Guzman released the infamous I love you computer worm deleting files and sending copies of itself to everyone in the users outlet address book the worm ultimately caused an estimated eight point seven billion dollars worth in damages but since the Philippines had no laws against writing malware at the time Ramona's and de Guzman got off scot-free number nine yeah on the 11th of May 2000 the billionth person living in India was born the baby girl was named asta the Hindi word for faith hours after her birth she was surrounded by almost 200 journalists who were covering the story not sure why she couldn't exactly give an interview could she number 10 in June Samsung released the SCH V 200 which featured a built-in rear camera capable of capturing 0.35 MP image files making it the world's first camera phone however in order to share them or indeed do anything with them at all users had to first transfer the image files to a computer the first fully integrated camera phone appeared a few months later in November in the form of sharps J phone which allowed users to share pictures directly from the phone number 11 Mini millennium bridge that spans the River Thames in London was opened on the 10th of June 2000 it was promptly closed two days later on the 12th of June as the bridge had the unexpected habit of shaking back and forth like a disco serpent modifications to correct the unwelcome wobbling kept the bridge closed into 2002 number 12 in the 2000 u.s. presidential election Republican candidate and Texan doofus George W Bush defeated Democrat Vice President Al Gore however the final outcome was not known until over a month later because of disputed votes in Florida not a great sign of a mr. George Bush as if number 13 the 30th of October in the year 2000 was the last time no humans were in space the next day the soyuz tma-21 spacecraft was launched carrying the very first resident crew of the International Space Station were just been continuously crewed ever since number 14 on the 10th of January 2001 the free and open the editable encyclopedia Wikipedia went online founded by Jimmy Wales the site contains extensive information on basically every topic you can imagine as the realization of humanity's noble pursuit of knowledge I have personally used the site for years and have ignored its pleas for donations at every available opportunity let the disgusting piece of human trash that I number 15 on the top of every 2001 NASA's near shoemaker space probe touched down on the near-earth object known as 433 eros making it the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid neeterb number 16 on the 18th of February an FBI agent by the name of Robert Hanson was arrested and charged with spying from Russia for 25 years Hansen's treachery was later described at the Department of Justice as possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history having spent two-and-a-half decades handing mountains of documents and computer diskettes filled with national security information over to the Russians motivated by money rather than ideology Hansen was paid over $600,000 in cash and diamonds for his treasonous actions number 17 in March of 2001 the Taliban began their destruction of the Buddha's of Bamiyan two colossal afghan cliff carvings of buddhas that dated back to the fourth and fifth century the Taliban deemed the carvings to be idolatrous because the Taliban are in fact each number 18 on the 1st of April 2001 the Netherlands became the first nation in history to formally legalize same-sex marriage since then numerous other countries have also treated gay people are human beings and shockingly the earth continues to turn number 19 on the 24th of August Microsoft released Windows XP a brightly colored model of you too friendly decorum and class the operating system also made a californian hill super famous no not that Californian Hill this one staff these days they all do a vo once together and suddenly they're doing that 2001 was also the year in which Britney god damn Spears gifted humanity with her iconic performance of I'm a slave for you at the VMAs held on the 6th of September the performance reaches crescendo when Britney had a large albino Burmese python draped over her shoulders which upset the killjoys over Peter because of course it did number 21 sadly towards the beginning of the decade the world was scarred by the atrocities of the 9/11 attacks on the 11th of September 2001 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes crashing two of them into the World Trade Center towers which collapse less than two hours later a third plane crashed into the Pentagon and the last crashed into a field in Pennsylvania owing to a parent passenger resistance the attacks claim the law of almost 3,000 people and irrevocably changed the face of global politics number 22 on the 23rd of October 2001 Apple unveiled the very first ipod an excellent rectangle that allows you to listen to music without lugging around a metric ton of CDs though mp3 players have existed for years before iPod changed the portable music game and further allowed Apple to sync it's creepy minimalist claws ever deeper into society's collective brainstem just kidding love you iPhone number 23 the classic science fiction film Donnie Darko was released on the 26th of October 2001 despite a mediocre box office performance the film received critical acclaim and is vocally described as one of the greatest films ever made a sign from a career edifying performance by Jake Gyllenhaal and supporting bolt from through Barrymore 1 Patrick Swayze the film also stars a young Seth Rogen before developing into the stone a movie heartthrob he was born to become did you know Seth Rogen was in Donnie Darko let us know when our YouTube Father but well yeah number 24 towards the end of October the Irish Republican Army aka the IRA declared that they would be dispensing their weapons arsenal after years of fighting during the Troubles since then Northern Ireland has seen isolated acts of sectarian violence but the brutality of the previous decade mains largely in the past number 25 in November 2001 the world's first contraceptive patch became available under the name of auto every allowing to even greater freedom and body autonomy for women around the world hashtag feminism hash tag hash number 26 on the 2nd of December 2001 the American energy company Enron went bust at a cost of 17 billion dollars our troops discover the company had been sustained by systemic accounting fraud hilariously the American business magazine fortune had previously named Enron as America's most innovative company six years in a row number 27 on the 15th of December 2001 the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy was reopened to the public after being closed for repairs over a decade earlier in 1990 a team of engineers architects and soil experts successfully stabilized the 12th century tower at a cost of roughly 27 million dollars guaranteeing a permanent lien would stay in place for at least another 200 years number 28 on the 1st of January 2002 physical notes and coins for Euro were officially introduced into year zone countries the former currencies of all the included country cease to be legal tender on the 28th of February signalling the death of the French franc the German mark the Greek drachma and the Dutch Guilder as well as various others number 29 during the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City Australian Stephen propery won a gold medal in speed skating simply because everyone in front of him crashed hilariously the only reason he was in the final look because the exact same thing happened in the semi final number 30 at the 2002 Academy Awards held on the 24th of March Halle Berry became the first black actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in the 2001 American drama film monsters ball nothing by the way I know you're thinking and yes it did actually take onto 2001 for a black woman to win Best Actress number 31 on the 1st of April the Netherlands became the first nation in the world to legalize euthanasia allowing people with poor quality of life as a result of debilitating illnesses to end their life with the help of medical professionals or keep it light for this video but apparently not number 32 on the 20th of May the tiny super Catholic Southeast Asian country of East Timor regained its independence after 26 long years of occupation by Indonesia starting in 1975 it would later become the 190 first country to join the United Nations later in the year yay East Timor number 30 pray the Rome Statute came into force on the 1st of July 2002 thereby establishing the International Criminal Court sound sexy huh the statute established four core international crimes genocide war crimes crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression like an evil version of the Spice Girls most of those indicted by the ICC are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity only one person the current President of Sudan Omar Bashir has been accused of genocide number 34 the next day on the 2nd of July the American businessman and a VHS Steve Buffett became the first person to fly solo around the world non-stop in any kind of aircraft and he chose to do it in a balloon Johnny number 35 in 2003 scientists found an almost complete skeleton of a 3-foot tall person in a cave on the engineer island of Flores experts seemed realized and unearthed the remains of an extinct species of human which was later dubbed Homo floresiensis after its place of discovery Homo floresiensis died out roughly fifty thousand years ago and are noted for their remarkably small brain size haha idiots mystics on the 1st of February 2003 the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry killing all seven of the astronauts on board the catastrophe occurred when a piece of foam insulation broke off from the space shuttle external tank and hit the left wing of the orbiter allowing hot atmospheric gases to penetrate the heat shield and destroy the internal wing structure causing the shuttle to break apart basis and sound so fun now does it number 37 on the 3rd of February the veteran music producer and celebrated songwriter Phil Spector was arrested on suspicion of murdering actress Lana Clarkson that suspicion was confirmed 2009 but it's conviction for murder in the second degree the only funny thing about this is spectres crazy hair but yeah he shot someone in the face number 38 despite the combined heft of numerous worldwide political demonstrations collectively bellowing please don't the Iraq war began on the 20th of March 2003 many of the reasons given for the initiation of the war were proven false and as a result of the conflict over 100,000 civilians were killed it sucked basically I don't usually like to get political but the death of over 100,000 civilians sucks number thirty-nine in April of 2003 it was announced that the Human Genome Project had been completed since the project began in 1990 sciences from around the world sequence approximately 99% of the human genome with the identification of over 20,000 individual genes and base pairs that create the basic DNA composition of human beings number 40 Beyonce's debut solo album entitled Dangerously in Love was released on the 23rd of June 2003 it was originally going to be released earlier but was delayed by the success of Nellie's uber popular R&B smash hit dilemma featuring Beyonce's former bandmate and person who thinks you can text people using Microsoft Excel Kelly Rowland Colin Ortiz simpler times number 41 on the first of August 2003 one of the world's most successful social networks ever created was created my space with its customizable home pages and I mean I'm sure there's other stuff MySpace quickly became the most popular website ever mid-2006 even surpassed Google as the most visited website in the u.s. sadly for our friend Tom Mark Zuckerberg is personal information stealing social media for hemostat Facebook eventually overtook myspace in 2008 and since then myspace has become a digital husk of its former self the meaning of life on the 10th of August 2003 the town of Fabrice room in Kent smelled it through a temperature of 38.5 degrees Celsius that's 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit setting the record of the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK this is also the only time in which the denizens of Faversham were the hottest people in Britain number 43 on the 27th of August 2003 Mars made its closest approach to earth in over 60,000 years narrowly missing us by only 35 million miles that's still a little too close for my liking NASA to really do something about it number 44 on the 7th of October 2003 Californians voted to kick out the Democratic governor Gray Davis out of office and replaced him with a mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger you may have heard of him I'll record the name somehow number 45 on the 24th of August 2003 the supersonic passenger airliner Concorde made its final commercial flight bringing the luxurious area of supersonic air travel to a close sadly the service had become unprofitable just like my Jennifer Lawrence themed cake business that's a lot of money to Taylor and Jam I have no regrets well I have several regrets actually but that's not important right now moving on number 46 on the 22nd of November 2003 English rugby player Jonny Wilkinson scored a legendary extra time famous drop goal with 26 seconds left to play winning England that year's Rugby World Cup this prompted a brief surge in rugby popularity before we all came to our senses and remember that football is actually better I'm just kidding bowling is the best sport number 43 seven number 47 on the 13th of December 2003 the fifth president of Iraq Saddam Hussein was captured by American forces after being found hiding in a hole in the ground there are farmhouse in Tikrit responsible for the crimes of hundreds of thousands of people Hussein this later convicted of crimes against humanity and was executed in 2006 number 48 we're on to 2004 now which is also known as the year that America decided to ruin the career of Popeye Continent Jackson who is performing with Justin Timberlake at that year's Superbowl halftime show on the 1st of February as Timberlake reached the end of his final line in rock your body he tore up a part of Jackson's costume which was meant to reveal and lacy red bra however Timberlake accidentally pulled off too much revealing her right boob for less than a second because women's bodies are apparently the most offensive things on earth millions of British Americans lost their collective poo and filed hundreds of thousands of complaints forcing Jackson to apologise Timberlake however only received a fraction of the backlash number 49 on the 4th of February 2004 Apple mentioned myspace murder a facebook was launched as a social networking site available only to students at Harvard University the site eventually grew into the multi-million dollar success it currently is today and may Jesse Eisenberg sorry I mean Mark Zuckerberg as well as several of his collaborators including Justin Timberlake filthy filthy rich number 50 in March of 2004 American domestic goddess Martha Stewart was convicted of a slew of felonies relating to the in cloned stock trading case and was sentenced to five months in prison initial speculation agreed upon the certain demise of Stewart's career but she later led her company back into profitability and has since made several bizarre attempts on a number of comedy roasts number 51 on the first of September 2004 a large group of Islamist militants occupied a school in Beslan a town in the autonomous Russian Republic of North Ossetia in the course of the three day siege at least 335 people were killed and at least 700 more were injured number 52 on the 19th of October 2004 a team of intrepid explorers reached the bottom of krubera cave the deepest cave on earth through bear cave reaches down to a depth of roughly 6,800 24 feet incidentally by the way 6,800 24 feet is the name of my three hour long amateur documentary I made about my pet millipedes all evidence of which was destroyed when I spilled smirnoff ice on my laptop don't judge me number 53 on the 14th of December the Meo viaduct which stretches across the town valley in France was officially opened or opened as we say the impressive structure is 1125 feet at its highest point making it the tallest bridge in the world number fifty-four on the 26th of December 2004 one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded occurred off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia with a magnitude of nine point three the quake triggered a tsunami that devastated South Asia leaving more than 230,000 poor souls dead number 55 2005 now and in January the BBC broadcast a televised version of Jerry Springer the Opera a satirical musical written by Richard Thomason Stewart Lee that features twisted caricatures of Christianity the show is accused of blasphemy by many Christians and generated approximately 63 thousand complaints number 56 on the 14th of February 2005 a little-known website called YouTube was founded which you may know as the website you're currently using right now YouTube was founded by Steve Chen Chad Hurley and Jared Kareem the latter of whom appears in the very first youtube video posted on the 23rd of April 2005 entitled me at the zoo the video features Kareem giving a short and frankly mediocre description of elephants number 57 on the 29th of March Mariah Carey released we belong together a dulcet lament that chronicles lost desperation and heartbreak because even multimillionaires construct their relationships billboard later ranked the track is the most played song of the decade number 58 following the death of Pope John Paul the second on the second of April 2005 over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him shortly after white smoke came from the top of Sistine Chapel and heralded the Pope a vacation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who took the name pope benedict xvi a name that's only slightly less terrifying than joseph ratzinger sounds like ratatouille sri lame number 59 unfortunately 2005 had its fair share of horrific incidents - on the 7th of July for Islamist terrorists carried out a coordinated series of bombings in the heart of London for explosion saga did the transport network in London three of the bombs were detonated on the London Underground and one on a bus leaving 56 people dead and over 200 others injured this incident has come to be known as 7-7 and was the deadliest terrorist attack to ever happen in Britain since the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 number 60 the costliest hurricane in US history Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the u.s. Gulf Coast on the 29th of August 2005 Katrina devastated many coastal area stretching from Florida to Texas corsican estimated 125 billion dollars in damages and costing lives of 1,800 people number 61 on the 5th of October 2005 Twilight was published and somewhere in the universe an angel fell from heaven and perished in fitful agony a shameful consequence of humanity's crimes against the divine my personal biases aside the book would ultimately stand as the first installment in Stephenie Meyer's ultra popular series about Bella swans at tumultuous on-again off-again relationship with sparkly vampire Edward Cullen number 62 in November of 2005 surgeons in France carried out the world's very first partial face transplant the patient a French woman called Isabelle de noir had been mauled by her own dog which her family maintained was frantically trying to wake her as she lay unconscious after taking a large amount of sleeping pills number 63 throughout the mid to late naughty smoked off rolled out the release of the Xbox 360 worldwide going on sale in most major markets in late 2005 early 2006 though not the best-selling console of his generation the Xbox 360 was considered by many to be the most innovative owing to its emphasis on multiplayer gaming and digital media distribution all Nintendo 64 on the 13th of November 2005 a 25 year old Scottish man named Andrew Simpson was reported as the first person proven to have been cured of HIV 14 months after contracting the virus Stimpson repeatedly tested HIV negative and to this day no one is certain why and how it happened number 65 on the 22nd of November 2005 Angela Merkel assumed office as the first female Chancellor of Germany she has been in power for 12 years and Counting and is widely considered to be the most powerful woman in the world number 66 in December 2005 the civil partnership Act came into effect granting Britain's gay citizens the right to enter into civil partnerships which confers almost all the same rights and responsibilities as civil marriage full marriage equality arrived in England Wales and Scotland several years later in 2013 and 2014 but this is a video about the 2000 so I'm not allowed to mention those years I've said too much already that police will be after me I must away in the dying moments of 2005 an extra second was added to the 31st of December in order to correct the slowing of the Earth's rotation which is arming anyone troubled by that little fact no okay in any hasty ditional second called a leap second and out the clock to tick up to 23 59 60 and was the first time the clocks have been adjusted in this way since 1998 another second was also added in 2008 number 68 on to 2006 now went on the 15th of January NASA's Stardust mission successfully ended when its sample capsule parachuted back down to earth carrying cosmic dust retrieved from an ejector of a comet called wild to snail dust was the first deep-space sample return mission of its kind allowing scientists to study the collected dust in a laboratory on earth like the Nerds that they are on the 23rd of February Apple announced that its one billionth song had been purchase from iTunes roughly three years after launch since then the unstoppable progress of Apple's insatiable creep into every aspect of our lives continues unabated hooray and no I still haven't forgiven you for that due to album number 70 on the 1st of March 2006 at the english-language version of Wikipedia welcomed its millionth article which happened to be the entry for jordan hill railway station a fairly unremarkable train station and the scottish city of Glasgow the number 71 on the 3rd of June 2006 Montenegro declared its independence after a referendum the loose geopolitical union of Serbia and Montenegro was dissolved two days later with Serbia's formal declaration of independence on the 5th of June following the much publicized breakup Serbia became the union's legal successor essentially getting to keep the house while Montenegro had to reapply for membership in international organisations number 70 due on the 30th of July 2006 a sad sad day indeed the BBC broadcast the final episode of Top of the Pops after 42 years of weekly episodes the show was axed due to lack of interest owing to increased competition from other sources well thanks Internet I mean without your but number two obviously thanks Bay number 73 in 2006 the verb to Google entered the Oxford English Dictionary reflecting the site status as a contemporary god worshiped for it's almost omnipotent reach into every realm of human knowledge praise be google number 74 on the 9th of July zinedine zidane was sent off for head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi right in the following a verbal provocation oh and it was his final professional football game and it's the final of the World Cup - you say Clancy Zinedine numbers of devourer yeah following the discovery of similar worlds deeper in the distance QPR belt Pluto long considered the ninth planet in the solar system was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union on the 24th of August 2006 the decision was met with both sober acceptance and unhinged outrage because humans somehow feel personally attached to a barren rocky sphere literally billions of miles away just kidding a lovely Poots number 76 the tiny european nation of luxembourg is famous for three things being a tax haven assisted suicide and for being the first country on earth to make the switch to entirely digital television broadcasting which it did on the 1st of September 2006 number 37 on the 29th of December 2006 the UK finally settled its post-world War two loan debt with the United States and Canada the Americans loaned over 2 billion pounds to Britain in 1945 while Canada led to 607 million pounds in 1946 at a rate of two percent annual interest meaning the UK ultimately paid double what we initially received to be fair we're also six years late with copying up the dough so sorry chaps number 6 on the 19th of January 2007 Justin Bieber posted his first youtube video this date shall forever be known as the incident when a terrible evil was unleashed upon this world its disciple 2 known as believers will already be on my trail just for speaking to you I must once again away number 79 2007 is also known as the annus horribilis of our dear dear Brittnay the then troubled pop princess shocked the world when she appeared in public on the 16th of February with a completely shaved head when asked by reporter the reason why she had shown her sacred bumps Brittany replied curtly big consumer video oh no that's not her song is it sorry my bad number 18 on the 29th of June 2007 Apple released the very first iPhone which reportedly cost over 150 million dollars to develop thousands of people lined up outside their local Apple store to get their tech hungry hands on it and within less than three months of release more than 1 million units have been sold number 81 on the 21st of July the conclusion to JK Rowling's ultra successful Wizarding book series Harry Potter was published entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the book told the story of the Battle of Hogwarts in which the forces of mantle could repel he-who-must-not-be-named for the final time bravo frictional characteristic my love dearly with all my heart r.i.p toffee alrighty number 82 in August of 2007 Mauritania became the very last country to criminalize slavery although it had been officially abolished in 1981 with this horrific allele 8 ban the practice became illegal everywhere in the world number 83 on the 10th of October the legendary rock and random noises band Radiohead released their seventh album entitled in rainbows this is notable as being the first album released by major artists to be sold on a pay what you want basis giving fans the ability to pay any amount including diddly-squat join number 84 between 2007 and 2008 I'm sorry that was the black eyed pea in May 2008 there was also a massive financial crisis frequently described as the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of 1929 I almost bought a teenager when all this was happening so although it was aware that money was not good at the time my body was being flooded with powerful hormones that turned me into the paragon of manhood you know today and I as such did not care sorry guys millennial number 85 during roughly the same period approximately 12,000 film and television screenwriters participated in an organized strike against major Hollywood studios networks and production companies the strike occurred due to a dispute of a payment for online content and lasted for nearly three months before a compromise was reached number 86 on to 2008 now and on the 24th of February Fidel Castro stepped down as president of Cuba our - almost 50 years in power Castro polarized global opinion with some people calling him a quirky examination of teenage doctor and others such as myself calling him a pretentious unfunny snoozefest oh no sorry wait I'm confusing him with the film Napoleon Dynamite suave Oh at those two confused number 87 on the 27th of February 2008 the UK experienced the largest earthquake in 25 years measuring a whopping 5.2 on the Richter scale whoa that's pretty puny by global standards actually but was very strong for Britain the quakes epicenter was focused on the town of Market Raisin in Lincoln and cause literally no deaths meaning everyone but laugh about it and joke guilt free t-shirts emblazoned with the words I survived the earthquake were even produced by enterprising shop owners number 88 on the 28th of February 2008 it was revealed that Prince had a the future husband of American actress Megan Marshall from suits had secretly been serving in Afghanistan with the help of an organized media blackout the prince who would later word American actress Megan Marvel from suits was immediately removed from duty and brought back to the UK where he would eventually marry American actress Megan Michael from suits at some George's Chapel in 2018 number 89 in July 2008 Google announced that they'd index over one trillion unique URLs and we all know what most of that was hey you know yeah number 19 on the 28th of September 2008 the SpaceX Falcon 1 became the world's first privately developed liquid fuel launch vehicle to enter Earth orbit SpaceX was founded in 2002 by weird billionaire nerd Elon Musk who is very weird number 91 on the 7th of October 2008 the music streaming service known as Spotify was launched in Sweden Spotify has gone from strength to strength to strength since then opening up to more and more countries and growing to 170 million users and yet the app still sucks harder than it than it and a thing that sucks I don't know it's fact 91 I'm tired it's it number 92 on the first of November 2008 a mysterious online presence known as Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin which is made available online several months later in 2009 Bitcoin along with various other crypto currencies has pocketed into the mainstream in recent years making a small number of people into fabled internet millionaires and crime money much harder to trace and oh no Nakamoto has sent his goons to shut me off after speaking the truth about Bitcoin I must once again away all this away is what's making me tired number 93 on the 4th of November 2008 Senator Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain to be elected the 44th President of the United States Obama is notable as being the very first black American to hold the position and was a harbinger of a new era of tolerance and aggression in the only remaining superpower that Sarah would last out only eight years before well you know number 94 on the 10th of December 2008 to the channel island of Sark a British Crown dependency held its first fully democratic elections becoming the final place in the entirety of Europe to abolish the most humid evil system of feudalism number 95 and on the 1st of February 2009 the people of Iceland elected Johanna sigur rós appear as their new prime minister making her the world's first openly gay head of government give it up for powerful lesbians everybody number 96 on the 8th of April 2009 a group of Somali pirates attempted to hijack the cargo ship MV Maersk Alabama roughly 440 kilometers southeast of Somalia the hijack was ultimately unsuccessful but for the pirates fled in a lifeboat taking the captain Richard Phillips as a hostage for three days before u.s. Navy SEAL snipers killed three of the captors and took the other into custody rescuing captain Phillips in 2013 which I know I shouldn't be mentioning but oh well the story of the events was adapted into a film called captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks in Somali American actor barkhad Abdi in his debut role for which he received a BAFTA for Best Actor in supporting role as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations number 97 on the 11th of July 2009 the World Health Organization declared that the h1n1 influenza strain known as swine flu had become a global pandemic the first in 41 years a total of fourteen thousand two hundred eighty six people were ultimately confirmed to have died as a result of the virus though more recent research suggests that number could be as much as ten times higher number 98 on the 25th of June humanity lost the world's most celebrated Icona pop music with the death of Michael Jackson while preparing for his this is it tall Jackson collapsed and died later revealed to be the result of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication his personal physician Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served two years in prison number 99 on the 9th of July 2009 Antony Gormley public art project entitled one and other begun the projects all members of the public stand atop the usually vacant fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square with an hour to do basically anything they wanted one another lasted for 100 days serving 2,400 Britons who did things like dress up as Godzilla made protests and even nuddy my god if it is a number 100 at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards held on the 30th of September 1 mr. Kanye West slept on stage during Taylor Swift acceptance speech for a Best Female Video Award to tell her that although he planned to let her finish he felt compelled to point out that he thought Beyonce's video for single ladies should have prevailed I'm paraphrasing here slightly number 101 on the 17th of December 2009 James Cameron sci-fi epic avatar was released possibly the most over intermón existence the film was praised for its groundbreaking special effects and stunning visuals and would ultimately rake in a worldwide gross of almost 2.8 billion dollars making it the highest grossing film in history so that was one hunter one fact about the 2000s what did you enjoy the most let me know in the comments down below also don't forget to check out the great courses pass at the great courses plus calm Ford / 101 thanks for your free trial there's some great stuff on there you can do an awful lot learning but once with other British idiot just squawking at you in the meantime though for after you start your free trial there are two videos on screen now that one of which you're gonna really dig I promise you until next time good bye mother factors I must away

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