February 15th 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

March 5th 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.

March 12th 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

March 13th 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

Also on March 13, 2003:
Citing a huge drop in patients, Redding Medical Center began notifying 150 employees — an eighth of the hospital staff — that their jobs were being eliminated. The cutback was a direct result of an FBI investigation when federal agents seized billing and other records from two RMC heart doctors suspected of having performed unnecessary procedures and surgeries.

Interesting, but strange. :-\\

March 15th 2003 – President Ange-Felix Patasse is overthrown in a coup by François Bozizé.

March 19th 2003 – United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.

March 19th 2003 – United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.


are the troops out of Iraq yet?  ???

March 20th 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.

March 20th 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.


10 years later.

March 19th 2003 – United States President George W. Bush ordered the start of war against Iraq.

March 20th 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries began military operations in Iraq.

I remember that very well; it was all over the news. ::)

And I remember that I had just taken a midterm in a software-engineering class that I ended up doing not-so-well in. I was taking two other classes, but doing well in them. One was a math class, and the other was a symbolic logic course.

March 24, 2003... The Arab League voted 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

April 9th 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

May 2nd 2003 – Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian Muslims killed eight Hindu Arayan fishermen in Kerala.

June 10th 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

June 20th 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

July 1st 2003 – Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.

July 13th 2003 – French DGSE personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, causing a political scandal when details were leaked to the press six days later.

July 16, 2003 - I won a beauty pageant.

I remember I was hangin' around at home for the most part. :-\\

16 July 2003
Hurricane Claudette hits Houston, Texas as a tropical storm
I was there

August 10th 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).

August 10th 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).


Was it ever felt again?  ???

Was it ever felt again?  ???
No, that has been the highest recorded temperature ever.

No, that has been the highest recorded temperature ever.


That must have been hard for them. The United Kingdom isn't exactly the warmest place on the map.

August 27th 2003 – The first round of six-party talks to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program opened.

September 11th 2003 – Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh assassinated

September 11th 2003 – Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh assassinated

Also the untimely death of actor John Ritter, who at the time was starring in the ABC sitcom "Eight Simple Rules." :\'(

Also the untimely death of actor John Ritter, who at the time was starring in the ABC sitcom "Eight Simple Rules." :\'(


I miss John Ritter  :\'(

I miss John Ritter  :\'(

The very next day, Johnny Cash passed away. :\'(

Also the untimely death of actor John Ritter, who at the time was starring in the ABC sitcom "Eight Simple Rules." :\'(


I remember that. So sad. :\'( I used to love watching Eight Simple Rules and re-runs of Three's Company.

On October 7, 2003, a "recall election" took place in California; a special election involving then-governor Gray Davis. Numerous candidates ran to replace him, including actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was the winner), then-Lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington, actor Gary Coleman (who would come in 8th place with just over 14,000 votes), and businessman Bill Simon (who opposed Davis a year earlier, in the 2002 general gubernatorial election), to name a few.

October 14, 2003: the "Steve Bartman incident" occurred during Game 6 of the NLCS between the Marlins and Chicago Cubs. The Cubs were just 5 outs away from advancing to the World Series for the first time in 58 years, but Bartman's reaching for a foul ball that LF Moises Alou was attempting to catch sparked a downward turn for the Cubbies.

October 14, 2003: the "Steve Bartman incident" occurred during Game 6 of the NLCS between the Marlins and Chicago Cubs. The Cubs were just 5 outs away from advancing to the World Series for the first time in 58 years, but Bartman's reaching for a foul ball that LF Moises Alou was attempting to catch sparked a downward turn for the Cubbies.


10 years ago already? Wow.
http://www.nndb.com/people/979/000026901/steve-bartman.jpg

Yep, that's him. I wrote more detail about it in the "Today in the History of Sport" thread. I even remember seeing the play when it was live on TV. Alou was "livid with the fan", as commentator Thom Brenneman said when the botched play occurred.

The Red Sox were in the ALCS that year (against the Yankees), looking to advance to the World Series for the first time in 17 years, and capture their first title in 85 years...but they, too, fell short of getting there, even in game seven. (Their title would have to wait another year.)

October 18th 2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.

October 19th 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

October 21st 2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

Also on that date, the Yankees took a 2-games-to-1 lead in the World Series against the Marlins.
NYY would not win another game in that series.

October 26th 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

^ I remember that. There was a similar blaze in part of Ventura County, near where I live.

The day before that, the Marlins won their second World Series in as many appearances. Game Six starting pitcher Josh Beckett, who was named MVP of said series, pitched a complete-game shutout to clinch the series at old Yankee Stadium, tagging out Jorge Posada for the final out.
Beckett would go on to win another World Series ring with the Boston Red Sox four years later.

October 31st 2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.

November 5th 2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.

Today also marks 10 years since the death of Bobby Hatfield, half of the Righteous Brothers duo. :\'( (The other half, Bill Medley, is still alive.)

November 13th 2003 – Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

November 13th 2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

October 26th 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
I remember that, I was off school the whole week and this was during the Halloween week. I also remember the sky going from blue to brown to red. It was scary.

I remember that, I was off school the whole week and this was during the Halloween week. I also remember the sky going from blue to brown to red. It was scary.


wow bro. You must live in San Diego like me. I was in 7th grade during that time and I remember ashes falling down from the sky. so scary.

wow bro. You must live in San Diego like me. I was in 7th grade during that time and I remember ashes falling down from the sky. so scary.
You're correct. I do live in SD. I was in 5th grade when it happened. I'm glad it was over when Halloween came.

January 1st, 2004:
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the military ruler of Pakistan, won a vote of confidence from both houses of parliament and the country's four provincial assemblies validating his five-year term as president.
(according to the AP)

2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

January 4th 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

January 4th 2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.

February 1st, 2004: The halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII had a controversial moment involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. :o

February 1st, 2004: The halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII had a controversial moment involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. :o


Is that 10 years already? Seems that happened about a year or two ago. Time flies.

February 1st, 2004: The halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII had a controversial moment involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. :o


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Janet_Jackson_%26_Justin_Timberlake%27s_wardrobe_malfunction.jpg


Boy that was some sight to see!  :o

February 4th 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

February 4th 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.


Happy Birthday Facebook!  :)

February 4th 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Happy Birthday Facebook!  :)

Indeed!

Interestingly enough, today I have not seen any posts on my FB feed acknowledging this anniversary (i.e., no one has mentioned a word of it).

February 4th 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.


Happy Birthday Facebook!  :)


Indeed!

Interestingly enough, today I have not seen any posts on my FB feed acknowledging this anniversary (i.e., no one has mentioned a word of it).
Don't forget about MySpace, which was created by Tom in September 2003, about 5 months before Facebook was created.

Indeed!

Interestingly enough, today I have not seen any posts on my FB feed acknowledging this anniversary (i.e., no one has mentioned a word of it).
There were some on mine

Don't forget about MySpace, which was created by Tom in September 2003, about 5 months before Facebook was created.


Is Myspace still around? ???

Is Myspace still around? ???
MySpace today

February 5th 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

MySpace today

It's sad looking at this.  I remember when it was fun.  I deleted my account because of all of the scum people that started talking to me.  Now it's just a stupid site.

It's sad looking at this.  I remember when it was fun.  I deleted my account because of all of the scum people that started talking to me.  Now it's just a stupid site.

Just for the record, I never had any interest in Myspace.

Just for the record, I never had any interest in Myspace.
I have never been involved with MySpace.

Just for the record, I never had any interest in Myspace.



me neither.

February 12th 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

March 12th 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.

March 17th 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.

March 19th 2004 – Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.

March 19th 2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.

March 19th 2004 – 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.

I also remember that the Vernal Equinox (beginning of spring) was on the 19th of March in the U.S. in 2004. This is a rare occurrence, as Vernal Equinox is usually the 20th or 21st of March (in the Northern Hemisphere), depending on position of the earth and other factors.

March 22nd 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

March 27th 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

March 29th 2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

April 1st 2004 – Google launched a free Web-based service that essentially provides users with an unprecedented 1000 megabytes of storage for spam.

2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; their attack is thwarted.

April 3rd 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

April 5th, 2004: I had my first experience with jury service. I did not get on a panel.

On April 15th of 2004, the old version of this board had a crash, and those of us who were members then had to wait almost a week for the board to be back up and running again.

On April 15th of 2004, the old version of this board had a crash, and those of us who were members then had to wait almost a week for the board to be back up and running again.


I remember that day.

I remember that day.

Six days later, the place would be back up and running again.

Until then, we were all twiddling our thumbs.... :-\\

Six days later, the place would be back up and running again.

Until then, we were all twiddling our thumbs.... :-\\


It was all a matter of time before the site was back up and running.

It was all a matter of time before the site was back up and running.

Something I remember quite well, as if it was just a short time ago.

At that time, I remember I was more than halfway through my toughest academic semester. I felt like I wasn't understanding anything in the upper-division Computer Science courses. This ultimately led me to consider pursuing a different course of study.

Six days later, the place would be back up and running again.

Until then, we were all twiddling our thumbs.... :-\\

...and today (April 21st) marks 10 years since the board was finally restored!!

Of course, we all had to create new accounts and threads; basically start from scratch. Still, I remember that day quite well. 8)

...and today (April 21st) marks 10 years since the board was finally restored!!

Of course, we all had to create new accounts and threads; basically start from scratch. Still, I remember that day quite well. 8)


and I remember when we had to create new accounts.

May 6, 2004: The TV sitcom Friends ended its 10-year run by airing its series finale.

May 6, 2004: The TV sitcom Friends ended its 10-year run by airing its series finale.
I still have not watched an episode of Friends.

I still have not watched an episode of Friends.

I actually didn't really start getting into it until after the older episodes went into syndication in 1998. I had wanted to check it out before then, however. (Wait... I think I did watch an episode in 1996...but that was all.)

I still have not watched an episode of Friends.


I used to watch Friends.

I used to watch Friends.

Reruns can still be seen on TBS and Nick At Nite.

May 9th 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny.

May 9th 2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, the first President of the Chechen Republic, and about 30 others were killed by a bomb during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny.

...and one day earlier, you signed up on this site!

(But you didn't become a regular until several months later, if memory serves me correctly.)

...and one day earlier, you signed up on this site!

(But you didn't become a regular until several months later, if memory serves me correctly.)
I missed my anniversary day!

May 22nd 2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013.

May 23rd 2004 – Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.

2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

May 29th 2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

^ I seem to remember that.


And I also remember that I was relieved to be finished with my toughest academic semester of college. However, that weekend I took home a career assessment exam to possibly see about going a different direction. Those were the days...

I also remember posting my first quiz on this board at around that time. I was inspired by the "find a pair of artists with songs of the same title" quizzes, so I decided to create my own one of those.

June 2, 2004: Ken Jennings began his historic "Jeopardy!" championship. This was the night on which his first appearance aired.

June 4th 2004 – In Granby, Colorado, US, Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage with a modified bulldozer over a zoning dispute, destroying several buildings before committing suicide.

June 5, 2004:

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93, following complications from Alzheimer Disease. He was the oldest person elected to the presidency (69 when first elected in 1980, 73 when reelected in 1984), and the oldest person to be president (left office on Inauguration Day 1989, just 2 1/2 weeks before his 78th birthday). Prior to the presidency, he served as Governor of California in the late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Before that, he had a career in acting.

June 5, 2004:

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93, following complications from Alzheimer Disease. He was the oldest person elected to the presidency (69 when first elected in 1980, 73 when reelected in 1984), and the oldest person to be president (left office on Inauguration Day 1989, just 2 1/2 weeks before his 78th birthday). Prior to the presidency, he served as Governor of California in the late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Before that, he had a career in acting.


I remember the coverage his funeral got.

June 5, 2004:

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93, following complications from Alzheimer Disease. He was the oldest person elected to the presidency (69 when first elected in 1980, 73 when reelected in 1984), and the oldest person to be president (left office on Inauguration Day 1989, just 2 1/2 weeks before his 78th birthday). Prior to the presidency, he served as Governor of California in the late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Before that, he had a career in acting.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140605175232-vo-nancy-reagan-wreath-laying-10th-anniversary-00005501-horizontal-gallery.jpg

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. –  Nancy Reagan has visited the California grave of her husband, President Ronald Reagan, on the tenth anniversary of his death.

June 6th 2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

June 5, 2004:

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93, following complications from Alzheimer Disease. He was the oldest person elected to the presidency (69 when first elected in 1980, 73 when reelected in 1984), and the oldest person to be president (left office on Inauguration Day 1989, just 2 1/2 weeks before his 78th birthday). Prior to the presidency, he served as Governor of California in the late 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Before that, he had a career in acting.


that day not to be forgotten.  :(

that day not to be forgotten.  :(

And all during the following week, his body was taken across the country and back. On the 7th, two days after his passing, his body was transported to the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA, for a brief private funeral ceremony, and lay there for two more days, whereupon it was flown across the country to Washington, DC, to "lie in state" for public viewing. Finally, on the morning of the 11th, a state funeral was conducted in the Washington National Cathedral, and presided over by then-President George W. Bush (who had declared that day a National Day of Mourning). The casket was immediately flown back across the U.S. to California, and ultimately laid to rest at his Presidential Library.

June 8th 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

June 11th 2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

June 11th 2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.


...and Ronald Reagan was finally laid to rest in Simi Valley, California, near his presidential library. The procession up there was semi-local to me, so I remember it quite well.

June 24th 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.

...and Ronald Reagan was finally laid to rest in Simi Valley, California, near his presidential library. The procession up there was semi-local to me, so I remember it quite well.
One of my photos of my visit to the Presidential Library

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/IMAG0439.jpg

One of my photos of my visit to the Presidential Library

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/IMAG0439.jpg

I still have not yet visited that place, but it might be interesting.

I still have not yet visited that place, but it might be interesting.
I was moved by visiting there, especially as I lived through the time he served as President, and now wish to visit other Presidential Libraries.

I was moved by visiting there, especially as I lived through the time he served as President, and now wish to visit other Presidential Libraries.

I also lived through the time he served as President, even though it accounted for most of my childhood. Also, he's the first U.S. president who I have memories of (seeing in the news, on tv, etc.), given that I was only six months old when he took office.

As for other Presidential Libraries, there are 12 others currently in existence, and they are in various U.S. states, mainly the state where the president had established residency. (For example, the most recent Presidential Library to open was that of George W. Bush, who lived in Texas, just like his father, George H.W. Bush.)

I also lived through the time he served as President, even though it accounted for most of my childhood. Also, he's the first U.S. president who I have memories of (seeing in the news, on tv, etc.), given that I was only six months old when he took office.

As for other Presidential Libraries, there are 12 others currently in existence, and they are in various U.S. states, mainly the state where the president had established residency. (For example, the most recent Presidential Library to open was that of George W. Bush, who lived in Texas, just like his father, George H.W. Bush.)
I had my heart set on visiting The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA, but our visit to Boston was during the Shutdown last year.

July 4th 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

July 13, 2004: The MLB All-Star Game was played at Minute Maid Park, the home of the Houston Astros, who were then part of the NL. The ceremonial first pitch was thrown by Muhammad Ali. The actual game was won by the American League, 9-4. Alfonso Soriano, then a member of the Texas Rangers, was named MVP. In the top of the first inning, the American League hit for the cycle; for the record, this was the first time in All-Star game history for this feat to occur.

July 16th 2004 – Chicago's Millennium Park, currently the world's largest rooftop garden, opened.

September 7, 2004: Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85% of the island. :\'(

October 23, 2004: The Boston Red Sox won Game One of the World Series, en route to breaking an 86-year curse.

October 27, 2004: The Boston Red Sox completed a World Series sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, ending an 86-year drought without a World Series championship. (They would win another title 3 years later, and another one six years after that.)

Nov 2, 2004: George W. Bush was reelected, following a disputed recount in the state of Ohio.

December 26, 2004: the Indian Ocean Earthquake (9.3 on the Richter scale) and deadly tsunami. It caused devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000. :\'(

January 10, 2005:

A mudslide occurred in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days. :\'( Dozens of homes were damaged (some completely destroyed) in the process.

Complete info on the landslide can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_La_Conchita_landslide

In fact, the greater Los Angeles area received plenty of rain during this time.

January 14th 2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.

January 14th 2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.

My maternal grandmother's mother (my great-grandma) would have turned 100 that day if she'd still been alive. :\'( (She passed away in 1988.)

2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.

...Also, I think ^ was starting to become a "regular" member on this site right around that time! :)

...Also, I think ^ was starting to become a "regular" member on this site right around that time! :)
After a slow start, I was soon on my way.

After a slow start, I was soon on my way.

I remember starting to see posts from you in early '05. And now, ten years later, we are both still actively posting! :)

2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world

2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world

Wow! :o

I would never have guessed that someone that old could still have a baby. That is amazing.

January 21st 2005 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

January 26, 2005: The 2005 Glendale Train Crash

On January 26, 2005, at 6:03 a.m. PST, southbound Metrolink commuter train #100 collided with a suv that had been abandoned on the tracks immediately south of the Chevy Chase Drive grade crossing and near a Costco retail store on the Glendale-Los Angeles boundary, in an industrial area, north of downtown Los Angeles. The train jackknifed and struck trains on either side of it—one a stationary Union Pacific freight train, and the other a northbound Metrolink train (#901) traveling in the opposite direction. The chain-reaction collisions resulted in the deaths of 11 people. Among the first responders to the accident were employees of the Costco store, adjacent to the accident site, who placed calls to 9-1-1 and climbed the bordering fence to aid the victims.

Juan Manuel Álvarez, who left his Jeep Cherokee Sport vehicle parked on the tracks, was arrested and charged with 11 counts of murder with "special circumstances." Authorities and Álvarez's legal defense claimed Álvarez was planning to commit suicide, but changed his mind at the last minute. Álvarez was convicted in June 2008 of the eleven counts plus one count of arson, and though prosecutors sought a death sentence, was sentenced in August 2008 to 11 consecutive life sentences in prison with no possibility of parole.

A total of 11 passengers were killed in the collision, while between 100 and 200 people were injured. In terms of casualties, the crash had the same death toll as the Bourbonnais train accident on March 15, 1999, making it the deadliest U.S. train crash in almost six years.

January 30, 2014: Former UK Labour Culture Secretary, Chris Smith, states he has been HIV positive for 17 years.

February 6, 2005: Super Bowl XXXIX at Everbank Field (then known as Alltel Stadium) in Jacksonville, FL; New England Patriots defeated Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21.

February 14th 2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

February 14th 2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.


Happy Birthday YouTube.

Happy Birthday YouTube.

Wow...ten years it's been around. Doesn't seem like that long at all. :o

2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

Dailymotion, just like YouTube debuted on the internet.

April 2, 2005: Pope John Paul II passed away, age 84.

April 2, 2005: Pope John Paul II passed away, age 84.

...and then on the 19th, Joe Ratzinger, who took the name Benedict XVI, was elected to be the new pope; his papal inauguration would take place five days later. (He would resign the post 8 years later, in 2013.)

April 23rd 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".

2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.

April 23rd 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".

I bet that might've been interesting.

However, it wasn't until a year later that I started getting acquainted with Youtube.

April 23rd 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".

I bet that might've been interesting.

However, it wasn't until a year later that I started getting acquainted with Youtube.

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^ Excellent!

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Can't believe that was a decade ago. :o

2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.

May 21st 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

May 26, 2005: American actor and singer Eddie Albert passed away from pneumonia at the age of 99. :\'(

May 26, 2005: American actor and singer Eddie Albert passed away from pneumonia at the age of 99. :\'(

Then his son Edward Albert died; died a year later! :\'( :\'(

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Also, there was a rather forgettable remake of The Longest Yard released 10 years ago today.

May 30th 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.

Can you believe that Crazy Frog's "Axel F" was at the number one spot in the charts!

June 6th 2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.

June 6th 2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.

I remember hearing about that.


That was also the day that I officially changed my academic major to Liberal Arts. I visited the CSUN campus, went to the Liberal Arts department office, and met with an advisor who was very helpful. And I'm still in touch with her today. :)

June 27, 2005: Ray Holmes, a British fighter pilot who was feted by the press as a war hero who saved Buckingham Palace from being severely damaged by German bombing during the Battle of Britain, died at the age of 90, following a two-year battle with cancer. :\'(

July 2nd 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa, More than 1,000 musicians performed and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

July 4th 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.

July 7th 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

July 7th 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.


Weren't' they awarded the Olympics like the same day as the bombing

Weren't' they awarded the Olympics like the same day as the bombing
The announcement was on the previous day, the bombers hit when London was on a high.

July 7th 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

A very sad event. :\'(

July 10th 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.

July 17th 2005 - Tiger Woods captured his second British Open championship and became the second player in golf history to win the career Grand Slam twice.

July 18th 2005 – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President George W. Bush announced the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement, a bilateral treaty on civil nuclear cooperation between their two countries.

July 19th 2005 - James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're Beautiful', from his debut album 'Back To Bedlam'. The UK singer songwriters first No.1, spent 5 weeks at the top of the charts.

July 19th 2005 - James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're Beautiful', from his debut album 'Back To Bedlam'. The UK singer songwriters first No.1, spent 5 weeks at the top of the charts.

I remember that; of course, it was later in the year when it began climbing the U.S. charts (ultimately reaching #1 there too).

I remember that; of course, it was later in the year when it began climbing the U.S. charts (ultimately reaching #1 there too).
I remember it too, I used to listen in case the radio music stations played the wrong version.

July 21st 2005 - UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. He was one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game.

July 24th 2005 - Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

July 24th 2005 - Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
We all know what happened next?

We all know what happened next?

He later got stripped of his titles when he was caught using naughty drugs :o

He later got stripped of his titles when he was caught using naughty drugs :o
There is a good documentary on that very subject entitled "The Armstrong Lie".

There is a good documentary on that very subject entitled "The Armstrong Lie".

...which might be worth checking out.

July 24th 2005 - Tom Watson parred the third playoff hole to beat Des Smyth and won the Senior British Open Championship for the second time.

July 24th 2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.

July 28th 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a United Ireland.

July 29th 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

July 30, 2005 - Thousands of Czech riot police disperse the crowd at the annual free electronic music festival "CzechTek", leaving dozens injured.

August 2nd 2005 – Air France Flight 358 crashes at Pearson Airport in Toronto; all passengers and crew survive.

August 3rd 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Mayor of theran, began his term as the sixth President of Iran.

August 3rd 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

August 7th 2005 - James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘You're Beautiful’, Mariah Carey was at No.1 on the US charts with ‘We Belong Together’ and Axel F had ‘Crazy Frog’ at No.1 on the Australian singles charts.

August 7th 2005 - James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘You're Beautiful’, Mariah Carey was at No.1 on the US charts with ‘We Belong Together’ and Axel F had ‘Crazy Frog’ at No.1 on the Australian singles charts.

Also on that day, TV journalist Peter Jennings passed away at the age of 67 from cancer. :\'( He was a native of Canada and began his love for broadcasting while still a child. In the 1960s he moved to the U.S. and became a successful broadcaster for ABC News.

Also on that day, TV journalist Peter Jennings passed away at the age of 67 from cancer. :\'( He was a native of Canada and began his love for broadcasting while still a child. In the 1960s he moved to the U.S. and became a successful broadcaster for ABC News.

Yeah, That was so sad!!! R.I.P. Peter! :\'( :\'( :\'(

Yeah, That was so sad!!! R.I.P. Peter! :\'( :\'( :\'(

I know; hard to believe he's been gone ten years already!

I know; hard to believe he's been gone ten years already!

Him, Brokaw and Rather were all influential in me getting my news when I'd come home from school, after watching my kids network shows on Toonami and Nick, I'd watch their news when I would be with my grandparents! They don't make em like THAT anymore! All were class acts.

I know; hard to believe he's been gone ten years already!


He was a favorite.

August 12th 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.

August 15th 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

August 15th 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending 28 years of fighting.

August 18th 2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.

August 19th 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.

August 19, 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

At this exact moment, the National Weather Service in Slidell, LA, disseminated a weather bulletin for the New Orleans region, graphically detailing the impending doom of Hurricane Katrina. It was explicitly worded in a way that was unheard of before, and has yet to be matched again:

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WWUS74 KLIX 281550
NPWLIX

URGENT — WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28, 2005

...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH... RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES
AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

At this exact moment, the National Weather Service in Slidell, LA, disseminated a weather bulletin for the New Orleans region, graphically detailing the impending doom of Hurricane Katrina. It was explicitly worded in a way that was unheard of before, and has yet to be matched again:

And today is the 10th anniversary of the day it touched land. :\'( :\'(

September 6th 2005 - Sir Bob Geldof was awarded the freedom of his native Dublin after the City Council voted in favour of giving him the accolade in honour of his campaign against world poverty and alleviating debt in Africa

September 6th 2005 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.

September 9th 2005 - Terry Howard a studio engineer who had been accused of stealing recordings belonging to late soul singer Ray Charles was cleared of all charges in a Los Angeles court. Howard who had worked for Charles for 20 years had been arrested in February after dozens of recordings belonging to Ray Charles Enterprises were seized from his home.

A day late, but...

October 9, 2005: The then-longest MLB postseason game in terms of both innings (18) AND time (5 hours, 50 minutes) was played, namely Game Four of the NLDS between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros; in the 18th inning, the Astros scored the winning run to win the series and advance to the NLCS.

(Nine years later, in 2014, Game Two between the San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals would also go 18 innings, but break the record for longest MLB postseason game in terms of time, at 6 hours and 23 minutes.)

October 10, 2005: The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels played the fifth and final game of that year's ALDS, with the Angels winning 5-3 and moving on to the ALCS against the Chicago White Sox.

October 26, 2005: Chicago White Sox completed a World Series sweep of the Houston Astros, securing their first championship in 88 years. (46 years earlier, in 1959, was their previous appearance, but they lost to the Dodgers in 6 games.)

December 31, 2005: Another second is added, 23:59:60, called a leap second, to end the year 2005. The last time this occurred was on June 30, 1998.

January 1, 2006: Russia cuts the shipment of natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.

January 2, 2006: Unusually large tornado outbreak in Eastern North America, 6 people die.

Jan. 2, 2006: For the first time since 1995, the Tournament Of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is held on the second day of the year, due to New Year's Day falling on a Sunday. This was also the first time in several years that it rained during the parade (but the overall rainfall was light).

January 14th 2006 - American actor and stand-up comic Jamie Foxx started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with his second album 'Unpredictable.'

January 16th 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

January 18th 2006 - Animals in Michael Jackson's private zoo were declared to be in good health after officials paid a surprise visit to the singer's Neverland ranch. A medical officer from the US department of agriculture inspected the property following concerns voiced by the animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Jackson had earlier moved out of Neverland and had taken up residence in Bahrain in the Middle East.

January 19th 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.

January 20th 2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.

January 22nd 2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

January 22nd 2006 – Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 81 points in an NBA game versus the Toronto Raptors, the second highest total in NBA history.

January 22nd 2006 – Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 81 points in an NBA game versus the Toronto Raptors, the second highest total in NBA history.

January 22nd 2006 - Arctic Monkeys scored their second UK No.1 single with 'When The Sun Goes Down', from their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. The song contains the line, "and he told Roxanne to put on her red light," a reference to The Police song, Roxanne.

January 25th 2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.

January 25th 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

January 27th 2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.

January 27th 2006 - Gene McFadden, R&B vocalist and songwriter, best known as half of the Philly soul team McFadden & Whitheead, died of cancer at the age of 56. The duo had the 1979 hit 'Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now', which sold more than 8 million copies and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

January 28th 2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

January 29th 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

January 29th 2006 – Arctic Monkeys went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album 'Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not'. The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release. The album's title was taken from a line from the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning written by Alan Sillitoe.

February 2, 2006... on this message board, I reached 50,000 postings in the morning, but later in the day I suddenly dropped back below 50,000; this was because a thread on which I had contributed to had been deleted. So the next day I regained the milestone and never looked back.

February 5, 2006 - Super Bowl XL (first Super Bowl with an 'L' in its roman numeral) at Ford Field in Detroit: Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Seattle Seahawks 10.

February 8, 2006 - At the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, punk band Green Day won the award for Record Of The Year for their song "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"; U2 won awards for Album Of The Year (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb), Song Of The Year ("Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own") and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (same song).

February 10th 2006 - American record producer and MC James Dewitt Yancey, (A.K.A. J Dilla or Jay Dee), died of a rare blood disease, at his home in Los Angeles, California. Yancey had toured Europe in 2005 performing from a wheelchair.

February 12th 2006 - Meck feat Leo Sayer was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Thunder In My Heart (Again)'. DJ Meck's remix of Leo Sayer's September 1977 hit which only reached No. 22.

In Feb 2006, the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, were going on.

February 15th 2006 - Winners at this year's Brit Awards included, James Blunt who won British male solo artist, British female solo artist went to KT Tunstall. Coldplay won Best British album for X&Y and Best British single for 'Speed of Sound.' Kaiser Chiefs won Best British group and Best British Live Act, British urban act went to Lemar, British breakthrough act was Arctic Monkeys, International breakthrough act was won by Jack Johnson. International male solo artist was Kanye West with Madonna winning International female solo artist. Green Day won International group and Best International album with American Idiot and Outstanding contribution to music went to Paul Weller.

February 16th 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Feb. 16th, 2006 - U.N. human rights investigators have called for the closure of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. A U.N. report on the camp says that the U.S. should try or free all inmates. It says that some aspects of the prisoners' treatment amounts to torture. Washington has rejected the call for closure, with a White House spokesman saying that the facility houses extremely dangerous terrorists. The White House has reacted to the report by calling it 'a discredit to the UN,' and that it failed to examine the facts properly.

February 17th 2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.

February 19th 2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

February 22nd 2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

February 22nd 2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
A day I remember well, I had a friend who lives nearby and he walked the streets looking for money flying or lying on the ground.

February 24th 2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

February 25th 2006 - The 4th Annual TRL Awards were held in New York City. Madonna won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Bono won the Most Inspired Artist/Humanitarian Award. Other winners included Fall Out Boy, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Ashlee Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Amanda Bynes, and My Chemical Romance.

February 25th 2006 - George Michael was found slumped over in a car in Hyde Park, London. A concerned person spotted the singer and called police who after being checked by paramedics was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and then released on bail. Michael made a public statement about the incident and said "I was in possession of class C drugs which is an offense and I have no complaints about the police who were professional throughout." He also said that the event was "my own stupid fault, as usual."

February 28th 2006 - Two stewards were shot during a concert by rapper Kanye West at the NEC in Birmingham, England. Police said the shootings took place after people who tried to gain entrance without tickets were escorted from the arena. A man, who had no ticket, entered the foyer and was ejected, he then returned and shot at the stewards, one was in a serious condition after being shot in the face.

March 1st 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

March 3rd 2006 - In Tokyo, Japan, the opener of the World Baseball Classic took place.

March 6, 2006: Former Minnesota Twins slugger/outfielder Kirby Puckett, who played for said team his whole MLB career (1984-1995) and was a 2001 Hall-Of-Fame inductee, passed away from a hemorrhage at age 45, just eight days shy of his 46th birthday. :\'( He helped the Twins to their two World Series titles in 1987 and 1991.

March 7th 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

March 8th 2006 - NFL owners and the players' union agreed on a union proposal which extended the collective bargaining agreement for six years.

March 10th 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

March 11th 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

March 11th 2006 - The Disney Channel Original Movie, 'High School Musical' was at No.1 on the US album chart. The album went on to break all records for a soundtrack selling over 7 million copies worldwide. A No.1 album In Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

March 14th 2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.

[March 20th 2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.

March 21st 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.

March 22nd 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

March 25th 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

March 25th 2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

March 25th 2006 - Buck Owens Jr, American singer and guitarist died. He pioneered the Bakersfield sound, a reference to Bakersfield, California. He scored twenty No.1 hits on the Billboard country music charts.

March 30th 2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.

April 2nd 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.

April 2nd 2006 - A John Lennon schoolbook containing the 12-year-old's drawing of Lewis Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter was sold at auction for £126,500, ($239,733). The poem inspired Lennon to write The Beatles' 1967 song ‘I Am the Walrus’. Also sold for £12,000, ($22,741) was a ship's log book written by Lennon during a stormy trip to Bermuda in 1980, and a letter from Paul McCartney to his bandmates Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr failed to reach its £50,000, ($94,742) reserve price.

...Also on that date, the U.S. changed their clocks to Daylight Saving Time for the final time in April. (The following year, 2007, the start of DST would be moved to the 2nd week in March. It's been that way ever since.)

April 6th 2006 - The trial filed by Apple Corps against Apple Computer concluded. The judge was expected to rended his decision in the following month. The suit was based on a 1991 agreement between the companies that would keep Apple Computer out of the music business. The suit claimed that Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store was in violation of the agreement.

April 6th 2006 - Eminem filed for divorce from his wife Kim less than three months after the couple re-married. Eminem first married his high school sweetheart Kimberly Scott in 1999. He fantasised about her death in his 2000 hit 'Kim' and their first marriage ended the following year. The couple remarried on 14 January 2006. Eminem was seeking joint custody of their 10-year-old daughter Hailie Jade Scott.

April 8th 2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.

April 11th 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

April 11th 2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

It was also approximately that day when I last posted a lyrics quiz in the Penguin Quizzes section.

April 18th 2006 - A sale of clothes belonging to Sir Elton John raised more than $700,000 (£395,000) for the singer's Aids charity. Over 10,000 pieces were sold during a five-day sale in New York City at the specially-created shop, Elton's Closet, at New York's Rockefeller Centre

April 18th 2006 - A line from U2's 1992 hit 'One' was voted the UK's favourite song lyric after in a poll of 13,000 people by music channel VH1. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" came top. The Smiths lyric "So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" from the song 'How Soon is Now' came second in the poll, followed by "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us", from Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' which was voted into third place.

April 19th 2006 - BBC TV in the UK aired The McCartney's v The Fur Trade a program following the couple's anti-fur trade protests.

April 20th 2006 - Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty was arrested in east London on suspicion of drugs possession only hours after a court appearance. Doherty had earlier admitted to seven charges of possessing drugs when he appeared before magistrates in east London. He was given a community order with two years supervision and 18 months drug rehabilitation and was also banned from driving for six months.

April 21st 2006 - The Soul2Soul II Tour 2006 a co-headlining tour between country music singers, and husband and wife, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill kicked off at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus ending after 73 shows on September 3, 2006 in Las Vegas. The tour became the highest grossing country music tour ever with a gross of $90 million

April 27th 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.

April 27th 2006 - In Fiji, Keith Richards (Rolling Stones was admitted to a hospital after he reportedly suffered a head injury when he fell out of a palm tree.

May 5th 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.