Yes folks, as 2020 starts, the phrase "10 years ago" now goes back to 2010!

January 1st 2010:

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area.

North Korea calls for the end of hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free Korean Peninsula, to restart talks; in its annual New Year editorial.

Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.

On January 1, 2010, I was in a hotel in the mountains with my parents and family friends for New Years Day.

10 years ago we were in the middle of a very cold winter in the UK. We had our first white Christmas for years in December 2009 and January 2010 was the coldest January for 31 years. I was 14 at the time snd it was the most snow I had ever seen (until the following December, that is).

January 11th 2010 - Retired US baseball star Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals admits to using steroids during his career, including when he broke the sport's home run record in 1998.

January 12th 2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.

January 12th 2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.

10 years already? RIP to all of the lost souls.  :\'(

January 14th 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

January 21st 2010 - It was announced that Conan O'Brien would be leaving NBC's "Tonight Show."

January 24th 2010: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board. :\'(

January 27th 2010, American author J.D. Salinger passed away at the age of 91. (He was born on New Year's Day 1919.)

February 8th 2010: A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.

February 13th 2010 - Over 15,000 American, British and Afghan troops launch the biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.

February 18th 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.

February 20th 2010: In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.

Elsewhere, the Vancouver Winter Olympics were going on.

February 25th 2010 - Apple announced that it had surpassed 10 billion song downloads from the iTunes Store. The 10 billionth song was "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash.

February 27th 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.

February 27th 2010, U2 raked in more money than any other music act in the US in 2009 making $109m (£71m) from touring, record sales and other royalties, almost twice as much as the second best, Bruce Springsteen who took home $58m (£38m), followed by Madonna with $47m (£31m) and AC/DC with $44m (£29m). Coldplay were the most successful British group, at number eight, with takings of $27m (£18m).

March 9th 2010: The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason-Dixon line took place in the District of Columbia.

March 10th 2010, Pink Floyd won a court battle with EMI that prevented the record company from selling single downloads and ringtones on the Internet from the group's albums. Pink Floyd's back catalogue was second only in sales to The Beatles.

March 12th 2010, Over 130 people were arrested and eight people were hospitalised as fans tried to gatecrash a Metallica show in Colombia. 1,500 police and four tanks were brought in to manage the crowds as property was vandalized and destroyed, as thousands of ticketless fans rioted during Metallica's first Colombian concert in eleven years.

March 13th 2010 - (to March 22) The 10th Winter Paralympic Games take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Over 500 athletes from 44 countries participate in five events.

March 14th 2010, Phil Blake of UK indie band Redtrack returned to his career as the bassist with the band after he underwent a pioneering operation to reattach his hand after it was hacked to the bone in a machete attack. Blake thought he would never play guitar again after a teenage robber hacked through his arm when he refused to hand over a mobile phone.

March 15th 2010, Sony Music announced the biggest recording deal in history with the estate of Michael Jackson worth more than $200m (£133m). The deal involved 10 album projects over seven year's including one of previously unreleased material. Sony had sold about 31 million copies of Jackson's albums worldwide since his death on 25 June, 2009.

March 18th 2010 - The first episode of "Justified" aired on FX.

March 16th 2010, ABBA were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Genesis and The Hollies. Abba's Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad accepted their trophies, in New York.

March 23rd 2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama signs a landmark US$938 billion health-care reform bill in a White House ceremony. Opposition Republicans vowed to repeal the legislation, and 13 states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the constitutionality of the legislation. The law is said to make coverage possible for more than 30 million uninsured Americans and end discrimination by insurance companies against people with existing medical conditions.

Beat me to it. A landmark achievement in American history.  :)

Beat me to it. A landmark achievement in American history.  :)
No problem, I was just being informative.

March 26th 2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.

March 26th 2010 - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree to a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty limits both sides to 1,550 warheads, a cut of 25 percent for the Americans and 30 percent for the Russians. Once the treaty is ratified, each side would have seven years to carry out the reductions.

March 28th 2010 - China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo car unit.

March 29th 2010 - In Japan, the Tokyo Skytree tower became the tallest structure in Japan when it reached 1,109 feet.

April 1st 2010 - The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians by 21%.

April 3rd 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

April 8th 2010 - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. The treaty commits the countries to each reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550, 30 percent lower than the previous ceiling.

April 15th 2010 - At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US President Barack Obama announces details of his new policy for the US space agency NASA. New spacecraft with new rocket booster systems are to be built so that by 2025 manned missions can extend beyond the Moon, and to Mars and back by the mid-2030s. New funding would amount to US$6 billion over the next five years.

April 16th 2010 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges Goldman Sachs Group with fraud over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product. Goldman Sachs shares drop 12.8 percent, closing down $23.57 at $160.70 on the New York Stock Exchange.

April 20th 2010 - The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline.

April 20th 2010 - The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline.


I remember that event back then. It was such a tragedy for both humans and marine life.  :\'(

April 21st 2010 – The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.

April 22nd 2010 - The Boeing X-37 began its first orbital mission. It successfully returned to Earth on December 3, 2010.

April 22nd 2010 - The Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the Louisiana coast sinks into the Gulf of Mexico two days after an explosion tore through it.

April 23rd 2010 - The X-37B unmanned military prototype space plane is launched atop an Atlas V rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 9m long reusable space plane is about one-quarter the size of the space shuttle.

April 24th 2010 - The U.S. Coast Guard discovers that an estimated 1000 barrels per day of oil is leaking from the damaged well underneath the rig that exploded off Louisiana's shore on April 20th.

May 5th 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.

May 6th 2010 – In just 36 minutes DOW Jones plunged nearly a 1000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.

May 7th 2010 – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.

May 7th 2010 – Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD.

May 14th 2010 - Rare Coin Wholesalers of California sells a USA 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar coin graded SP-66 PCGS to Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation of California for US$7.85 million. The price is a new world record for a single US coin.

May 14th 2010 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to deliver a Russian module and spare parts to the International Space Station.

May 14th 2010 - The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to deliver a Russian module and spare parts to the International Space Station.


Atlantis was also the last ever flight in the Space Shuttle program a year later.  :\'(

May 14th 2010 - NBC confirmed it had cancelled "Law and Order." The show began airing on September 6, 1990.

May 15th 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

May 19th 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

May 19th 2010, 'Stairway To Heaven' was named the UK's favourite rock song in a survey by listeners to radio station Absolute Classic Rock. Led Zeppelin had two other tracks in the top 10; ‘Whole Lotta Love’ was voted at No. 4 and ‘Rock 'n' Roll’, from the group’s fourth album, was at No. 7.

May 20th 2010 - Five paintings worth 100 million Euro were stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

May 20th 2010 - Scientists announced that they had created a functional synthetic genome.

May 26th 2010 - NASA's Atlantis space shuttle lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after completing its 32nd and likely final mission, delivering a Russian module and spare equipment to the International Space Station.

May 27th 2010 - Universal Studios reopened its backlot. The area had been destroyed by a fire two years before.

May 31st 2010: Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Esmerling Vasquez committed a balk in the bottom of the ninth against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, allowing Casey Blake to score the winning run. The mishap was known as a "balk-off".

June 2nd 2010 - Ken Griffey Junior of the Seattle Mariners retires from Major League Baseball at age 40. Griffey ranks fifth on the career home run list with 630, won an MVP award and was a Gold Glover.

June 2nd 2010 - Ken Griffey Junior of the Seattle Mariners retires from Major League Baseball at age 40. Griffey ranks fifth on the career home run list with 630, won an MVP award and was a Gold Glover.

The same day, also in Major League Baseball, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was one out away from a perfect game, but umpire James Joyce mistakenly called the 27th batter safe at first base. (If "instant replay" had been implemented back then, the call would have most likely been overturned and Galarraga would have been awarded a perfect game.)

June 4th 2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.

June 8th 2010 - The pilot episode of "Pretty Little Liars" aired on ABC Family.

June 10th 2010 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.

June 11th 2010 - ESPN launched ESPN 3D.

June 11th 2010 - ESPN launched ESPN 3D.

And on that very same day, I had quite a fun time at my work. ;D This was when a few coworkers of mine were fooling around with a cardboard cutout of Goofy: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=31276.msg2436195#msg2436195

(The picture is no longer inside the message, but I have just add an attached version of it.)

June 13th 2010: A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.

June 16th 2010: The Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan came into force, banning the sale and production of tobacco in the country.

June 17th 2010, during the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Disaster:
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. Congress, apologizing for the spill but avoiding answering most questions and stating that he was unaware of the risks at the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in April causing the oil spill.
BP could be forced to file for bankruptcy protection in preparation for civil and criminal fines exceeding $US 40 billion.

June 22nd 2010 - The hockey sweater worn by Paul Henderson during the 1972 Summit Series Team Canada win over the Societ Union sells at auction for US$1,275,000, the most ever paid for a hockey sweater.

June 23rd 2010, 62-year-old Gregg Allman underwent a successful liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Allman had begun a series of treatments for Hepatitis C, but chronic damage of his liver led doctors to recommend a transplant. In a statement to the press, Allman said "I changed my ways years ago, but we can't turn back time. Every day is a gift."

June 24th 2010 - Apple released the iPhone 4.

Also on June 24th 2010, the L.A. Dodgers salvaged a game in their "Freeway Series" with the L.A. Angels. This was the day of teams' sixth and final game of the year. Dodgers won the game 10-6 to avert a season series sweep at the hands of the Angels. However, the Dodgers started a very weak pitcher, Charlie Haeger (who couldn't pitch his way out of a paper bag, lol), since they didn't have many decent starters. Haeger was lifted during the 5th inning, but the Dodgers managed to eke out a victory, as stated above.

June 27th 2010, the Dodgers were in line to win a game against the Yankees, but the bullpen screwed it up in the late innings, denying Clayton Kershaw a win that he deserved. >:(

June 29th 2010 - The S&P 500 stock market index drops to its lowest level in eight months, 1050.47. The Dow Jones industrial average loses 268.22 points, or 2.65 percent, to 9,870.30. The Nasdaq Composite Index drops 85.47 points, or 3.85 percent, to 2,135.18.

June 29th 2010 - Larry King announced he would be ending his CNN program "Larry King Live" in the fall.

July 9th 2010 - Russia and the US stage an exchange of spies in Vienna, Austria; the US transfers ten spies, and Russia releases four spies, the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

I meant to post this yesterday, but I never got around to it...

July 13th 2010, the National League won the MLB All-Star Game for the first time since 1996.

July 25th 2010 - WikiLeaks published 75,000 classified documents about the War in Afghanistan in one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

July 29th 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.

September 7th 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.

September 7th, 2010 - Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep for PSP releases.

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I f---ing loved this game  :D

September 9th 2010: A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded and "shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet (300 m) in the air", killing eight people. :o

October 6th 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

October 6th 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

Also on that day, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw the second no-hitter in MLB postseason history. He allowed only one Reds batter to reach base, and that was on a walk.

(It was the first postseason no-hitter in 54 years. The only other one was Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.)

10 years ago today, the date was 10/10/10!

10 years ago today, the date was 10/10/10!

...and what happened on that day?

In sports, the Philadelphia Phillies finished off a sweep of the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Division Series.
Australian soprano and actress Joan Sutherland passed away four weeks shy of turning 84.
American singer-songwriter and preacher Solomon Burke passed away at the age of 70.
The cable TV channel Discovery Kids flipped to The Hub. (It would flip to Discovery Family in 2014.)
Works of art created by 30 celebrated Iranian artists go on sale at Bonhams auction house in Dubai.

October 14th 2010, no MLB games were played. (Each of the League Division Series had finished up the previous day, and the American League Championship Series began the next day.)

October 27th 2010, the World Series began at AT&T Park (now Oracle Park) in San Francisco. It was the first time that the National League had home field advantage since 2001, due to an All-Star Game rule that was implemented in 2003. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers (a team making its World Series debut) by a score of 11-7.

This was also the first time that a team that won the National League West division title reached the World Series since the Arizona Diamondbacks did so exactly 9 years earlier, in 2001. (The 2002 Giants and the 2007 Rockies were both wildcard winners.)

October 30th 2010, Game Three of the World Series was played. The Rangers won it 4-2 (the team's first time winning a World Series game). The game had a special start time of 6pm Central Time (4pm Pacific Time).

November 1st 2010: In MLB, the Giants finally won a World Series for the first time as the San Francisco Giants. They defeated the Texas Rangers in Game Five to capture the title. Veteran shortstop Edgar Renteria was named series MVP. (Coincidentally, 13 years earlier he knocked in the series-winning single for the Miami Marlins to capture the 1997 World Series title. And in 2004 he was the final batter of the World Series again, this time for the St. Louis Cardinals as he grounded out to Boston pitcher Keith Foulke to end Game 4, giving Boston a sweep. But in 2010 with the Giants, he made key contributions that earned him the WS MVP honors.)

December 4th 2010: Los Angeles Dodgers ace pitcher Clayton Kershaw married his wife Ellen.

December 8th 2010 – With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

December 8th 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.

December 11, 2010: Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.

December 22nd 2010 -  The repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

December 26th 2010, American disco singer Teena Marie passed away at the age of 54. :\'(

December 31st 2010 - Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages. :o

A little early here, but not necessarily in other areas...

January 1st 2011: Estonia adopts the Euro, becoming the 17th Eurozone country.

January 3rd 2011: The 111th United States Congress ended, and the 112th one began.

January 4th 2011, Scottish rock singer Gerry Rafferty passed away at the age of 63. :\'(

January 8th 2011 - Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.

Ten years ago today, the date was written in American shorthand as 1/11/11!

Ten years ago today, the date was written in American shorthand as 1/11/11!
...and for the UK it would read as 11/1/11.

...and for the UK it would read as 11/1/11.

Personally, I don't like that format. Day before month, when written numerically, confuses me (therefore I would tend to read that as November 1st). In fact, in many cases I have utilized the YYYY-MM-DD format, especially for naming document files.

Not to worry though, in 10 months we will see the 10th anniversary of 11/11/11!

Personally, I don't like that format. Day before month, when written numerically, confuses me (therefore I would tend to read that as November 1st). In fact, in many cases I have utilized the YYYY-MM-DD format, especially for naming document files.

Not to worry though, in 10 months we will see the 10th anniversary of 11/11/11!
I have grown up with using that format, so I am will used to it. But when travelling around the world it did confusing for me.

I have grown up with using that format, so I am will used to it. But when travelling around the world it did confusing for me.

I don't know why the format has to be different in parts of the world.

I mean, I'm all for writing day before the month when using the month name (spelled out or abbreviated), such as "11 Jan(uary) 2021". :)

January 15th 2011 - Rafael Ramírez, energy minister for Venezuela, a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, played down concern that rising oil prices may choke off the world's still-tentative recovery, and said there is no need of an emergency meeting of OPEC.

January 27th 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.

January 31st 2011: The price of oil rises above $100 for the first time since 2008 as traders worry about possible disruption to the Suez Canal as a result of events in Egypt.

Also on January 31st 2011: House of Representatives (Myanmar) is established. It is the lower house of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the bicameral legislature of Myanmar (Burma).

February 1st 2011, California radio station KVEN (Ventura, CA) changed formats, from music (specifically, oldies) to sports talk, becoming an affiliate of the ESPN Radio Network.

February 6th 2011 - Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas: NFC champion Green Bay Packers defeated AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers by a score of 31 to 25.

February 6th 2011 - Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas: NFC champion Green Bay Packers defeated AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers by a score of 31 to 25.

...and the next day, the Fox Broadcasting Company coverage of it was reported to have broken the record for most viewed television program in the United States.

February 11th 2011 – Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 17 days of protests.

February 14th 2011: the Watson computer system competed on a special edition of the game show Jeopardy! against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

February 17th 2011: During the Arab Spring, Bahraini security forces killed four protesters in a pre-dawn raid at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, while a "Day of Rage" took place in Libya with nationwide protests against Muammar Gaddafi's government.

February 19th 2011: Items from the Belitung shipwreck, the largest single collection of Tang-dynasty artefacts found in one location, were first exhibited in Singapore.

March 9th 2011: the Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

This was also Ash Wednesday.

March 11th 2011 - A massive earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

March 12th 2011, A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

March 15th 2011, was when the Syrian Civil War began.

April 1st 2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

April 5th 2011 - A public civil partnership between a same-sex couple takes place in Dublin, the first time such an occurrence has happened in Ireland.

April 7th 2011 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.

April 19th 2011, Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

April 23rd 2011, The guest list for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is announced.

April 24th 2011, was Easter Sunday. It was the latest date that Easter fell on since 1943 (when it was on the 25th, the latest date it can possibly occur).

What happened on that day?

Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks and several independent news organizations.

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton!!

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton!!
A day I remember very well, I was given the day off work, and I spent the day watching it on television.

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton!!



A day I remember very well, I was given the day off work, and I spent the day watching it on television.


Time flies!  I remember taking in the event with much fascination.  (I don't recall getting a day off work, though.)  The Royal couple seemed perfect for each other.

A day I remember very well, I was given the day off work, and I spent the day watching it on television.

Time flies!  I remember taking in the event with much fascination.  (I don't recall getting a day off work, though.)  The Royal couple seemed perfect for each other.


I remember it as if it were a short time ago!

As I recall, it started in the morning London time, which was the "graveyard shift" hours in the States...but when I got out of bed and turned on the TV, the festivities were still going on.

A day I remember very well, I was given the day off work, and I spent the day watching it on television.

Time flies!  I remember taking in the event with much fascination.  (I don't recall getting a day off work, though.)  The Royal couple seemed perfect for each other.


I remember it as if it were a short time ago!

As I recall, it started in the morning London time, which was the "graveyard shift" hours in the States...but when I got out of bed and turned on the TV, the festivities were still going on.

The very next day, Saturday April 30th, the official wedding photos for the Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton by Hugo Bernand were published online.

May 1st 2011, Osama Ben Laden was shot and killed.

May 16th 2011 - STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

May 20th 2011 – Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post.

May 22nd 2011 - An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

May 28th 2011 - Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

June 1st 2011 – Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.

June 1st 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

June 18th 2011 - The "Beatles Anthology I" set became available on iTunes.

June 23rd 2011 - The pilot episode of "Suits" aired in the USA.

July 9th 2011:
South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
Derek Jeter achieved his 3,000th career hit: a home run.

July 16th 2011, a long stretch of Interstate 405 freeway in California was closed down all day, in order to demolish the southern span of the Mulholland Drive Bridge (and eventually build a new one). This was known as Carmageddon because it was expected to have impacted traffic in the area, but most motorists stayed home and avoided the area altogether.

July 21st 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

July 31st 2011: President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders reach a deal on extending the debt ceiling.

Ten years ago today, on August 15th 2011, my little dog Chloe went to heaven. :\'( :\'( :\'(

I miss her every day.

August 28th, 2011-Tropical Storm Irene devastated our little state of Vermont.

These were pics I took shortly after:

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This one was taken almost a year later:

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The local media is having a "10 Years Later" bit and the stories pretty much have the same theme: Community. I read in this morning's paper about a couple who bought a farm in 2010 and their first growing season was 2011-that got wiped out by Irene. As they were thinking about moving and giving up on farming, there was a knock on the door and a stranger handed them a jar of coins and said, "Rebuild." So they did. Neighbors came together for neighbors.

There is a wonderful quote by Calvin Coolidge (who was from Vermont) that he said after a major flood in 1927:

I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

(The bold is my emphasis. It is the part that I REALLY love.)

If was after Irene that we adopted the motto: VERMONT STRONG! 


Cat

^ Wow. :o

11 September 2011: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opened, on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

September 19th 2011, Mariano Rivera surpassed Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time leader in the number of saves.

September 28th 2011:

On Closing Day of that year's MLB regular season, both wildcard races were decided in dramatic fashion. Cardinals overtook the Braves for the NL wildcard, and the Rays overtook the Red Sox for the AL wildcard.

In the American League, the Red Sox had a chance to capture it, but they blew the lead against the Baltimore Orioles in the 9th inning and the Rays came from behind in the 9th inning of their game to beat the Yankees.
And in the National League, the Braves had a chance to retain it, but they lost in extra innings to the Phillies, and the Cardinals did their part by blanking the Astros.

October 19th 2011, the World Series began. The opening game, played that night at Busch Stadium, saw the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers 3-2.

This is the most recent World Series to begin this early in the month. (The schedule was structured this way to prevent the World Series from spilling into November.)

October 23rd 2011, Game Four of the World Series was played between the Cardinals and Rangers. Albert Pujols hit 3 home runs to help the Cardinals win the game and tie the series at 2 games apiece.

October 27th 2011, Game Six of the World Series was played. (It was supposed to be played the previous day, but it was postponed due to inclement weather.) In the 9th inning of that game, the Rangers were one strike away from capturing their first title in franchise history, but David Freese hit a game-tying extra base hit which ultimately forced extra innings. In the top of the 10th, the Rangers scored a pair of runs to go up 9-7, and in the bottom of the 10th they were again one strike away from winning...but Lance Berkman of the Cardinals knocked in the tying run, and ultimately forced an 11th inning. The Rangers failed to score in the top of the 11th, but in the bottom of the inning, Freese once again stepped up to the plate, and this time he hit a solo walkoff home run, thus making a Game Seven necessary the following night.

Joe Buck, who was calling the game on television, said "We'll see you...tomorrow night!" when said home run was hit.

October 31st 2011 - The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.

January 9th 2012: CBS This Morning replaced The Early Show as the CBS network's morning TV news show.

It would run under that title until Labor Day 2021, after which it was replaced by CBS Mornings.

January 12th 2012 - Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.

And today marks ten years since the Concordia disaster. :\'( Obviously a very unlucky Friday the 13th for everyone involved with that.

January 22nd 2012 - Croatia held a referendum, in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.

February 5th 2012, Super Bowl XLVI was played; the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 21 to 17.

February 13th 2012 - The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency.

February 28th 2012: Voters in the US states of Michigan and Arizona go to the polls for Republican Party primaries, both of which were won by Mitt Romney.

The next day, Leap Day, Mr. Romney would win the Republican caucuses held in the US state of Wyoming.

March 5th 2012 - Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar. :o

April 11th 2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.

10 years ago today, we lost Carlos' dad & my dad. Yes, ON THE SAME DAY!!!!  :\'( :\'( :\'(  I was supposed to go down to be with my dad in D.C. the day after my birthday because he wasn't doing well (pancreatic cancer) and one of my sisters was there by herself. The day before we went (on my birthday), his dad ended up in the hospital here. We couldn't leave so my sister in Oklahoma took my place to be with our dad so my other sister wouldn't be there alone.

Here, his dad went into "comfort care" and we were basically on death watch. 11 days later, he finally crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( That evening, all of Carlos' kids (well the ones who live here in Vermont) came and made us dinner as we got ready for our trip to D.C. which would take place the next day. My sister kept calling me telling me that Dad was not doing well. She put the phone to his ear and I told him that I was coming the next day and to hang on. About 10 minutes after that phone call, the phone rang again and I said, "uh oh." I knew. Yup, it was my sister telling me that he also crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( We still went down to D.C. the next day. All my sibs were there and we closed up Dad's house.



Cat

10 years ago today, we lost Carlos' dad & my dad. Yes, ON THE SAME DAY!!!!  :\'( :\'( :\'(  I was supposed to go down to be with my dad in D.C. the day after my birthday because he wasn't doing well (pancreatic cancer) and one of my sisters was there by herself. The day before we went (on my birthday), his dad ended up in the hospital here. We couldn't leave so my sister in Oklahoma took my place to be with our dad so my other sister wouldn't be there alone.

Here, his dad went into "comfort care" and we were basically on death watch. 11 days later, he finally crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( That evening, all of Carlos' kids (well the ones who live here in Vermont) came and made us dinner as we got ready for our trip to D.C. which would take place the next day. My sister kept calling me telling me that Dad was not doing well. She put the phone to his ear and I told him that I was coming the next day and to hang on. About 10 minutes after that phone call, the phone rang again and I said, "uh oh." I knew. Yup, it was my sister telling me that he also crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( We still went down to D.C. the next day. All my sibs were there and we closed up Dad's house.



Cat
Hugs!!!!

10 years ago today, we lost Carlos' dad & my dad. Yes, ON THE SAME DAY!!!!  :\'( :\'( :\'(  I was supposed to go down to be with my dad in D.C. the day after my birthday because he wasn't doing well (pancreatic cancer) and one of my sisters was there by herself. The day before we went (on my birthday), his dad ended up in the hospital here. We couldn't leave so my sister in Oklahoma took my place to be with our dad so my other sister wouldn't be there alone.

Here, his dad went into "comfort care" and we were basically on death watch. 11 days later, he finally crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( That evening, all of Carlos' kids (well the ones who live here in Vermont) came and made us dinner as we got ready for our trip to D.C. which would take place the next day. My sister kept calling me telling me that Dad was not doing well. She put the phone to his ear and I told him that I was coming the next day and to hang on. About 10 minutes after that phone call, the phone rang again and I said, "uh oh." I knew. Yup, it was my sister telling me that he also crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( We still went down to D.C. the next day. All my sibs were there and we closed up Dad's house.



Cat


Oh yes, I remember that. So sorry for your loss, even ten years later. :\'(

April 18th 2012, we lost American television host and producer Dick Clark at 82 years of age. :\'(

27 April 2012: At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured. :\'(

May 2nd 2012 - A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.

May 3rd 2012 - Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shavell narrowly avoided a potential deadly helicopter crash when their pilot became disoriented during a flight in bad weather and missed some trees by just two feet. Flying home to their estate in East Sussex, England after a day in London, the McCartney's were not aware of how close they came to crashing at the time. The UK's Department of Transport launched an investigation into the incident the following November.

May 3rd 2012 - Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shavell narrowly avoided a potential deadly helicopter crash when their pilot became disoriented during a flight in bad weather and missed some trees by just two feet. Flying home to their estate in East Sussex, England after a day in London, the McCartney's were not aware of how close they came to crashing at the time. The UK's Department of Transport launched an investigation into the incident the following November.


:o

Glad they dodged a bullet.

I was enjoying my very first cruise at the time, docked in San Diego.

May 4th 2012 - Adam Yauch, a member of the American rap band Beastie Boys, passed away from salivary gland cancer; he was only 47. :\'(

May 14th 2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. :\'(

May 20th 2012, Bee Gees member Robin Gibb passed away at 62 years of age. :\'(

May 22nd 2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

One day late: June 1st 2012, New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in franchise history, blanking the St. Louis Cardinals 8-zip.

June 2nd 2012 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. >:(

Also, "Family Feud" emcee Richard Dawson passed away at age 79 from esophageal cancer. :\'(

June 4th 2012: Dominican baseball pitcher Pedro Borbon Sr. passed away at 65 years of age. :\'(

The bulk of his career was spent with the Cincinnati Reds, for almost all of the 1970s. He was a contributor to the "Big Red Machine" that won back-to-back World Series titles in 1975-1976.

June 11th 2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people. :o :\'(

June 13th 2012: San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain throws a perfect game against the Houston Astros. It was the first perfecto in Giants' history.

June 15th 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.

June 19, 2012 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army. :o

June 22nd 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.

June 24th 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.

June 29th 2012 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

July 4th 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.

July 5th 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).

July 5th 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).

O0

July 10th 2012 – The Episcopal Church of USA allows same-sex marriage.

Also on July 10th 2012, the National League won its most recent Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

The Solar storm of 2012, occurring on this date that year, was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. :o

July 23rd 2012, American physicist/astronaut Sally Ride passed away at the age of 61.

July 30th 2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. :o :\'(

August 6th 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

August 6th 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

Also on that day: Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor, died from a respiratory arrest. He was one of only fifteen people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. He was 68.

One day late: August 15th 2012 - Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez pitched the most recent perfect game in MLB history.

August 20th 2012: American actress and comedian Phyllis Diller passed away at the age of 95. :\'(

10 years ago today, we lost Carlos' dad & my dad. Yes, ON THE SAME DAY!!!!  :\'( :\'( :\'(  I was supposed to go down to be with my dad in D.C. the day after my birthday because he wasn't doing well (pancreatic cancer) and one of my sisters was there by herself. The day before we went (on my birthday), his dad ended up in the hospital here. We couldn't leave so my sister in Oklahoma took my place to be with our dad so my other sister wouldn't be there alone.

Here, his dad went into "comfort care" and we were basically on death watch. 11 days later, he finally crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( That evening, all of Carlos' kids (well the ones who live here in Vermont) came and made us dinner as we got ready for our trip to D.C. which would take place the next day. My sister kept calling me telling me that Dad was not doing well. She put the phone to his ear and I told him that I was coming the next day and to hang on. About 10 minutes after that phone call, the phone rang again and I said, "uh oh." I knew. Yup, it was my sister telling me that he also crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( We still went down to D.C. the next day. All my sibs were there and we closed up Dad's house.



Cat


And tonight (actually, early tomorrow morning) marks ten years since the passing of my paternal grandmother. :\'( :\'(

10 years ago today, we lost Carlos' dad & my dad. Yes, ON THE SAME DAY!!!!  :\'( :\'( :\'(  I was supposed to go down to be with my dad in D.C. the day after my birthday because he wasn't doing well (pancreatic cancer) and one of my sisters was there by herself. The day before we went (on my birthday), his dad ended up in the hospital here. We couldn't leave so my sister in Oklahoma took my place to be with our dad so my other sister wouldn't be there alone.

Here, his dad went into "comfort care" and we were basically on death watch. 11 days later, he finally crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( That evening, all of Carlos' kids (well the ones who live here in Vermont) came and made us dinner as we got ready for our trip to D.C. which would take place the next day. My sister kept calling me telling me that Dad was not doing well. She put the phone to his ear and I told him that I was coming the next day and to hang on. About 10 minutes after that phone call, the phone rang again and I said, "uh oh." I knew. Yup, it was my sister telling me that he also crossed over.  :\'( :\'( :\'( We still went down to D.C. the next day. All my sibs were there and we closed up Dad's house.



Cat
:\'( :\'( :\'(

August 25th 2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.

Also on August 25th 2012...

The Boston Red Sox traded Nick Punto, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for James Loney, Iván DeJesús Jr., Allen Webster and two players who were named later (outfielder Jerry Sands and pitcher Rubby De La Rosa).

2012 was a great year for me. I lost 60 pounds that year and got a full time job. Hopefully that cycle repeats.  ;D

September 5th 2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others. :\'(

September 7th 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in theran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.

September 7th 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.

Come on now, I still think t-e-h should be cut from the cuss filter.

September 9th 2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.

September 16th 2012, I attended a Dodgers game, and this was the time when I sat in the Club Level seats! I had a good time that day, even though the Dodgers lost in extra innings to the Cardinals.

September 25th 2012: Singer Andy Williams passed away at the age of 84. :\'(

One day late...

October 5th 2012, the inaugural Wild Card games were played in Major League Baseball.

In the American League game, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the host Texas Rangers.
In the National League game, the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the host Atlanta Braves.

October 14th 2012 - Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.

October 21st 2012 - Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized as the 1st Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI.

October 22nd 2012 – Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping. :o

On October 27th 2012, Superstorm Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. :o

October 28th 2012 - San Francisco Giants completed a World Series sweep of the Detroit Tigers.

This is the most recent World Series to be swept.

On October 27th 2012, Superstorm Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. :o
October 29th 2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

November 6th 2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

November 6th 2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

and Barack Obama was reelected as President. :) This made him the third consecutive President to win reelection (after Bill Clinton and GW Bush).

November 7th, 2012: Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

November 9th, 2012 - A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.

11 November 2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people. :o :\'(

November 13th 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.

November 14th 2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an escalation of rocket attacks by Hamas.

November 15th 2012 - Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

November 18th 2012 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

December 3rd 2012 – At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines. :o :\'(

Ten years ago today, the date was written as 12/12/12! :D

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14th 2012. :\'( :\'( :\'(

December 19th 2012 – Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.

December 26th 2012 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

One day late...

January 5th 2013: A 7.7 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island generating a 1.5 m tsunami. :o

January 17th 2013 – Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter.

January 20th 2013 - The second inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States takes place in the Blue Room of the White House. Because this date was a Sunday, it had to be a private swearing-in ceremony. The public ceremony would take place the next day.

(Starting in 1877, anytime Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, the inauguration would be held privately. The first occurrence of this was on March 4th 1877, when Rutherford Hayes was sworn into his only term; the next such occurrences fell on March 4th 1917 for Woodrow Wilson's second term, January 20th 1957 for Dwight Eisenhower's second term, January 20th 1985 for Ronald Reagan's second term, and January 20th 2013 for Obama's second term, as stated above. And whoever gets elected President in 2040 will have a private swearing-in ceremony on Sunday January 20th 2041.)

January 20th 2013 - The second inauguration of Barack Obama as the President of the United States takes place in the Blue Room of the White House. Because this date was a Sunday, it had to be a private swearing-in ceremony. The public ceremony would take place the next day.


And here is a picture of him taking the oath of office on this date in 2013:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Barack_Obama_second_swearing_in_ceremony_2013-01-21.jpg

January 27th 2013 - A nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, claims the lives of 242 people. :\'( :\'(

I meant to post about this over a week ago! January 15, 2013: In Europe, the 'horsemeat scandal' first hits the headlines after many beef products are found to contain large amounts of undeclared horsemeat, in some cases 100%!

January 30th 2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

February 1st 2013 – The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.

February 3rd 2013: Super Bowl XLVII was played at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. AFC champion Baltimore Ravens narrowly defeated NFC champion San Francisco 49ers, 34-31. (The 49ers had never lost a Super Bowl game prior to this.) (Also, the same stadium had hosted Super Bowl XXXVI exactly 11 years earlier.)

February 6th 2013 - It was announced that Warner Music was set to buy the record label Parlophone which was formerly a part of EMI Music from Universal Music for £487m ($765m). The Parlophone label group also included the Chrysalis and Ensign labels, but The Beatles part of Parlophone, was exempted from the sale.

February 7th 2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

February 8th 2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.

February 15th 2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. :o

February 17th 2013, country music singer Mindy McCready committed suicide at age 37. :\'(

February 28th 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.

February 28th 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.

An event that I remember well.

February 28th 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.

An event that I remember well.
I remember that day well, I was in the Philippines at that time and it was touching the hearts of everyone I knew.

I remember that day well, I was in the Philippines at that time and it was touching the hearts of everyone I knew.

Nearly two weeks later...

March 13th 2013 - The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Francis is still Pope to this day.

March 28th 2013 - Justin Bieber ran into some trouble at Munich airport when customs officials detained and quarantined his monkey. Bieber had recently been given the capuchin monkey as a pet by record producer Mally Mall. Bieber apparently brought the monkey along to join him on the Austrian and German leg of his European tour, but he didn't have the documentation required to bring his new friend into Germany. Bieber went on to perform in Munich while the monkey was kept in the custody of authorities.

March 28th 2013 - Justin Bieber ran into some trouble at Munich airport when customs officials detained and quarantined his monkey. Bieber had recently been given the capuchin monkey as a pet by record producer Mally Mall. Bieber apparently brought the monkey along to join him on the Austrian and German leg of his European tour, but he didn't have the documentation required to bring his new friend into Germany. Bieber went on to perform in Munich while the monkey was kept in the custody of authorities.


Keeping a pet monkey can be extremely dangerous.

Keeping a pet monkey can be extremely dangerous.

Yes it can, especially a pet chimpanzee that attacked a woman in 2009 and got face ripped right off. :(

March 31st 2013 - The Houston Astros played their very first game as an American League team (after being part of the National League for their first 51 seasons of existence). They hosted the Texas Rangers and defeated them by a score of 8-2.

March 31st 2013 - The Houston Astros played their very first game as an American League team (after being part of the National League for their first 51 seasons of existence). They hosted the Texas Rangers and defeated them by a score of 8-2.

The very next day, April 1st 2013, the Los Angeles Angels and Cincinnati Reds played the first ever Opening Day interleague game; it was played at Great American Ballpark. (This became necessary because the Astros’ move into the American League gave the NL and AL 15 teams each.) LAA won the game 3-1.

April 3rd 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. :\'(

As for me, I remember having a good day that day!

April 8th 2013, we lost actress Annette Funicello and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. :\'(

April 9th 2013 - According to the Official Charts Company one billion songs had now been downloaded in the UK. Adele's 'Someone Like You' was the most downloaded single of all time in the UK, followed by tracks by Maroon 5 and Gotye. The Official Charts Company said on average more than three million tracks were now sold every week.

April 9th 2013 - Sir Paul McCartney topped the Sunday Times Rich List of musicians with the £680m fortune he shares with his wife Nancy Shevell. Sir Paul, whose American heiress wife is said to be worth £150m, has topped each list since 1989 when he was worth an estimated £80m. Andrew Lloyd Webber was second, with £620m, while U2 were third, with £520m. Adele topped the list for young music millionaires in Britain and Ireland with an estimated fortune of £30m.

Keeping a pet monkey can be extremely dangerous.



Yes it can, especially a pet chimpanzee that attacked a woman in 2009 and got face ripped right off. :(


There was another guy back in ‘05 who was attacked by a monkey 🙊 that ripped off his ‘nads and one foot.  :o

There was another guy back in ‘05 who was attacked by a monkey 🙊 that ripped off his ‘nads and one foot.  :o

That's why you should never own a wild chimpanzee.

April 15th 2013 - The Boston Marathon Bombing occurred. :\'(

10 years ago, I lost my mother.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat

10 years ago, I lost my mother.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat

I'm sorry to hear that.  :\'(

10 years ago, I lost my mother.  :\'( :\'( :\'(



Cat

Again, my condolences.
Also, that was eight months after my dad lost his mother. :\'(

One day late... on April 25th 2013, the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, is dedicated in the presence of President of the United States Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush and all other living former presidents. The complex itself would open to the public six days later.

April 26th 2013 - American country music singer George Jones dies at the age of 81. :\'(

On May 1st 2013, Chris Kelly, a member of the 1990s teen rap band Kris Kross, passed away at the age of 34 from what was reported to be a drug overdose. :\'(

May 6th 2013 – Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

May 10th 2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

May 15th 2013 – Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning, in a study published in the scientific journal Nature.

May 20th 2013 – The latest EF5 tornado in the United States hits Moore and several other surrounding areas near Oklahoma City. It is the second significant tornado to strike Moore since 1999, when the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado targeted similar areas with the highest winds ever recorded on Earth.

May 22nd 2013 – Off-duty British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is murdered in Woolwich, southeast London, by Islamic terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

:\'( :\'( :\'(

May 23rd 2013 – A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.

May 31st 2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth; this will hold true for the next two centuries.

June 3rd 2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.