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November 1 – Richard K. Webel, American landscape architect (b. 1900) November 5 – Jimmie Davis, American musician and politician (b. 1899) November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, writer (b. 1907) November 14 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908) November 16 DJ Screw, American disc jockey (b. 1971) Joe C., American rapper and hype man ...
The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the ' 00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long-predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China , which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole ...
January 25, 2019 – The longest government shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 (35 days), officially ends. January 30, 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero.
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On the night of the 2000 presidential election, as the counting began in a tight race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, it all came down to Florida. And then ...
November 2 – The Godless Americans March on Washington brings together 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, and humanists in a mile-long parade down the National Mall. November 3 – The 7.9 M w Denali earthquake shakes the Alaska Interior with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ), causing one injury and $20–56 million in losses.
January 3 – 7: Boko Haram perpetrates a massacre of over 2,000 people in Baga, Nigeria, and allies itself with ISIL. April 2: Al-Shabaab perpetrates a mass shooting in Kenya, killing 148. April 25 – May 3: The death of an African-American man, Freddie Gray by police leads to violent unrest in Baltimore, Maryland. May 13: Kentex slipper ...
Obama is the first African-American to hold the office. [ 5 ] 2009 — The first of a series of Tea Party protests are conducted across the United States, focusing on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and conservative views of the Constitution.