by Ysh » Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:55 pm In celebrate of 2000nd postings, I think we can make thread celebrate the great happening of year 2000. I will list some event for knowing of ages that happens in this year, one of the best years of all!
- The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
- 300 gallons of black sludge is released into the Mississippi River causing an environmental disaster.
- California suffers the first of two years of Rolling Blackouts.
- The UK is hit by one of the worst snow storms in the last 50 years bringing public transport to a halt.
- Over 5 million acres destroyed by brush fires in Western US; worst in 50 years.
- Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate representing New York.
- The Dot Com Bubble Bursts and thousands of DotComs go bust.
- According to NASA the hole in the Ozone layer over Antarctica increased by .62 sq miles to 17 square miles in just 12 months.
- A destructive computer virus ILOVEYOU spread by e-mail shuts down computers world wide.
- A fire at the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel on June 23rd in the town of Childers, in Queensland, Australia leaves 15 backpackers dead.
- In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers.
- Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
