Count down from 2016 with real world facts!

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Count down from 2016 with real world facts!

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Starting with 2015, the next poster post the year and a real world fact of the year.

Next go 2014 with real world fact, 2013 etc etc

Use Google/Wikipedia if you don't know what happened. Find something interesting!

You can post as often and as many times back to back as you want :)

I'm excited for when we get to the 1800s etc and the interesting facts we find along the way :) Maybe we'll learn stuff.


2016

The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of Zika virus
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2015

The United Nations has declared 2015 to be the International Year of Light, which commemorates the centenary of Einstein’s formulation of the Theory of General Relativity which predicted that light is deflected by gravity.
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2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears ... completely. Still not a shred of evidence at the time of this post.
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2013 - the international year of quinoa (declared by the UN general assembly)
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2012 - Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth - 60 years on the throne!
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2011 - year of the Fukushima disaster
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2010

The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened
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2009

The World Health Organization declares H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as "swine flu", as a global pandemic.
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2008

Obama becomes first Africian American president USA

P.S. I think this will become far more interesting as we get further back in time :)
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2007

In Burma the military Junta Shut off access to the outside world including Internet access and moved against street protests by Buddhist Monks leaving over 1,000 protesters dead after firing indiscriminately into the crowds.
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2006

Saddam Hussein gets hung!
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2005 - Pope John Paul II dies.
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2004

Let's talk about the Burj Khalifa again.

I mentioned it opened in 2010 and is the world's current tallest building.

They started building it in 2004! 6 year job!
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2003

I remember when this happened and I could not help but roll my eyes at what I thought was one of the dumbest ways to protest our nation could have done.

Americans rename "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" in protest to France's stand on Iraq
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I thought that was ridiculous too!

2002

Interesting:

Robert William Pickton, the most prolific serial killer in Canadian history, is arrested and charged with the first 2 (of 27) counts of first-degree murder.
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Wait, so he got away with 25 out of 27 counts???

2001

Unforgettable. Al-Qaeda Terrorists attack the United States using hijacked passenger aircraft to bring down the Twin Towers in New York and crashing an aircraft into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia leaving nearly 3,000 people dead. the attacks become known simply as 911 due to the date of the attack September 11th. Due to the attacks a number of things happen, America Declares War on Terrorism and invades Afghanistan where the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden was believed to be hiding , Security increases for all aspects of American life including Airline Security.
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2000

The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz
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1999
The year that every one panicked over a world wide computer crash that never happened.
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1998

Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
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1997

Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.
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