The town of Palisade, NV like many other "Wild West" towns of the time was actually very peaceful and had so few crimes that it didn't even have an official sheriff. 5. Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher shot the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco (pronounced Butt-a-foo-co), Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face. By Paramore, by becoming the first band actually from the Nashville area to go platinum - the curse existed for twenty years. Maybe it was a way to drum up more tourism. Some of the top featured acts were U2, Paul McCartney, Elton, John, Pink Floyd, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, and Green Day. Research by the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) suggests that women who take Hormone Replacement Therapy are more at risk from breast cancer, heart disease and stroke. It was a recipe for mass hysteria. Oscar survived that attack as well, and afterward retired to Belfast, where he lived in a seaman's home. 28. ajoker40 Toonacious Published 08/03/2022 in Funny. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/10/clowns-are-scary-because-people-cant-handle-uncertainty.html, Rothman, Lily. So the whole thing was a nightmare from the start. Today it sells that amount every two days, and more than 500 million iPhones have been sold in total. Churchill participated in a number of raids throughout the war, including one in Norway where he jumped off the landing craft playing "March of the Cameron Men" on his bagpipes before throwing a grenade and charging into battle. Glenn would be the first American to orbit the Earth, but as he prepared to re-enter the atmosphere, he got some bad news from Mission Control: A sensor detected a problem with the heat shield. One should always "prepare for the worst and hope for the best". October 6, 2016. Women Rescued Trying to Retrieve Phone Several firefighters in Washington state had to pull a woman out of an outhouse after accidentally falling into the hole after dropping her cell phone. Every decade is defined in part by some quirky event or fad. Sometimes one person's scary event can have a ripple effect across a nation. It all started in August 2016 at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, where a boy told his mom about a frightening experience: Two clowns tried to lure him into the woods outside their building [source: Teague]. On May 7th, 2021, U.S. oil pipeline company Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of an international criminal hacking group. It all started on Dec. 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean with the force of 23,000 atomic bombs. 10 Major News Stories of the 2000s. An Australian speedskater won that country's first-ever gold medal in a Winter Games because of sheer crazy luck. Watch on YouTube 2. One of the soldiers took the bear in and named him Wojtek, and he was trained in part by a civilian refugee. As you can imagine, people were rattled. Earthquake magnitude 7.6 strikes Kashmir leaving an estimated 70,000 dead and 70,000 more injured. Even if you are a PC, you must admit that Apple was doing something right when they introduced the iPod. (Oct. 12, 2016) http://people.com/crime/clown-sightings-2016-stephen-king-twitter-reacts/, Clark, Stuart. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Events on the set of the 1968 classic Rosemary's Baby got real pretty quickly once shooting the movie began. The Tea Party Populist anger had not yet materialized into the Tea Party movement in 2005. An African woman leads the World Trade Organization. And did anyone think the Rolling Stones would still be touring? Here's How We Prepped for the Non-Disaster." We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. His last service was aboard the HMS Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier that was ALSO torpedoed, this time by a Nazi U-boat. Wilderness-survival boot camps recruited participants like never before. Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas. Psychology Today. 2016. The News Feed -- now the homepage of the site -- wasn't introduced until 2006. And everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief [source: National Geographic]. The Aviator nabbed the most Academy Award nominations (11) and wins (5), but Leo walked away empty-handed. Most of their criticism has been ignored, especially by the college students playing quidditch matches on campus, and Oxford English Dictionary, who in 2003 entered muggle into its lexicon. We wouldn't say things were simpler a decade ago, but they were certainly interesting! Already with a NBA Finals appearance under their belt and recently-anointed MVP on their team, the Thunder have proved more successful than most new franchises. Runners-up: The Da Vinci Code, Oprahs book club. Jan 16 62nd Golden Globes: "The Aviator", Leonardo DiCaprio and Hilary Swank win, Jan 23 "Numb3rs", starring Rob Morrow and David Krumholtz, debuts on CBS, Jan 26 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post, Jan 29 Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Serena Williams wins her 2nd Australian title; beats Lindsay Davenport 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, Feb 6 Tony Blair, now the longest-serving Labour PM, marks 2,838 days as British Prime Minister, Feb 10 His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles, Feb 13 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 38-27; MVP: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts, QB, HI, Feb 16 The UK version of "The Apprentice" with British business magnate Alan Sugar premieres on the BBC, Feb 23 Slovakia Summit 2005 begins; George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend - 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia, Feb 26 Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections, asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76, Feb 27 77th Academy Awards: "Million Dollar Baby", Jamie Foxx, and Hilary Swank win, Feb 28 19th Soul Train Music Awards: Ice Cube, Usher & Ciara win, Feb 28 Stereophonics release their single "Dakota", later their first #1 UK single, Mar 3 American rapper 50 Cent releases his album The Massacre (2005 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album 2006), Mar 13 Bob Iger is named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner, Mar 14 20th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Buddy Guy; The O'Jays; The Pretenders; Percy Sledge; U2; Frank Barsalona; and Seymour Stein, Mar 18 "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" premieres on the Disney Channel, starring Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Mar 24 US version of "The Office" created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, developed by Greg Daniels, starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski premieres on NBC, Mar 26 "Doctor Who" returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose, Mar 27 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Annika Srenstam of Sweden wins event for the 3rd time, 8 strokes ahead of American Rosie Jones, Mar 27 TV medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" created by Shonda Rhimes starring Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh debuts on ABC, Mar 28 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: 48-year old Fred Funk becomes oldest event winner, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Luke Donald, Tom Lehman, and Scott Verplank, Mar 29 "We Belong Together" single is released by Mariah Carey (Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2006, Billboard Song of the Year 2005), Apr 3 WrestleMania XXI, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: Batista defeats Triple H; John Cena beats John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Apr 6 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day, Apr 7 Head of government of the Federal District, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress, Apr 10 69th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 4th green jacket on the 1st hole of a playoff with Chris DiMarco, Apr 11 39th CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney win. The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. In game 7 however, the Red Sox cut the Yankees loose with a 7 run victory to become the first team to ever come back from a 3-0 series deficit and win. Source: NPR 1 . Here's just a couple of them: 1) One time I was driving home, dirt roads midday, and I had to stop. American Idol took off a year later, and every week gains more votes than the US presidential election. (Oct. 10, 2016) http://time.com/3645828/y2k-look-back/, Sheesley, John. While such actions may seem crazy now, they could one day prove necessary. Glancing into the rearview mirror, we see a 2005 that lacks some of the mainstays of our 2014 existence. But curiosity turns to panic as the swell nears land and amplifies into a 100-foot (30-meter) wave hell-bent on destroying everything in its path. The recession showed that globalization means that countries aren't immune to the effects of foreclosures, rising unemployment rates, controversial bank bailouts, and a weak gross domestic product. So what's the big deal? She laughed and said it wasn't loaded. Al-Qaeda, a terrorist group centered in the Middle East, and its leader Osama Bin Laden were blamed for the attack. With close to 500 million people worldwide using the euro, its use and expanding use will help shape our future and hopefully lead us into a stage of macroeconomic stability. Now that's a scary quote no matter who said it and what they were talking about. On Oct. 28, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for an American promise not to invade the island, as well as the withdrawal of American missiles from Turkey. Certainly, popular culture has conditioned us to fear clowns, with fictional portrayals like those in It to actual events like the serial murders committed by John Wayne Gacy, known in the press as "The Killer Clown." Atlas Obscura. Over 400 million copies of the books have been translated into 67 different languages. So. The Guardian. It's been a full nine years since The Huffington Post emerged into the virtual world, and in that time the world has become wildly different place. Runners-up: Hotel Rwanda, Brokeback Mountain. In 1983, during the Cold War, a single Soviet lieutenant colonel by the name of Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov avoided nuclear war by correctly identifying a false alarm with the Soviet missile detection system. Levees separating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, Louisiana were breached by the surge, ultimately flooding roughly 80% of the city of New Orleans and 1600 perished. (Oct. 21, 2016) http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/y2k-the-new-years-disaster-that-never-happened/, Shilling, Erik. "Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions What's in Yellowstone's Future?" December 17, 2020. Today billions of videos are uploaded and watched by millions of users of the website. 1 Russia Invades Ukraine On February 24th, 2022, Russia announced the beginning of its "special military operation" against Ukraine and shortly after began attacking Ukraine using missiles, rockets, and airstrikes. Or maybe you get upset with someone and make a half-joking quip wishing him harm. Even wilder theories emerged suggesting that the comet's gravity might throw off Earth's tides and cause the Pacific to empty itself into the Atlantic. The first film was so successful (no surprise there), that Warner Bros. chose to make. Facebook NewsfeedFacebook was merely an infant at the time of HuffPost's debut, and the now-ubiquitous platform was limited to users at Harvard and other elite universities. The sudden death of the pop star, a controversial figure mired in sexual abuse allegations and other scandals, was attributed to a cocktail of drugs that stopped his heart. The Olympic was damaged, but made it back to port with no casualties. During a live television broadcast of the siege, the structure housing members of the cult burst into flames. So how do we handle these situations? That wasn't the scary part [source: Weissman]. 3. While most were horrified by the carnage, news footage from around the globe captured some people cheering in response to the attacks. The Y2K bug was big news in December 1999. 25 Crazy Things People Believe Could Happen In 2022. Despite the efforts, the countries most affected are still in the process of rebuilding, and many may never be the same. Beachgoers, frolicking in the warm waters of Indonesia's Indian coast, look up and see a strange sight on the horizon: A swell of water. 42 of 68 43 of 68 Aug. 31, 2005 Express-News file photo Show More Show Less 44 of 68 Sept. 1, . So, the people of Palisade decided they would stage Western-style shootouts in the street, bank robberiesyou name it. Then, at midnight, nothing happened. We also all laughed a little harder when we found out Zac Efron got YOLO tattooed . The Live 8 benefit concerts are held during July. He even typed up a constitution, which was just a copy of the US Constitution with any occurrences of "United States" replaced with "New Atlantis.". Brazil President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao, Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schrder Till 22 November, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel From 22 November, India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Russia / Soviet Union General Secretary of the CPSU Vladimir Putin, South Africa State President Thabo Mbeki, United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, Copyright 2022 All Rights Reserved thepeoplehistory.com Copyright 2022. 17th March 2004 unrest in Kosovo known as Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. The first incident was in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tried for crimes against humanity, Hussein was hanged on Dec. 30, 2006, marking an official end to the Baathist regime. Don't lose too much sleep over this one, though: Scientists say that the chances of a Yellowstone super-eruption are exceedingly low at least over next few thousand years [source: Diggles]. "Clown Sightings: The Day the Craze Began." (Oct. 13, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/lee-boyd-malvo-10-years-after-dc-area-sniper-shootings-i-was-a-monster/2012/09/29/a1ef1b42-04d8-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html, Worland, Justin. The largest of these eruptions was the oldest one, which created a volcanic formation known as the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff. Runners-up: Hurricane Katrina, Victorian Bushfire, Climate Change. Johnson, Bridget. But there may be something more fundamental. Following the attack, President George W. Bush started his War on Terror, which has led to major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Runners-up: HD TV, high speed internet, Wikipedia. Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-00652 / CC-BY-SA 3.0. 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