- 2001 BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004
Election of Interest
2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election
- 2003 135th Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Empire Maker wins in 2:28.26
French Open Women's Tennis
2003 French Open Women's Tennis: In an all-Belgian final, Justine Henin-Hardenne outclasses Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4 for her 1st of 7 Grand Slam singles titles
Live Like You Were Dying
2004 "Live Like You Were Dying" single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song, 2004; Billboard Song of the Year, 2004)
- 2004 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary Flames, 2-1 for 4-3 series win; Tampa Bay's 1st-ever appearance in final
- 2006 British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert
- 2008 140th Belmont: Alan Garcia aboard Da Tara wins in 2:29.65
- 2008 French Open Women's Tennis: Ana Ivanović of Serbia wins her only Grand Slam singles title; beats Russian Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3
- 2008 Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland formed as second-largest European national park, combining Skaftafell and Jökulsárgljúfur parks and the Vatnajökull ice cap (World Heritage Site 2019) [1]
- 2009 63rd Tony Awards: "Billy Elliot the Musical" (musical) and "God of Carnage" (play) win
French Open Men's Tennis
2009 French Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins his only French title, outclassing Robin Söderling of Sweden 6-1, 7-6, 6-4
- 2010 MLB Draft: Southern Nevada outfielder Bryce Harper first pick by Washington Nationals
Event of Interest
2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
- 2012 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
- 2012 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
- 2013 18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India
- 2013 42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China
- 2013 NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Boston Bruins beat Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 games to 0
- 2014 146th Belmont: Joel Rosario aboard Tonalist wins in 2:28.52
- 2014 French Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her 5th Grand Slam singles title; beats Romanian Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7, 6-4
- 2015 -8 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
- 2015 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (play) and "Fun Home" (musical) each win 5 awards
- 2015 French Open Men's Tennis: Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland wins his 2nd major title; beats Novak Đoković 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
- 2016 "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a play written by Jack Thorne with JK Rowling, premieres in London
- 2016 Car bomb attack on a police bus in central Istanbul kills 11
CMT Music Awards
2017 51st CMT Music Awards: Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood win
- 2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature", at 300,000 years old
- 2017 Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold believed in their heads
Event of Interest
2017 Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran
- 2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering
- 2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"
- 2018 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Washington Capitals beat Las Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 for a 4-1 series victory; first title in franchise history
- 2019 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
- 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers, In Bristol England statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston pulled down
- 2020 COVID-19 global death toll passes 400,000 with confirmed cases at 6,973,195 according to Johns Hopkins figures
- 2020 US National Guard pulled out of Washington D.C. and curfew ends in New York as anti-racism protests stay largely peaceful
- 2021 Auckland named world's most livable city (due to success with COVID) and Damascus named the worst by The Economist Intelligence Unit
- 2021 Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed [1]
- 2021 Two passenger trains collide in Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in Sindh province
- 2021 UN International Labor Director says global impact of the pandemic four times worse than 2008 Economic Crisis, pushed 100 million workers into poverty [1]
Event of Interest
2021 US Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Guatemala on her first foreign trip announces task forces on corruption and human trafficking
- 2022 New study reveals Shark Bay sea grass, off Western Australia, may be world's largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, having cloned itself for 4,500 years [1]
- 2022 “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid.” says World Bank President David Malpass, with prediction world growth in 2022 will slow to 2.9% (down from 5.7%) [1]
- 2023 Britain's Boxford Timber identified as UK's oldest decoratively carved wood at 6,000 years old by radio carbon dating after being found in West Berkshire during house renovations [1]
- 2023 New York's air quality sinks to the lowest in the world (air quality index 218) as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the American north east [1]
