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9/11 Attack on New York's World Trade Towers
2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11
Film Premier
2001 "Scrubs", starring Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC
Zach Braff
- 2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks
- 2004 American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan
- 2005 The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people
- 2005 NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
- 2006 Charles Carl Roberts murders five schoolgirls in a shooting incident at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; he then commits suicide.
- 2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
- 2009 Rio de Janeiro is elected the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics
- 2009 The economic crisis in Ireland is considered to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London in 20 years, it is reported today
- 2012 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
- 2012 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
- 2013 8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee
- 2014 15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria
- 2014 Siege of Syrian town Kobani and its surrounds by ISIS prompts 130,00 people to flee the area
- 2015 Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are arrested in Vermont after leaving Canada
Event of Interest
2016 Vin Scully broadcasts his last Dodgers game after a record 67 seasons
Vin Scully
Event of Interest
2016 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
Kim Kardashian
- 2017 US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock