[color=#990000][/color] 1. 911 terror attacks (2001) In the worst terror attack on the US mainland in
modern history, two hijacked planes slammed into
the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New
York - where about 40,000 people worked - and a
third plane hit the Pentagon, across the Potomac
River from Washington DC. Within minutes a fourth hijacked plane crashed
130km southeast of Pittsburgh. Though its
destination is unclear, speculation centred on the
presidential retreat Camp David, 135km away in the
Maryland mountains. The attacks, by 19 Islamic terrorists linked to al- Qaeda, killed 2974 people from over 90 countries. 2. Boxing Day Tsunami (2003) It has been called the world's first global disaster,
not because of the number of dead but because the
toll touched so many countries who had citizens in
the tourist resorts and because of the time of the
disaster - Boxing Day. A huge earthquake in the Indian Ocean, west of
Sumatra, measuring between 9.1 and 9.3 on the
Richter Scale caused an enormous Tsunami, which struck the coastlines of 11 countries including
Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka with
devastating effect. Over 150,000 people perished in one of the world's
deadliest natural disasters with the humanitarian
aid bill topping NZ$10b. 3. Bali bombings (2002) The terror attack on October 12, 2002 killed 202
people including three New Zealanders and 88
Australians, confirming terrorism's arrival on
Australasia's doorstep. The attack, a car bomb which which ripped through the popular Sari Club and nearby Paddy's Bar, was orchestrated by bombers linked to Jemaah
Islamiah, considered al Qaeda's Southeast Asian
arm. Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, widely thought to
have been one of the masterminds behind the
attack, had his conviction for conspiracy quashed in
2003. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Mukhlas
Nurhasyim were executed on November 8, 2008 for carrying out the attacks. 4. Saddam Hussein's capture (2003) The US and Britain's invasion of Iraq in 2003 was
based on the premise that Saddam Hussein
possessed "weapons of mass destruction". None
were ever found, but the Iraqi dictator was - on
December 13 2003 in the small town of Ad-Dawr
near Tikrit. Despite being armed with two guns and over US$750,000 (NZ$1.4m) in cash he didn't resist arrest. Hussein was tried before the Iraqi Interim
Government for crimes against humanity. He was executed by hanging on December 30 2006. 5. Obama's US election win (2008) On November 5 2008 Barack Obama helped
African-Americans break through the ultimate glass
ceiling with his election to the White House as the 44th President of the United States. Describing his victory as the "defining moment
change has come to America", Obama promised to
take America in a new direction, by "fixing the
economy", focusing on green job creation and
withdrawing US troops from Iraq. He was inaugurated as president on January 21 this
year. 6. Beijing Olympics (2008) China exploded into the Western public's
mainstream consciousness with the most
expensive Games in Olympic history. The opening ceremony alone was reported to have cost an estimated US$100 (NZ$150m). The event showcased China's culture and country to the outside world in a way never seen before, in
the process changing some perceptions of the
world's largest country for good. Despite concerns over China's human rights record,
the event was widely viewed as a tremendous
success and went off without disruption. A total of 43 world records were set during the two
week extravaganza. 7. London bombings (2005) The London bombings on July 7 2005 were a sobering reminder of the new terrorist threat. Four years after 911 and three years after the first
Bali bombings, multiple bomb attacks on the London underground and bus system left 52 dead, including
New Zealand woman Shelley Mather, 26, who was
on the underground train between King's Cross and
Russell Square stations when a bomb exploded. 8. Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair (1998) Former US President Bill Clinton called his
relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky "a terrible moral error", but later called his subsequent impeachment a "badge of honour". Clinton became just the second US president to be
impeached after lying about an affair with 22-year-
old White House intern Monica Lewinsky in 1998. Clinton had denied having "sexual relations" with
Lewinsky during his deposition for the Paula Jones
case, in which he was also accused of having an
extra-marital affair. An independent inquiry later found that deposition
to be false but Clinton was acquitted on perjury and
obstruction of justice charges, and remained
President until the end of his second term in 2001 . 9. Hurricane Katrina (2005) Hurricane Katrina became the worst natural
disaster in US history when it slammed into New
Orleans on August 29 2005. By August 31, 80 per cent of New Orleans was flooded, with some parts under 4.5m of water. Over 1.5 million people were forced from their
homes with the official death toll reaching 1464. 10. Pakistan earthquake (2005) On October 8 2005 an earthquake registering 7.7 on
the Richter Scale shook the Kashmir region of
Pakistan to its foundations. Over 17,000 of the more than 73,000 killed in the quake were children who died in schools destroyed
in the quake. About 3 million people were left
homeless by the disaster. With the quake occurring at the start of winter,
many of the homeless who were living in the open
eventually perished in the cold.

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So what next?

NLorubebe:
No good construction you just pressed Ctrl+v directly

hmmmmmm.......blame my obsolete device....

Kidnapping of chibok girls shook the world too...before 9/11, pearl harbor shook the world...the killing of last Tsav of Russian and his family shook the world....the killing of Franz ferdinald (1914) shook the world.....The
Hiddenburg flight that caught fire air bound shook the world.... the Rwanda genocide shook the world....the use of Atomic weapon in Japan changed the world...so why streamlining events that shook the world to terrorism and natural disasters? Well! Well done Op. No Knowledge No Power.

Henrodah:
Kidnapping of chibok girls shook the world too...before 9/11, pearl harbor shook the world...the killing of last Tsav of Russian and his family shook the world....the killing of Franz ferdinald (1914) shook the world.....The
Hiddenburg flight that caught fire air bound shook the world.... the Rwanda genocide shook the world....the use of Atomic weapon in Japan changed the world...so why streamlining events that shook the world to terrorism and natural disasters? Well! Well done Op. No Knowledge No Power.

hmmmmm....phlyarologist and widdiful

lately events in Nigeria shocks the world the more.
Gotta state them one by one.

Henrodah:
Kidnapping of chibok girls shook the world too...before 9/11, pearl harbor shook the world...the killing of last Tsav of Russian and his family shook the world....the killing of Franz ferdinald (1914) shook the world.....The
Hiddenburg flight that caught fire air bound shook the world.... the Rwanda genocide shook the world....the use of Atomic weapon in Japan changed the world...so why streamlining events that shook the world to terrorism and natural disasters? Well! Well done Op. No Knowledge No Power.

Excellent!

The OP didn't even mention-
-1929 New York stock market crash
-WW2
-Cuban missle crisis
-Iranian revolution
-fall of the Soviet Union

hmmmmmmm! I am tempted to type that the crash of mmm shook the world

buhari why

UchaNwababa:
buhari why

dude abeg wetin buhari do u

Zakkyoz:
hmmmmmmm! I am tempted to type that the crash of mmm shook the world

......guy for your mind abi........it does not even shook 40 percent of nigerians talkless of the world

This is an eye sore. You got our attention but lost our interest.
Biko just edit already, I take god begyu

HAKKINS:
dude abeg wetin buhari do u

na him send them

psucc:
lately events in Nigeria shocks the world the more.

Gotta state them one by one.

i dey tell u!!

napoleon77:


Excellent!

The OP didn't even mention-
-1929 New York stock market crash
-WW2
-Cuban missle crisis
-Iranian revolution
-fall of the Soviet Union

Ma NIGGA! Thumps up.

HAKKINS:
hmmmmm....phlyarologist and widdiful

Why the insults bruv?

Henrodah:
Why the insults bruv?

remember.......'no knowledge no power'?

HAKKINS:
remember.......'no knowledge no power'?

Mortal Kombat quote!!! Short form of there's no knowledge that's is not power.

Henrodah:


Mortal Kombat quote!!! Short form of there's no knowledge that's is not power.

sincerly apologise

HAKKINS:
sincerly apologise

No problemo bruv.