Explore 910 historical events from 2000–2009.
Richard James Biggs II was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5.
Richard Biggs, American actor (born 1960)
Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin was a Soviet and Russian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won seven medals, including two gold, at the 19…
Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (born 1945)
Henry Ries was a photographer who worked for New York Times. His most famous photo was of "The Berlin Air Lift" which was later made into a U.S. Postage Stamp commemorative.
Henry Ries, German-American photographer (born 1917)
Milton Shulman was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic who was based in the United Kingdom from 1943.
Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (born 1913)
Edward (Charles) Wagenknecht was an American literary critic and teacher who specialized in 19th-century American literature. He wrote and edited many books on literature and movie…
Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (born 1900)
Roger Williams Straus Jr. was an American publisher who was co-founder and chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a New York book publishing company, and member of the Guggenheim f…
Roger Williams Straus, Jr
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea.
Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (born 1931)
Michael A. Buonauro was an American webcomic artist, and author. Best known for his webcomic Marvelous Bob, Buonauro had co-created various other webcomics in collaboration with Je…
Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (born 1979)
John Tolos, nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was a Canadian professional wrestler, and professional wrestling manager.
John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (born 1930)
Archibald Cox Jr. was an American legal scholar who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. Durin…
Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (born 1912)
Samuel Joseph Dash was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations…
Samuel Dash, American academic and politician (born 1925)
Aiyathurai Nadesan, a prominent and veteran minority Sri Lankan Tamil journalist was shot dead on 31 May 2004 on his way to work in eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa by gunmen …
Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist (born 1954)
Robert Wolfe Quine was an American guitarist. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown. Critic Mark Demin…
Robert Quine, American guitarist (born 1941)
Étienne Roda-Gil was a songwriter and screenwriter. He was an anarchist and an anarcho-syndicalist.
Étienne Roda-Gil, French screenwriter and composer (born 1941)
William Raymond Manchester was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the Na…
William Manchester, American historian and author (born 1922)
Steve Lacy was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixiela…
Steve Lacy, American saxophonist and composer (born 1934)
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (born 1921)
Nicoll Highway MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle Line (CCL) in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core underneath Republic Avenue near th…
An incomplete tunnel leading to the Nicoll Highway MRT station in Singapore collapsed, resulting in four deaths and the
The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on 22 April 2004 in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border with the People's Republic of China. At least 54 p…
Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more th
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ro…
The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military
"The Last One" is the series finale of the American sitcom Friends. Originally shown in its entirety, the episode's two parts were classified as the seventeenth and eighteenth epis…
The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired
The Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. …
Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of M…
Massachusetts became the first U
The Town of Granby is the Statutory Town that is the most populous municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 2,079 at the 2020 United States ce…
In Granby, Colorado, U