Explore 2953 historical events from 2000–2009.
The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake occurred at 05:53 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging) in the Yogyakarta region of Java…
An earthquake registering 6
George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who was the 43rd president of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009. Th…
US president George W
The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, and is the United Nation’s executive branch, having primary responsibility for the mai…
The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven…
Martín Ríos, dubbed the Belgrano Serial Shooter or the Belgrano Madman or simply the Belgrano Shooter, is an Argentine man and serial offender who, between June 2005 and July 2006,…
A gunman killed an 18-year-old man and injured six other people in a mass shooting on Cabildo Avenue in Buenos Aires,…
The Italy national football team has represented Italy in men's international football since its first match in 1910. The national team is controlled by the Italian Football Federa…
Italy won their fourth World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time…
Typhoon Ewiniar, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ester, was the third named storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season that lasted for twelve days as a tropical cyclone, moving o…
Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won…
The Italy national football team has represented Italy in men's international football since its first match in 1910. The national team is controlled by the Italian Football Federa…
Italy won their fourth FIFA World Cup title, defeating France 5–3 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time…
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebano…
Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and attacked Israeli military positions while firing rockets and…
The 2006 Lebanon War was a 34-day armed conflict in Lebanon, fought between Hezbollah and Israel. The war started on 12 July 2006 and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceas…
Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least…
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and statesman who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president …
Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother…
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of …
Sri Lankan civil war: Seventeen employees of the French nongovernmental organization ACF International were massacred…
The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada…
British police arrested 24 people for conspiring to detonate liquid explosives carried on board airliners travelling…
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician and geometer who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topo…
Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refused to…
Natascha Maria Kampusch is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper, Wolfgang …
Natascha Kampusch (pictured), who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in…
The International Astronomical Union is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronom…
The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf…
Comair Flight 5191 was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia. On the morning of August 27, 2006, at around 06:07 EDT, th…
Comair Flight 5191 crashed while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in…
Comair Flight 5191 was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia. On the morning of August 27, 2006, at around 06:07 EDT, th…
Comair Flight 5191 crashed (wreckage pictured) while inadvertently attempting to take off from the wrong runway at…
Junichiro Koizumi is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from poli…
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record
The Airbus A380 is a large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus from 2003 to 2021. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck…
Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat"
On 7 July 2005, Islamist terrorists carried out four coordinated suicide bombings targeting commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. The atta…
A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers,…
The Civil Marriage Act is a federal statute legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada. At the time it became law, same-sex marriage had already been legalized by court decisions i…
The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.
This is a list of heads of state of Mauritania since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day. The head of state is also the commander-in-chief of the…
President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of…
The 2005 Java–Bali Blackout was a power outage across Java and Bali on 18 August 2005, affecting some 100 million people.
A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the…