Explore 1917 historical events from 2000–2009.
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is admi…
Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D
Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her…
Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin in no…
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Indigenous peoples; they protested Petroperú and confront…
After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and
On March 17, 2009, North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were working for the American-based independent television station Current …
Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard l
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedo…
War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault
Neda Agha-Soltan was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her …
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sanaa in Yemen …
Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros, killing 152 people, with French schoolgirl Bahia Baka
A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. The first day's ri…
A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It consists of almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, amounting to a total of 5.1 …
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500…
Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity o…
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The 2008 South China floods began on 26 May 2008. Four rounds of torrential rains with landslides and flooding lasted for 20 days and affected fifteen provinces in Eastern and Sout…
Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1
Usain St. Leo Bolt is a Jamaican retired sprinter. Widely regarded as the greatest sprinter of all time, he is an eight-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in th…
Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1
Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Dr. Ram Baran Yadav is a Nepalese politician and physician who served as the first president of Nepal from 23 July 2008 to 29 October 2015, following the declaration of republic in…
Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
Lee Hye-in, known mononymously as Hyein, is a South Korean singer and former child model. She began her musical career at nine years old as a member of the South Korean children's …
Hyein, South Korean singer
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Lilliana Belle Ketchman, known professionally as Lilly K, is an American dancer, model and social media personality. She is known for her appearances on Lifetime's Dance Moms begi…
Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber
Iain Armitage is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory, from 2017 to 2024. He also played Z…
Iain Armitage, American actor
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-…
Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (born 1917)
Aimé Fernand David Césaire was an Afro-Martiniquan French poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined t…
Aimé Césaire, Caribbean-French poet and politician (born 1913)
Daniel Paul Federici was an American musician, best known as a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, where he was its organist, accordionist and glockenspiel player…
Danny Federici, American organist and accordion player (born 1950)
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she …
Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1907)