20 Facts
Zabria Caudle
20 words
1. The Euro enters circulation
2. Apple introduces the iMac G4
4. The dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered
5. The deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia
6. Average Cost of new house $228,700.00
Average Median Income $42,409.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.61
- The Euro becomes the official currency of twelve of the European Union's Members European Union
- Miss World Pageant causes Riots Nigeria
- Largest Expansion in the History of NATO with seven Eastern and Central European Nations accepted as new members Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.
- WO Snipers in Washington DC area kill 10 people and injure 3 more spreading panic and fear.
11. Tornadoes strike a number of southern states from Louisiana to Pennsylvania on Veterans Day killing 36
- raq rejects new U.N. weapons inspections proposals
13. United Airlines files for bankruptcy protection
14. Terrorists detonate massive bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring over 300.
- George Bush creates the Department of Homeland Security on June 7th to fight threats of terrorism
- Terrorist Dirty Bomb Plot Foiled In the United States.
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- The Winter Olympic Games are held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- The plan to create a single Nuclear Waste Dump in the United States at Yucca Mountain, Nevada to replace 130 separate dumps around the US is passed by the US Senate
- A major earthquake rocks Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan