Old News - a year in review

2012 History: Greece financial crisis, Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, Hurricane Sandy, Malala Yousafzai - Pakistan, Right to Education, Psy Gangnam Style, Twilight Saga, Facebook IPO

2008 History: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers financial crisis, TARP, Barack Obama, Auto-Tune, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar

2007 History: iPhone, Facebook > MySpace, Twitter, Window's Vista, Baghdad air strikes, Benazir Bhutto assassination, Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", Gordon Brown, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Nancy Pelosi, Salt Lake City mass shooting, Dixie Chicks, Britney Spears, Harry Potter’s Deathly Hallows, The Sopranos finale, Mad Cow Disease

2006 History: Sago Mine Disaster, May Day Marches Immigration Protests, Enron Trial, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killing, Saddam Hussein execution, WikiLeaks, Hamas, liquids in carry-on luggage, North Korean Nuclear test, Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter

2003 History: Iraq invasion, weapons of mass destruction WMDs, "Mission Accomplished", Abu Ghraib, Israeli-Palestine conflict, Hamas, SARS epidemic, Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, power blackout, Elizabeth Smart

1939 History: Arab Revolt, White Paper of 1939, MS St. Louis Jewish Refugees, Hitler Mussolini Pact of Steel, German Soviet Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Gleiwitz incident, Polish invasions, WWII, SS killing unit Einsatzgruppen, Phoney War, Naval blockade, Radar, Fourth Neutrality Act, New York World's Fair, Superman

1940 History: Norwegian campaign, Neville Chamberlain - Lord Halifax - Winston Churchill, German Blitzkrieg, Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, RAF, Operation Bernhardt, Peaky Blinders, 2nd Sino Japanese War, Tripartite Pact, Leon Trotsky assassination, Destroyers for Bases Agreement, America First Committee, Selective Training and Service Act, VP swaps, Charlie Chaplin, Bill...

1941 History: Lend Lease Act, PT Boat, Operation Barbarossa, Nazi, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Block 11, Zyklon B, Gas Chambers, Concentration Camp, Holocaust, Atlantic Charter, Roosevelt, FDR, Churchill, George Orwell, Ministry of Truth, Thought Police, Thought Crime, wire tapping, Smith Act, Alien Registration Act, Plutonium, Bebop, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Pearl Harbor

1942 history: WWII, Allied Grand Strategy, Operation Torch, Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), Concentration Camps, Operation Reinhard, Holocaust, Fall of Bataan, Bataan Death March, Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway, Stalingrad, Duke of Kent, Executive Order 9066, Japanese American internment camps, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Lost Battalion, Rosie the Riveter, Operation Pastorius, Sabotage, John Edga...

1943 History: WWII Italy Surender, Battle of Kursk, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Norden Bombsight, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Tehran Conference, Jefferson Memorial, Nylon, Vitamin K, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

1944 history: Operation Overlord / D-Day, Normandy, Hitler's Atlantic Wall, Operation Bagration, Navajo Code Talkers, General Douglas MacArthur, Japanese Kamakaze, Bretton Woods Conference, World Bank, Battle of the Bulge, G.I. Gill, 22nd Amendment, Radar, Penicilin, Electrophoresis, Seventeen magazine

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2021 history: January 6 insurrection, Trump 2nd impeachment, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris - 1st female vice president, American Rescue Plan stimulus, COVID vaccines, mRNA, inflation, Ever Given Suez Canal, GameStop AMC short squeeze, WallStreetBets Reddit, Roaring Kitty, Dogecoin meme coin, NFTs Bored Ape Yacht Club, Metaverse virtual land, Facebook Meta rebrand, Afghanistan withdrawal, Kabul airport...

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