✦ History

Explore September 28, 2000 – February 8, 2005

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Events

Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Dot-com bubble 1995 - 2002-10-09
Second Congo War 1998-08-02 - 2003-07-18
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
Second Intifada 2000-09-28 - 2005-02-08
Launch of Wikipedia 2001-01-15
War on terror 2001-09-11
September 11 attacks 2001-09-11
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
First Ivorian Civil War 2002-09-19 - 2007-03-04
2002 Bali bombings 2002-10-12
2002–2004 SARS outbreak 2002-11 - 2004-05
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2003-02-01
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
Battle of Umm Qasr 2003-03-21 - 2003-03-25
Battle of Basra (2003) 2003-03-21 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Karbala (2003) 2003-03-23 - 2003-04-06
Battle of Nasiriyah 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-29
Battle of Najaf (2003) 2003-03-24 - 2003-04-04
Operation Northern Delay 2003-03-26 - 2003-03-26
Battle of Baghdad (2003) 2003-04-03 - 2003-04-12
Launch of Facebook 2004-02-04
2004 Madrid train bombings 2004-03-11
First Battle of Fallujah 2004-04-04 - 2004-05-01
2004 enlargement of the European Union 2004-05-01
Battle of Najaf (2004) 2004-08-05 - 2004-08-27
Beslan school siege 2004-09-01 - 2004-09-03
Second Battle of Fallujah 2004-11-07 - 2004-12-23
Orange Revolution 2004-11-22 - 2005-01-23
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 2004-12-26

People

Vladimir Putin age 48
President - Russia
George W. Bush age 54
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 74
Queen - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 54
President - United States
Fidel Castro age 74
President - Cuba
Saddam Hussein age 63
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 61
Supreme Leader - Iran
Jacques Chirac age 67
President - France
Bashar al-Assad age 35
President - Syria
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 54
President - Brazil
Hosni Mubarak age 72
President - Egypt
Kim Jong-il age 59
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Akihito age 66
Emperor - Japan
Hu Jintao age 57
President - People's Republic of China
Mohammad Khatami age 56
President - Iran
Jiang Zemin age 74
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Horst Köhler age 57
President - Germany
Albert II of Belgium age 66
King - Belgium
Johannes Rau age 69
President - Germany
Vicente Fox age 58
President - Mexico
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 69
President - Brazil
Chen Shui-bian age 49
President - Republic of China
Ernesto Zedillo age 48
President - Mexico
Trần Đức Lương age 63
President - Vietnam
Óscar Berger age 54
President - Guatemala
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer age 42
President - Iraq
Alfonso Portillo age 49
President - Guatemala
Kofi Annan age 62
Secretary-General - United Nations
Silvio Berlusconi age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Tony Blair age 47
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Gerhard Schröder age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Ariel Sharon age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Manmohan Singh age 68
Prime Minister - India
Romano Prodi age 61
President - European Commission
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 75
Prime Minister - India
Junichiro Koizumi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Wen Jiabao age 58
Premier - People's Republic of China
José Manuel Barroso age 44
President - European Commission
Ehud Barak age 58
Prime Minister - Israel
Giuliano Amato age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 80
President - International Olympic Committee
Lionel Jospin age 63
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Rogge age 58
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhu Rongji age 71
Premier - People's Republic of China
Yoshirō Mori age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Jerzy Buzek age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Bertie Ahern age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Bounnhang Vorachit age 63
Prime Minister - Laos
Jean-Pierre Raffarin age 52
Prime Minister - France
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Marek Belka age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Ahmed Nazif age 48
Prime Minister - Egypt
Leszek Miller age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Phan Văn Khải age 66
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Pak Pong-ju age 61
Premier - North Korea
Lee Jong-wook age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
James Wolfensohn age 66
President - World Bank
Atef Ebeid age 68
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 56
Prime Minister - Syria
Frank Hsieh age 54
Premier - Republic of China
Hong Song-nam age 71
Premier - North Korea
Sisavath Keobounphanh age 72
Prime Minister - Laos
Chang Chun-hsiung age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Shyi-kun age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Mustafa Mero age 59
Prime Minister - Syria
Tang Fei age 68
Premier - Republic of China
William Rehnquist age 76
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Al Gore age 52
Vice President - United States
Dick Cheney age 59
Vice President - United States
Ibrahim al-Jaafari age 53
Vice President - Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 58
Vice President - Iraq
Zeng Qinghong age 61
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Roj Shaweis age 52
Vice President - Iraq
James L. Jones age 56
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Richard Myers age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Hugh Shelton age 58
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Joseph Ralston age 56
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Gordon Brown age 49
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Condoleezza Rice age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Madeleine Albright age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 68
Secretary of Defense - United States
Colin Powell age 63
Secretary of State - United States
John Ashcroft age 58
Attorney General - United States
Janet Reno age 62
Attorney General - United States
Jack Straw age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Eric Holder age 49
Attorney General - United States
Larry Summers age 45
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Alberto Gonzales age 45
Attorney General - United States
William Cohen age 60
Secretary of Defense - United States
David Blunkett age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John W. Snow age 61
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Eric Shinseki age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Charles Clarke age 50
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Peter Schoomaker age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Mueller age 56
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Louis Freeh age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thabo Mbeki age 58
President - African National Congress
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Comey age 39
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Gerry Adams age 52
President - Sinn Féin
Clarence Thomas age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Hague age 39
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Stephen Breyer age 62
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 64
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Howard age 59
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
John Paul Stevens age 80
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Souter age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Iain Duncan Smith age 46
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Lien Chan age 64
Chairman - Kuomintang
Alan Milburn age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Gus Macdonald age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Larry Thompson age 54
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Theodore Olson age 60
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Paul Clement age 34
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Barbara Underwood age 56
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Christopher Wray age 33
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Matthew Whitaker age 30
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Barack Obama age 39
Senate - United States
Joe Biden age 57
Senate - United States
Hillary Clinton age 52
Senate - United States
John McCain age 64
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 56
Senate - United States
Jeff Sessions age 53
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 76
Senate - United States
Chuck Hagel age 54
Senate - United States
David Cameron age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Boris Johnson age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Theresa May age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Mike Pence age 41
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Andy Burnham age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 84
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Lewis age 60
House of Representatives - United States
Philip Hammond age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Osborne age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Yvette Cooper age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jacqui Smith age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alistair Darling age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Healey age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alan Johnson age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ian Liddell-Grainger age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 53
Governor of California - United States
Mitt Romney age 53
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Mike Huckabee age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Rick Perry age 50
Governor of Texas - United States
Mark Warner age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
George Pataki age 55
Governor of New York - United States
Sonny Perdue age 53
Governor of Georgia - United States
Mitch Daniels age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
Gray Davis age 57
Governor of California - United States
Jim Gilmore age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Christine Todd Whitman age 54
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Phil Bredesen age 56
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob Ehrlich age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Paul Cellucci age 52
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim McGreevey age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Jane Swift age 35
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Richard Codey age 53
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Bob Taft age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Don Sundquist age 64
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Roy Barnes age 52
Governor of Georgia - United States
Donald DiFrancesco age 55
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Joe Kernan age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Parris Glendening age 58
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank O'Bannon age 70
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Farmer Jr. age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John O. Bennett age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 77
New York State Senate - United States
John Paul II age 80
Pope - Vatican City
Hugo Chávez age 46
President - Venezuela
Alexander Lukashenko age 46
President - Belarus
Václav Havel age 64
President - Czech Republic
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 72
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 76
President - Zimbabwe
Ilham Aliyev age 38
President - Azerbaijan
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 62
King - Spain
Mikheil Saakashvili age 32
President - Georgia
Pervez Musharraf age 57
President - Pakistan
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 60
President - Kazakhstan
Abdullah II of Jordan age 38
King - Jordan
Margrethe II of Denmark age 60
Queen - Denmark
Hamid Karzai age 42
President - Afghanistan
Harald V of Norway age 63
King - Norway
Viktor Yushchenko age 46
President - Ukraine
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 63
President - Algeria
Slobodan Milošević age 59
President - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Mohammed VI of Morocco age 37
King - Morocco
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 54
King - Sweden
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 69
President - India
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 62
Queen - Netherlands
Eduard Shevardnadze age 72
President - Georgia