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April – The employment-population ratio reaches an all-time high of 64.8%. April 1. The 2000 United States Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906. Boomerang, a secondary digital Cartoon Network channel, debuts.
February 8: The Algerian Civil War ends. February 27 – March 1: Riots and mass killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave 1,044 dead. March 14: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk. April 11 - 13: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt fails to overthrow president Hugo Chavez. May 20: East Timor gains independence.
Prominent events and trends during the 2000s: Increasing Islamophobia and Islamophobic incidents during the 2000s associated with the September 11 attacks or with the increased presence of Muslims in the Western world. [211] [212] [213] In 2000, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that Scientology is a religion for legal purposes. [214] [215]
1994 — North American Free Trade Agreement goes in effect. 1994 — 1994 Northridge earthquake kills 72 and injures 9,000 in the Los Angeles area and causes $20 billion in damage. 1994 — Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment. 1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is ...
Decade of the 2000s. Toggle Decade of the 2000s subsection. Tropical Storm Allison floods in Louisiana and Texas – June 2001. Los Angeles County Flood of 2005. Hurricane Katrina (2005) storm surge – Louisiana and Mississippi. Ka Loko Reservoir – March 2006. Western Gulf Coast flood – October 2006.
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
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In the early 2000s, there were also multiple moments in US politics that captured the world's attention. George W. Bush was sworn in as president in 2001. George W. Bush is sworn in on January 20 ...