History of the 21st Century

Can you name these events coming from each year since 2000?

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Year	Event	Answer
2000	This satellite received its first long-term residents	International Space Station
2001	This building in Washington D.C is struck by a plane	Pentagon
2002	This country becomes independent in southeast Asia	East Timor
2003	This country is invaded by the United States	Iraq
2004	A tsunami kills hundreds of thousands on this holiday	Boxing Day
2005	This woman becomes chancellor of Germany	Angela Merkel
2006	This dictator is executed publicly	Saddam Hussein
2007	This economic event strikes much of the world	Great Recession
2008	The Large Hadron Collider is built near this city	Geneva
2009	This cryptocurrency is launched	Bitcoin
2010	A 7.0 earthquake magnitude in this country kills 230,000	Haiti
2011	Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya mark the peak of this event	Arab Spring
2012	This ship sinks off the coast of Italy	Costa Concordia
2013	A Meteor explodes over this Russian city	Chelyabinsk
2014	A flight from this city disappears over the Indian Ocean	Kuala Lumpur
2015	Liquid water is found here	Mars
2016	An outbreak of this disease impacts most of the Americas	Zika
2017	This country tests a hydrogen bond	North Korea
2018	This Chinese leader is declared "president for life"	Xi Jinping

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Level 36

Sep 21, 2019

On this side of the pond, the 2007 event was merely known as a recession.