Final score: Mia Tucker. Let's hop back a decade and remember why your friends couldn't stop quoting Hitch. Oscar survived that attack as well, and afterward retired to Belfast, where he lived in a seaman's home. (Oct. 13, 2016) https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2012/dec/20/apocalypse-postponed-halley-comet, Folger, Tim. People jumped out of moving cars to perform a viral dance in what was possibly the most 2018 thing that happened in 2018. What stirred everyone into a tizzy was the new discovery that Earth was actually on track to pass through the comet's 15.5-million-mile (25-million-kilometer) tail. "For us, the single biggest story was the storming of the US Capitol and Trump's attempts to overturn the election results. Even if Sumatran residents are instantly warned, they may only have 30 minutes to evacuate. People are in a crazy hoarding frenzy, eventually resulting in a Lysol shortage. In fact, there are so many things we've been scared of over the years that it was hard to narrow down the list. Eighty percent of the city remained in stagnant floodwaters for weeks. Daniela Jovanovska-Hristovska / Getty Images. They scored the tying run, and eventually won the game in the 12th inning. Not only that, but when the original Antioch was destroyed, all of its remaining citizens were relocated to the "new" Antioch. 1 of 10. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Live 8 concerts happen in members of the G8 cities around the world to put pressure on the Leaders of the G8 countries to do more for the world's poor. Hopefully you can somehow convince the superstitious executioner that you aren't a witch, but if not, you'll be hanged, beheaded or burned at the stake. It was the original Internet platformsomething virtually every technology startup now aspires to be. But "hashtags" have emerged from the pack and represent a new way to organize language by grouping words into metadata. In fact, they swept the Cardinals in 4 games to win the championship, in what analysts would later call the greatest story baseball ever told. Still, the problem played on people's lingering fear of technology, and the belief among some Christians that Jesus might return 2,000 years after his birth only escalated the concern [source: Sheesley]. They pumped his stomach and separated the plutonium back out. (Oct. 10, 2016) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/may/20/carbon-dioxides-400ppm-milestone-shows-humans-are-re-writing-the-planets-history, Romm, Cari. 10. After the war, Churchill retired and appeared as an extra in the 1952 movie Ivanhoe. The organizer of the race purposefully withheld water in order to test the effects of dehydration. Joe Morgenstern called it the worlds first globalized masterpiece. Might a serial killer strike your neighborhood and endanger your family? 2. Now, here's 25 things that have happened since the birth of the internet. During production, legendary horror movie producer William Castle received an anonymous letter that said he would "slowly rot during a long and painful illness.". Part of HuffPost Business. One should always "prepare for the worst and hope for the best". Johnson, Bridget. Journalist Bridget Johnson has covered news and foreign policy for USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and more. ThoughtCo, Aug. 31, 2021, thoughtco.com/top-news-stories-of-the-decade-3555536. Since then, a number of countries have committed to the effort to stop global terrorism. A Mysterious Object Is Being Dragged Into the Supermassive Black Hole at the Milky Way's Center. The series, with seven books planned from the start, became a global phenomenon. The issue at hand was the Soviet Union's use of Cuba as a launching pad for nuclear weapons capable of striking the United States. So. Reddit is full of opinions, some good while others not so much. It all started on Dec. 26, 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake shook the bottom of the Indian Ocean with the force of 23,000 atomic bombs. Liston was renowned for being one of the fastest surgeons alive, which at the time was a very good thing. 21. But in some horrifying cases, murderers choose to kill people at random. In order to make it through the daily eight-hour makeup session it took to transform him into the titular character in How the. 9. Encyclopedia Britannica. Even wilder theories emerged suggesting that the comet's gravity might throw off Earth's tides and cause the Pacific to empty itself into the Atlantic. Other times, what you long believed to be a myth is actually fact.From an earthquake-proof cathedral that's made almost entirely of cardboard to an ancient Egyptian mummy with a modern-day passport, this list of crazy . Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him. It led to an argument at the United Nations about what constitutes genocide and what necessitates U.N. action. The plan was to use the publicity of the act to raise money and have the raft serve as an oceanographic research facility, but unfortunately a tropical storm destroyed New Atlantis in 1966, two years after it was created. 3. "What Would Happen if Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?" The world is a strange, surprising place, in ways large and small, serious and trivial. Here are the worst things that have happened. Many African counties have also adopted it unofficially and some countries have negotiated usage. This story happened at Disneyland Paris. (Oct. 13, 2016) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Halleys-Comet, White, Josh. "The Definitive Map of America's Creepy Clown Epidemic." Terrorist bombs are planted in crowded marketplace bazaars killing at least 61 people. Danny Boyle created a masterpiece in 2008 with his film Slumdog Millionaire. Now that's a scary quote no matter who said it and what they were talking about. So how do we handle these situations? Game 5 went to 14 innings, and game 6 was decided by just two runs. Here's a stress ball, just in case that helps.. Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, and Prince Phillip died. Wilderness-survival boot camps recruited participants like never before. 42 of 68 43 of 68 Aug. 31, 2005 Express-News file photo Show More Show Less 44 of 68 Sept. 1, . Scientists believe climate change will continue to affect the planet through this century and beyond [source: NASA, "The Consequences"]. Runners-up: Lost, The Sopranos, Family Guy. 5. Screenshot via YouTube. The first months of the year were full of X-rays, surgeon visits and physical therapy. The Y2K bug was big news in December 1999. 2005. However, here are the craziest ones about what could potentially happen this year. Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 gaming console in North America. 1990: Nelson Mandela Was Released Nelson Mandela walked to freedom in 1990. Before the dog could realized what happened, all monkeys were gone and the expression on the dog was like what the hell just happened. 5. Will a natural disaster happen and wipe out your town? President George W. Bush acknowledged he'd personally authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. following Sept. 11, President George W. Bush signed the new act making it harder for those with large debts to wipe clean their financial slates by declaring bankruptcy under Chapter 7 "New Bankruptcy Law". Along with tie-in merchandise and movie deals, the franchise is worth an estimated 15 billion. With nearly 93% of college students using facebook or another form of social networking, these sites are already having a massive effect on human interaction. "Carbon Dioxide's 400ppm Milestone Shows Humans Are Rewriting the Planet's History." The Guardian. might be totally false. The brush with nuclear war was a wakeup call to the rival superpowers, which instituted a direct telephone line between the Kremlin and the White House as a result [source: State Department]. The Live 8 benefit concerts are held during July.There were ten simultaneous concerts were organized by Bob Geldof who had run the first Live Aid concerts 20 years earlier in 1985.The concerts were held in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Edinburgh, Cornwall, Johannesburg, and . Though telescopes weren't yet strong enough to track its distant progress, everyone expected another sighting in 1910. The News Feed -- now the homepage of the site -- wasn't introduced until 2006. Psychology Today. Source: NPR 1 . Take the Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions, which happened 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. In many of these instances, the danger was imminent and horrifyingly clear, like the sight of a mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima in 1945 or the tsunami wave rolling toward the beaches of Indonesia in 2004. The resulting tsunami killed nearly 230,000 people and displaced over one million. Weve come a long way since. I can't really remember what happened while I was in the water but I do remember throwing up once I got into the beach. Harry Potter became famous for its cult-like following, with millions of kids everywhere waiting outside bookstores for midnight parties on release dates. Remember the guy that leaned out the window in Boyz N the Hood and used a shotgun to almost blow Ricky in half? "Who Burned the Witches?" Mary Jo survived and later divorced her husband. "Mad Jack" Churchill, a British Army officer during WWII, was, At one point, the makers of Pepsi had the. "Is Our Survival Instinct Failing Us?" Even if you are a PC, you must admit that Apple was doing something right when they introduced the iPod. So good! Katrina claimed 1,836 lives, and 705 people were categorized as missing. Zac Efron had a "YOLO" tattoo. Kristen Wiig made her debut on Saturday Night Live, and she's been making us laugh ever since! In October 2020, an Italian farmer's dog gave birth to a litter of five puppiesincluding one that had green fur. But if 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists, 18 American scientific associations, 200 worldwide scientific organizations, and numerous science academies, U.S. government agencies and intergovernmental bodies are right about human-caused climate change, you should be afraid. Runners-up: Janet Jacksons Super Bowl Show, Live 8, Napster, death of Michael Jackson. There was an unexplained explosion (thought to be a deep-sea mine), causing the boat to sink quickly. "Stephen King Urges People to 'Cool the Clown Hysteria' After More Reports and Arrests." His last service was aboard the HMS Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier that was ALSO torpedoed, this time by a Nazi U-boat. Elton John went a little too hard on his piano. Fear is an ancient emotion. In 1944, he was captured in Yugoslavia after the rest of his command was injured or killed by mortar fire. Reporting on what you care about. How I Met Your Mother premiered its first legen (wait for it) dary. It has also changed the music industry itself. Previously, mp3 players were unpopular because they were fragile, had short battery life, or were simply not sexy and fashionable. Citizens from both sides of the wall uses hammers and axes to smash away at the wall until nothing was left. Live Science. Jun 27 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations. 2020 is a year where the essential goods section gets wiped clean, while toilet paper becomes the hot new currency in some countries. 14. There is much weird and crazy that's happened in my life. Oct. 5, 2016. President Obama won the Electoral College by a staggering 192 votes over his opponent Senator John McCain. The three creators were all former Paypal employees and came up with the concept to create a platform on which it would be easier to share videos with others over the internet in a style similar to popular photo sharing sites of the time. Did anyone think they would be holding a powerful phone in their pocket and take that power for granted today, ten years ago? (Getty Images) It's been 10 . A Walk to Remember Jan. 25, 2002. Sep 22, 2020. "Steam Explosions, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions What's in Yellowstone's Future?" Brazil President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao, Germany Chancellor Gerhard Schrder Till 22 November, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel From 22 November, India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Russia / Soviet Union General Secretary of the CPSU Vladimir Putin, South Africa State President Thabo Mbeki, United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, Copyright 2022 All Rights Reserved thepeoplehistory.com Copyright 2022. The first incident was in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Interestingly, there are studies being done that argue iPods are making kids more anti-social, because they can turn on their music instead of socializing. Yikes! (Oct. 11, 2016) http://www.livescience.com/20714-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption.html, Philofsky, Rachel. The Olympic was damaged, but made it back to port with no casualties. In other words, we become scared superheroes ready to fight hard or run fast depending on the situation. Nov. 4, 2015. The same fight-or-flight response that gripped cavemen stalked by a hungry saber-toothed tiger still grips modern humans when they skydive for the first time. He was taken to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, but escaped along with a Royal Air Force officer shortly after. As of 2016, the 10 warmest years since 1880 have all happened within the past 12 years. Here . Before the company's founding in 2006, we had to get through our days without recognizing the 13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatum nor the 14 Cats Who Think Theyre Sushi. Oceans are warming and acidifying. But the town decided to make things seem more exciting there after the Transcontinental Railroad opened in 1869 and passed through Palisade. By Hannah Orenstein Published: Jun 23, 2016 Getty 1. But curiosity turns to panic as the swell nears land and amplifies into a 100-foot (30-meter) wave hell-bent on destroying everything in its path. Steve Fossett breaks world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer. After a 51-day armed standoff with the David Koresh -led Branch Davidian cult, FBI agents decided to invade the group's compound in Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993. By the time the final book was published in 2007, the Harry Potter series had turned Rowling into a billionaire, one of the runners-up for Times Person of the Year, and easily the most influential childrens writer of her era. Hurricane Katrina Causes the Loss of life of 1,577 in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina Causes the Loss of life of 238 in Mississippi, Many Of Those who stay behind take refuge on rooftops ( Water is over 15 feet deep ) waiting for rescue, The United States Coast Guard begin rescue operations soon after the worst of the storm is over, many are taken to Louisiana Superdome, Mississippi 90% of the buildings along the Biloxi-Gulfport coastline are destroyed worst effected areas Hancock County ( Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pearlington, and Clermont Harbor. The woman was using her phone in the Olympic National Forest when she fell into the toilet. Such an eruption would also eject large amounts of gasses like sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, causing a decade-long climate cooling. From the start, became a global phenomenon port with no casualties Show more Show Less 44 of 68 1. 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