# Events in the last decade **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540 "2010-06-09T15:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/21 "2010-06-10T01:34:28Z")
The DC Beltway sniper ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/22 "2010-06-10T01:42:16Z")
The New Orleans Saints won a Super Bowl!—Bestest Thing Ever! ---
**Author:** ![Orionizer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orionizer/32/4442_2.png) [@Orionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orionizer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/23 "2010-06-10T19:33:48Z")
Concorde Crash ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/24 "2010-06-10T19:39:17Z")
Trying to think of what would have been most shocking to tell someone on June 10, 2000 (that hasn’t been mentioned yet in the thread): The Boston Red Sox won a World Series! And then they did it again! Michael Jackson died of a drug overdose at age 50. The vice president shot a guy in the face. The governor of Illinois sold the vacant senate seat when that black guy got elected president. We’re pretty sure, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/25 "2010-06-10T19:54:12Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > What big disease outbreaks did we have? I remember… > > Swine flu > Bird flu > [@Simmerdown](#): > > West Nile virus > [@Colophon](#): > > And while we’re talking diseases… whatever happened to SARS? > > And in the UK - foot and mouth disease Everyone has already forgotten about H1N1? I’m \*still \*heading radio commercials reminding me that it’s not too late for it to track me down and kill me… ETA: OK, forget I said anything…I see now that “Swine flu” = “H1N1”. Sorry, I’m 42 and “Swine flu” to me refers to the 1976 outbreak that nearly did us all in… ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/26 "2010-06-10T20:30:07Z")
2005 Pakistan earthquake 2003 Bam earthquake Apparently a good decade for natural disasters… ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/27 "2010-06-10T20:36:27Z")
2001 Gujarat earthquake 2008 Myanmar cyclone ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/28 "2010-06-10T20:47:12Z")
[2006 North Korean nuclear test](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_nuclear_test) [2008 Kosovo declares independence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence) [2008 Sichuan earthquake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/29 "2010-06-10T20:53:40Z")
The Sichuan earthquake, which killed about 70,000 and injured nearly 350,000. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/30 "2010-06-10T23:51:03Z")
The California recall election and subsequent election of the Governator. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/31 "2010-06-11T02:29:47Z")
California so broke they’re sending out IOU’s for tax returns Death of half the Polish Government in a plane crash Hanging Chads The Euro The amazing pictures from the Mars Rover Large Hadron Collider is built and fails to do function for any sustanined amount of time (also fails to destroy the earth) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/32 "2010-06-11T11:18:12Z")
Chandra Levy, the big story that was all over the papers when 9/11 happened. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/33 "2010-06-12T00:46:06Z")
Re. the duct tape scare: The “duct and cover” (ha!) scare was [in early 2003](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape_alert), when Homeland Security raised the threat level to orange and warned of possible nuclear, chemical, and/or biological attacks. Everybody was making jokes about it, but I recall seeing several news stories about people who had actually wrapped their homes, and sales of duct tape apparently spiked. In Israel shortly afterward, three people [died in their home](http://www.snopes.com/rumors/ducttape.asp) because they’d sealed it off with duct tape in case of Iraqi chemical attack and were running a coal-fueled heater in there. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/34 "2010-06-12T00:58:44Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Chandra Levy, the big story that was all over the papers when 9/11 happened. No disrespect to Chandra’s memory or to her family, but I _completely_ forgot about that one until this very moment. Condit must have been glad to get knocked off the front pages. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/35 "2010-06-12T02:11:07Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Condit must have been glad to get knocked off the front pages. I remember someone saying, just a few days after 9/11, that Gary Condit must have been the only person who felt ambivalent about the attacks. By the way, just last year a guy–not Gary Condit–was arrested and charged with her murder. He’s set for trial in October of this year. Condit apparently had nothing to do with Levy’s disappearance. On the subject of “significant events of the past decade,” Jimmie Johnson’s four consecutive NASCAR championshop titles (and counting) are historic. No one’s won four consecutive championships in a major US pro sport since the Boston Celtics in 1959-1966, AFAIK. If NASCAR didn’t have the redneck connotations it’s got, Jimmie Johnson would be mentioned in the same breath with Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/36 "2010-06-12T02:58:05Z")
“Abe Vigoda is still alive?” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/37 "2010-06-12T02:59:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Chandra Levy, the big story that was all over the papers when 9/11 happened. The other big stories in the summer of 2001 were shark attacks and stem cells. ---
**Author:** ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/38 "2010-06-12T04:26:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m 48 – probably not the answer you were looking for, huh? > > I’m not sure what got me to thinking about this. Certainly in every decade we get a ton of major news stories. It just seems like in this past decade we’ve gotten more than our fair share. No, it’s not actually. Everyone else was 31. Thanks for the reply. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/39 "2010-06-12T04:50:10Z")
Same-sex marriage legalized in several countries and U.S. states (the most recent are Portugal and Iceland, the latter in the last day or two). In Canada, the sponsorship scandal and election of the Conservative government. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540/40 "2010-06-12T05:01:07Z")
Random stuff: Capture of the BTK Killer The Beltway Sniper Chinese school stabbings Bush’s Election and Re-election Rise in naval disasters, including piracy Reality TV, in particular the train wreck that was the Anna Nicole show Catholic priest pedophiles [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/events-in-the-last-decade/542540.md?page=3)