2001: A Bonus Odyssey

Slow news day, what? No, just re-posting some of the most Bonus-worthy events from 2001 to enlighten all of you. Yes, that's it.

2001
The Common Year/Summer of the Shark

January 8 – Noah, a Gaur, is born, the first individual of an endangered species to be cloned.

January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.

February 12 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

March 5 – Microsoft released Office XP to manufacturing.

April 28 – Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito.

May 24 – Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to conquer Mount Everest.

July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools.

November 22 – Pope John Paul II sends the first papal e-mail from a laptop in his office.

December 27 – Typhoon Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.

I think the Pope e-mailing thing is the coolest here, just saying.