2006, The Number 6 Sucks

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Oh man, another facebook repost! This is the information that we decided was important about the year 2006! I know that most of you have already read and memorized everything on the facebook, but I figured I'd continue the theme of reposting these years because I know it makes you all so happy.

2006
International Year of Deserts and Desertification

January 1 – Sydney, Australia, has its warmest day on record, when the city reaches 45°C (113°F).

February 5 – Super Bowl XL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10

March 17 – The United States strikes its 2 remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.

June 18 – The first Kazakh space satellite KazSat is launched.

July 11 – Microsoft ends Extended Support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me as part of the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy.

August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.

September 13 – The solar system's largest dwarf planet, designated until now as 2003 UB313, is officially named "Eris"; its satellite is now known as "Dysnomia".

October 10 – Google buys YouTube for USD $1.65 billion.
October 10 – Microsoft ends all public assisted support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1).

November 8 – A transit of Mercury occurs.

December 10 – Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in space.

2003 Was Waaaaay Too Long Ago

Another Bonus Time year's worth of fun facts for the faithful out there. This time we're gonna focus on 2003. Again this is a facebook repost, and if you're not a fan of us on facebook yet click on the fucking thing on the right.

2003
International Year of Freshwater

January 18 – The Canberra Bushfires in Canberra, Australia kill 4 people

March 13 – The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy.

April 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.

June 22 – The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska.

July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively

August 28 – Bank robber Brian Douglas Wells is killed when a time bomb around his neck explodes, allegedly in an act of betrayal by his co-conspirators.

September 3 – The Hubble Space Telescope starts Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

October 15 – The 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash kills 11 after one of its ferries slams into a pier.

November 23 – A total solar eclipse is seen over Antarctica.

December 25 – Beagle 2 is scheduled to land on Mars, but nothing is heard from the lander.

Bonus Time Events

Again a Facebook repost -- I know, it's a busy Friday. And although I know everyone who reads Bonus blog has surely memorized all of these facts about 2002 already, we're gonna repost them just in case you need a little.... refresher.

2002
International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains

January 1 – Euro notes and coins are issued in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and the Netherlands.

March 14 – 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile up on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia.

April 18 – The discovery of a new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

May 26 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large water ice deposits on the planet Mars.

June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about 1/3 the distance to the moon.

July 19 – Hail kills 25 and injures hundreds in the Chinese province of Henan.

August 7 – Tama-chan, a bearded seal native to the Arctic, is discovered in Tama River in Tokyo.

October 7 – The discovery of Quaoar is announced.

Nov 10 - According to the Guardian newspaper, Gauthier Hulot of the Paris Geophysical Institute has discovered evidence of a reduction of the Earth's magnetic field over the last two hundred years. It is possible that this may be a prelude to a reversal of polarity of the Earth's magenetic field over the next few hundred years.

Dec 6 - Pi has been calculated to 1.24 trillion digits. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo have set the new world record.

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.