WHAT HAPPENED IN 21. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the 21. century

U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain. (17. January 2001)

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. (17. January 2002)

The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. (17. January 2007)

British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777. (17. January 2008)

Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths. (17. January 2010)

Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over. (18. January 2002)

A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. (18. January 2003)

The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France (18. January 2005)

The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. (18. January 2007)

Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault. (18. January 2009)

A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. (18. January 2012)

The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. (19. January 2006)

Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. (19. January 2007)

The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. (19. January 2012)

A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards. (19. January 2013)

A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others. (19. January 2014)

Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. (20. January 2001)

Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. (20. January 2006)

A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. (20. January 2007)

A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start. (20. January 2009)