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From left, clockwise: Pope Francis is elected to the Papacy in the 2013 papal conclave; The Dhaka garment factory collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,000 people; Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Protests occur amid the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt; The Chelyabinsk meteor rockets across the Russian morning sky; The Boston Marathon bombing marks the first terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11; Smoke rises as a result of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, carried out by Al-Shabaab militants.

From left, clockwise: The H1N1 virus was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; US Airways Flight 1549 crash-lands in the Hudson River with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson died in 2009; Bitcoin is initially launched by the pseudonymous name Satoshi Nakamoto; the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake strikes central Italy; the vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean.

From left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses, Damaged during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Queues outside a bank to exchange demonetised banknotes during the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016; The Girardet bridge in Düsseldorf with its four pokéstops; Donald Trump is elected as U.S. President in 2016 during a period of intensifying political polarization in the U.S.

From left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok kindap; Bundles of water inside of a C-17 Globemaster III in the War against the Islamic State; Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate during the 2014 Thai coup d'état; Pro-independence campaigners in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014

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From top to bottom, left to right: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates the independence of South Sudan, the world's newest country; the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastates Eastern Japan and kills nearly 20,000 people; Minecraft is released and goes on to become the best-selling video game; the 2011 Norway attacks mark the rise of white supremacist terrorism across the west; The U.S. national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of Operation Neptune Spear; Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown

From left, clockwise: 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the worst marine oil spill in history; North Korean artillery attacks Yeonpyeong Island.; Kyrgyzstan Revolution: people entering the White House in Bishkek on 7 April.; Remains of Tu-154 after crash on April 10, 2010 that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński; Child is treated for injuries following 2010 Haitian earthquake which killed over an estimated 100,000 people.

From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake kills over 87,000; a destroyed Georgian T-72 tank during the Russo-Georgian War; the Trident Hotel in Mumbai was the site of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks;a line of detritus in a backyard made during the December, 2008 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill ; Poster in Pristina celebrating the Independence of Kosovo from Serbia.

From left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the highest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka, opens to the public; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri in September; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Kennedy Space Center, designed to explore Mars; The Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.

From left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated; 2007 marked the beginning of the Subprime mortgage crisis in the United States; A surge of troops is sent to fight in the Iraq War; a gunman kills 32 people at Virginia Tech; Google Street View is unveiled to the world;The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by member states of the European Union

From left, clockwise: Wikipedia is launched, making it the world's largest online encyclopedia; Enron files for bankruptcy after a major scandal; Foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in the United Kingdom; The United States invades Afghanistan to begin the War on terror; The 2001 Gujarat earthquake kills between 13,000 and 20,000 people; Apple Inc. launches the first iPod after releasing iTunes earlier in the year; President George W. Bush announces the War on terror and demands that the Taliban hand over Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center burn and eventually collapse after being struck with hijacked planes during the 9/11 attacks.

From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney; A U.S. Air Force MH-53 flies over the 2000 Mozambique flood; An Air France Concorde similar to the one that crashed after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport; The USS Cole is bombed by Al-Qaeda; Times Square after the ball drop that heralded the New Millennium.

From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon both die within weeks of each other; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and is admitted to the United Nations; an Armenian postage stamp depicts the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Korea and Japan; the Department of Homeland Security is created in the wake of 9/11 to counter further terrorist threats against the United States; the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision kills 71 people; FBI agents investigate a crime scene related to the D.C. sniper attacks; the Euro becomes the official currency of the European Union.

From left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A destroyed building in Bam, Iran after the 2003 Bam earthquake killed 30,000 people; A U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank patrols the streets of Baghdad after the city fell to U.S.-led forces; Abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by U.S. personnel; Protests in London against the Invasion of Iraq; "Mission Accomplished" became an ironic symbol of the protractedness of the Iraq War after President George W. Bush's infamous speech; a statue of Saddam Hussein is toppled in Baghdad after he was deposed during the Iraq War.

From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre becomes one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the Year 2000 problem, or "Y2K", becomes a major technological concern in the lead up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome opens in London in anticipation for the Millennium celebrations; Napster, an online music downloading platform, is launched and becomes a source of online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed t-55 tank lies near Prizren during the Kosovo War.

From left, clockwise: Mourners on Zahran street hold up portrait of the recently deceased King Hussein of Jordan; Collapsed building following the 1999 Izmit earthquake; Mourners outside JFK jrs Loft apt after the John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash; The opening ceremony for the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final; NASA Lunar Prosepector; Napster, a music downloading service, debuts; Artist's depiction of the Mars Polar Lander on Mars; Destroyed tank near Prizren destroyed during the Kosovo War

From left, clockwise: The movie set of Titanic, which became the highest-grossing movie in history for over a decade; The first book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; Flowers are left outside of Kensington Palace following the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in Paris.

From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games.