Did you know, you can enter any year and wikipedia and post info about it? Its pretty sweet. Ill start with like 2006 then go backwards and post one fact per year. Itll be educational

example

2006-A stampede during the Stoning of the devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills 362 Muslim pilgrims.

2005-January 4 - Death of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri, assassinated by gunmen.

2004-January 4 - NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

2003-February 1 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.

2002-January 5 - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.

bet ya didnt know that

2001-January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (Wikipedia Day).

lol

2000-January 31 - Dr. Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.

1999-January 1 - Euro currency introduced.

1998-Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing.

1997-In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.

1996-November 18 - World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.

haha

1995-# January 1 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union

1994-January 20 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.

1993-January 18 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 American states.

1992-# March - Boxer Mike Tyson is given a 6 year sentence for raping an 18 year old Miss Black America contestant, Desiree Washington

1991-January 13 - Soccer stampede and fight at Johannesburg, South Africa - 42 dead.

1990 January 18 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.



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'kay. good for you.

'kay. good for you.

Yah it WAs orginally to build up my post count i guess.

I love wikipedia. I use it for essays and projects all of the time cause it seems to have nearly everything on it. Although im not to sure if it is 100% acurate cause I really dont think Chuck Norris was one of the cuases of World War 2.

No lol, he was born after the war ended. Most of the info on wikipedia is remarkably unbiased for a site that users can edit. The moderating team is so fast there, I posted a picture of a monkey in the place of gw bush and the moderators caught it in a minute.

I've had Wikipedia as my home page for a while now :) its the **** :D

good tip about the dates tho, definately cool

It's definitely a very interesting site. I don't know when it came about, but I remember when I stumbled onto it awhile back.

Yah, its the ONLY online encyclopedia I use. It kicks encartas ass and encarta costs money while wikis free. Wikipedia is so in depth.

Yah, its the ONLY online encyclopedia I use. It kicks encartas ass and encarta costs money while wikis free. Wikipedia is so in depth.
It does kick the crap out of Encarta. Plus its totally free.