America in 2005-2014• MasterCard and Visa announce a massive breach YEAR IN HISTORY 2010in security with over ten million compromised credit advertising business and to relocate its corporate • Conan O’Brien’s last Tonight Show episode airs card numbersYEAR IN HISTORY 2005headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, after a big controversy over the late night time slot• Condoleezza Rice sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State… • The unfnished One World Trade Center overtakes New York• Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans Saints win their frst the frst African-American woman to hold this post the Empire State building to become the tallest • The Mitchell Report is publicly released, listing Super Bowl when they defeat the Indianapolis Colts, building in New York• Super Bowl XXXIX: New England Patriots win over the names of 89 Major League Baseball players 31-17Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21 • Walt Disney purchases Lucasflm, Ltd. and its rights that have presumably used anabolic steroids and • The last piece of Yankee Stadium falls in the for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billionhuman growth hormones, and notable players • YouTube channels appearBronx, New York, marking the end of the two-year named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada• Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey, • 59th Tony Awards…Monty Python’s Spamalot demolition processresulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage, and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt win• With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, and forces the New York Stock Exchange to closeYEAR IN HISTORY 2008• Final design of new World Trade Center SpaceX becomes the frst privately held company to • Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million is released successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft• A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment same-sex couples comes into effect• Hurricane Katrina devastates areas from Louisiana launch of all timeto Florida…$115 Billion in damage• Super Bowl XLII: New York Giants beat New YEAR IN HISTORY 2011• 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at England Patriots, 17-14• Chicago White Sox defeat Houston Astros in World Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut• Attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Series, 4-0• Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas frst female driver in history to win an Indy car raceAdobes, Arizona, at a Safeway grocery store kills six YEAR IN HISTORY 2013and wounds 13, including Giffords• 115th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams YEAR IN HISTORY 2006• Lance Armstrong admits to doping in all seven beats Serena Williams (7-5, 6-4)• Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103)• The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on of his Tour de France victories• Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers the frst mission to Pluto, and Pluto’s newly discovered • Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most • John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham moons are offcially named Nix and HydraClinton as the United States Secretary of StateAverage falls 777.68 points – the largest single-day wanted man, is killed by the United States Special • A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern point loss in its historyForces in Abbottabad, Pakistan • Wal-Mart becomes the largest company (by United States dumping one to two feet of snow revenue) on the Fortune 500 list• O. J. Simpson found guilty on charges of from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, • Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her kidnapping and armed robberyMassachusetts, as well as a record 26.9 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show • The U.S. Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of inches of snow in New York City online sales• Barack Obama elected President of the United States• Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti • 88th PGA Championship: Tiger Woods shoots a Park, New York City • Bill Gates becomes the world’s richest man, with 270 at Medinah Country Club $72.7 billion, again after losing the position in 2008• LEGOLAND Florida (the world’s largest LEGOLAND YEAR IN HISTORY 2009• The United States population reaches 300 million theme park) opens in Winter Haven, Florida • LeBron James is named MVP of the NBA Finals for • Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President the second straight year• Record-breaking snowstorm in the Northeastern of the United States, becomes the nation’s frst United States leaves nearly two million residents • Detroit, Michigan fles for bankruptcy to become the African-American presidentYEAR IN HISTORY 2007without power for more than 36 hours largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 billion• U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing • Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. CEO, announces the iPhone• The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants, • Grand Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment three pirates and capturing a fourth• 133rd Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel aboard Street according to the United Nations product to reach $1 billion in sales• Chrysler automobile company, followed by General Sense wins in 2:02.17• Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011 • Sony launches the PlayStation Four, selling Motors, each fle for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – the • The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning one million units on the frst dayfourth largest bankruptcy in the history of the the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States• Alex Rodriquez sets new MLB record with 24 Grand YEAR IN HISTORY 2012collapses during the evening rush hourSlam home runs for the New York Yankees• The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the public • The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3 – the • The flm, The Artist, wins fve Academy Awards and after eight years, due to security reasons following • The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history is the frst silent flm to win since 1927the World Trade Center attacksin Game 6 to win the MLB 2013 World Series• AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., offcially • Wendy’s overtakes Burger King to become the • Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009announces plans to refocus the company as an second best-selling hamburger chain71 72