01/04/21 Grif.Net - Monday to Remember: the 2000's
Robert Griffin
[A new year often means looking back. In this case, only a couple of decades back]
1. 2000 – Health fears over ____________________ spread over Britain and Europe from tainted food.
2. 2001 – The ____________ government in Afghanistan fail to hand over Osama Bin Laden (mastermind of 9/11) and comes under attack and toppled.
3. 2002 – After a decade of preparations and three years of an ‘invisible' currency (used for accounting purposes) the _________ was launched in the biggest cash changeover in history
4. 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore was forced from office after refusing to remove a monument of ______________________.
5. 2004 – The U.S. returns sovereignty to an interim government in _________, but maintains roughly 135,000 troops in the country to fight a growing insurgency.
6. 2005 – Hurricane ____________ wreaks catastrophic damage on Mississippi and Louisiana; 80% of New Orleans is flooded and government response woefully inadequate.
7. 2006 – The richest man in the US, ______________________ announces that he will donate 85% of his $44 billion fortune to five philanthropic organizations.
8. 2007 – California Democrat ______________________ becomes the first female U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives.
9. 2008 – The first person of partial African descent, Democrat ________________ is elected 44th President of the USA.
10. 2009 – WHO declares over 208 countries have _______ virus cases and deaths and was now a global pandemic.
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Dr Bob Griffin
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