The document summarizes important events that occurred between 2000 and 2009. It lists events such as Vincente Fox being elected president of Mexico in 2000, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain in 2002, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 280,000 people, the conclusion of the hit TV series Friends in 2004, Hurricane Katrina devastating New Orleans in 2005, Fidel Castro stepping down as Cuban president in 2006 due to illness, Barack Obama being elected the first African American U.S. president in 2008, and the death of Michael Jackson in 2009.
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1. UNIVERSIDAD AUTNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD
REA ACADMICA DE NUTRICIN
ENGLISH III
Important events of 00卒s
TEACHER: Lorena Cruz Garc鱈a
ALUMNA: Estela Romo Hern叩ndez
Semester: 3捉 Group: 2
2. 2000 2001 2002
Vincente Fox On september The tanker
11th USA Prestige sinks off
was elected the Galician
president of suffered a
coast (Spain),
Mexico, terrorist attack causing an
and the twin ecological
after 70
Towers were disaster of great
years of PRI destroyed magnitude
government.
3. 2004
A tsunami (tidal wave) in the Indian Ocean
devastated Southeast Asia and causes
more than 280,000 deaths.
2004
On May 6, 2004 culminated the hit TV series
Friends, after of 10 seasons and over 225
episodes.
2005
Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city of New
Orleans.
4. 2006 2008 2009
Fidel Castro
fell ill and left
Barack Obama
becomes the
Death of
the first African Michael
presidency American to be
elected
Jackson,
of Cuba to
his brother president of the King of
United States
and First Vice
(November 4).
Pop
President
Raul.