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Monday, January 3, 2011

Some Important Events During The Last Decade (2000--2010)


The first decade of the 21st century is in the history pages now. Nearly 3665 new pages have been pasted to the human-history book. Starting with entirely interwoven matter this decade ended with inflammatory questions. Let us have a look on the events that divided the world in various ideological concepts.
Nine Eleven (9/11):-
Te 11th day of September 2001 is not only the most important event of the last decade but is also among the important events since man entered into the machine-age. This also parted the world in many confronting fronts. On September 11 the terrorists (hijackers) hit the twin-tower( World Trade Centre) with passenger plane resulting in the collapsing of the skyscraper in no time. This tragedic act took the lives of 2606 human-beings on the spot Soon after this hijackers made the other plane crash on the American Defense Ministry Building The PENTAGON. While the third hijacked plane crashed by the terrorists incidentally in the suberbern area of Shariksville in Penysalvania. Expers say the targeyt of this plane was the "Capital Hill" where congress men meet or may be the White House however the hickaers failed to achieve the target. In all in this incident 2977 people of 70 countries including 19 hijackers were killed. The independent sources claim the death toll thrice the declared number. The awesome result of this tragedy was the war against terrorists that President Bush called "Crusade". Then related to this war was the decision of attacking Afghanistan. The results of this war have encircled the whole world.
Tsunami:-
This was the early morning of 26th December 2004 that the million of the people living around the Indian Ocean could not imagine that death is stepping towards them in the form of Tsunami waves. This turbulence caused the death of 0.25 million people of 14 countries. The earth quake that resulted in Tsunami occurred in India sea near the Province of Ache in Indonesia at the depth of 30 km under the sea. Its severity on the Richer scale was between 9.1-9.3. This wass the third most severe earth quake recorded up till now. The waves that hit the shores of different countries were as high as 6-30 meters.The earth quake's duration was from 8-10 minutes.In India Ocean the the hitting of "Burma Plate" with "Indian Plate" caused Tsunami that destroyed the vast areas in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Maldeev,Myanmar, Somalia, Srilanka, and Thailand.The Indonesia had to bear larger financial and lives loss. In the country 0.28 million people died. While, mostly telecommunication installations and buildings were destroyed in Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Western Australia, Madghaskar, Marecius, Amman, and Singapore.

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