Just a few of the things that have happened in that time:
2003 - Space shuttle Columbia explodes on reentry
2003 - U.S. invades Iraq
2003 - Blackout in northeast
2004 - Abu Gharib prison abuse
2004 - 9/11 Commission issues its final report
2004 - President Bush reelected for his 2nd term
2005 - Space-X has first launch of the Falcon 1 rocket
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates gulf coast
2006 - Tesla Roadster introduced
2007 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman elected as speaker of the house.
2007 - iPhone introduced
2007 - Virginia Tech shooting
2008 - Barak Obama to be democratic candidate
2008 - Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy
2008 - Barak Obama wins the Presidency
2009 - Barak Obama inaugurated President
2009 - General Motors declares bankruptcy
2009 - President Obama announces troop surge
2010 - Affordable Health Care Act passed by Congress
2010 - U.S. combat mission ends in Iraq
2011 - Osama Bin laden killed by U.S. forces
2012 - Hurricane Sandy
2012 - Obama Reelected for 2nd term
2012 - Sandy Hook school shooting
2013 - Boston Marathon bombing
2015 - Charleston church shooting
2015 - Supreme court - same sex marriage
2016 - Donald Trump elected
2017 - FBI director James Comey fired
2017 - Equifax data breach
2018 - Trump leaves Iran nuclear accord
2018 - U.S. north Korean summit
2018 - Cohen and Manafort found guilty
2018 - Only 30,000 refugees to be admitted in 2017
2018 - Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court
2018 - Massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA
2018 - General Gattis resigns after Trump announcement on Syria
2019 - Nancy Pelosi elected to Speaker of the House for 2nd time
2019 - Government shut down ends after 35 days
2019 - Mueller report released on Trump and Russia
2019 - House votes to impeach president trump
2020 - COVID-19 spreads around the world
2020 - Former Vice President Biden becomes presumptive Democratic nominee
2020 - Space-x launches astronauts to space station
2020 - Former vice president Joe Biden elected president
2021 - Insurrection in Washington DC - the capitol is attacked
2021 - Second impeachment trial of Donald J Trump
2021 - Taliban victorious in Afghanistan U.S. evacuates 122,000
2022 - Supreme court rules on vaccine mandates
2022 - January 6th committee holds public hearings
2022 - Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade
2022 - Congress concludes that former President Donald J Trump should be prosecuted
2023 - Donald J Trump indicted by New York Grand Jury
2023 - Donald J Trump arrested on 30 criminal charges
Let's see if we can keep this going for a couple more decades!
