2001-01-15 00:00 UTC
Wikipedia opens
January 15, 2001
An encyclopedia anyone can edit goes live and is not expected to work.
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Photo: U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome Project · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2003-04-14 00:00 UTCThe human genome is finished
April 14, 2003
The international sequencing consortium declares the reference genome complete.
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Photo: Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons 2004-02-04 00:00 UTCThefacebook launches
February 4, 2004
A directory for one campus goes online in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Photo: Tobias Kleinlercher / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2006-03-21 20:50 UTCjust setting up my twttr
March 21, 2006
The first post on a service that will rewrite how news travels.
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Three devices in one
January 9, 2007
Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone at Macworld in San Francisco.
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The queues
June 29, 2007
The first iPhone goes on sale and the pocket computer becomes ordinary.
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Photo: Steve Jurvetson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2009-01-03 18:15 UTCThe genesis block
January 3, 2009
The first Bitcoin block is mined with a newspaper headline written into it.
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Photo: desierto_atacama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2010-10-13 00:00 UTCThirty-three come up
October 13, 2010
The last of the trapped miners at San Jose reaches the surface after sixty-nine days.
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Photo: CERN for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2012-07-04 00:00 UTCA new particle
July 4, 2012
CERN announces the observation of a boson consistent with the Higgs.
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Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2012-08-06 05:17 UTCCuriosity is down
August 6, 2012
The rover lands in Gale Crater after the seven minutes of terror.
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Photo: SpaceX Photos · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons 2015-12-21 01:38 UTCThe booster comes back
December 21, 2015
A Falcon 9 first stage lands upright at Cape Canaveral.
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Photo: Nkij · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2016-02-11 00:00 UTCSpacetime rings
February 11, 2016
LIGO announces the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
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Photo: en:NASA, en:STScI, en:WikiSky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2019-04-10 00:00 UTCThe first photograph of a black hole
April 10, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope releases an image of the shadow at the centre of M87.
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Photo: Gustavo Basso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2020-03-11 00:00 UTCA pandemic is declared
March 11, 2020
The World Health Organization uses the word for COVID-19.
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Photo: Joel Kowsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2020-05-30 19:22 UTCTwo astronauts, a private rocket
May 30, 2020
Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from Kennedy Space Center.
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Photo: semeion.photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons 2021-02-18 20:55 UTCPerseverance lands
February 18, 2021
The rover reaches Jezero Crater carrying a helicopter under its belly.
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Photo: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2021-12-25 12:20 UTCWebb leaves Earth
December 25, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope launches on an Ariane 5 from Kourou.
Not for saleOpen recordPhoto: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2022-07-12 00:00 UTCThe deep field
July 12, 2022
The first full-colour images from Webb are released.
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Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Keegan Barber · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons 2024-04-08 18:17 UTCTotality over North America
April 8, 2024
The Moon's shadow crosses Mexico, the United States and Canada.
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