![]() The US Supreme Court ultimately decided the results of the 2000 Presidential election.Ĭoncerns about Y2K passed without widespread computer malfunctions In October 2000, AT&T became the first American cellular company to offer text messaging In 2005, the first successful partial face transplant was performed In 2000, Vermont became the first state to legalize same-sex civil unions. The terrorist attacks on Septemclaimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people The first camera phone in North America was sold in 2004 ![]() In 2009, Silly Bandz hit the first American retail store In 2003, The Human Genome Project was completed, conducting whole genome sequencing on humansĪpple introduced the iPod in October 2001 In August 2005, at least 1,836 people died as a result of Category 5 Hurricane Katrina and its subsequent flooding ![]() The seventh and final main volume of The Harry Potter series was published in July 2007 Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" during her Superbowl halftime show with Justin Timberlake in February 2004 The first season of NBC's "The Apprentice" aired in 2004 In 2006, Pluto was officially demoted to a dwarf planet Wikipedia was launched in 2001 based on the wisdom of crowdsourcing
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