| 2000 |
Jan |
01 |
The Municipality of
Haldimand-Norfolk Region was disbanded, establishing the Towns of Norfolk
County and Haldimand County |
| 2000 |
Sep |
28 |
Former Canadian Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau died |
| 2000 |
Dec |
12 |
More than a month
after the election, George W. Bush declared
President of U.S. after U.S. Supreme Court ordered Florida vote recounts
halted. |
| 2001 |
Sep |
11 |
Terrorists flew jets
into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania |
| 2002 |
Feb |
01 |
Tri-County ice storm
plunges Norfolk County into 36 hour blackout |
| 2002 |
Mar |
30 |
The Queen
Mum,
Elizabeth I, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died |
| 2003 |
Nov |
12 |
Norfolk County native
Douglas Glover won the Governor General's Literary Award for English
language fiction for his book Elle. |
| 2004 |
Dec |
26 |
Devastating tsunamis
stuck Southeast Asia killing over 200,000 people after a massive earthquake off the coast of
Indonesia |
| 2005 |
Aug |
29 |
Hurricane Katrina
devastated New Orleans. The incompetent response of government made the
situation worse. |
| 2006 |
Nov |
21 |
Al Gore's An
Inconvenient Truth DVD and book released |
| 2007 |
|
|
Al Gore shared Pulitzer
Prize for promoting environmental causes |
| 2007 |
Jun |
29 |
Apple Inc. introduced
the iPhone |
| 2008 |
Sep |
15 |
Lehman Brothers went
bankrupt. Global recession took
centre stage. National economies at risk. Credit stopped flowing. Housing
values tumbled. Largest banks, insurance companies, car
manufacturers deemed too big to fail. U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain suspended his campaign, all but forfeiting the election.
U.S. unemployment rose dramatically. |
| 2008 |
Nov |
04 |
Barack Obama elected
President of U.S. |
| 2009 |
Jul |
|
Stratford, Ontario's
Justin Bieber releases first record. |
| 2010 |
Jan |
12 |
Magnitude 7 earthquake
devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| 2010 |
Apr |
|
Apple Inc. introduced the iPad tablet computer |
| 2010 |
Apr |
20 |
Largest marine oil
spill in history began in the Gulf of Mexico when a BP
well exploded. About five million barrels of crude oil gushed from the sea
floor before the wellhead was capped 15 Jul 2010. |
| 2010 |
Aug |
08 |
Thirty-six
members of the world champion Paris-Port Dover Pipe Band backed up former
Beatle Sir Paul McCartney during his concert at Toronto's Air Canada
Centre, on his 1977 tune Mull of Kintyre. |
| 2011 |
Mar |
11 |
Magnitude 9.0
earthquake and resulting massive tsunami struck Japan killing tens of
thousands and causing crises at nuclear power plants. |
| 2011 |
Apr |
29 |
Britain's Prince
William married long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton |
| 2011 |
May |
01 |
Obama announced
terrorist leader Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan |
| 2011 |
Oct |
05 |
Apple Computer
co-founder, CEO and digital visionary Steve Jobs, 56, died |
| 2012 |
Oct |
29 |
Superstorm Sandy, the
second costliest ever, severely damages the Atlantic coast of U.S.
particularly New Jersey (15,000 homes destroyed), New York. |
| 2012 |
Nov |
06 |
U.S. president Barack
Obama re-elected over Republican Mitt Romey |
| 2013 |
Jun |
|
Edward Snowden's
"biggest security leak in history" begins documenting massive unconstitutional
invasions of privacy by federal governments. |
| 2013 |
Jul |
06 |
Lec-Megantic, Quebec
disaster. Train derails, explodes; 47 residents, much of downtown, local
environment, blown away in fire ball visible from space. |
| 2013 |
Dec |
05 |
Nelson Mandala, 95,
anti-apartheid president of South Africa dies |
| 2013 |
Dec |
25 |
A cold, dark Christmas
for tens of thousands across Ontario, including maybe 1,000 in Norfolk,
after the previous weekend's ice and wind storm brought tree limbs down on
power lines. |
| 2015 |
Nov |
4 |
Justin Trudeau elected
Prime Minister of Canada |
| 2016 |
Jun |
23 |
United Kingdom votes to
leave European Union, promptly global financial uncertainty |
