Vision And Views

An Overview of Current Life Events

By Dr. Purushothaman Kollam

Monday 10 February 2014

Major World Events [42]



China's moon rover landed on moon on 10th December 2013
Nelson Mandela died on 4th December 2013 at the age of 95
Iran Nuclear deal was signed on 22nd November 2013
The Typhoon Haiyan destroyed major part of Philippines (07-11-2013)    

The US Government activities were shut downed for a short period (01-10-2013)   

A mall in Kenya was attacked by terrorists on 21st September 2013   

A shooting occurred in between Washington DC navy members (17-09-2013)   

Tokyo, Japan was selected to host 2020 Olympics (07-09-2013)   

In a business deal worth $7.2 Billion, Microsoft bought Nokia Mobile (02-09-2013)

There was sudden error for three hours in trading in NASDAQ (21-08-2013)   

Syria was alleged for a chemical weapon attack (21-08-2013)


Detroit declared bankrupt (18-07-2013)   

A boeing 777 air plane crashed at San Francisco Airport (06-07-2013)   

President Mursi was ousted by the Egyptian Army (22-06-2013)   

US NSA Prism program was launched on 6th June 2013
   
In the Caribbean area the Baltimore cruise ship got fire (27-05-2013)


When a Machete Attack occurred in London everybody was shocked (22-05-2013)

Oklahoma experienced a huge tornado attack on 20th May 2013   
   
Human stem cells were successfully cloned by scientists (17-05-2013)   

The social networking site Tumblr was bought by Yahoo for $1.1 billion (17-05-2013)

When a factory collapsed in Bangladesh, over 700 people died (05-05-2013)   

A severe earthquake occurred in Sichuan, China on 18th April 2013

A series of blasts occurred in Boston (16-04-2013)

Margaret Thatcher passed away at the age of 87 on 7th April 2013   
   
The introduction of Bitcoin, digital currency started on 20th March 2013
   
On bank deposits tax was implemented by the Cyprus Government (17-03-2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigned on 10th February 2013
   
In a fire occurred in a Brazilian night club on 27th January 2013, 230 persons died    

Algeria hostage crisis was on 16th January 2013   

There was a stampede in Ivory Coast during the New Year fireworks (01-01-2013)



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