URBAN MILESTONES - 2000s
URBAN MILESTONES - 2000s
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 New York City and the Pentagon are attacked by al-Qaeda. The Pentagon is badly damaged and the twin towers of the World Trade Center are destroyed when hijacked airplanes crash into them. Nearly 3,000 people die in the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
MAY 17, 2005 Antonio Villaraigosa is elected first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872.
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| Oleg Kleban, a Ukrainian immigrant (right) and Andrey Pogrebinskiy a Russian immigrant, perform Isaac Babel’s “Odessa Tales” at the Brooklyn College Hillel, 1999. | A Haitian drummer plays at the opening of the Creole Market & Cultural Center in Miami, 2000. | Street performers at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 2004 |
AUGUST 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans; it takes an estimated 1,700 lives along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Despite federal pledges to rebuild the city, neighborhoods throughout New Orleans remain in tatters in 2008.
JANUARY 4, 2007 Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, representing San Francisco, is elected the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
November 4, 2008 Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Illinois, is elected the first African-American president of the United States.
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| President-elect Barack Obama, his daughters Sasha and Malia, and his wife Michelle celebrate his victory in Chicago on election night, November 4, 2008. |
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| The Indian Independence Day Parade in New York City, 2005. | Barber shop owner, Antonio Fields, in East New York, Brooklyn, c. 2007. | Queens County has the most diverse population of any county in the U.S. and the Queens neighborhood of Flushing has a strong concentration of Asians. Here Korean-American vendors sell vegetables on a Flushing street, 2008. |
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