Beijing Summer Olympics
2008 · Event
China's coming-out party as a global power.
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Around 2008
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 2010s (2010)
- Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) (2006)
- Global financial crisis (2007)
- Shape of You (Ed Sheeran) (2017)
- iPhone launched (2007)
- Someone like You (Adele) (2011)
- Iraq War begins (2003)
- Brexit referendum (2016)