2004

• 3 Doors Down – “Here Without You”
• Alicia Keys – “If I Ain’t Got You”
• Black Eyed Peas – “Let’s Get It Started”
• Britney Spears – “Toxic”
• Dido – “White Flag”
• Evanescence – “My Immortal”
• Hoobastank – “The Reason”
• Kelis – “Milkshake”
• Kelly Clarkson – “Breakaway”
• Maroon 5 – “She Will Be Loved”
• Maroon 5 – “This Love”
• Nelly ft. Tim McGraw – “Over and Over”
• No Doubt – “It’s My Life”
• Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
• Outkast ft Sleepy Brown – “The Way You Move”
• Usher ft. Ludacris & Lil Jon – “Yeah!”

• Shrek 2
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Spider-Man 2
• The Incredibles
• The Passion of the Christ
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Meet the Fockers
• Troy
• Shark Tale
• Ocean's Twelve

• The Apprentice
• Veronica Mars
• CSI: NY
• Desperate Housewives
• Nanny 911
• House
• Drake & Josh
• Astro Boy
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

• Boston Public
• Lizzie McGuire
• Sex and the City
• Friends
• Frasier
• Angel

• Season: Vauatu
• 2 tribes of 9 new players divided by gender
• Winner: Chris Daugherty
• Runner-up: Twila Tanner

• Season: All-Stars
• 2 tribes of 6 returning players
• Winner: Amber Brkich
• Runner-up: Rob Mariano

• Winner: Fantasia Barrino
• Runner-up: Diana DeGarmo
• Jennifer Hudson surprisingly was eliminated at Top 7
• William Hung - one of the most talked-about contestants during audition process for his off-key rendition of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs"

• Millie Bobby Brown - TV actress, on "Stranger Things"
• Bryce Gheisar - movie actor, in "Wonder"
• Annie LeBlanc - YouTube star, on family vlog channel "Bratayley"
• Mackenzie Ziegler - dancer, on "Dance Moms"
• Jayden Bartels - TV actress, dancer, model, musical.ly and Instagram
• Noah Schnapp - TV actor, on "Stranger Things"
• Grace VanderWaal - pop singer, won America's Got Talent in 2016
• LeBron James Jr - song of NBA superstar LeBron James
• Apple Martin - daughter of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• William Franklyn-Miller - TV actor, on "Arrow
• Francesa Capaldi - TV actress, on "Dog with a Blog"

• Rick James - American singer, rock/funk, song "Super Freak"
• Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States
• Marlon Brando - American actor, in "The Godfather"
• Ray Charles - American singer, considered the Father of Soul music; songs "Georgia on my MInd", "Hit the Road Jack"
• Christopher Reeve - American actor, the original "Superman"
• Julia Child - chef, introduced French cooking to Americans
• Pat Tillman - American football player

• baby bump
• binge-watch
• clapback
• climate change denier
• electronic cigarette
• flash mob
• muffin top
• SARS
• Skype
• unfriend

Facebook is launched as a social networking site only open to students from Harvard in February by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is expanded first to other colleges in the Boston area and other Ivy League Colleges.

December 26: An earthquake in the ocean close to Indonesia, measuring 9.3 on the Richter Scale triggering a massive tsunami. At least 290,000 people are confirmed to have died from South Asia to as far as South Africa.

Aug 13-29: Olympics held in Athens, Greece. Swimmer Michael Phelps won six gold medals and set a single-Games record with eight total medals. Ziljaard-van Moorsel became the first female cyclist to earn four career gold medals, reaching a total of six Olympic medals, while canoeist Birgit Fischer became the first athlete in any sport to win two medals in each of five Olympic Games.

In January, Britney Spears got married to childhood friend Jason Alexander in Vegas. It only lasted 55 hours, ending in an annulment. She went for it one more time in September by marrying her backup dancer, Kevin Federline, in September at a backyard wedding and reception that consisted of chicken fingers, ribs and a boombox.

Rising to Hollywood fame after hits like Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, the redheaded teen queen quickly became a media target and battled tons of rumors. She became labelled as a party girl who went clubbing every night. She also made the headlines for hooking up with hunky Colin Farrell shortly after being dumped by Wilmer Valderrama, who plays Fez on That '70s Show.

Janet Jackson's Super Bowl spectacle gave birth to the term, "wardrobe malfunction." While performing Rock Your Body with Justin Timberlake during the half-time show, Justin reached up to rip off the breastplate of Janet's costume, exposing her right boob on national TV! Janet ran off the stage, but later apologized, saying she had problems with her wardrobe.

On Jul 4th Maria Sharapova defeated the defending champion and the top seed Serena Williams in straight sets to become the third youngest women to win the Wimbledon at just 17 years of age. Though the victory was termed by the media as the most stunning upset in recent memory, Sharapova continued her ascent up the rankings and reached the world's no. 1 in Sept 2005.

Lionel Messi, who has won the Ballon d'Or five times, is considered as the greatest player of all time. It all started on Oct 16th of this year, when Messi made his debut for Barcelona at just 17 years, 3 months, and 22 days of age. Though he played only 77 minutes in his debut season and did not score any goals that year, his achievements in the following years are well known.

At the 76th Academy Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins picture and director awards as well as nine others for a total of 11 Academy Awards, a tie for the most ever won by a single film. The other films are Titanic and Ben Hur (1959).