CONCORDE CRASHES IN FRANCE, KILLING 113 PEOPLE

Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, France, travelling to JFK International Airport in New York City. On 25 July 2000 it crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all one hundred passengers and nine crew on board the flight, as well as four people on the ground. …

THE DOT-COM BUBBLE BURSTS

The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1998–2000, during which stock markets in industrialised nations saw their equity value rise sharply from growth in the more recent Internet sector and related technology fields. A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence that the companies would turn future profits, individual speculation in stocks, …