February 29 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is overthrown in a coup d'état.February 26 – Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students.January 26 – The MyDoom virus is first identified.January 25 – NASA's MER-B ( Opportunity) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.January 8 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by its namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.January 6 – Construction on the tallest human-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa begins in Dubai UAE.January 4 – NASA's MER-A ( Spirit) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time.
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