1012 Timeline 4

2002: Jemaah Islamiyah planned a series of bombings in Bali, Indonesia, resulting in 202 deaths. 2003: Liberia announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Republic of China and re-established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. 2003: The Qin Shen Passenger Dedicated Line officially opened, becoming China's first high-speed railway. 2005: The Shenzhou 6 manned spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, becoming China's first manned spacecraft to perform a multi-person, multi-day mission. 2011: Using substances extracted from the remains of the deceased, a research team led by Professor Surendra P. Borwankar of McMaster University in Canada and Professor Klaus Stärk of the University of Tübingen in Germany successfully decoded the genome of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of the Black Death, and published their findings in Nature. 2012: China Southern Airlines Flight 327 began operating with an Airbus A380, marking the first long-haul scheduled international flight operated by this aircraft type in China.