The day representative Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, became leader of the House Democratic caucus, the song at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”.
The president of the United States was George Walker Bush, the US was executing one invasion in Afghanistan and gearing up to launch a second invasion in Iraq. And the site where the World Trade Centre once stood was still a rubble-filled hole in the ground.
