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Britain alarmed by outbreak of mad cow disease.
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Militant Taliban leaders seize Afghan capital of Kabul.
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F.B.I. arrests suspected Unabomber.
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Valujet crashes in Everglades, all 110 aboard killed.
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I was born at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Honh Kong returns to Chinese rule.
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2 convicted in first World Trade Center bombing.
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O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court.
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US, UK, and France agree to freeze Nazis' gold loot.
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Cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan.
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Europeans agree on single currency, the Euro.
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Matt Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime, two convicted.
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President Clinton accused in White House sex scandal, denies allegations of affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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US sailors on naval ship, The Cole, attacked in Yemen.
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Bad meat causes an outbreak of mad cow disease in Europe.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of Bush over Gore, and Bush becomes president.
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The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacked by Al-Qaeda airplanes.
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The Taliban is ousted by the American army.
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Baghdad falls to US troops.
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Suicide bombers attack synagogues in Turkey.
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The space shuttle Colombia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts.
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John A. Muhammad, convicted in the 2002 Washington D.C. area shootings, receives the death sentence.
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Armed rebels in Haiti force president Aristide to flee.
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Massachusetts is the first state to legalize gay marriage.
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Florida is hit by hurricanes Bonnie and Charley two days in a row.
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200,000 people are killed in an enormous tsunami that hit Southern Asia.
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George W. Bush is sworn in for his second term as president.
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Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor.
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London is hit by terrorist bombings, killing 52 and wounding 700.
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Hurricane Katrina kills 1,000 on the Gulf Coast.
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Cuban president Fidel Castro permanently steps down from power.
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Four pieces of art, worth a total of $163 million, were stolen from the Zurich Museum.
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The first black president, Barack Obama, elected.
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President Bush lends General Motors and Chrysler $17.4 billion to survive three more months.
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Wildfires in Australia kill at least 181 people.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil wins the bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
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US Airways flight 1549 hits a flock of geese, and is forced to land in the Hudson River. Everyone survives.
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Michael Jackson dies at age 50.
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BP starts an enormous oil spill when the ocean floor ruptures.
