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In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
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Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position
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Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympics in Sydney, Australia
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15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
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Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
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Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
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Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
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In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
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The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
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Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
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Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a category 5 hurricane
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The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
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Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
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The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
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The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.
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New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
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Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.
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airplain with 155 people on board was crashing down into the hudson river when captian chesely b. or "sully" successfully crash landed plane onto hudson river saving all the pasengers lives
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the world health organization raised the swine flu alert to its highest level saying the H1N1 has spread tp enough counteries to be consedered an epidemic
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hati was hit withan earthquake that killed thousands of people
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Following President Obama's State of the Union Declaration that he wants an end to the military policy "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which forbids openly gay men and women to serve in the military, top officials at the Department of Defense look for a way to end the law. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announces that he feels repealing the policy is "the right thing to do." Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will follow through with Obama's orders.
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British patropium oil rig spills thousands of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico
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33 miners spend 68 days trapped underground before being rescued
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egypt erupts into violence as supporters of presedent Mubarek fight with oponents
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lybian presenednt Qadaffi fights with opposition forces for control of lybia
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