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I don't know anything about the day I was born because I was adopted from Russia.
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Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power.
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U.S sailors on Navy Destsroyer in Yemen on boat Cole are killed.
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Mad cow disease in Europe.
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Desputed United States presidental election decided by supreme court 5 to 4 in favor of George Bush.
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Congo president Laurent Kabila assassinated by bodyguard.
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George W. Bush is sworn in as 43rd president.
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Terrosists attack world trade centers.
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Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapses after two months of bombing by American warplanes and fighting by Northern Alliance ground troops.
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U.S. and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
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U.S. withdraws from International Court treaty.
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East Timor becomes a new nation.
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Pennsylvania miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a dark, flooded mine shaft.
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts.
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U.S. and Britain launch war against Iraq.
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First Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, sworn in.
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John A. Muhammad, convicted in the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings, receives death sentence.
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Bush proposes idea to go to space, moon, Mars, and more.
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A. Q. Khan (founder of Pakistan's nuclear program) admits to selling nuclear weapons designs.
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More than 200 killed in terrosist attacks in Spain
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George W. Bush re-elected president over John Kerry.
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Mahmoud Abbas win first presidental election for Palestians since 1996.
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George W. Bush sworn in for his second term.
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The Syrian millitary leave Lebanon after 29 years.
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Hurricane Katrina hits gulf coast.
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House releases a report in the response to Hurricane Katrina blaming the government.
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Indi's test missile kills over 200 people and injures hundreds in Mumbai.
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Hezbollah (Lebanese militant group) send rockets into Isael, Israel sends troops back. Ends August 15.
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Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in midterm elections.
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Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union making it 27 members.
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Bush sends 20,000 more troops to Baghdad.
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Bush vetos 124 billion dollar bill to withdraw troops from Iraq
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Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britian.
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Fidel Castro steps down after 49 years in power.
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Dmitri A. Medvedev wins election against Vladimir Putin in Russia.
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They voted 4 to 3 that the same sex couples can marry.
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On this day John McCain accepted his republican presidential nomation.
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Barack Obama sworn in as first black president in United States.
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Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
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Unemployment in the U.S., which has been steadily growing for several months, reaches 8.1% in February 2009. This is the highest rate since 1983.
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Rioting in Urumqi, China between two ethnic groups, Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese kills at least 156 people.
