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18th - Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
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22nd - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery
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June 12th - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
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June 12th - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
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September 2001:
11th - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
11th - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people
11th - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
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22nd - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
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March 14th - Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
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6th - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
13th - A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch. -
18th - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
29th - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage. -
August 10th - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.
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