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The Hubble Space Telescope
-Revealed the age of the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years.
-Helped show how galaxies formed.
-Played a key role in the discovery of dark energy. -
Operation Desert Storm
-Iraq attacks Israel with seven Scud missiles.
-Iraq creates massive oil slick in gulf.
-U.N. commission assumes responsibility for Kurdish refugees. -
Mall of America
-Changed the face od Minnesota forvever.
-Covers 4.2 million square feet and offers 20,000 parking spaces.
-Tourists from around the world come to visit here. -
The Chunnel
-Lies underneath the waters od the English Channel.
-Considered one of the most amazing engineering feats of the 20th century.
-For the first time in history, Great Britain and France were connected. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
-Was a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
-The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh.
-168 men, women, and children were killed.
