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Rodney King Beating
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A 13-year-old Los Angeles boy accuses Michael Jackson of fondling him.
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Schindler's List Movie
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Thousands dead in Rwanda massacre
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O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife
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Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27
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Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre
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Nebraska won the NCAA football Championship
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Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital
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South Africa gets new constitution
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Congress passes welfare reform bill
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Chicago Bulls won NBA Championship
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Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule
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Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing
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Europeans agree on single currency, the euro
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House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice
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Chicago Bulls win another NBA Championship
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Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down
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Blair Witch Project movie was realeased
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The world awaits the consequences of the Y2K bug, with more drastic millennial theorists warning of Armageddon.
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"I love you" virus disrupts computers worldwide
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Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris
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Mad cow disease alarms Europe
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Congo president Laurent Kabila assassinated by bodyguard
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Gladiator takes five Oscars
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Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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National Academy of Sciences issues report opposing human reproductive cloning, but supports therapeutic cloning
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Tamil Tigers and Sri Lankan government sign a cease-fire agreement, ending 19 years of civil war
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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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In State of the Union address, Bush announces that he is ready to attack Iraq even without a UN mandate
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts
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Baghdad falls to U.S. troops
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John Kerry secures Democratic nomination after winning nine out of ten primaries and caucuses
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Summer Olympics take place in Athens, Greece
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Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf coast
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More than 350 million digital songs were purchased in 2005
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Number of deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq reaches 2,000
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House releases a report on the response to Hurricane Katrina, assigning blame on all levels of government
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Steve Irwin Dies
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Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections
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The U.S. begins its "surge" of some 30,000 troops to Iraq to stem increasingly deadly attacks by insurgents and militias
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Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain
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The minimum wage increases to $5.85, up from $5.15
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Boston Celtics Win NBA championship
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President Obama is elected, he is the first black president