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Oct 13, It was reported that scientists in North Carolina had built a brain implant that lets monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts.
(https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4262-monkeys-brain-signals-control-third-arm/) -
Mar 19 Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-in-iraq-begins) -
My favorite grade, 3rd grade. My 3rd grade teacher was my favorite teacher, as he had energy, he was engaging and he made learning fun.
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NC- North Carolina Hurricanes won hockey's Stanley Cup; 17,000 people evacuated after explosion at chemical plant near Apex
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First year of middle school, was also the first year I played the flute. I learned how to play the piano when I was younger, but the flute was the first instrument I took an real interest in.
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It used to be taught in school that there were nine planets, now as Pluto got down graded to a dwarf planet, there are only eight planets. This was a big event for the world, and now as all of the students were always taught that only eight planets existed students do not know about Pluto as much as it was in the past.
[http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184] -
First year of high school, this was also the first year of marching band.
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Barack Obama is inaugurated and became the first African American ever to be elected president of the United States
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/20web-inaug2.html) -
In North Carolina, the country’s top tobacco growing state by sales, legislators approved a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/us/20tobacco.html) -
This was my junior year of high school, and also the stressful time of applying for colleges.
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Obama is reelected
(http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/all/president/#.WcFdnhSxHzI) -
The last living veteran of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_World_War_I_veterans_by_country) -
Feb 20, Duke Energy Corp. said it has agreed to pay a fine of about $102 million for environmental violations related to a power plant's coal ash spill into a North Carolina river last year and the company's management of coal ash basins in the state.
(http://www.wral.com/duke-energy-pleads-guilty-to-environmental-charges-linked-to-coal-ash-spill-leaks/14645414/) -
First full year at college
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Gay marriage becomes legalized
(http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/index.html)
