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In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird for 3 years rolls off the assembly line.
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Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and opens fire, killing 2 girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning.
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Cassini–Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites.
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The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City
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Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos become the first AFC team in 14 years to win the Super Bowl, as they defeat the Green Bay Packers, 31–24.
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Lewinsky scandal: On American television, President Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is a terrorist responsible for a series of bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured at least 150 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers him a terrorist.[2]
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FDA approves Viagra for erectile dysfunction
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United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
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Bill Clinton, President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on December 19, 1998, but acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999.
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O.J. Simpson's 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend
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Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
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Jun 10th - Kosovo War : NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
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Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
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Nineteen Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona.
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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
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- Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
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Sammy Sosa's becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire
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United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
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The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
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Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
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Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
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Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.
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Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
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FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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Mars Odyssey is launched.
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In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial
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Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
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Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
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US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
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Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people and crashing two more planes into the world trade centers
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First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks
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Apple releases the iPod.
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
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President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. He was subsequently murdered .
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NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
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Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
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The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
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Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
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The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
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Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists
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Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
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FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
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U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
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Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good.
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President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein.
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Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
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Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
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Super Bowl XXXVIII, Reliant Stadium Houston, Texas
MVP: Tom Brady, QB, New England
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Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
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3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
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Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
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U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
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The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
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Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
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Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
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Super Bowl XXXIX, the New England Patriots win 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles
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YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
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A hand grenade which was thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he was giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
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Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
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First presidential election was held in Egypt.
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NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
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Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
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The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
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A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
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British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
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Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
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Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.
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Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.
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A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
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Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
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The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.
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Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
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Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
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Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
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The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency..
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President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
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The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
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Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip as the Gaza War enters its second week.[6]
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Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
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Chuck Daly, American basketball coach dies
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Following the reelection of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, supporters of defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi accuse the government of fraud, and launch a series of sustained protests.[47]
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US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.
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In the Philippines, at least 58 are abducted and killed in an election-related massacre in the province of Maguindanao. This appears to be the deadliest attack on journalists in recent history.[85]
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Super Bowl XLIV; New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win their first super bowl.
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The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords
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Middle East and North Africa protests: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his resignation, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held.[6]
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Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began has struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami.
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An estimated 2 billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
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U.S. President Barack Obama declares in a media statement that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.[15]
