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Facebook is a social networking service created on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg. He had built a social media website to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, which was only the beginning. -
A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican nominee John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Making him the first black president in the United States. -
SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare. The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. -
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges.