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First World Trade Center Bombing
A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. This was the first attempt ever to take down the world trade center. -
Oklahoma City Bombings
A terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The attack killed 168 people including 19 children. -
O.J Simpson Is Aquitted for Murdering His Wife
O.J Simpson was put on trial for murdering his wife and even though all the evidence showed he didi it he was aquitted of the charges. -
Columbine High School Massacre
Two Students came to school with guns and killed 12 students and one teacher. -
USS Cole Suicide Bombing
Al queda claimed responsibility in the bombing of a us naval vessel killing seventeen and injuring 39 -
9/11
19 hijackers took over four planes and crashed them into the world trade center, the pentagon, and a failed attempt at putting one into the white house. Killing over 3000 people and leaving over 6000 injured -
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
Space Shuttle Columbia disinigrated into the atmposphere when re entering the earths atmosphere killing all of the 7 people on board. -
Saddam Hussein Is Captured
Saddam Hussein was finally captured after a long and hard man hunt he was found cowering in a hole. -
Facebook Is Launched
Mark Zuckerberg launched what is now the biggest social networking site ever. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina devastates the south coast especially in luisiana where the whole state was flooded. -
Virginia Tech Massacre
A student came to school and killed 32 people and injured 25 others before commiting suicide. -
Obama is Inauguarated
Barack hussein Obama is inaugarated as the first black president of the United States. Since then the U.S is in the most amount of debt in its long history. -
Fort Hood Shooting
Nadal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist at fort hood until he unexpectadly killed 13 american soldiars inside Fort Hood in Texas -
Osama Bin Laden is Killed
A group of Navy Seals hunted and killed the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and head of al queda. They then dumped him in the sea. -
Joplin Tornado
160 people were killed when a tornado touched down in Joplin Missouri. The most people ever killed by a single tornado.
