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9/11
9/11 was when 4 planes were taken along with the people inside of them. 2 were sent to the twin towers, one was sent to the pentagon and the last crashed into a field. Everyone in the plane along with people in the twin towers. 9/11 was very important because many people almost died and we still remember that sad day today. We remember the men who went inside a tried to save people who were stuck inside. We don't forget anyone who died no matter how they died or how old they were when they died. -
obama becomes president
On November 4, 2008 became the first African American president; He was able to get 365 electoral names and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote. Obama was born in Hawaii on 1961. He graduated at Harvard Law school and was Law school student in Chicago before launching his political carreer in 1996. He was later reelected a is currently serving his seventh year as president -
Oil spill
The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S history. Within days of the April 20,2010 explosion and the of the Deepwater horizen Oil rigin the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on to the Ocean Floor. -
Sandy hook school shooting
Adam Lanva went into sandy hook elementary school on December 14,2012. He went inside with a gun and killed 20 children and 6 students. He mostly killed kindergarten and first graders. It is said that he went and shot his mom before he went and shot the kids. They had just added a security system and you had to be buzzed in. It was hard for him to get inside but he managed too and was also able to shoot 26 people before shooting himself. -
Boston Marathon bombing
On April, 15 2 bombs went off at the end of the Boston Marathon. It killed 3 spectators and wounding more than 260 other people. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, whose older brother died during the shootout with law enforcement earlier that day.
