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Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso and former US president Jimmy Carter signed exchange of notes by which the Panama Canal was returned to Panama after 85 years of US administration.
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The Olympic games took place in Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia. They ended October 1st and 199 nations participated.
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Wikipedia is the largest and by far the most popular general reference work on the Internet.
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It was an election between incumbent President George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry. Bush won with 286 electoral votes while Kerry only recieved 251.
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The Indian Ocean Earthquake caused one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. The tsunami it produced killed over 230,000 people in 14 countries.
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Hurricane Katrina was the most costliest hurricane along with one of the five deadliest in US history. Also the sixth overall strongest Atlantic hurricane.
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Saddam Hussein was the fifth President of Iraq and was sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982
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Astronomers discovered the exoplanet GJ 1214 b orbiting a red dwarf star approximately 40 light years away. This was the first planet outside our own Solar System with the possibility of holding liquid water.
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Gabby Douglas was the first african american gymnast in history to win an all around indivudal gold medal.
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George Alexander Louis of Cambridge is the baby of England's Prince William and wife Kate Middleton. He is third in line to the throne.
