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A bomb planted in a truck blows up outside of a Federal building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people.
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Two mid eastern airplanes collide mid-air killing 350.
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Dolly the sheep is cloned, becoming the first mammal to be cloned.
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A US Marine cuts gondola cords on a low altitude flight killing 20 people.
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Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls for the second and final time.
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A Concorde airplane crashes near Paris and kills over a hundred.
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Al Qaeda terrorists attack the United States by flying two jetliners into the twin towers killing thousands of people.
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A terrorist attack in Bali kills hundreds.
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United States troops take over Baghdad.
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Al Qaeda terrorists kill over 200 people in Spain.
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A 7.6 scale earthquake in India kills almost 100,000 people.
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Saddam Hussein is convicted for crimes against humanity and is hung on December 30th.
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Two different pairs of truck bombs go off in Northwestern Iraq killing over 500 people, making this the most deadly insurgent attack in the war.
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Tribal wars in Kenya break out due to a presidential election. Nearly 1000 lives are taken.
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An Air France flight disappears off the map completely with over 200 people on board. This becomes the worst aviation disaster in nearly a decade.
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A 7.0 scale earthquake destroys Haiti, making it the most destructive earthquake in two centuries near that region.
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South Sudan becomes the 54th state of Africa after declaring independence.
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North Korea launches a rocket into orbit informing the world that North Korea is attempting to create intercontinental ballistic rockets.
