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Presidency of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country's first black President, with the National Party's de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second in the Government of National Unity -
Windows '95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft,[2] and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products. -
First Cloned Sheep
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. -
Taliban Seizes Afghanistan
The Taliban seized Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. -
N64 Released in US
The Nintendo 64 often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. -
Packers Win Super Bowl
The Green Bay Packers win over the New England Patriots 35-21 -
DVD's Introduced to America
The first DVD players were introduced in Japan in Nov. 1996. DVD players were first available in the United States in March 1997. -
Pokemon Comes to America
On this day, the Pokemon franchise was released in the United States which eventually became the largely popular game/tv show -
Columbine High School massacre
Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and 1 teacher. -
Y2K
The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits. -
Presidency of George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. -
Hurrican Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. -
First Black President
Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. -
Swine Flu Pandemic
The 2009 flu pandemic was an influenza pandemic, and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first of them was the 1918 flu pandemic), albeit in a new version.
