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OJ Simpson's wife and another man were killed and found at OJ's house.
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The first black American man walks in space.
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Within 18 months, 30 black churches are burned to the ground in Mississippi.
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At 21 years old, he became the youngest golfer to ever win the Masters.
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Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky's secret "relasionship" is discovered, and so are tapes of the incident.
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Two boys go on a shooting at their high school, Columbine High School, killing 15 people.
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The election between George Bush and Al Gore isn't settled for over a month because of a dispute of votes.
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Two planes strike the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon in D.C, and one crash landed in a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died from the attack, the largest killing of U.S. civilians ever.
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She was kidnapped early in the morning from her own bed, as her little sister watched Brian Daved Mitchell (abductor) take her.
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Iraq insists that they have nuclear/mass destruction weapons that will be used against the U.S. An invasion in Iraq is officially planned.
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Gas Prices are at their highest ever, from $1.83 in 2003, to $2.10 in 2004.
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Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana and the coast of Mississippi, killing 1,836 people total.
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500 people die from E. Coli breakout in the Midwest.
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A student at Virginia Tech goes on a shooting rampage and kills over 30 students and himself.
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President Bush signs a $700 billion bailout (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008).
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Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, the first African American ever.
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A group of 33 Chilean miners were rescued from a collapsed mine that they had been in for 68 days.
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The repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Act made for gays in the military goes into effect.
