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Feb 28th - Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
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Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album 'The Slim Shady LP' (Grammy 2000 - Rap album)
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President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
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The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan
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Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
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YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
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A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
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Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president.
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Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
