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The U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 Olmstead ruling gave institutionalized mental health patients more ammunition in seeking community-based care. The case was brought against the Georgia commissioner of human resources by two women with mental illness who were confined for treatment at the psychiatric unit of the Georgia Regional Hospital at Atlanta. Their treatment teams had concluded that the women could receive appropriate care in a community setting
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Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School.
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Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.
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San Antonio, Texas
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rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
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He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide.
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killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
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leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
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St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
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the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid
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signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
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This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
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killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage
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after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is'
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under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
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The Used (Bert, Jeph, Quinn, and Dan) got together of January of 2001
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The twin towers camedown this day.
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On Spet. 18th, 2001 My Chemical Romance became a band and split up on March 22, 2013
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My Step Grandma whom I was really close to died the day after my 6th birthday
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Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
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killing all seven astronauts aboard. In August, an independent panel blames the tragedy on a damaged wing and on "cultural traits and organizational practices detrimental to safety" within NASA.
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The practice had long been the target of protest by residents and political leaders, who said the bombing damaged the quality of air and water and caused health problems.
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killing 100 and injuring over 300 others
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“Atypical Pneumonia,” now more commonly known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS).
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Health officials said the outbreak came from African rodents that arrived on a ship from Ghana and was being spread by pet prairie dogs.
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killing 23 people, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
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by killing top member of Hamas, militant Palestinian groups formally withdraw from cease-fire in effect since June 29
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the first state in the country to legalize such unions
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It also killed one local resident.
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passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
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Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.
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a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
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Alan Greenspan steps down after more than 18 years as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.
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My little brother Caleb Christopher Coberley was born on this day
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Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows). The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history. It was the worst act of mass murder of college students since Syracuse University lost 35 students in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103,
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the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
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such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour
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The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
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becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world.
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Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in the hospital
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winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
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My sister Marissa Grace Coberley was bron on this day
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sparking terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.
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Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.
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The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.
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This was a horrible day in my life. My grandpa was like a father to me Gregory Lynn Kelly (this picture was the last picture ever taken of him)
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The shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
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it was a racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.
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The number of mentally ill Marylanders jailed in state prisons has steadily increased in recent years, as the state has shrunk the number of patients in its psychiatric hospitals, officials say. Of the roughly 26,000 inmates in Maryland penitentiaries, about 4,200, or 16 percent, have been diagnosed with a mental illness, said Dr. James Holwager, director of Mental Health Services for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
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24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater.
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I skipped my 11th grade year :)
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Three others were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job, ultimately killing himself.
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determined to be man-made, dating to approximately 2000 B.C.
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3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line
