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November 3rd Bill Clinton wins US presidential election over President George H. W. Bush
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April 22nd Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
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January 25th US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
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April 19th Oklahoma City bombing a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 & injures 500
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January 31st clam shell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
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April 30 President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
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President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
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January 7th Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.
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January 13 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
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September 9 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people known as 9/11
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US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea
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May 3rd New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
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January 4th Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
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November 6th The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
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December 6th NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars
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Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office.
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August 27 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
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January 20th Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
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Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military.
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January 8th Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot along with twelve others while making a public appearance in Tucson
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July 10 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
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January 19 Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
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Ebola Epidemic Becomes Global Health Crisis
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Apr 11 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
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Republican presidential candidates Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie suspend their campaigns.