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1992
November 3rd Bill Clinton wins US presidential election over President George H. W. Bush -
1993
April 22nd Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. -
1994
January 25th US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California -
1995
April 19th Oklahoma City bombing a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 & injures 500 -
1996
January 31st clam shell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold. -
1997
April 30 President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College -
1998
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" -
1999
January 7th Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate. -
2000
January 13 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position. -
2001
September 9 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people known as 9/11 -
2002
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 -
2003
May 3rd New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. -
2004
January 4th Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC. -
2005
November 6th The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana. -
2006
December 6th NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars -
2007
Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. -
2008
August 27 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States -
2009
January 20th Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president -
2010
Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military. -
2011
January 8th Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot along with twelve others while making a public appearance in Tucson -
2012
July 10 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages -
2013
January 19 Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover -
2014
Ebola Epidemic Becomes Global Health Crisis -
2015
Apr 11 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution -
2016
Republican presidential candidates Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie suspend their campaigns.