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Greg Mortenson Born.
Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Life Of Greg Mortenson
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Greg's Sister Christina Is Born
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Moved Back To Minnesota
Greg was born in Minnesota,then he spent his early years in Tanzinia. At 15 he moved back to the states.
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Nixon's Resignation & Watergate Scandal
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Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan
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Attemp to Climb K2 Begins
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Promise To Build a School
There is no date given as to when he promised them, but I assume it was around the same time as when he came into Korphe
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Stumbles Into Korphe
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Pennies For Peace
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Taliban is Formed
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Cole Caufield Is Born
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Adam Guilmeister is Born
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9/11 Attacks
Al Queda Uses Hijacked Commercial Passenger Jets to crash into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennslyvania.
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George W. Bush Declares War on Terror
He declares War due to the 9/11 Attacks.
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Hamid Karzai Elected President of Afghanistan
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Greg and the CAI Starts Building Girls' Schools in Afganistan.
(The CAI stands for Central Asia Institute. Its a nonprofit organization that Greg cofounded that builds schools in Afganistan and Pakistan).
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Building Schools Everywhere
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A Massive Earthquake in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan,
ills over 74,000 people, including 18,000 students in schools, and destroys over 1,600 schools. -
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Osama Bin Laden is Killed
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David Oliver Relin Commits Suicide
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