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Timeline
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George W. Bush elected
George W. Bush was elected 43 president by a narrow margin. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001 two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. -
No Child Left Behind
President George W. Bush signs the No Child Left Behind act into law. -
Human Genome Project Completed
The Human Genome Project was completed. -
Spirit Rover
The Mars rover, Spirit, lands and begins exploring Mars. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. -
Iran Nuclear Program
Iran breaks the United Nations seals on its nuclear facility, vowing to restart its nuclear research program. -
ISS
A Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov and space tourist Charles Simonyi blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a mission headed for the International Space Station. -
China Earthquake
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes central China. Over 60,000 people are presumed dead. -
North Korea Missiles
North Korea fires missiles. -
Greece Debt Crisis
Greece in big debt crisis. -
Japan Nuclear Reactor
A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake. -
Apple
Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world -
Paul Walker
Paul Walker dies in a car accident. -
David Satter
American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
