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George W. Bush was elected 43 president by a narrow margin.
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On September 11, 2001 two planes crashed into the World Trade Center.
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President George W. Bush signs the No Child Left Behind act into law.
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The Human Genome Project was completed.
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The Mars rover, Spirit, lands and begins exploring Mars.
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Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast.
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Iran breaks the United Nations seals on its nuclear facility, vowing to restart its nuclear research program.
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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.
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A 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes central China. Over 60,000 people are presumed dead.
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North Korea fires missiles.
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Greece in big debt crisis.
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A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
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Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
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Paul Walker dies in a car accident.
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American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
