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The Parisian duo Daft Punk, one of the biggest names in electronic music of all time, has announced that they are parting ways. And as usual with their big commercials, they have done it in a big way and with originality: with an eight-minute video titled 'Epilogue'
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events that occurred since my birth
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger revolutionized access to information on the Internet by launching Wikipedia in January 2001. Today, Wikipedia - whose name comes from the contraction of wiki (which means fast in Hawaiian) and encyclopedia - is the reference point for obtaining immediate information on any subject, from geography to politics, from history to entertainment, from biographies to reviews, although some content errors have been criticized.
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On September 11, 2001, a group of suicide bombers from the Al Qaeda network carried out four simultaneous attacks with hijacked planes. The terrorists crashed two planes (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175) into the Twin Towers in New York, completely destroying the World Trade Center complex. After crashing the third plane (American Airlines Flight 77), the impact caused serious damage to the Pentagon
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In 2002, Brazil won all seven World Cup matches, the highest number of matches won by a team in a single tournament in FIFA history. In the final, held at the Yokohama International Stadium in Japan, on June 30, Brazil defeated Germany 2-0, becoming the first and only country in the world to win five titles.
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In 2003, after a 16-day science mission, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The tragedy took the lives of the seven crew members of this last mission. On board were Commander Rick Husband, pilot William C. McCool, and astronauts Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon.
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Mark Zuckerberg founded the social network Facebook on February 4, 2004, along with his Harvard University colleagues, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Although initially only for students, this network popularized to become a global phenomenon - with more than a billion daily users - as it transformed the way we communicate and exchange personal information.
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John Paul II - born Karol Józef Wojtyła - was the first Polish pope in history, elected on October 16, 1978, at the age of 58. He was considered one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, in part because he always carried a message of peace and love with him on the more than 100 international trips he made during the almost 27 years of his pontificate.
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Protected under the promise of reducing poverty among the indigenous population, lifting restrictions on coca cultivation and increasing taxes on the rich, Evo Morales Ayma assumed the presidency of Bolivia in January 2006, becoming the first indigenous person to be president of the country. In his first year, Morales nationalized Bolivia's oil industry and ordered the expropriation of land to hand over to poor indigenous people as part of an agrarian reform.
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Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone at the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2007. The new iPhone had a touch screen and virtual keyboard, and other innovative features that were all the rage among Apple fans.
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On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama changed the history of the United States when he was elected president, obtaining more than 69 million votes. He assumed the presidency on January 20, 2009, and in October of that year he received the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples." His great popularity led to him being reelected in 2012.
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In April 2009, an outbreak of swine flu was detected in Mexico, which caused more than 20 deaths, but after analysis, it was discovered that it was a new strain of influenza A H1N1 virus, which contained a combination of human influenza viruses, poultry and swine. Its rapid geographic expansion led the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify it as a global pandemic on June 11. The WHO announced the end of the pandemic a year later, on August 10, 2010.
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The first World Cup held on the African continent had all the condiments to attract international attention for a month: the vuvuzelas, the controversy over the Jabulani, the return of Diego Maradona -now as coach-, the scandal in the French national team, an octopus that hit all the predictions, a Paraguayan fan who went from the stands to the cover of Playboy and the romance between the journalist and the world champion. In addition, of course, the first world title for Spain.
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Although they originated in the framework of the Arab Spring, the mobilizations against the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, soon took on a different aspect and turned into a civil war that still affects the country. The war officially began on March 15, 2011 after the violent police repression of the large protests calling for the resignation of Al Assad in the main cities of the country: Damascus and Aleppo.
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People in Syria have suffered from war and conflict for years, forcing many of them to flee their homes as the front lines advance towards their location. Even today, the attacks and clashes continue, making humanitarian aid vital.
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Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Some 16 million people lose their homes and more than 6,200 die as a result of this natural disaster. Doctors Without Borders establishes 8 health centers, conducts 133 mobile clinics, applies almost 27,000 vaccines and distributes more than 71,000 kits with essential supplies. -
Germany became world champion. The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (in Portuguese: 2014 FIFA World Cup) was the twentieth edition of the Soccer World Cup. It was held in Brazil between June 12 and July 13, 2014, for the second time in that country, after the 1950 championship.
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The 2015 Copa América was the forty-fourth edition of the main soccer competition between South American national teams. The tournament was organized by Conmebol, the soccer administrator in South America and a soccer body affiliated with FIFA, and was held for the seventh time in Chile between June 11 and July 4.3 4 They participated in him all the representative teams of the associations grouped in Conmebol and two guests from Concacaf. Chile, the host team, won this edition.
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The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016),[a] officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009.
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Kim Jong Un dedicated himself during 2017 to threatening the United States and the world with his missile tests On March 6, Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles, claiming that it was an exercise to reach US bases in Japan. In May, North Korea tested a missile that flew 700 kilometers before hitting the Sea of Japan. Analysts estimated the projectile's range capacity at 4,500 kilometers, which left the island of Guam, a US territory threatened by Kim Jong Un
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The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men's national teams and took place between 14 June and 15 July 2018 in Russia. It was the 21st FIFA World Cup, a worldwide football tournament held once every four years. It was the eleventh time the championships had been held in Europe, and the first time they were held in Eastern Europe. At an estimated cost of over $ 14.2 billion, it was the most expensive World Cup to date.
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The Amazon Burns. Mounting evidence that the planet is warming still has not galvanized global action. Brazil is a case in point. For decades, loggers and farmers have been clearing the Amazon rainforest and setting what’s left on fire in order to grow crops and graze cattle. The 80,000 fires set in 2019 were the most in a decade, and they burned an area about the size of New Jersey.
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Álvaro Uribe Vélez is the first former president of Colombia to face an order of deprivation of his liberty. On August 4, the Investigation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice imposed house arrest on him, accused of bribery and procedural fraud, charges that the former president has always denied. The measure does not constitute a judgment of the Supreme Court, but rather an action in the middle of the process that Uribe Vélez faces. In a statement. (PARACO HP).