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The 1992 Los Angeles riots also called the Los Angeles uprising sprung from years of rising tensions between the LAPD and, highlighted by videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King. On April 29, 1992, anger boiled over after four LAPD officers were found not guilty of assaulting King, leading to several days of widespread violence, looting and arson throughout L.A. By May 3, thousands of National Guardsmen and federal troops left more than 60 people dead. -
The Waco Siege began in early 1993, when a government raid on a compound in Axtell, Texas, led to a 51-day standoff between federal agents and members of a millennial Christian sect called the Branch Davidians. The siege ended dramatically on April 19, 1993, when fires consumed the compound, leaving some 75 people dead, including 25 children. -
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and leaving hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison. -
The Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, occurred when two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others, before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. The Columbine shooting was, at the time, the worst high school shooting in U.S. history and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety. -
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On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. -
The political career of Arnold Schwarzenegger began in 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of California in a recall election, his term ended January 3rd of 2007. -
on Sunday, October 15, 2006, two damaging earthquakes struck off the northwest coast of the Island of Hawai‘i—a magnitude-6.7 earthquake beneath Kīholo Bay and a magnitude-6.0 earthquake offshore of Māhukona. -
NASA launches the final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Telescope during May. The Space Shuttle Atlantis carried a seven person crew to complete repairs on the Hubble Telescope for the fifth and final time during the STS-125 mission.The crew was successful in their mission of replacing several parts and adding two new instruments to the space telescope over the course of five space walks. They also filmed the progress of their mission with an IMAX camera. -
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In February 2010, a series of winter storms labeled "Snowmageddon" by President Obama blankets the east coast of the United States with up to 40 inches of snow in less than 1 week. -
October 2012's Hurricane Sandy strikes the East Coast of the United States, causing more than $65 billion in damage on the New Jersey coast and New York Boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island. -
On November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs win their first World Series since 1908, defeating the Cleveland Indians 4 games to 3. -
Donald J. Trump is elected as the Unitd States 45th president on November 8, 2016, defeating Democratic challenger Hillary Rodham Clinton -
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Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others die in a January 26, 2020, helecopter crash in Calabasas, CA. The National Transportation Safety Board suspects the helecopter's pilot may have become disoriented in fog resulting in the crash. -
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Ginsburg dies on September 18, 2020. She was the second woman after Sandra Day O'Connor and first Jewish woman to serve on the nation's highest court.