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Bill Clinton passes the DADT law that prohibits open gays from serving in the military.
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Earthquake in Los Angeles, CA that killed 72 people, injured 9,000, and caused $20 billion in damage.
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OJ Simpson was suprisingly found innocent regarding the murder of his wife.
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Bill Clinton wins the presidency over Bob Doyle.
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Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School.
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Everyone feared that when year 2000 came along, the computers would become inoperable and wreak havoc.
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George Bush wins the election over Al Gore.
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The largest tax cut in US history at the time.
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19 terrorists hijack 4 planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing almost 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000.
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US Troops captured Saddam from his hideaway in Iraq, ending his death rumors.
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Mark Zuckerberg, then a Harvard college student, created the social networking system, Facebook, which now has over 750 million users worldwide.
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Hurricane Katrina devastates the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
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The US goes into a recession, the start of our bad economy.
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Barrack Obama is elected as the US' first black president, winning the election against John McCain.
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US troops killed the leader of Al Queda, Osama bin Laden, who was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
