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Fall of the Berlin Wall Rodney King AttackRodney King/LA RiotsEnron goes bankrupt Not true. Northeast blackout - RNC in NYC - MTA strike - Spitzer elected. Iphone invented - Turtle Bay crane collapse - TARP, Stim, etc. Sully. Haiti Earthquake A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840Arab SpringBenedict XVI resigns as PopeEbola outbreak
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iPod released, Catholic church sex abuse scandal summit/apology - February: 300k person anti-war protest in NYC - San Francisco starts issuing same-sex marriage licenses - Bloomberg beats Ferrer for mayor - Alito confirmed to SCOTUS - big recall of 'made in china' toys - Lehman Bros., financial crisis.Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board.November 28 – WikiLeaks releases diplomatic cables Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns Higgs boson discoveredPope FrancisSochi Olympics
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Invasion of PanamaBill Clinton elected Bush stem cell policy."Axis of Evil" named.Darfur war begins - Abu GhraibHurricane Katrina - Huge immigration protests - housing bub e bursts - Spitzer resigns. June 11 – The outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu", is deemed a global pandemicDecember 18 – The Arab Spring begins.Will and Catherine get hitched at BuckinghamSandyBoston Marathon bombingNigerian school girls abducted
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First WebsiteRuby Ridge Fresh Prince of Bel Air finale - 9/11 attacksWar in Afghanistan starts and ends. - Tim Wu coins "net neutrality" - Shake Shack! - Pope Benedict succeeds II - Enron execs found guilty - HP and the Deathly Hallows (last Potter book) comes out - NJ becomes state with most millionaires per capita (now #3) Green Revolution protests in Iran - pre-curser to Arab SpringBP oil spillOsama bin Laden killed#LinsanityDeaths: Helen Thomas, Ed Koch, Margaret Thatcher, David Frost, Nelson MandelaPutin takes Crimea from Ukraine in plain view of world while claiming and pretending not to...
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Michael Bloomberg elected MayorPakistan: car bombing, Daniel Pearl killed. - Human Genome is fully sequencedFacebook! - Kyoto Protocol goes into effect (without US) - Sadam executed - Virginia Tech - 1 million Congolese displaced by violence - Barak Obama wins NobelRise of the Tea PartyEU and PIGS - The European Union agrees to a €78 billion rescue deal for PortugalEncyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print editionBig soda ban struck downPresident Obama officially concedes that the U.S: "tortured some folks".
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Death of Emperor HirohitoFirst year the murder rate in NYC drops. - Bosnia War Whitman and Giuliani elected. OJ and the bronco OJ trial "Deep Blue" defeats world chess champion Garry KasparovWilliam Seward Burroughs II dies.Hugo Chávez is elected President ofVenezuela.Dow closes above 10,000 for first time in history. - Clinton announces initial mapping of human genome.Wikipedia is launchedDepartment of Homeland Security Enacted. (Some NSA roots in here? Rise of the security state?) - coup in Haiti - YouTube! - Sadam executed - the Jenna Six - Pew finds net migration flow from Mexico has reversed - Breaking Bad startsSB 1070 Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-ShugurEdward Snowden exposes extent of U.S. government surveillance of everyone in the world including U.S. citizens and manages to elude capture by the strongest political entitiy in the world thus keeping the story alive and forcing us to try to figure out what it means, going forward. Germany wins FIFA World Cup after destroying host, Brazil, in semis.
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WWW proposed 1st webpage1st website The Cosby Show finale - First WTC attack. 1st WWW conference OKC bombing"Mad Cow" disease first reported in humansAllen Ginsberg dies.Knicks make it to the NBA finals. - Camp David meetings between Barak and ArafatWeapons inspectors arrive in Iraq - Friends finale - HuffPost launched - Sean Bell shooting - first chromosome map published - Obama elected.Michael ckson diesChilean mining accident South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in JanuaryLou Reed dies.Moore's Law of continuous microchip miniaturization is likely to become obsolete due to economic constraints.
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Corcoran removes Mapplethorpe Gulf WarMosaic, first web browser, effectively the birth of the modern webRwanda genocide Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment (abolishing slavery)TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long IslandDiana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car accident in ParisDr. Jack Kevorkian is convicted of 2nd degree murderBush v GoreThe Congressional Budget Office of the United Statesforecasts a $5,600,000,000,000 budget surplus for the next 10 years.Worldcom accounting scandal and bankruptcygroundbreaking for Freedom Tower - Bloomberg ends policy of giving the homeless Section 8 voucher priority - Quinn becomes 1st woman + openly gay Speaker - steam pipe explosion - Great Sichuan Earthquake (69,000 killed, many schools collapse)Mexico's drug war gets out of control, 14,00 people dieBurmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attackMalaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears (239 lost) & Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (Boeing 777) is shot down (298 dead).
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Reagan out, GHWB InFirst year the murder rate in NYC drops.Comedy Central launches Final Carson Tonight SHow ID software releases Doom, pioneering first-person 3D video game SCOTUS declares parodies Fair Use Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subwayU.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study.Culture wars: Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Senate-hopeful Hilary Clinton square off about Sensation at the Brooklyn MuseumDomino Sugar Plant Workers go on strike (gentrification of W'burg) - The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.Launch of Friendster, predecessor to MySpace & Facebookbig corruption probe in NJ (and McGreevey resigns): http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/corruption/stories/20050105sl_corruption.htmlScooter Libby indicted - Twitter launchesCity Council considers ban on the n-word - Michael Phelps, 8 gold medals at single OlympicsMark Sanford goes AWOLResearchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launchedEgyptian president Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état.
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Dinkins, Florio elected. Twin Peaks!Tailhook scandalBarney and Friends debutsVáclav Havel is elected President of the Czech RepublicThe 1994 FIFA World Cup was held in the USAIsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel AvivThe first color photograph on the front page of the New York Times.Jon Stewart becomes host of Daily ShowCommidity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 is passed, which allows for limited regulation of financial derivatives. These instruments were used to finance the subprime loans that eventually led to the mortgage crisis of '08China is admitted to the World Trade OrganizationIndian Ocean earthquake/tsunami (227,898 people died) - Terri Schiavo dies - The documentarty "An Inconvenient Truth" describes Al Gore's efforts to educate Americans about global warming.Columbia "hosts" Ahmadeni d - September 29 – The DOW loses 777 points, the biggest one-day point decline ever.Balloon boy stuntThe world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
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Pfizer scientists Peter Dunn and Albert Wood create a drug called sildenafil citrate that they believe will be useful in treating high blood pressure and angina - in 1998 FDA approves it for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and Pfizer markets it under the name "Viagra".Anita Hill testifies before U.S. Senate Judiciary committee Euro Disneyland opensThe first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two yearsTonya HardingSerial killer Andrew Cunanan kills fashion designer Gianni Versace, ends up committing suicideAmerican Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Queens killing all 260 on boardLondon bombings - CBGB closes after a final concert by Patti SmithPlaNYC - SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit.Tiger Woods caught cheating alotNASA's Space Shuttle program ends
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Exxon Valdez oil spill27th ammendment to the U.S. constitution - first submitted in 1789 - is enacted.Northridge earthquakeHeavens Gate group committs mass suicide wearing NikesFacebook is founded - first human face transplant.North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.Charlie Bit My FingerLarge Hadron Collider is officially inaugurated.The Highline in NYC opensQatar purchases Cézanne’s "The Card Players" for more than $250 Million - highest price ever paid for a work of art.
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Little Mermaid premieresRoss Perot leads polls of presidential candidatesNewt GingrichBarack Obama, wins a hotly contested Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate and goes on to win the general race after a promising Republican challenger drops out Al Jazeera launches its English-language news channelThe final book in the Harry Potter series is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.Bernard Madoff is arrested for massive decades long ponzi scheme.
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Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Genesis released in North AmericaArchives of Terror foundAmerica Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first timeObama's speech at the Democratic National Convention"No. 5, 1948" by Jackson Pollock sells for $140 million Benazir Bhutto is assassinatedGeorge Carlin dies
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Murder of Yusuf HawkinsCompact Discs outsell audio cassettes for the first time"Killer Clown" John Wayne Gacy executed by lethal injection for murder of 33+teen boys in Chicago area
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Falwell's Moral Majority disbandedFrancis Fukayama's End of History and the Last Man is published. Book argues "that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government" (wikipedia)At request of Bill Clinton, Janet Reno appoints a special prosecutor to investigate Whitewater legality. Later that year Ken Starr takes over the role from Robert B. Fiske. we all know how that turned out
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SF/Oakland EarthquakeRangers win Stanely Cup
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