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World Events
- Hong Kong returns to chinese rule after self rule.
- Swiss plan first paument to Holocaust victims.
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USA Events
- Timoth J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma city bombing.
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World Events in 1998
- Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa steps down.
- Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,000 and leaves 600,000 homeless.
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USA Events
- President accused in White House sex scandal denies allegations of affair with White House Intern, Monica Lewinsky.
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World Events
- Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa steps down.
- Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,000 and leaves 600,000 homeless.
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USA Events
- U.S. senate impeachments of Clinton = NOT GUILTY
- John F. Kennedy Jr, wife Carolyn Kennedy, and her sister Lauren are kist at sea where he had crashed a plane.
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World Events
- Mad Cow Disease
- Former Indoneasian President Suharto is under house arrest.
- U.S. sailors on NAVY destroyer cole die in Yemen terrorist attack
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USA Events
- Recount on Presidential Election gives Bush victory.
- Cuban boy Elian Gonzales is reunited with his father.
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World Events
- Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapses after 2 months of bombing American warplace and fighting by Northern Alliance ground troops.
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USA Events
- Terrorists Attacks United States hijackers ram jetlines into twin towers into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President
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World Events
- Terrorists bomb in Bali, kills hundreds.
- East Timor becomes a new nation
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USA Events
- Pennsylvania miners rescued after 77 hours of being trapped in a dark, flooded mine shaft.
- U.S. Abandons 31 year old Antibalistic Missle treaty.
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World Events
- North Korea withdraws from treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons
- Baghdad falls to U.S. troops
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USA Events
- President Bush eliminates steel tariffs after, WTO says U.S. violated laws.
- space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing 7 astronauts
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World Events
- Ukraine presidential election declared Fraudulent.
- Enormous tsunami devestates Asia 200,000 were killed
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USA Events
- Florida hit by hurricane Bonnie
- Congress extents tax cuts due to expire at the end of 2005
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World Events
- Pope John Paul II dies, Benedict XVI becomes the next pope.
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becomes Africa's first woman elected head of state
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USA Events
- Number of deaths of U.S. soilders in Iraq reaches 2,000
- The September 11 public Discource Project reports that the country's still, "Alarmingly Vounerable to Terrorist attacks".
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World Events
- North Korea makes deals/plan to get weapons
- Militant group Hamas wins 74 of 132 seats in Palestinian legislative.
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USA Events
- President Bush uses veto striking down legislation on which would have expanded the number of stem cell lines avalible for embroyonic research using federal financing.
- Democrats gain contol of houses of congress in the midterm elections.
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World Events
- Cristina Fernandez decirchner is elected Argentina's first woman president.
- Theus begins its "surge" of some 30,000 troops to Iraq to stem increasingly deadly attacks by insurgents militias.
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USA Events
- President Bush announces that another 20,000 troops are being deployed to Baghdad.
- Senate confirms Mike McConnell as the Director of National Intelligence.
