1994 April 26: A China Airlines Airbus A-300 crashes in Nagoya, Japan killing all 264 on board.
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April 26: A China Airlines Airbus A-300 crashes in Nagoya, Japan killing all 264 on board.
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http://www.earthtothemoon.com/1995_journal.html 1995 January 17: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan. 6434 people are killed.
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1996 May 11: ValuJet flight 592 crashes in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
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1997 August 31: A car crash in Paris, France claims the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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August 7: Terrorists bomb the US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. 224 people are killed and over 4500 are injured.
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1999 April 20: Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 other students, a teacher, and themselves during their siege of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
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2000 December 17: The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, starting a mult-day crime spree.
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2001 October 7: In response to the terrorist attacks, the US and British governments begin a bombing campaign against the Taliban government in Afghanistan which has been sheltering the terrorist Usama Bin Laden and his followers.
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2002
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2003 March 20: After repeated violations of United Nations resolutions by Iraq, the United States and other coalition nations begin military operations in Iraq.
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2004 November 2: In the largest voter turnout in US history, President George W. Bush wins reelection to the Presidency of the United States.
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2005 May 11: North Korea announces that it has extracted enough nuclear material to build up to three nuclear weapons.
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2006 July 11: More than 200 people die on trains in Mumbai, India from a series of terrorist bombs
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2007 January 10: President Bush announces plans to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq.
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2013February 19: President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, announces his resignation from the Presidency to be effective on February 24th.
