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The Global Positioning System was first able to map the entire world.
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Windows XP is a personal computer operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems
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A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States.
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Steve jobs released the first ipod, a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers.
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All stocks in the US, Canada and Asia hand a decline of 24-40%
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a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government
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US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on January 15, 2009, struck a flock of Canada geese just northeast of the George Washington Bridge and consequently lost all engine power. THe Plane landed on the hudson river and no one died.
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Catagory 5 hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States.. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes, and experts estimate that Katrina caused more than $100 billion in damage.
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pluto is now categorized as a dwarf planet
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Madoff had defrauded his clients of almost $65 billion – thus spelling out the largest Ponzi scheme in history, as well as the largest investor fraud committed by a single person. Madoff pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering. A Ponzi scheme is a plan to lure investors with unusually high guaranteed returns.
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A new strain of Influenza A virus, with quadruple segment translocation in its RNA, caused an outbreak of human infection in April 2009 in USA and Mexico.
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Ardipithicus ramidus skeleton, first found in 1994. The skeleton provides the first substantial fossil evidence about the appearance of the last human-chimp common ancestor and confirms that living African apes do not much resemble this ancestor, as was commonly thought.
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