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Invention of Globally Covered GPS
The Global Positioning System was first able to map the entire world. -
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Bush is president
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Invention of windows XP
Windows XP is a personal computer operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems -
9/11 Terrorists Attacks
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States. -
The Apple Ipod
Steve jobs released the first ipod, a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers. -
Stock Market Crash
All stocks in the US, Canada and Asia hand a decline of 24-40% -
Declared War on Iraque
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 -
Water discovered on Mars
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Miracle on the hudson
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. -
Hurricane Katrina
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. -
Rosa Parks Dies
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Puto no longer a planet
pluto is now categorized as a dwarf planet -
Invention of nintendo Wii
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Saddam Hussein Killed
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Invention of Iphone
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Bernard Madoff and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme
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. -
Flu Pandemic
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. -
New human ancestors
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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Obama is President
