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  The Euro 200 was the 11th UEFA European Football Championship, which is held every four years and organized by UEFA, association football's governing body in Europe. France won the tournament, by defeating Italy 2–1 in the final
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  Sydney, Australia was awarded the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games in 1993. It was the second time that an Australian city had hosted the Olympic Games, the first being in Melbourne in 1956.The United States won the most medals overall with 91, as well as the most gold (35) medals.
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  On September 11th, 2001 two planes crashed into the North and South Twin Towers, The Pentagon, and an attempt to attack the White House. There were 2,819 people killed in the attacks.
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  iPod was a new line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod is one of te most popular device that allows you to listen to music and allows you to download millions of songs off of itunes.
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  This computer has a 15 inch LCD screen and was the first computer apple has launched.
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  This was the first time since 1896 that the Olympics were held in Greece. The United States won the most medals with 101, while Greece came in 15th with a total of 16. was worth 10.8 billion dollars.
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  Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Katrina formed in the Bahamas and made its biggest impact as a Category 3 storm in New Orleans,LA.
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  The iPhone was a multimedia-enabled smartphone designed and marketed by Apple. Functioning as a camera phone, a portable media player , and is able to acces the Internet., It used a multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard. This product was named invention of the year.
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  The 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing and featured a spectacular opening ceremony. China won the most gold medals with 51, followed by the U.S. with 36. However, the U.S. won the most medals overall, with 110 compared to China's 100.
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  Barack Obama made history when he became the first African-American President.
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  At least 230,000 were killed in Haiti after a massive earthquake on January 12, 2010 and 3,000,000 were left homeless as estimated by the Haitian government.
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  This was the 19th FIFA World Cup, spain defeated the Netherlands to give them their first title.
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  Navy Seal teams found and killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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  London hosted the Summer Olympics for the third time in its history – the only city to have done so on this many occasions. Athletes from the United States won the most gold medals, with 46, and the most overall, with 104.
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  hese new machines offered major improvements in power compared to the previous generation. Both featured eight-core CPUs and utilised AMD's new "Jaguar" technology, a processor architecture with optimal balance of power consumption and performance.