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Al Qaida terrorist hijacked four planes, two crashed into the World Trade Center twin towers, one crashed into the pentagon, and the final one was heroically regained and crashed in a field. This aroused long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hurricane Katrina makes it’s most profound landfall at Buras-Triumph, Louisiana as a category three with 125 MPH winds, yet it had just dissipated from being a category 4, so it had a larger wind index. In Louisiana alone there were 1,577 deaths, and the hurricane caused 108 billion dollars in damage, making it the most expensive hurricane in U.S history.
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The Beijing Olympics will go down as one of the most memorable ever. Between records and especially the overall finishing touches China put to it. But these “touches” came at a cost. It is estimated that it cost somewhere between 40 and 65 billion dollars.
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Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois, assumed office after George W. Bush. In the 2008 election Obama beat out John McCain, the republican candidate from Texas. The importance of this particular election was the U.S was in a state of desperation in its economy, and citizens were looking to a new leader. Also, Barack Obama was the first African-American President elected in U.S.
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Archeologists believe they discovered Cleopatra’s tomb, but this is not completely proven yet.
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Once again James Cameron has another hit. But Avatar was a little more than a hit, with lifetime earnings of $760,507,625, and still counting, Avatar became the top Lifetime Grossing movie ever.
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Many countries in the Arab World protested unjust and “iron fisted” governments. Countries included in the Arab Spring are Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria. All of these countries governments were overthrown, except Syria. But the protests in Syria started a Civil War.
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SEAL team 6 in his compound killed Osama Bin Laden leader and founder of Al Qaida. His compound is in Bilal Town, Abbottabad, Pakistan. Some countries and organizations found it suiting the U.S killed him unarmed but others did not. Al Qaida has vowed to get revenge and avenge his death. But overall tensions were slightly relieved in the War Against Terror.
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IAEA’s board of governors rebuked Iran because Iran had undertaken in research and experiments geared to developing a nuclear weapons capability. (November in General)
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Apple creates $620 Billion Dollars in stock. After Apples' original founder came back, Steve Jobs, they created many interesting products. This led them to become the most valuable company, but Steve Jobs died the same year.
