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Gabrielle Giffords is born in Tuscon, Arizona -
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Graduated from University High School in Tuscon, Arizona -
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Eatned Bachelor Degreee from Scrips College -
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Giffords earned a master's degree in urban planning from Cornell University -
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Giffords is elected to a seat in the Arizona State House -
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Giffords ran for Arizona Senate, winning 74 percent of the vote -
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Gabrielle Giffords defeated Republican Randy Graf by earning 54 percent of the vote. -
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22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner shot Giffords in the head during a meeting with constituents outside a Safeway grocery store in Tucson -
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Gabrille Giffords can form sentences and move around on her own. She is discharged from the Houston hospital where she had undergone several months of rehabilitation. -
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Gabrielle Giffords announces retirement from Congress to devote time to her recovery