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  After 21 days when Congress passes an interim spending measure that allows federal employees to return to work on this day in history.
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  Microsoft becomes the worlds most valuable company valued at $261 billion dollars
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  Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
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  two high-school seniors enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School during the middle of the school day.
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  The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
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  Terrorists took over planes and flew them into the twin towers in New York killing millions of people.
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  Michael Jordan comes back from retirement announcing that he would once again return to the NBA as a member of the Wizards
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  Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
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  The planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years.
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  The season finale of the sitcom Friends airs
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  Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years.
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  President Bush vetoes legislation, passed by Congress, that eases restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research
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  Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and the first African American president.
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  Michael's sudden death at age 50 of a drug-induced cardiac arrest.
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  31-25 Packers won super bowl XLV to the Pittsburgh Steelers.