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9/11
Terrorists took over planes and crashed them into some famous locations, one being the twin towers. Many people lost loved ones that day. After 9/11, the U.S. has tried to stop terrorists before they can do anything bad. -
Spirit and Curiosity land on mars
NASA's spirit and curiosity rovers land on mars. They learned many things but the most interesting was the fact that at one point mars had water. It was a breakthrough in science. -
Angela Merkel comes into power as chancellor of Germany
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama is elected as president. He is the 44th president.He is the first African american president -
Baitullah Mehsud
Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, is killed by a C.I.A. drone strike in South Waziristan. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of pakistan, the terrorist attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan in Sept. 2008, and dozens of other suicide bombings have been attrubuted to Mehsud -
Free voting in Tunisia
Millions of Tunisians vote in their first ever free election. The vote is for an assembly to write a constitution and shape a new government. Ennahda, a moderate Islamist party, is the winner with 41% of the vote. -
North Korea
North Korea successfully launches a rocket into orbit. The launch indicates that the country is inching closer toward developing the expertise to build an intercontinental ballistic missile. -
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping assumes the presidency of China. Of the 2,956 delegates, only one votes against Xi. He had earlier been named chairman of the Central Military Commission and general secretary of the Communist Party. -
Amtrak Train Derailed
The engineer, Brandon Bostian, lost track of the trains location when he was listening to radio transmissions from a nearby train that had been hit with a rock. The speed limit on the curve was 50 m.p.h and investigators believe Bostian thought he was in a stretch of track after the curve that was 110 m.p.h. -
Myanmar's Rohingya: Genocide
"On August 25 the military in Buddhist-majority Myanmar launches a crackdown on Rohingyas after militants from the stateless Muslim minority ambush security forces. Nearly 655,000 Rohingyas find refuge in Bangladesh. The United Sates denounces "ethnic cleansing" while the UN speaks of "elements of genocide"". -
