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Olmstead Case Decided by S.C.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 Olmstead ruling gave institutionalized mental health patients more ammunition in seeking community-based care. The case was brought against the Georgia commissioner of human resources by two women with mental illness who were confined for treatment at the psychiatric unit of the Georgia Regional Hospital at Atlanta. Their treatment teams had concluded that the women could receive appropriate care in a community setting -
Columbine
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Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms
Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself. -
Started Preschool at St. Monica's Catholic School
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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens
rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless. -
Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX.
He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide. -
Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament
killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. -
Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia
leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President. -
The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
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Super Bowl XXXIV
St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB -
- The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros
the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid -
The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52
signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom -
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster
This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs. -
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
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- In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes
killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage -
Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit
after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is' -
A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act. -
Headstart at USV
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Rugrats In Paris: The Movie Came Out
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The Used Became a Band
The Used (Bert, Jeph, Quinn, and Dan) got together of January of 2001 -
Wikipedia is launched
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The Movie Donnie Darko Came Out
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First Day of Kindergarten
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9/11
The twin towers camedown this day. -
My Chemical Romance Became a Band
On Spet. 18th, 2001 My Chemical Romance became a band and split up on March 22, 2013 -
Apple launches the iPod
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Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
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U.S. takes Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners to Guantanamo Bay
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Cindy Coberley Died
My Step Grandma whom I was really close to died the day after my 6th birthday -
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey
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The dwarf planet Quaoar is discovered
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First Day of 1st Grade
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Moscow Theatre Siege
Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before. -
Space shuttle Columbia falls to pieces during descent
killing all seven astronauts aboard. In August, an independent panel blames the tragedy on a damaged wing and on "cultural traits and organizational practices detrimental to safety" within NASA. -
The U.S. Navy ends its last planned bombing exercises on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island.
The practice had long been the target of protest by residents and political leaders, who said the bombing damaged the quality of air and water and caused health problems. -
Major snowstorm hit Middle Atlantic and Eastern states.
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During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze
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Doctors in Hong Kong report the first case of a flu-type virus
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Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
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Monkeypox is confirmed in humans for first time in Western Hemisphere with four cases in Wisconsin.
Health officials said the outbreak came from African rodents that arrived on a ship from Ghana and was being spread by pet prairie dogs. -
A suicide bomb strikes U.N. headquarters in Baghdad,
killing 23 people, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. -
First Day of 2nd Grade
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Israel retaliates for suicide bombing
by killing top member of Hamas, militant Palestinian groups formally withdraw from cease-fire in effect since June 29 -
Saddam Hussein captured by American troops
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Baghdad falls to U.S. troops
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Gay marriages begin in Massachusetts
the first state in the country to legalize such unions -
The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide
It also killed one local resident. -
First Day of 3rd Grade
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Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union
passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout. -
A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by 44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, WI.
Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded. -
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling
a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes. -
First Day of 4th Grade
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Federal funds rate raised from 4.25 percent to 4.50 percent.
Alan Greenspan steps down after more than 18 years as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Ben Bernanke was sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. -
First Day of 5th Grade
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An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts
Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward. -
Caleb's Birthday
My little brother Caleb Christopher Coberley was born on this day -
Virginia Tech massacre
Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide (another six people were injured escaping from classroom windows). The massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in U.S. history. It was the worst act of mass murder of college students since Syracuse University lost 35 students in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, -
Boris Yeltsin's funeral
the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. -
The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
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Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão.
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The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
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Jack Kevorkian is released from prison
after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan. -
First Day of 6th Grade
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Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method.
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Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
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A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies
such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour -
Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
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First Day of 7th Grade
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YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live
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Human remains previously found in 1991 are finally identified by Russian and American scientists as those of Tsar Nicholas II
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The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers
The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season. -
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland
becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world. -
The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses
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A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home
Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in the hospital -
Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis
winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. -
Marissa Was Born
My sister Marissa Grace Coberley was bron on this day -
First Day of 8th Grade
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Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
sparking terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah. -
Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot
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"Supernatural" actress Genevieve Cortese (29) weds co-star actor Jared Padaelcki (27) in Sun Valley, Idaho
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First Day of 9th Grade
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Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ
Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole. -
At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak
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First Day of 10th Grade
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Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, CA
The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing. -
My Grandfather Died
This was a horrible day in my life. My grandpa was like a father to me Gregory Lynn Kelly (this picture was the last picture ever taken of him) -
Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
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A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA
The shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. -
Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma
it was a racially motivated shooting spree. Three died. -
For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
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The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old gir
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Prisons See Surge in Mentally Ill
The number of mentally ill Marylanders jailed in state prisons has steadily increased in recent years, as the state has shrunk the number of patients in its psychiatric hospitals, officials say. Of the roughly 26,000 inmates in Maryland penitentiaries, about 4,200, or 16 percent, have been diagnosed with a mental illness, said Dr. James Holwager, director of Mental Health Services for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. -
During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO
24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater. -
First Day of 12th Grade
I skipped my 11th grade year :) -
Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN
Three others were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job, ultimately killing himself. -
Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415
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A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
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A 32-foot tall, 60,000 ton stone monument found in the Sea of Galilee in 2003
determined to be man-made, dating to approximately 2000 B.C. -
Boston Marathon (Boston Massacre)
3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line
