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Significant U.S. Events 1996-2008
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Olympic Park Bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.Two people died, and 111 were injured. Thousands of spectators had gathered for a late concert by the band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. Sometime after midnight, Rudolph planted a green U.S. military ALICE pack (field pack) containing three pipe bombs surrounded by nails underneath a bench near the ba -
Two convicted in Trade Center bombing
A Federal jury in Manhattan convicted Ramzi Ahmed Yousef on charges that he orchestrated the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in American history. The jury also convicted Eyad Ismoil, whom prosecutors accused of driving the bomb-laden van into the Trade Center's underground garage. -
Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime
Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was tied to a fence, savagely beaten and left for dead led to hate-crime laws around the country. -
Columbine HS Massacre
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South Carolina removes Confederate battle flag from capitol dome
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Race riots in Cincinnati continue for several days following a shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police office
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FBI agent Robert Hanssen is charged with spying for Russia
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Pennsylvania miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a dark, flooded mine shaft
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts
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Gay marriages begin in Massachusetts 1st in U.S.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf coast; more than 1,000 die and millions are left homeless. Americans are shaken not simply by the magnitude of the disaster but by how ill-prepared all levels of government are in its aftermath. -
President Bush uses his veto power for the first time
President Bush uses his veto power for the first time, striking down legislation that would have expanded the number of stem cell lines available for embryonic research using federal financing. -
Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the 1st iPhone
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The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997
After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997 -
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States
Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States before a massive crowd reveling in a moment of historical significance, He called on Americans to confront together an economic crisis that he said was caused by “our collective failure to make hard choices.”
