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Oklahoma Truck Bombing
Truck Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are arrested for the crime. -
Summer Olympics
Took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. A record 197 nations, all current IOC member nations, took part in the Games, comprising 10,318 athletes. -
Spacecraft Pathfinder lands on Mars.
Was an American spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight (10.6 kg/23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner. -
Columbine High School Shooting
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World Enters New Century Smoothly, Y2K computer virus not happen.
That was the day that the computers on which we all depended would fail us. -
9/11 Attacks
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States. -
Rover spirit and opportunity landed on Mars.
Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs), landed on Mars in early 2004. Part of NASA's long-term Mars Exploration Program, the mission has succeeded well beyond the hopes of its creators. -
First Aferican American President
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive. -
Death of Osama bin Laden
The founder and head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. Responsible for the 9/11 attacks. -
Aroura Theater Shooting
A gunman attacked an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater on Friday, July 20, killing at least 12 and wounding many others, -
Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting
Twenty-six people, 20 students and six adults, were shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. -
Super Bowl XLVII
The Ravens defeated the 49ers by the score of 34–31.
