| 1946-1989 |
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The Cold War |
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| 1950-1954 |
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McCarthyism |
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| 1952-2022 |
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) timeline |
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| 1953-1960 |
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Dwight D Eisenhower president of US |
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1954
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Annandale High School - First year in operation |
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1954
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Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional |
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| 1955 |
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Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine |
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| 1955 |
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Warsaw pact formed |
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| 1955 |
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Invention of Velcro |
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| 1955 |
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Fiber Optics (by Kapany) |
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| 1956 |
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Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks |
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| 1957 |
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Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite |
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| 1958 |
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Stereo LP recordings come into usage |
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| 1958 |
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FM Stereo Broadcasts |
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| 1958 |
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Integrated Circuit |
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| 1958 |
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US space agency (NASA) established |
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| 1959 |
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1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah |
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| 1959 |
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Alaska enters the union - 49th |
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| 1959 |
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Hawaii enters the union - 50th |
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| 1960 |
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1st weather satellite (Tiros I) |
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| 1960 |
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Laser |
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| 1960 |
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World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton |
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| 1960 |
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Pantyhose |
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| 1961 |
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1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard |
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| 1961 |
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First human in space - Yuri Gagarin |
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| 1961-1963 |
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John F Kennedy president of US |
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| 1961-1970 |
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7th Cholera pandemic |
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| 1962-1965 |
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Vatican II from age |
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| 1962 |
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Cuban missile crisis |
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| 1963 |
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Compact Cassette Recordings |
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| 1963 |
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Pres. Kennedy Assassinated |
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| 1963 |
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1st artificial heart |
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| 1963-1968 |
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Lyndon B Johnson president of US |
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| 1964-1975 |
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Vietnam War from |
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| 1964 |
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US civil rights bill |
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| 1965 |
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Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles |
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| 1965 |
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1st spacewalks (US, USSR) |
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| 1966 |
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1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) |
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| 1966 |
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8-track tape players |
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| 1967-1970 |
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Nigerian civil war |
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| 1967 |
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Six day war: Israel-Arabs |
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| 1967 |
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Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole |
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| 1967 |
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Marshall 1st black supreme court justice |
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| 1967 |
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1st human heart transplant |
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| 1968 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated |
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| 1968 |
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Robert Kennedy assassinated |
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| 1969 |
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Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin |
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| 1969-1974 |
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Richard M. Nixon president of US |
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| 1969 |
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Woodstock Music Festival |
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| 1970 |
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Microprocessor at |
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| 1970 |
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Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State |
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| 1971 |
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Pakistani civil war |
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| 1971 |
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Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 |
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| 1973 |
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The Internet |
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| 1973 |
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October war (Israel-Arabic nations) |
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| 1974 |
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Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace |
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| 1974-1976 |
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Gerald Ford president of US fro |
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| 1975 |
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Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal |
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| 1975 |
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Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September |
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| 1975 |
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The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a |
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| 1976 |
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American Bicentennial at age 22 |
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| 1976 |
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Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa |
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| 1976 |
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VHS Video Recordings |
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| 1976 |
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Television begins satellite delivery |
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| 1977-1980 |
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James Earl Carter Jr president of US from |
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| 1977 |
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Neutron bomb at |
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| 1978 |
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Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people |
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| 1978 |
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1st test-tube baby |
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| 1978 |
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Laserdisc video recordings |
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| 1979 |
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Three Mile Island nuclear event |
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| 1979 |
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Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK |
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| 1980 |
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Mount St. Helens Erupts |
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| 1981 |
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1st space shuttle flight - Columbia |
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| 1981 |
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1st female supreme court justice |
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| 1981-1988 |
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Ronald Reagan president of US |
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| 1981 |
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IBM PC ships |
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| 1982 |
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1st genetically engineered product - insulin |
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| 1983 |
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Compact Disks |
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| 1983 |
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Bluford 1st black in space |
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| 1983 |
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Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system |
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| 1984 |
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Apple Macintosh Ships |
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| 1984 |
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HIV determined to be cause of AIDs |
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| 1985 |
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Amiga Computer Ships |
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| 1986 |
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Halley's Comet |
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| 1986 |
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Mir space station deployed |
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| 1986 |
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Shuttle Challenger explodes |
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| 1986 |
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Chernobyl power plant melts down |
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| 1987 |
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2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos |
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| 1988 |
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Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax |
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| 1989 |
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Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion |
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| 1989 |
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Breakup of the Soviet Union |
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| 1989-1992 |
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George Bush president of US |
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| 1989 |
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Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff |
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| 1989 |
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Fall of Berlin Wall |
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| 1989 |
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US Invades Panama, topples Noriega |
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| 1990 |
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World Wide Web |
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| 1990 |
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Hubble space telescope deployed |
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| 1991 |
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Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq |
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| 1991-2003 |
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8th Cholera pandemic |
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| 1992 |
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Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles |
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| 1993 |
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Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center |
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| 1993 |
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Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's |
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| 1993-2000 |
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William Clinton president of US |
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| 1994 |
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South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system
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| 1995 |
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American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City |
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| 1996 |
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DVD video recordings |
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| 1997 |
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Mars pathfinder lands |
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| 1997 |
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Cloning living beings |
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| 1998 |
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Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. |
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| 1998 |
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US attacks Iraq, again |
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| 1998 |
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1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU |
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| 1999 |
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US attacks Bosnia |
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| 2000 |
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'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled |
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| 2000 |
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Working draft of human genome completed |
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| 2000 |
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Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date |
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| 2000 |
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North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August |
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| 2001 |
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Wikipedia goes online |
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| 2001 |
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X-Box console released |
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| 2001 |
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Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid |
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| 2001 |
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Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths |
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| 2001 |
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US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th |
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| 2001 |
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Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin |
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| 2001 |
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Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th |
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| 2001-2009 |
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George W. Bush president of US |
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| 2002 |
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Euro currency introduced |
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| 2002 |
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10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar |
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| 2002 |
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Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali |
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| 2003 |
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28,000 die in Iran earthquake |
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| 2003 |
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Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) |
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| 2004 |
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Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 |
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| 2004 |
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Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered |
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| 2004 |
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Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander |
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| 2004 |
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10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain |
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| 2004 |
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Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight |
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| 2005 |
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Microsoft ships Xbox 360 |
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| 2005 |
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 |
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| 2005 |
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Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th |
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| 2005 |
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Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered |
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| 2005 |
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Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th |
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| 2005 |
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Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, |
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| 2006 |
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Israel attacks Lebanon |
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| 2006 |
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Americans lose habeas corpus |
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| 2006 |
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Wii ships from Nintendo |
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| 2006 |
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PS3 ships from Sony |
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| 2007 |
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Comet McNaught swings by the sun - |
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| 2008-2010 |
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Global Recession |
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| 2009-2012 |
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Obama president of USA |
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| 2009 |
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Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth |
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| 2010 |
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Haiti earthquake - 220k dead, 300k injured |
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| 2011 |
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Japan 9.1 earthquake and Tsuinami - 10K dead |
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