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January
13: An earthquake hits
Lima, Peru. Over 5000 are
reported dead.
January 16: The Baltimore
Ravens
defeat the New York Giants, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV.
January 20: George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd
President of
the United States.
January 26: An earthquake strikes Gujarat,
India.
Over 20,000 are
reported dead.
February 12: NASA's NEAR space probe touches down on
the
asteroid Eros.
February 18: NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed
during
a crash while
racing in the Daytona 500.
February 26: The Taliban in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
destroys
two Buddha
statues. These statues were archeological treasures from the
ancient
world.
March 25: The Best Picture Oscar is awarded to
"Gladiator"
at
the Academy Awards. The movie wins a total of 5 Oscars that night.
April 2: US EP-3E spy plane collides F-8 with
Chinese
fighter jet off
the coast of China. The US crew makes an emergency landing in
Hainan,
China and is held captive for 11 days.
April 30: Dennis Tito lifts off in a
Russian Soyuz
spacecraft as the
first space tourist.
May 24: Fifteen year-old Sherpa, Temba Tsheri
becomes the
youngest
person ever to make it to the summit of Mount Everest.
May
27: Helio Castroneves wins the Indianapolis 500.
June 7: In an effort to stimulate the flagging economy,
President Bush
signs a new tax cut law, which is the largest in 20 years.
September
11: Terrorist followers of
Usama Bin Laden seize control
of 4 passenger planes in the US. The terrorists crash 2 of these
planes
into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. The
subsequent fire
causes the buildings to collapse. Thousands of innocent people
are
killed. The third hijacked jetliner is crashed into the Pentagon
in
Washington, DC. The fourth jetliner is crashed in a field in
Pennsylvania
after the heroic passengers fight back against the terrorists.
October 7: In response to the terrorist attacks, the
US
and British
governments begin a bombing campaign against the Taliban government in
Afghanistan which has been sheltering the terrorist Usama Bin Laden and
his
followers.
October 15: NASA's Galileo
spacecraft passes within
112
miles of the
surface of Jupiter's moon IO.
December 9: Taliban government in Afghanistan
collapses
after two months
of intensive bombing.
December 9: The Taliban government
in Afghanistan collapses after two months of intensive bombing.
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