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22 Feb 2017
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered a star with seven Earth-sized planets orbiting it.
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1 Feb 2017
Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, founded the 'Biden Foundation.'
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27 Jan 2017
President Donald Trump banned citizens of seven countries from entering the US.
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21 Jan 2017
Over two million women worldwide marched against Trump's anti-women and offensive slews.
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12 Jan 2017
Obama surprised Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a White House ceremony.
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12 Jun 2016
Mass Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Kills 49 People.
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5 Apr 2016
PayPal withdrew a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina due to the state passing anti-gay legislation.
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23 Jan 2016
A category five blizzard occurred in the Mid-Atlantic and North East US, which covered the area in 3 feet of snow.
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6 Jan 2016
A state of emergency was declared in California after a gas leak.
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16 Jun 2015
Donald Trump announced he was running for President.
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3 Jun 2015
A Texan doctor performed the world's first successful partial skull and scalp transplant.
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20 May 2015
The US Air Force Space Command launched the Boeing X-37B spaceplane for a classified mission.
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12 Apr 2015
Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for US President.
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6 Mar 2015
NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet.
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26 Jan 2015
A drone crashed onto the White House lawn.
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21 Feb 2014
US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama amid warnings from China.
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22 Jan 2014
NASA revealed water vapor had been discovered on dwarf planet Ceres.
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14 Jun 2013
Edward Snowden was charged with spying and stealing 'government property.'
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9 Jun 2013
Edward Snowden publicly declared that he was the source of the leaked NSA documents.
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3 Jun 2013
The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins.
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31 May 2013
The widest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
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19 Mar 2013
Water-bearing minerals were discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover.
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8 Feb 2013
A category 3 blizzard wreaked havoc in the US and Canada.
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9 May 2012
President Barack Obama officially declared his support of same-sex marriage.
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16 Mar 2012
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
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1 Jun 2011
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle landed for its 25th and final time.
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16 May 2011
NASA launched the Endeavour Space Shuttle on the penultimate space shuttle mission.
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2 May 2011
The FBI's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, was killed by the US Navy Seals and CIA operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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29 Apr 2011
An EF4 multiple-vortex tornado destroyed areas of two major Alabama cities: Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
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9 Mar 2011
Space Shuttle Discovery completed its last-ever mission and made its final landing onto Kennedy's runway at 11:57 am EST.
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18 Feb 2011
Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder.
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20 Apr 2010
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes.
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18 Feb 2010
WikiLeaks published the first US diplomatic cable leak provided by Chelsea Manning.
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20 Dec 2009
US President Barack Obama received a vaccine jab against the swine flu.
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5 Nov 2009
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.
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18 Jun 2009
NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.
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8 Jun 2009
Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
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11 May 2009
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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6 Apr 2009
Texas movie fans were surprised with a special premiere viewing of that year's Star Trek movie.
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28 Mar 2009
The strain of swine flu known as H1N1 had its first case in the US.
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15 Mar 2009
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-119.
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10 Feb 2009
Two satellites collide in space.
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20 Jan 2009
The USA's first African-American President, Barack Obama, conducted his first address.
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15 Jan 2009
US Airways Flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River, NYC.
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11 Dec 2008
Billionaire conman Bernard Madoff arrested.
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10 Nov 2008
NASA declared the conclusion of the Phoenix mission after contact was lost with the Phoenix lander.
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4 Nov 2008
Barack Obama became the first African American to win a United States Presidential Election.
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19 Oct 2008
NASA launched its IBEX satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands.
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15 Sep 2008
Lehman Brothers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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29 Jul 2008
United States Congress apologizes for slavery.
