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Stock Markets Crashing - America Fears A Recession
Altrough out 2008 the stock markets took a deep plunge into danger zone. With all of these stock market crashes they were highly concerned about a new recession during these times. -
Accidental Killings of Nine Iraqian Civilians By US Troops
On Monday, May 6th, nine civilians were killed in Iraq by the US military, who took full responsibility. They were trying to target some al-Qaeda opperatives and accidently ended up killing nine civilians in the process. -
Federal Funding Cut By 75 Basis Points To 2.25%
As the econimic situations began to worsen the Federal Open Market Commitee decided to play the federal funding. Consumer speanding ended up slowing down, so the financial markets were under major stress. -
California Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
California became the second state to legalize same-sex marriage. In 2004 Massachusetts was the first to legalize same-sex marriage, and four years later California would join them. -
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Summer Olympic Games
The summer olympics took place in the summer of 2008. If featured over 10,500 athleates. 302 events took place within 28 sports. -
Barack Obama Becomes Offical Candidate For The Democratic Party
Barack Obama ends up becoming the representative for the Democratic Party during the 2008 elections, and began running againt John McCain. -
John McCain Offical Candidate For Republic Party In The 2008 Election
John McCain was voted in to be the offical representive during the 2008 elections for the Republican Party. -
Obama Wins The US Presidental Election
On Tuesday, November 4th, of 2008, the presidental elections were held for the vote between John McCain and Barack Obama. After counting the results all night Barack Obama was annoced as the winner for the 2008 presidental election and became president. -
Obama Is Sworn Into Office
On January 20th, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn into office as our 44th president. -
NASA Finds Water on the Moon
Water was offically found on the moon in 2009. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite were first found over 10 years before, but after continuing to reserch, it is proven offical by NASA that water and ice were found on the moon. -
Apple Launches iPad
On the 27th of January in 2010 it was annoced by Apple that the iPad was being produced and was going to soon be sold. At the time the iPad was claimed to be the most advanced technology of the time. -
The Explosion Of The Deepwater Horizen Drilling Platform
The Deep Water drilling platform was the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico while they were drilling for oil. At the time BP needed oil so they had the Deep Water drilling platflom drilling it for them, and it exploded. The explosin killed 11 workers and injured 16 other workers. -
Scientist Create Synthetic Life From Gentic Code
On this day biotechnology hit a new high. A study run by DNA scientist named Dr. Craig Venter created the first artifical life. It was new species of bacteria that was made with a gentic code made by Dr. Venter. This caused much contriversy though with the fact that everything thought that Dr. Venter was 'playing God'. -
The Death of Osama Bin Laden
After about 10 years of tracking down and trying to capture the man behind the 9/11 attacks on America they do. On May 2nd of 2011 a team of 79 Navy Seals went in and raided his compoud. During this time Bin Laden was killed. -
First Commercial Spaceport Opens in New Mexico
Virgin Galactic annoces that they are opening up the first spaceport ever in New Mexico. This spaceport is for commerical use and is used for commerical sub-orbital spaceflights. -
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London Host The 2012 Summer Olympic Games
The Olympic Games were open and held by London in the year of 2012. 204 nations particapated in the Olympics and 10,700 athlestes partacticpated. -
Mars Science Laboratory's Explore the Red Planet
The Mars Science Labortary sent a rover to Mars in order to find anything out about Mars they could. This drew the occasion of the first camera taken to another planet. The four things they wanted to know were:
1. If life ever was on Mars.
2. The climate of Mars.
3. The geology of Mars.
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Windows 8 is Released
The new windows is released for computers all over the world. It wasn't the best Windows ever. but it was overall a very nice setup and loved by many. -
Cloning Produces Human Embryonic Stem Cells
For the first time in history cloning is used to help make stem cells. Scientist have learned how to clone the embyro in order to help stem cells. This could be widely used to help many people each day. -
NSA Documents Leaked
Edward Snowden in 2013 leaked over 200,000 documents about the NSA tracking everything and everyone in the world. Edward Snowden was a contracter for the NSA who got ahold of the private files and soon leaked them to the world. -
The PS4 Hits The Market
The PlayStation 4 is a video gaming system that caused an uproar amoung gaming fans with the console Xbox One, It however did end up out selling the Xbox One and today it still does, -
The Xbox One Hits The Market
The Xbox One is a video gaming system that caused an uproar amoung gaming fans with the console PS4, Over all the Xbox one was one of the most hated consoles (not that anyone actually had a reason for that). Today it still is being beat by PS4 in sells, but true Xbox fans know what a great consol it is. -
New World Trade Center Now Complete
Over 10 years ago the tragidy that happened during 9/11 and caused the Twin Towers (World Trade Centers) to fall. Since then they've been working to build New York back up. Finally the new World Trade Center is open and running again.
