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Important Events that Happened in My Lifetime
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I was born on 2008 Oct. 5 can you get me some facts?
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Important events of my life
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Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010
Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane
Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany event
243 are injured in pro- democracy protest Nepal after Nepali security forces open on protestors against King Gyanendra
Earthquake strikes Java, Indonesia at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta, killing over 6,600 people
WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange
North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars
Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed with Ian Paisley (Demo- cratic Unionist Party) as First Minister and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) as Deputey First Minister
Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end
President Roh Moo-Hyun of South korea walks across the Military Demarcration Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong II
Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless
Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people
Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual
Barack Obama becomes the \first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America
International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted
Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
Earthquake occurs in Haiti killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental diaster
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait
Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama
Tunisian president Ben Ali, flees to Saudi Arabia after popular protests known as the Jasmine Revolution
Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests
9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history
Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya
CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations
Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador
Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover
North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized
Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line
Human stem cells are successfully cloned
Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people lose contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history
Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation
The centre-right Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP, wins landslide election victory in India
Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha stage a coup in Thailand, suspending the kingdom's constitution and taking control of the government, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932
Islamic State of Iraq forces seize control of government offices and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosul
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
India's poulation officially reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby
Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for US President
Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria
US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought
China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre- industrial levels
Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 2 day tour
Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak
Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in their "Brexit" referundum
Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
Republican Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton, who received 2.9 million more vote
Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research journal "GSA Today"
Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen
North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul
Hurricane Irma becomes the post powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history with winds of 185mph
"The New York Times" publishes investigation into sexual harassment behaviour by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein
Actress Alyssa Milano tweeting “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’" prompts flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him
Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings
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