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2004

Indian Ocean Earthqueake and Tsunami

Indian Ocean Earthqueake and Tsunami

On December 26th an earthquake of a 9.3 in the Richter scale and tsunami took place on the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It killed 230.000 people in 14 countries and inundate communities along the coast with waves of 100 ft. high. It is recorded to be the worst natural disaster in history.

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

The 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan died on June 5th because of Alzheimer's disease that he suffered for about 10 years.

Massachusetts Legalize Gay Marriage

Massachusetts Legalize Gay Marriage

Massachusetts became the first state to legally recognize gay marriage since May 17th. Massachusetts also by that time was the 6th nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

Facebook was Launched

Facebook was Launched

On February, Mark Zuckerberg, 23, launched officially "the Facebook". After 24 hours of being released 1.200 Harvard student open a profile and after a month over the half of the undergraduate students had open an account. --------------------------------- I was 13 when I knew about Facebook, I used to have MySpace and I really did not know how Facebook worked, so I had to ask one of my friends to open an account for me, but it took me a while to understand how it worked.

Brazil Launches the First Rocket

Brazil Launches the First Rocket

After 14 months of a failed launching that killed 21 space agency employees and that tarnished the reputation of the space program; Brazil was able to launch its first rocket into space recovering the good image of Latin America's space program.

Osama Bin Laden Video

Osama Bin Laden Video

Over 3 years after the 9/11 al Jazeeraa broadcasted the speech of Osama Bin Laden about the terrorist attacks in the U.S on September 11th 2001. He condemned Bush's government response to those attacks. Bin Laden did not sound apologetic in his speech but instead he sounded proud and praised Allah.

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