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21st Century Timeline

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 2000 (1) Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon
(2) USS Cole Attacked in Aden
 
       
 2001 Terrorists destroy World Trade Center in New York City and damage the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
 
       
 2002 U.N. Security Council passes resolution demanding that Iraq disarm
 
       
 2003 United States and allied forces invade Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom
 
  (1) Edward Teller, "Father of the H-Bomb," dies.
(2) Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry over Texas
 
(1) U.S. actress Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96.
(2) Former U. S. poet laureate Josephine Jacobsen dies.
 
 
 2008   Democratic candidate Barack Obama elected to be 44th President of the United States
 
     
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