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2010 |
In
Citizen United v. Federal Elections Commission, the US Supreme Court
overturns state and federal bans on corporate and union spending on candidate
elections, its most heinous decision since Dred Scott. |
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July 31 Quakers approve same-sex marriage
April 27 Tele2
decides to delete information that identifies their customers.
April 24
California Air Resources Board approves US's first nation's 1st
low-carbon fuel rule.
January 20Barack Obama
inaugurated President of the United States of America. |
2009 |
Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell refuses to issue marriage license
to an interracial couple. June 25 Michael Jackson dies.
Jammie Thomas-Rasse
fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs over the Internet
Turkey's science board censors Darwin.
"Britain's Got
Talent" panelists ridicule
Susan Boyle before she stuns them with her unassuming and unassailable
talent. |
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| November 4 Barack Obama elected
President of the United States of America. |
2008 |
Sarah Palin runs for vice president of the United States. |
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| December 17 New Jersey outlaws capital punishment.
US Congressman Peter Stark
announces his atheism.
January 7
Keith Ellison take the oath of office on Thomas Jefferson's Koran. |
2007 |
George W. Bush tells
"60 Minutes" interviewer Scott Pelley that the Iraqi people owe the American
people a huge debt of gratitude.
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China eases restrictions on Wikipedia
New York Metropolitan
Opera goes online
Complete works of Charles Darwin
go online |
2006 |
Chinese jail porn
site chief jailed for life |
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IRA lays down arms. |
2005 |
June
Time magazine agrees to surrender confidential documents demanded by a
Washington special prosecutor.
June Fr.
Daniel and his charges crucify and asphyxiate
Maricica Irina Cornici, a schizophrenic he deemed possessed by the
devil.
April
China blocks pope forums |
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cover costs for a 12-year-old New York girl targeted in file-swapping
lawsuit. |
2004 |
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Mike Showerman and Craig Steffen build supercomputer with 70 video game
machines.
January 29Nobel laureates denounce a US attack on Iraq.
January 12Gov. George Ryan commutes death sentences of all Illinois condemned.
January Scientists find gravity moves near speed of light |
2003 |
September
RIAA sues music-file swappers, including a 12-year-old girl, a 71-year-old
grandfather, a single mother.
April 12
Looters sack Baghdad National Museum and library. |
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| November 6 Scientists grow mouse embryos from cloned brain tumors.
October 8 Bugs trained to build circuit.
September 28 Museum of Sex opens in New York.
September 20 Engineers unveil air-powered car.
September 19 Physicists Create Antimatter.
September Scientists discover dark energy that causes accelerating expansion of the universe.
August 6Manindra Agrawal develops algorithm for determining whether or not a given number
is prime. |
2002 |
December 30 China closes thousands of Internet cafes.
December 27 Bush administration rushes to condemn human cloning.
December 26 Raelains cult claims birth of first human clone.
November 27 Court balks at rhyming judge. |
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| April 11 Dutch Senate legalizes
euthanasia.
Maasai donate cattle to victims of 9/11. |
2001 |
October 26 President
Bush signs the Patriot Act into law.
An unidentifiedbioterroist mails anthrax-infected letters to prominent Americans in New
York and Washington DC.
September 11
Islamic religious fanatics drive airplanes into World Trade Center towers and US Pentagon.
April 20 Court blocks
publication of Gone With the Wind sequel. |
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