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Throughout history, there are moments that have the power to make humankind stop and watch; to talk and listen. Shocking and historic events that remain
Throughout history, there are moments that have the power to
make humankind stop and watch; to talk and listen. Shocking and
historic events that remain etched in our memories forever.
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Atomic Bomb Nagasaki
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Attack on Pearl Harbour
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The Vietnam War
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21 July 1969: Man walks on the moon
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks
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World War I (1914-1918) Once referred to as The Great War, this
global fight centred in Europe lasted for four years, beginning on
July 28 1914 and ending on November 11 1918. It resulted in the
death of over 16 million combatants and civilians. The war can be
attributed to a number of causes such as mutual defense alliances,
imperialism, militarism and nationalism. The catalyst that spurred
the outbreak of fighting was the assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in June 1914. Debate still abounds
today as to the root causes of the war. The closure of WWI is often
described as the silence before the storm as the causes of WWII can
be traced right back to it.
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Titanic sinks on April 12, 1912. At the time of its launching
in 1912, the Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the
world. It was the pinnacle of shipbuilding technology and was
largely believed to be unsinkable. Boy, were they wrong. On the
night of April 12, the ship struck an iceberg and sank, claiming
the lives of 1,517 people.
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The Spanish Flu Outbreak (1918) The Spanish Flu of 1918 killed
approximately 100 million people worldwide. Influenza victims crowd
into an emergency hospital near Fort Riley, Kans., in this 1918
file photo. AP Photo National Museum of Health
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 lasted a month and started the
Great Depression. Daily News The Wall Street Crash of 1929, which
precipitated the Great Depression, did not happen on one day, but
rather extended over a month. At its catastrophic peak, the stock
market lost nearly a quarter of its value over two days now known
as Black Monday (Oct. 28, 1929) and Black Tuesday (Oct. 29, 1929).
Widespread economic panic ensued.
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Charles Lindbergh's son kidnapped on March 1, 1932. New York
Daily News Known as "The Crime of the Century," famed aviator
Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was kidnapped on the evening
of March 1, 1932. The child was held for ransom, of which $50,000
worth was paid. But that didn't keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a
German emigrant carpenter, from murdering the baby. He was later
caught and sentenced to death.
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Hindenburg Disaster (1937) On May 6, 1937, the German passenger
airship LZ 129 Hindenburg exploded while attempting to dock at
Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people. The explosion, that
marked the end of passenger airships, was intensively covered by
the media. Sam Shere/Getty Images
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The Shanghai Baby (1937) The Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937
eventually meshed with World War II. During one bombing raid, the
Japanese bombed a Chinese train station that housed women and
children. This baby somehow survived, although injured.
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World War II (1939-1945) A global war without any one singular
objective or enemy, this six year fight, lasting from 1939 to 1945,
has been hailed the deadliest war in history resulting in the
deaths of between 50 to 85 million. It was fuelled by Hitlers
invasion of Poland in 1939 and involved more than 30 countries.
There was no main front. Rather, it was comprised of European,
African, and Asian subdivisions of the war. Countries continuously
fell under different leadership throughout the duration of the war,
resulting in mass displacement, whereby millions of individuals
were left to seek new homelands due to the devastation left in its
wake.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941 The Empire of Japan launched a
surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on
December 7, 1941, killing 2,350 people. In this photo, sailors
stand amid wreckage watching as the USS Shaw explodes in the
background. The attack effectively drew the United States into
World War II. Getty
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D-Day (1944) D-Day is the reference used for an operation by
American, British and Canadian forces to liberate German-occupied
Western Europe during World War II. On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), around
156,000 soldiers invaded the Normandy region of France, ultimately
leading to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the war. CSU
Archives/Everett Collection/REX
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Bergen-belsen: Liberated Prisoners, 1945 What happened to the
people who entered the Nazi concentration camps is beyond
imagination, beyond shock, beyond belief. Once again, our idea of
how we conduct wars - which are often in the name of justice or
some such spurious reason - changed. Here we had a war where the
main casualties were civilians. This picture was taken by the
acclaimed British photojournalist George Rodger and published in
Life and Time magazines. It's a more palatable image than most of
those that recorded the horrors of the Holocaust, but it still
shows the true enormity of what had gone on in the camps. At the
time it was inconceivable that someone could come up with the idea
of a concentration camp and the gas chambers.
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Doping of the atomic bombs (1945) On August 6, 1945, the U.S.A.
dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
the final stages of World War II. The bombings, still the only
instances of atomic bombs being used, destroyed almost 90 per cent
of Hiroshima while the fall-out in Nagasaki was contained in 6.7
km. Getty Images
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Launch of Sputnik 1 (1957) Sputnik 1 was the first man-made
satellite launched into space. The satellite, which triggered the
US-USSR space race, took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its
elliptical path. Novosti/AP
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) The Cuban Missile Crisis was a
13-day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union due to the
installation of Soviets nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles
from Florida. After tense discussions, which almost led to nuclear
war, the countries reached an agreement and the Soviet withdrew its
missiles from Cuba. (Pictured) President John F. Kennedy, back to
camera, is seen at the White House with four Air Force officers who
have had a part in the aerial surveillance of Cuba. AP
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Screen siren Marilyn Monroe was discovered dead of a drug
overdose on August 5th, 1962. The circumstances of her death are
debated to this day. Suicide or accident? It was a frightfully
fitting - yet untimely - end to the enigmatic star. AP
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Martin Luther Kings March (1963) On August 28, 1963, civil
rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech
entitled I have a Dream calling for an end to racism in the U.S.
during his March on Washington. More than 250,000 supporters lined
up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to hear the speech. AP
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A protesting Buddhist monk burns himself to death (1963) Thich
Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself
to death protesting the government's torture policy against
priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was
burning.
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President John F. Kennedy assassinated (Nov. 22, 1963) Few can
forget where they were when they heard the news on Nov. 22, 1963,
that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed improbably
while riding in a motocade with his wife in Dallas. Three separate
government investigations would finger Lee Harvey Oswald, a former
Marine, as the murderer. But he never stood trial. Just days after
the assassination, as he was being taken to Dallas County Jail,
Oswald would be shot by Jack Ruby, a vigilante nightclub owner.
AP
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Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated On April 4, 1968,
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of the
Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee when he was shot dead. As news
spread, rioting broke out across the country. AP
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Man walks on the moon (1969) American astronaut Neil Armstrong
was the first man to step on the surface of the moon on July 21,
1969. He was part of a three-man crew aboard the Apollo 11, which
landed on the moon on July 20. Armstrong was quickly followed by
Buzz Aldrin while Michael Connelly stayed on board. (Pictured)
Edwin Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. REX
Features
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Munich Massacre (1972) The Munich massacre refers to the kidnap
and eventual murder of 11 Israeli Olympic team members (and a
German police officer) by the Palestinian group Black September
during the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich, West Germany.
All the athletes died during the failed rescue attempt by the
German police. AP Images
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Napalm Attack, Trang Bang, Vietnam, 1972 This was one of those
unforgettable pictures that really hit home with the public. Taken
by Nick Ut, who won a Pulitzer prize for the photograph, it changed
people's impressions of the Vietnam War, and brought home the
brutal reality of the conflict. Chemical weapons have always been
banned but in Vietnam Americans were dropping napalm, chemical
defoliants and white phosphorous, which ignites on impact and burns
while it's on you. Here, the naked girl, Kim Phc, is running down
the road towards photographers, screaming. What you can't see is
that her back is on fire, completely burnt to shreds by
napalm.
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Richard Nixon resigns ( Aug. 9, 1974) Over two years after the
infamous break-in of DNC headquarters at the Watergate Office
complex in Washington D.C., President Richard Nixon resigned - the
only president ever to do so - during a nationally televised
address on the evening of Aug. 9, 1974. For most of that time, he
denied having any involvement - "I am not a crook!" - in the
illegal activities of his aides and loyalists, and would continue
to proclaim his innocence until his death in 1994.
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Fall of Saigon (1975) Saigon, the capital city of South
Vietnam, was taken by North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975,
marking the end of Vietnam War and capitulation of South Vietnamese
government. Before the invasion, the Americans rescued all their
countrymen in the city, along with thousands of South Vietnamese
civilians in what was the largest helicopter evacuation in history.
Associated Press
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Elvis Presley dies (Aug. 16, 1977) Don't be cruel: He's still
alive! Depending on your level of fandom, you either believe or
don't believe pop legend Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, at
the age of 42, of a massive heart attack, likely brought on by
heavy drug dependency.AP
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" Jonestown" (November 18, 1978) On November 18, 1978, 909
people committed "revolutionary suicide" at Jonestown, the Guyana
home to the Peoples Temple, a cult from California led by Jim
Jones. The incident was the greatest single loss of American
civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of Sep.
11. AP
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Iranian Embassy siege (1980) Six gunmen stormed the Iranian
embassy building in London, England, on April 30, 1980, and took 26
people hostage. They demanded the release of 91 political prisoners
in Iran as well as safe passage for them back to the Middle East.
On the sixth day of the siege, UK special forces attacked the
building and killed five of the six terrorists. The remaining
gunman was later sentenced to 27 years in prison. ASSOCIATED
PRESS
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John Lennon murdered On December 8, 1980, the unimaginable
happened, music legend John Lennon was murdered outside of the
Dakota in New York City by Mark David Chapman.AP
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Challenger Disaster (1986) On January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds
into its flight, the Challenger shuttle broke apart killing all
seven people on board. The subsequent investigation highlighted
extensive flaws in NASA's decision-making processes and caused a
32-month hiatus in the Shuttle programme. Sipa Press/Rex
Features
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes (April 26, 1986)
Chernobyl, a city in northern Ukraine, has been mostly uninhabited
since a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on
April 26, 1986, leaking unsafe levels of radioactive material into
what is now known as the Zone of Alienation. It took 3 days to
evacuate all of its roughly 15,000 residents.AP
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Blast on Pan Am Flight 103 (1988) More than 270 people were
killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt Airport
to Detroit via London Heathrow on December 21, 1998. Apart from the
259 passengers and crew members on board, 11 more people were
killed on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, when the planes debris
fell on them. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tiananmen Square protest (1989) The Tiananmen Square protests
were a student-led pro-democracy movement that took place in
Beijing, China, in the spring of 1989. On June 4, 1989, the Chinese
military clamped down violently on the students who were protesting
in the square. The massacre left an unknown number of dead and
throttled the democratic movement. Jeff Widener/AP
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Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) The Berlin Wall, a powerful and
enduring symbol of the Cold War, was built to keep Western fascists
away from East Germany. However, with radical political changes and
civil unrest, it was decided on November 9, 1989, that the citizens
from East Germany could visit West Germany whenever they pleased.
Happy with the announcement, the crowd swarmed the wall and some
even started breaking it apart it. However, the official demolition
of the wall began on 13 June 1990 and was completed two years
later. AS/TS/Keystone USA/Rex Features
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Nelson Mandelas release (1990) Probably the most important day
in modern South African history, February 11, 1990 marked the day
of release of the nations anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela
from prison after a term of 27 years. Mandela was arrested in
August 1962 and was handed a life sentence in June 1964. Udo
Weitz/AP
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Can't we all just get along? Apparently not. On April 29, 1992,
when a jury acquitted four white officers accused in the videotaped
beating of the African-American Rodney King, thousands of angry LA
residents took to the streets, resulting in roughly $1 billion of
damage. 53 people died during the 6 days of mayhem. AP
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Rwandan Genocide (1994) The Rwandan genocide took place in
1994. It saw the mass slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutus,
resulting from longstanding internal conflict between the two
ethnic groups. J.E. Burnett states that the civil war broke out as
a result of a coup by the Rwandan Patriotic Front in an attempt to
defeat the Hutu led government. The Hutu retaliated and the ensuing
civil war that took place meant that a staggering percentage of the
country was killed during the genocide in the East African State.
The number affected is estimated to be somewhere in the region of
five hundred thousand to over one million. As is the case in all
wars, both sides were complicit in the mass murdering of Rwandan
citizens and as such, both the Hutus and the Tutsis must be held
accountable.
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Oklahoma City bombing (1995) Terrorists Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols carried out one of the deadliest terror attacks in
history when they blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma on April 19, 1995. The bombings took the lives of 168
people and caused damage worth US$ 652 million. Bill Waugh/AP
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Princess Dianas death (1997) The Princess of Wales was killed
in a car crash, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their
driver Henri Paul, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris,
France, on August 31, 1997. The investigation later found that the
crash was caused by Paul, who was driving under the influence of
alcohol. Jerome Delay/AP
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Columbine High School massacre in Jefferson County, Colorado,
April 20th, 1999. Few events over the last century have had the
core-rattling effect on the American psyche as the Columbine High
School massacre in Jefferson County, Colorado, which happened on
April 20th, 1999. At 11:10 a.m., Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two
students, arrived at the school armed to the teeth with bombs and
guns. While several explosives they had planted failed to detonate,
the two still managed to kill 12 students and a teacher, as well as
wounding 23 others, before turning the guns on themselves. The
incident sparked a heated debate about gun violence and safety of
American schools which continues to this day. Getty
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Turn of the Millennium (2000) The arrival of the year 2000 was
marked by huge celebrations around the world as mankind embraced
its entrance into the 3rd millennium of the Common Era (CE). The
actual moment of transition was marked by speculation about the
potential dangers of the "Millennium Bug", with computers
supposedly unable to distinguish between the years 2000 and 1900,
although minimal disruption was reported. Getty Images
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9/11 (2001) On September 11, 2001, three airplanes, hijacked by
Al-Qaeda terrorists, flew into the twin towers of New Yorks World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United
States Department of Defense, killing more than 3,000 people. Getty
Images
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Invasion of Iraq (2003) The 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by US
forces with support from the UK, Australia and Poland, preceded the
Iraq War and was aimed at deposing the government of Saddam
Hussein. Saddam himself was eventually captured, and was sentenced
to death by an Iraqi court in 2006. PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty
Images
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Beslan School massacre (2004) A group of militants stormed
School Number One (SNO) in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia on
September 1, 2004, and held over 1000 people as hostages. The
militants demanded the independence of Chechnya. The standoff
lasted three days before Russian forces attacked the militants with
heavy weapons, resulting in the deaths of 385 people including 186
children. Ivan Sekretarev/AP
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Boxing Day tsunami (2004) A devastating tsunami, triggered by a
9.1-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean, hit the shores of 14
countries on December 26, 2004, taking the lives of more than
285,000 people. The worst effects of the tsunami were felt in the
Indonesian province of Aceh, where 221,000 were killed or went
missing. Dita Alangkara/AP
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When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, over New
Orleans, it initially looked as if the city had dodged the bullet.
But early reports did not take into account the enormous strain put
upon the levees by the storn surge. Ultimately, the levees would
break, flooding most of the city and stranding thousands of
citizens. Getty
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Michael Jackson's death (2009) The King of Pop passed away at
his residence in California, USA, on June 25, 2009, due to a
massive cardiac arrest caused by an overdose of an intravenous
sedative. It was later concluded that his death was a homicide and,
after a trial, his physicist Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to
four years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Jonathan
Alcorn/Bloomberg News
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Haiti Earthquake (2010) The magnitude 7.0 earthquake which
struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 displaced or affected up to 3
million people, with death tolls ranging from 100,000 to more than
300,000 people. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Deepwater Horizon disaster (2010) An explosion and subsequent
fire in a drilling rig led to the largest accidental marine oil
spill, in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. The drilling rig
was a part of the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile
Offshore Drilling Unit owned by BP. The massive explosion took the
lives of 11 people. KPA/Zuma/Rex Features
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Japanese tsunami (2011) A 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a
deadly tsunami that swept the coast of Japan on March 11, 2001,
killing more than 18,000 people. The tsunami also led to a
catastrophic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Plant complex, which affected thousands of people. Mainichi
Shimbun, Tomohiko Kano/AP
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Osama bin Laden's death (2011) After the largest and most
notorious manhunt in modern history, the USA finally tracked down
Osama bin Laden, the man allegedly responsible for conceiving the
9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. On May 2 2011 US Navy
Seals attacked bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan,
killing the al-Qaeda founder and four others. Ray Tang/REX
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Norway attacks (2011) A bomb blast in front of Prime Minister
Jens Stoltenbergs office in Oslo, followed by a deadly gun attack
at a summer camp on the island of Utoya, which killed 92 people and
injured hundreds, on July 22, 2011. The attacks were carried out by
extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is now serving a 21-year
prison sentence. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Nelson Mandela's death (2013) Following his 27-year
imprisonment by the apartheid regime of South Africa, Nelson
Mandela served as both President of South Africa and President of
the African National Congress. He remains one of the most prominent
and famous figures in 20th and 21st century politics, synonymous
with the struggle for equality and a recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize. He died of a respiratory infection, aged 95, on December 5
2013. Foto24/Nelius Rademan/REX
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The Ukraine Crisis (January 2014- Present) 2014 didnt start
easy for Ukranians as disagreements between protesters and
separatists factions spiraled into an almost civil war. It all
began when a number of Ukranians protestes against the government
when they dropped the plans to forge a closer trade with the
European union. In February 2014 alone, hundreds of protesters have
been killed. Up until now, the crisis in Ukraine remains
unresolved.
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The Ebola Outbreak (February 2014) One of the worst epidemic of
the 21st century, The Ebola outbreak began in West Africa on
February 2014. A lot of health officers died in the area while
trying to stop the virus from spreading. However, the virus spread
so quickly that it even reached the United States of America. It
caused massive scare on the entire world and up until now, the
World Health Organization is still diligently working to eradicate
this epidemic quickly. John Moore/Getty
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The Missing Flight: MH370 (March 2014) On a flight from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared
somewhere over the Gulf of Thailand along with its 239 passengers
on board. Theres been a lot of speculations why the plane suddenly
disappeared and the most popular theory is a terrorist attack.
However, none of these have been proven to be the real since the
flight is still missing. Experts believe that the plane might have
crashed near the Indian Ocean. So far, no sign of the airplane has
been found there since though the search continues to this
day.
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MH 17 Shot down over Ukraine (July 2014) Following the crisis
in Ukraine and the disappearance of MH 370, another Malaysian plane
got involved in another tragedy. Malaysian Airlines flight 17 has
been shot down by surface-to- air missile, blowing up the plane and
killing all the 298 people inside. It was believed that Russian
separatists did the shooting.
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Avalanche on Mount Everest - April 2014. In mid-April 2014, an
avalanche on Mount Everest near Everest Base Camp resulted in the
death of 16 Nepalese guides, also known as Sherpas.
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One major and most shocking events since the Second World War:
Charlie Hebdo shooting ( January 7 2015) On the morning of 7
January 2015 at about 11:30 local time Sad and Chrif Kouachi,
forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly
newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and
other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others in the
building. After leaving, they killed a French National Police
officer outside the building. The gunmen identified themselves as
belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in
Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Several related
attacks followed in the le-de- France region, where a further five
were killed and 11 wounded.
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Earthquake devastates Nepal (april 27, 2015) A massive
earthquake in Nepal measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has killed
almost 4,000 people across four countries and triggered a deadly
avalanche on Mount Everest. The quake, which struck just before
noon on 25 April, about 50 miles from Kathmandu in the valley
region, is the worst to hit the poverty-stricken Himalayan nation
in 81 years.
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World Refugee Day (June 20, 2015) According to a UN report
released this week, 2014 also saw more people displaced around the
world than any other year on record. One in every 122 people is
either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum and those
59.5 million people would together represent the world's 24th
largest population. Today, on World Refugee Day, the global refugee
crisis is worse than at any time in living memory.
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Charleston church shooting (June 18, 2015) Nine people were
killed Wednesday night when authorities say Dylan Storm Roof, 21,
fired upon a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, S.C. Roof was captured on Thursday after an intense
manhunt. Photo: A rose is affixed to a fence along a sidewalk
memorial in memory of the shooting victims in front of Emanuel AME
Church Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David
Goldman)