A FEW FACTS FROM THE PAST DECADE
TEN YEARS
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2011.....Operation Geronimo: Osama Bin Laden killed; Occupy Wall Street protestors; Elizabeth Taylor (Hollywood's most iconic actress dies @ 79; Grammy winner Amy Winehouse dies @ 27
2012.....Sandy Hook Elem School shooting-27 dead; Barack Obama re-elected POTUS; Singer Whitney Houston dies @ 48; Neil Armstrong (US Astronaut & first person to walk on Moon) dies @ 82
2013.....Boston Marathon Bombing-2 homemade pressure cooker bombs detonated with over 264 injured persons; West African Ebola virus epidemic most widespread outbreak disease in history; Former South African President/global icon Nelson Mandela dies @ 95
2014.....Ice Bucket Challenge promoting ALS; Boko Haram kidnaps 276 girls from a Nigerian Collage and over a hundred are still missing...many feared dead; Robin Williams commits suicide @ 63; American poet//civil rights activist Maya Angelou dies @ 86; American comedian/actress Joan Rivers dies @ 81
2015.....Nepal devastated by massive 7.8 earthquake with nearly 9,000 dead, 22,000 injured & 3.5 million people left homeless; US legalizes same-sex marriage; Grammy blues legend BB King dies @ 89; Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek) dies @ 57
2016.....Donald Trump elected US President; American singer/songwriter Prince dies @ 57; English singer/songwriter George Michael found dead at home in his bed
2017.....Las Vegas Strip shooting-Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd of concert attendees killing 58 and wounding 413; Rock n' Roll Music Pioneer Chuck Berry dies @ 90
2018.....California wildfires; Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh faces sexual assault allegations (He became a Supreme Court Justice); Tham Luang cave rescue: The miraculous cave rescue in Thailand-12 boys of a football team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25 year old assistant coach enter a cave which gets flooded. The rescue ops took 15 days; US House of Representatives passes bill and allocates funds to build the US-Mexico border wall; Former US President George HW Buch dies @ 94
2019.....Donald Trump becomes first sitting President to set foot in North Korea; Donald Trump impeached becoming the 3rd US President to be impeached in the House of Representatives; Tiger Woods completes a comeback after a fourth back surgery to win te Masters.
