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In 2015, an earthquake hit Nepal and killed over 8,000 people.
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John Lennon was killed by a fan on December 8, 1980.
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Two men invaded and killed the journalists of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris in 2015.
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In 2003, scientists completed the Human Genome Project.
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Fidel Castro established a communist government in Cuba in 1959.
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In 2015, scientists confirmed the existence of water on Mars.
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Barack Obama became the first African American US president in 2009.
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Since the early 1980s, HIV has infected more than 70 million people.