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Rodney King: Beaten by L.A. Police

L.A. riots: After the Not Guilty verdict of the police officers who beat Rodney King, all hell broke loose:

Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. The incident had been videotaped by George Holliday, who was a bystander to the incident, and was heavily broadcast in various news and media outlets.

earthquakes: California is notorius for earthquakes

Oklahoma City bomb: April 19th, 1995 Timothy McVeigh planted bombs in the OKC Building and bombed the building

Kurt Cobain: Lead Singer of Nirvanna dies in 1994

MySpace: Pre-cursor to Facebook

GMO: Genetically Modified Organisms

Michael Jackson dies: June 25th 2009

Fukushima, Japan: MArch 11th 2011

Cambridge Analytica: In March 2018, media outlets broke news of Cambridge Analytica's business practices. The New York Times and The Observer reported that the company had acquired and used personal data about Facebook users from an external researcher who had told Facebook he was collecting it for academic purposes.

Kim Jong Un: Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong Un becomes dictator of North Korea

Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man: Once he got clean and sober, he starred in the movie that revived his carrer

Cubs go all the way again: 2016

Obama: Barack Obama elected POTUS

Boston Marathon: 2013

Black Parade: The Black Parade is the third studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance, first released on October 23, 2006

Y2K: Year 2000 "bug". Fear and panic ensue. People fear their computers would reset to 1900 at the start of the New Millenium

Brexit: The UK leaving the EU

Boris Johnson: PM of the UK

Stranger Things, Tiger King: 2 Netflix Series

Sandy Hook, Columbine: 2 massacares where lone gunmen enter a school and shoot students and teachers

Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice: Sandra Bland:

Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence against her.

Tamir Rice: Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old Black child who was shot and killed by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio. The shooting death of Tamir Rice in 2014 brought increased attention to the national debate on interactions between police officers and African Americans. Surveillance video of the shooting garnered worldwide attention, which led to Rice becoming a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Shinzo Abe blown away: On 8 July 2022, at around 11:30 JST, Abe was shot and killed while he was delivering a campaign speech at the Yamato-Saidaiji Station, Nara.[

Meghan Markle: Duchess of Sussex

Metroid: NES Game in the 1980s

Burj Khalifa: Tallest building in the world. Dubai, UAE

Fermi paradox: The Fermi Paradox highlights the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life and the lack of evidence for such civilizations.

Venus and Serena: Tennis superstars

YouTube: 2006

Kaepernick: The following week, and throughout the regular season, Kaepernick kneeled during the anthem. The protests received highly polarized reactions, with some praising his protests and others denouncing the protests.

Texas failed electric grid: Feb 2021: Texas' independent power grid failed and freak winter weather plunged Texas into an "Ice Age"

Jeff Bezos: CEO of Amazon

White rhino goes extinct: White rhinos are not extinct, strictly speaking, but the northern white rhino is functionally extinct, with only two females remaining, while the southern white rhino population has recovered significantly.

Great Pacific garbage patch: he Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean.

Tom DeLonge and aliens: Ancient Aliens. became a meme

Self-driving electric cars: TESLAs

The Queen: Queen Elizabeth II

Prince: Prince Phillip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He's listed first because he died before Elizabeth (9 April 2021)

World Trade: 9/11 Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center