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NC
Oct 13, It was reported that scientists in North Carolina had built a brain implant that lets monkeys control a robotic arm with their thoughts.
(https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4262-monkeys-brain-signals-control-third-arm/) -
US- 2003
Mar 19 Invasion of Iraq by American and British led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-in-iraq-begins) -
My event- 2003
My favorite grade, 3rd grade. My 3rd grade teacher was my favorite teacher, as he had energy, he was engaging and he made learning fun. -
NC-2006
NC- North Carolina Hurricanes won hockey's Stanley Cup; 17,000 people evacuated after explosion at chemical plant near Apex
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCU3qY35Tgk) -
My Event
First year of middle school, was also the first year I played the flute. I learned how to play the piano when I was younger, but the flute was the first instrument I took an real interest in. -
U.S.-Pluto is downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet
It used to be taught in school that there were nine planets, now as Pluto got down graded to a dwarf planet, there are only eight planets. This was a big event for the world, and now as all of the students were always taught that only eight planets existed students do not know about Pluto as much as it was in the past.
[http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33462184] -
My event
First year of high school, this was also the first year of marching band. -
U.S.- 2009
Barack Obama is inaugurated and became the first African American ever to be elected president of the United States
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/20web-inaug2.html) -
NC- 2009
In North Carolina, the country’s top tobacco growing state by sales, legislators approved a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/us/20tobacco.html) -
My event
This was my junior year of high school, and also the stressful time of applying for colleges. -
NC- 2012
Obama is reelected
(http://elections.nbcnews.com/ns/politics/2012/all/president/#.WcFdnhSxHzI) -
U.S.- last wwI vet passes away
The last living veteran of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_World_War_I_veterans_by_country) -
NC
Feb 20, Duke Energy Corp. said it has agreed to pay a fine of about $102 million for environmental violations related to a power plant's coal ash spill into a North Carolina river last year and the company's management of coal ash basins in the state.
(http://www.wral.com/duke-energy-pleads-guilty-to-environmental-charges-linked-to-coal-ash-spill-leaks/14645414/) -
My event
First full year at college -
U.S.
Gay marriage becomes legalized
(http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/index.html)
