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Annie Xmas, you skipped #12 and Repeated #3

Newsmakers of 1911

  1. William Howard Taft – U.S. President
  2. Frank “Home Run” Baker - Philidelphia Athletics 3rd baseman and World Series hero.
  3. Roald Amundsen - Norwegian polar explorer.
  4. Inaugural running of the Indy 500 which was won by The Marmon Wasp
  5. Inventor Franz Reichelt leaped to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his “overcoat/parachute”
  6. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act).
  7. The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre
  8. Sun Yat-sen returns to China to found the Republic of China
  9. Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.
  10. Kaiser Wilhelm botches the Agadir Crisis
  11. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
  12. King George V of England crowned.
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However, I’d already put in #12:

Newsmakers of 1911

  1. William Howard Taft – U.S. President
  2. Frank “Home Run” Baker - Philidelphia Athletics 3rd baseman and World Series hero.
  3. Roald Amundsen - Norwegian polar explorer.
  4. Inaugural running of the Indy 500 which was won by The Marmon Wasp
  5. Inventor Franz Reichelt leaped to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his “overcoat/parachute”
  6. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act).
  7. The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre
  8. Sun Yat-sen returns to China to found the Republic of China
  9. Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.
  10. Kaiser Wilhelm botches the Agadir Crisis
  11. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
  12. Theodore Roosevelt - announces as a candidate for President, against his own successor and former protege Taft.
  13. King George V of England crowned.

ETA might as well stick with Annie’s category:

Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
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Sorry about that!

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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
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  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election
  10. Death of Michael Jackson
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election
  10. Death of Michael Jackson
  11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. No significant Y2K bug problems

The big story that didn’t happen.

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Y2K problems are just now manifesting itself into the computers of select Doper’s computers.

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I don’t consider naked-supermodel popup images a “problem.”

Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election
  10. Death of Michael Jackson
  11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries
  12. No significant Y2K bug problems
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Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far):

  1. 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2. Invasion of Iraq
  3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico
  4. Earthquake in Haiti
  5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath
  7. Red Sox win the World Series
  8. Election of Barack Obama
  9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election
  10. Death of Michael Jackson
  11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries
  12. No significant Y2K bug problems
  13. Virginia Tech Shooting

New Category.

Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked)

  1. Baranyai Decsi János
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New Category.

Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked)

  1. Baranyai Decsi János
  2. Gert Engels, a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me.
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Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked)

  1. Baranyai Decsi János
  2. Gert Engels, a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me.
  3. Knight of Kerry - one of three Anglo-Irish hereditary knighthoods.
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Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked)

  1. Baranyai Decsi János
  2. Gert Engels, a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me.
  3. Knight of Kerry - one of three Anglo-Irish hereditary knighthoods.
  4. Gogogogo, a village in SW Madagascar that is not, apparently, known for its dancers.