Modern History

• 2001September 11 attacks11 September 2001 · New York City
• 1994Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda7 April – July 1994 · Kigali
• 2011Tahrir Square and the 2011 Egyptian revolution25 January–11 February 2011 · Cairo & Giza
• 2005Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee failures29 August 2005 · New Orleans
• 1995Srebrenica genocide11–22 July 1995 · Sarajevo
• 1994South Africa's first democratic election and Mandela's inauguration27 April and 10 May 1994 · Johannesburg & Soweto

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