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Originally Posted by sidburn
That is, from 2000 to now?
My list:
1. 9/11
2. Great Recession
3. Iraq war
4. Obama's election
5. 2000 election
6. Hurricane Katrina
7. Newtown massacre
8. BP oil spill
9. Boston Marathon bombing
10. Tie between Virginia Tech massacre and Hurricane Sandy
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Good list, but I would replace the last three with:
The Haiti and Japanese earthquakes
The passage of the ACA
The fracture of the Republican Party
The final outcome of the Newtown massacre, like the Va. Tech massacre, remains undecided as to their lasting importance, so I would probably replace both with The Muslim Spring, when the politics of the middle east suddenly and drastically changed in a series of revolutions.
While hurricane Sandy was indeed a natural event that was the same magnitude as Katrina, both weren't as destructive as the earthquakes, which destroyed Haiti and massively damaged Japan nationally, not just regionally.
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