By Carlee Lammers
Round Table editor

10.  After 13 years of research (known as the Human Genome Project) scientists were able to map the human genome including approximately 20,000-25,000 genes. (2003)

9. The Curse of the Bambino was finally broken when the Boston Red Sox won a World Series title after eighty-six- years of futility. On the way to the World Series, the Red Sox became the only team to ever come back from a 3-0 American League Championship Series deficit against the rival New York Yankees. (2004)

8. After a controversial recount of ballots of the notorious “Hanging Chad’s” in the state of Florida, the United States Supreme court ruled that George W. Bush had defeated Al Gore, in the 2000 presidential election. (2000)

7.  The Virginia Teach massacre, where student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people, wounded many others, and then commited suicide. Cho’s shooting is now reconginized as the  deadliest peacetime shooting by one person in the history of the United States. (2007)

6. In efforts to land, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over the state of Texas while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. (2003)

5. King of Pop Michael Jackson dies in his home of a heart attack due to drug overdose. (2009)

4. The invasion of Iraq by US troops to disarm the Iraqi’s of nuclear weapons, end the support of terrorism by their leader Sadam Hussein, and to free the people of Iraq. (2003)

3. Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the Gulf coast claiming the lives of nearly 1830 people. (2005)

2. Barrack Obama was inaugurated as the first African American president of the United States. (2009)

1.  The terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, forever impacting our nation’s security. (2001)