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In 2003, Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became a president, stepped down after his second five-year term as head of the Czech Republic.

In 2004 sports, Roger Federer took over the No. 1 ranking in men's tennis. He held the position for a record 237 weeks.

In 2005, in a wide-ranging State of the Union address, U.S. President George Bush said that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq until Iraqis can provide their own security.

In 2007, hundreds of scientists taking part in a U.N.-sponsored study concluded in a report that human activity was to blame for climate change, largely through greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.

In 2008, a reported 2,000 rebels stormed Chad's capital city of N'Djamena in an unsuccessful attempt to oust President Idriss Deby. A cease-fire went into effect two days later with an estimated toll of 400 civilians dead.

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama introduced a $30 billion loan program that would use bank bailout money to help small businesses get loans.

 

In 2011, the death toll rose rapidly in clashes between pro- and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt as huge crowds of protesters fought to oust President Hosni Mubarak.

Also in 2011, the U.S. Senate voted along party lines to reject a Republican-sponsored bill to repeal the healthcare reform law enacted in 2010.

In 2012, the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a draft resolution intended to pressure Syria to end its months-long crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.

Also in 2012, British Prince William was deployed to the British-controlled Falkland Islands off Argentina where critics faulted the royal heir for wearing the uniform of the conqueror, referring to the brief 1982 war when England repelled an Argentine takeover.


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