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Events relating to america
For the second time president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is forced to flee from Haiti, after losing control to opposition rebels
Abuses in the US military prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq are revealed on US television
George W. Bush wins a second term, defeating Democrat John Kerry in the US presidential election
Daniele Benati publishes Cani dell'inferno ("Hounds of Hell"), in which deported Italian dissidents drift with nothing to do in a mysterious American city, an image of hell
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile
A student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota kills five fellow students and two staff members before committing suicide
The film series of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia is launched with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
After a long trial US singer Michael Jackson is declared in a California court not guilty on ten charges of child molestation
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a sensitive account of a homosexual relationship between two Wyoming cowboys
Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and chaos to New Orleans and other coastal areas, causing more than 1500 deaths
Latin Americans in the USA stage the Great American Boycott, a day of non-cooperation to demand immigration reform
British actress Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (for which she later wins an Oscar)
The US Supreme Court rules that the military courts set up to try detainees in Guantanamo Bay are illegal
Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in a crime thriller, The Departed
A milk-truck driver opens fire on children in an Amish school in Pennsylvania, killing five girls and wounding others
Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously
The United States Census Bureau announces that the US population has reached 300 million
The Republicans lose control of both houses of the US Congress in an electoral backlash against the Iraq War
The Chilean Supreme Court grants the Peruvian government's request for the extradition of Alberto Fujimori to Peru
After a long drawn out contest, Barack Obama defeats Hillary Clinton to win the nomination as presidential candidate for the Democratic party
The US government intervenes to rescue two important financial government sponsored enterprises, Fannie May and Freddie Mac
The Dow Jones index suffers its largest one-day fall (777 points) when the US House of Representatives rejects President Bush's emergency package
US President Bush signs into law a $700 billion emergency fund to purchase failing bank assets
In the face of a major financial crisis the Icelandic government takes control of the country's three largest banks
Democratic candidate Barack Obama defeats John McCain to become the first African-American to be elected President of the USA
