Barack Obama became the first African American to win a United States Presidential Election.
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Canadian country singer Shania Twain released her third album, 'Come On Over.'
The Japanese Prime Minister, Hara Takashi, was assassinated in Tokyo.
A plane crash in South Sudan at Juba International Airport killed 31 people.
The first wagon train arrived in California after having left Independence, Missouri, in May 1841.
Physicists in New Zealand observed a record-breaking solar flair.
