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From left, clockwise: Pope Francis is elected to the Papacy in the 2013 papal conclave; The Dhaka garment factory collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,000 people; Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Protests occur amid the coup d'état that overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt; The Chelyabinsk meteor rockets across the Russian morning sky; The Boston Marathon bombing marks the first terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11; Smoke rises as a result of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, carried out by Al-Shabaab militants.

From left, clockwise: The H1N1 virus was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; US Airways Flight 1549 crash-lands in the Hudson River with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson died in 2009; Bitcoin is initially launched by the pseudonymous name Satoshi Nakamoto; the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake strikes central Italy; the vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean.