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• 1935 Black Sunday: Severe dust storm ravages the US Midwest, led to the region being named “the Dust Bowl”
• 1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth
• 2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%