Historic eventsVersion en ligne Interchange 3 Unit 10 Word Power par Mariana Alvarado 1 In 2015, an earthqueake hit Nepal and killed over 8000 people. 2 Fidel Castro established a communist government in Cuba in 1959. 3 In 2015, scientist confirmed the existence of water on Mars. 4 Scince the early 1980s. HIV has infected more than 70 million people. 5 Barack Obama became the first African American US president in 2009. 6 John Lennon was killed by a fan on December 8, 1980. 7 In 2003, scientists completed the Human Genome Project. 8 Two men invaded and killed the journalists of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris in 2015.