Cities Made Famous by the News #2

Can you name these cities that many people only know because of the news?

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Year	Known for...	Answer
2019	Two consecutive terrorist shooting attacks occurred at mosques here	Christchurch
2018	A gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a high school in a city in Florida	Parkland
2012 - 2016	A four year long battle took place in Syria's biggest city	Aleppo
2012	The ____ attack was a coordinated attack against two US government facilities	Benghazi
1993	The ____ siege was the siege of a compound belonging to the religious sect Branch Davidians	Waco
1988	Used to be the world's most dangerous city, also the city where Pablo Escobar died	Medellín
1986	The city where what is believed to be the worst nuclear accident in history happened	Chernobyl
1978	909 people died on November 18 by Cyanide poisoning in an event termed "revolutionary suicide"	Jonestown
1972	The city where "Bloody Sunday" took place	Londonderry
1945	Nuclear bombs was dropped on these two cities during WW2	Hiroshima
1945	Nuclear bombs was dropped on these two cities during WW2	Nagasaki
1940	As the allies were loosing the battle of France this was the city they evacuated to Britain from	Dunkirk
1929	The ____ Conventions are rules that apply only in times of armed conflict and seek to protect people who are not taking part in hostilities	Geneva
1914	This is the city where WW1 may have started, due to the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand	Sarajevo
1863	A battle was fought here from July 1-3 during the American civil war and was the turning point of the war	Gettysburg
1815	The battle in this city in Belgium marked the ending of the Napoleonic Wars	Waterloo

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