legacy of an irreplaceable figurehead. reporter: number nine. hours after haiti s president was assassinated, gunfire still crackled through port-au-prince. reporter: the assassination of jovanel moyes took place in the background of extreme violence in the capitol port-au-prince. there are at least 17 poem detained at this point. reporter: number eight, the conflict in the middle east came to a head once again this spring and turned into one of the worst rounds of violence between the two sides in years. it s a pattern that shouldn t be familiar. it already is. hamas and islamic jihad rockets streaking across the sky from gaza. air strikes and rocket barrages, artillery and mortar fire, hundreds of people dead and more than 2,000 wounded. reporter: the conflict lasted 11 days before israel and the palestinian group hamas agreed to a cease-fire.