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I removed the following paragraphs because they're not directly relevant to the UML concept of an event, and would only confuse matters:
An event is an action or occurrence detected by a program. Events can be user actions, such as clicking a mouse button or pressing a key, or system occurrences, such as running out of memory. Most modern applications, particularly those that run in Macintosh and Windowsenvironments, are said to be event-driven, because they are designed to respond to events.
