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1998

1999

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Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov - Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands) 1999 "Kasparov's Immortal"

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1994

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1993

1993 History Facts:

Bill Clinton President of the United States
Islamic Fundamentalists bomb the World Trade Center.
Federal Agents raid religious cult in Waco, Texas (28th February).
Fighting starts between Muslims and Croats in Bosnia.
The United Nations makes a safe haven for Muslim Refugees in Srebrenica in Bosnia.
The Maastricht Treaty (signed on February 7th) takes effect, establishing the European Union.
EU Farmers protest reductions in agricultural subsidies secondary to the Maastricht Treaty.
11-year-olds Robert Thompson & Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of Liverpool toddler James Bulger (age 2 years).
Buckingham Palace opens its doors to the public for the first time.
IRA bomb exploed in a parked Van in Bishopsgate, City of London.
Russian Nuclear Accident at Tomask 7
Ben Johnson, is banned from athletics for life after being caught using banned anabolic steroids.
The US and Soviet Union sign Start II - reducing nuclear warheads by 3,500 each.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
Yitzhak Rabin ( Israel ) and Yasser Arafat ( PLO ) sign peace agreement on the White House lawn in Washington D.C.
The first Beanie Babies launched by Ty Warner (USA).
Slovakia Gains Independence when Czechoslovakia divides into the Czech Republic & Slovakia.

1992

1992 History Facts:

Yugoslavia breaks up and becomes embroiled in a bloody civil war.

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1991

1991 History Facts:

Break-up of the Soviet Union.
Resignation of Gorbachev from power.
Boris Yeltsin takes power in Russia.
Migaloo (White Humpback Whale) first spotted & photographed on 28th June, 1991, near Byron Bay (Australia).

1990

1990 History Facts:

Unification of East and West Germany.
Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.

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1989

1989 History Facts:

Berlin Wall is dismantled.

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1987

1988

1986

1986 History Facts:

Nuclear power disaster occurs at Chernobyl in Ukraine.

1985

1985 History Facts:

Mikhail Gorbachev elected Soviet Communist party leader and begins introducing reforms.

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1984

1983

1981

1982

1982 History Facts:

Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentinia.

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1979

1979 History Facts:

Britain elects first ever female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.

1980

1980 History Facts:

Independent trade union, Solidarity, is formed in Poland.

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1978

1977

1977 History Facts:

Apple Computers are incorporated.
EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols from label.
President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose).
George Bush, ends term as the 11th director of CIA.
President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft dodgers.
Radio Shack officially begins making the TRS-80 computer.
Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
Space Shuttle Enterprise launches atop a Boeing 747 on it's maiden flight.
The Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.
First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico.
Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres.
Simon Peres becomes the premier of Israel.
Czechoslovakian chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously and only loses 10.
British Aerospace forms in UK.
Trans Alaska oil pipeline is completed.
Apple II, the first personal computer goes on sale in USA.
Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth.
Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of U.S.S.R.
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Atoll.
NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Concorde jet makes first landing in New York City.

1976

1976 History Facts:

Politics - Helsinki convention on human rights adopted.
Space Exploration - Viking I lands on Mars.
Gymnastics - 14-year old Romanian Nadia Comaneci scores 5 perfect 10's at Montreal Olympics.
Photography - Konica introduces automatic focus camera.
Computing - Apple computers founded by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
Music - The Eagles become the first group to go platinum, with a million sales of their Greatest Hits LP.

1975

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1974

1974 History Facts:

Lt Hiroo Onoda surrenders on the island of Lubang, having finally convinced himself that WWII is over (29 years after it ended).
The Post-It is invented by Art Fry.
General Motors (GM) introduces the catalytic converter.
Gillette introduces the first disposable razor.

1973

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