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1993
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- 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.
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1992
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- Yugoslavia breaks up and becomes embroiled in a bloody civil war.
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1991
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- 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).
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1990
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- Unification of East and West Germany.
- Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.
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1986
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- Nuclear power disaster occurs at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
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1985
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- Mikhail Gorbachev elected Soviet Communist party leader and begins introducing reforms.
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1984
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1983
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1981
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- Britain elects first ever female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
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1977
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- 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.
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1976
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- 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.
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- 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.
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