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2nd millennium
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The second millennium was a period of time that began on January 1,1001 and ended on December 31,2000 of the Gregorian calendar. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Renaissance saw the beginning of the migration of humans from Europe, Africa. The interwoven international trade led to the formation of multi-national corporations, international business ventures reduced the impact of nationalism in popular thought. The world population doubled over the first seven centuries of the millennium, consequently, unchecked human activity had considerable social and environmental consequences, giving rise to extreme poverty, climate change and biotic crisis. The 2nd millennium was a period of time began on January 1,1001. It was the period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era. The Julian calendar was used in Europe at the beginning of the millennium, so the end date is always calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, but the beginning date is usually according to the Julian calendar. Stephen Jay Gould argued that it is not possible to decide if the millennium ended on December 31,1999, or December 31,2000. The second millennium is perhaps more popularly thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999. Many public celebrations for the end of the millennium were held on December 31,1999 – January 1, the civilizations in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. The events in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme, the people in this section are organized according to the UN geoscheme. See also Lists of people by nationality Category, People by century Category, People by nationality and period Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper, Henry Gottlieb, Barbar Bowers,1,000 Years,1,000 People, Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium
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19th century
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The 19th century was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, Napoleonic, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. After the defeat of the French Empire and its allies in the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian Empire expanded in central and far eastern Asia. By the end of the century, the British Empire controlled a fifth of the worlds land, the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and spread to continental Europe, North America and Japan. The Victorian era was notorious for the employment of children in factories and mines, as well as strict social norms regarding modesty. Japan embarked on a program of rapid modernization following the Meiji Restoration, before defeating China, under the Qing Dynasty, europes population doubled during the 19th century, from approximately 200 million to more than 400 million. Numerous cities worldwide surpassed populations of a million or more during this century, London became the worlds largest city and capital of the British Empire. Its population increased from 1 million in 1800 to 6.7 million a century later, liberalism became the pre-eminent reform movement in Europe. Slavery was greatly reduced around the world, following a successful slave revolt in Haiti, Britain and France stepped up the battle against the Barbary pirates and succeeded in stopping their enslavement of Europeans. The UKs Slavery Abolition Act charged the British Royal Navy with ending the slave trade. The first colonial empire in the century to abolish slavery was the British, americas 13th Amendment following their Civil War abolished slavery there in 1865, and in Brazil slavery was abolished in 1888. Similarly, serfdom was abolished in Russia, in the 19th century approximately 70 million people left Europe, with most migrating to the United States of America. The 19th century also saw the creation, development and codification of many sports, particularly in Britain. Also, ladywear was a sensitive topic during this time. 1801, Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab,1801, Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope. 1801, Cairo falls to the British,1801, Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia. 1802, Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time,1803, William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the first practical steamboat. 1803, The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out Frances territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U. S. s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing and conquering land from Mexico, Britain,1803, The Wahhabis of the First Saudi State capture Mecca and Medina
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20th century
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The 20th century was a century that began on January 1,1901 and ended on December 31,2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium and it is distinct from the century known as the 1900s, which began on January 1,1900 and ended on December 31,1999. It saw great advances in communication and medical technology that by the late 1980s allowed for near-instantaneous worldwide computer communication, the term short twentieth century was coined to represent the events from 1914 to 1991. It took all of history up to 1804 for the worlds population to reach 1 billion, world population reached 2 billion estimates in 1927, by late 1999. Globally approximately 45% of those who were married and able to have children used contraception, 40% of pregnancies were unplanned, the century had the first global-scale total wars between world powers across continents and oceans in World War I and World War II. The century saw a shift in the way that many people lived, with changes in politics, ideology, economics, society, culture, science, technology. The 20th century may have seen more technological and scientific progress than all the other centuries combined since the dawn of civilization, terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage. It was a century that started with horses, simple automobiles, and freighters but ended with high-speed rail, cruise ships, global commercial air travel and the space shuttle. Horses, Western societys basic form of transportation for thousands of years, were replaced by automobiles and buses within a few decades. Humans explored space for the first time, taking their first footsteps on the Moon, mass media, telecommunications, and information technology made the worlds knowledge more widely available. Advancements in medical technology also improved the health of many people, rapid technological advancements, however, also allowed warfare to reach unprecedented levels of destruction. World War II alone killed over 60 million people, while nuclear weapons gave humankind the means to annihilate itself in a short time, however, these same wars resulted in the destruction of the Imperial system. For the first time in history, empires and their wars of expansion and colonization ceased to be a factor in international affairs, resulting in a far more globalized. The last time major powers clashed openly was in 1945, and since then, technological advancements during World War I changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as tanks, chemical weapons, and aircraft modified tactics and strategy. After more than four years of warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead. The regime of Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown during the conflict, Russia became the first communist state, at the beginning of the period, Britain was the worlds most powerful nation, having acted as the worlds policeman for the past century. Meanwhile, Japan had rapidly transformed itself into an advanced industrial power. Its military expansion into eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean culminated in an attack on the United States
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21st century
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The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1,2001 and will end on December 31,2100 and it is the first century of the 3rd millennium. It is distinct from the time known as the 2000s. The long term effects of increased globalization are not known, the Arab Spring of the early 2010s led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world. The Digital Revolution which began around the 1980s also continues into the present, millennials and Generation Z come of age and rise to prominence in this century. The completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 marks the rise of life sciences, making mankinds long-held dreams, such as curing cancer. By the 2010s, gene therapy, first performed somatically in late 1990 and heritably in 1996, showed promise but remains an experimental, by 2013, about 80% of the worlds population used mobile phones. An estimated 33% owned personal computers in 2010, and 46% used the Internet by 2016, the International Energy Agency estimates that 83% of the global population has access to electricity as of 2013 with the percentage projected to increase to 88% by 2030. The world population was about 6.1 billion at the start of the 21st century and it had reached 7.3 billion in 2015, and is estimated to reach about 9.37 billion by the year 2050. There is a debate among experts and the public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. A less common variation would have been twenty nought-five, the Vancouver Olympics, which took place in 2010, was being officially referred to by Vancouver 2010 as the twenty-ten Olympics. The latest timeframes for change are usually placed at 2020, kubrick said he did this in the hope that if the film became popular, it would influence the pronunciation of that year. See the timeline of the 21st century, genocide still remains a problem in this century with the concern of the war in Darfur and the growing concern in Sri Lanka. Also controversies from past genocides remain commonplace in the minds of victims, 1998–2002 – The Second Congo War continued into the early 21st century. A1999 ceasefire quickly broke down and a UN peacekeeping mission, Laurent Kabila, president of the DRC, was assassinated in January 2001 and his son, Joseph Kabila, took power. Throughout 2002 steps were made towards peace and Rwanda and Uganda both removed their troops from the country, on December 17,2002, a massive treaty officially ended the war. However, the DRC only holds power in less than half of the country, with most of the eastern and northern portions still controlled by rebel groups, in addition, Rwanda still supports anti-DRC rebels and anti-Rwandan rebels continue to operate from the DRC. The war killed an estimated 3.9 million people, displaced nearly 5.5 million, Severe human rights violations continue to be reported
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1970s
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The 1970s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1970, and ended on December 31,1979. In the 21st century, historians have portrayed the 1970s as a pivot of change in world history focusing especially on the economic upheavals. In the Western world, social values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. Novelist Tom Wolfe coined the term Me decade in his essay The Me Decade, the term describes a general new attitude of Americans towards atomized individualism and away from communitarianism, in clear contrast with the 1960s. Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a boom in this period. The United States withdrew its forces from their previous involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to a war for ten years. Anwar El Sadat, President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently became extremely unpopular in the Arab world, Africa saw further decolonization in the decade, with Angola and Mozambique gaining their independence in 1975 from the Portuguese Empire after the restoration of democracy in Portugal. The continent was, however, plagued by military coups, with the long-reigning Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie being removed, civil wars. The economies of much of the world continued to make steady progress in the early 1970s because of the Green Revolution. The following year, Vietnam was officially declared reunited, Soviet war in Afghanistan - Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27,1979. The Israelis were taken by surprise and suffered losses before they rallied. In the end, they managed to repel the Egyptians and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt proper, in 1978, Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel at Camp David in the United States, ending outstanding disputes between the two countries. Sadats actions would lead to his assassination in 1981, Indian emergency Lebanese Civil War - A civil war in the Middle East which at times also involved the PLO and Israel during the early 1980s. Western Sahara War - A regional war pinning the rebel Polisario Front against Morocco, Ugandan–Tanzanian War - the war which was fought between Uganda and Tanzania was based on an expansionist agenda to annex territory from Tanzania. The war resulted in the overthrow of Idi Amins regime, the Ogaden War was another African conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia over control of the Ogaden region. In 1976 peaceful student protests in the Soweto township of South Africa lead to the Soweto Uprising when more than 700 black school children were killed by South Africas Security Police, Rise of separatism in the province of Quebec in Canada
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1980s
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The 1980s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1980, and ended on December 31,1989. The decade saw great socioeconomic change due to advances in technology, Japan and West Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became recognized in the 1980s and has killed an estimated 39 million people. Global warming became well known to the scientific and political community in the 1980s, the final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, islamism became a powerful political force in the 1980s and many terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda started. The Cold War ended in the early 1990s with the successful Reunification of Germany, the 1980s saw great advances in genetic and digital technology. The 1980s saw the advent of the practice of sex-selective abortion in China. By 1989 the Internet and the networks linked to it were a system with extensive transoceanic satellite links. Based on earlier work from 1980 onwards Tim Berners Lee formalized the concept of the World Wide Web by 1989, television viewing became commonplace in the Third World, with the number of TV sets in China and India increasing by 15 and 10 times respectively. The Rome and Vienna airport attacks took place on December 27,1985, the attack was done by militants loyal to Abu Nidal, backed by the government of Libya. The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing – during the Lebanese Civil War two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces killing 299 American, the organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. The 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, committed by Hindu militants against Sikhs in response to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by a Sikh militant, thousands of people are killed and tens of thousands of Sikhs became displaced persons. Air India Flight 182 was destroyed on June 23,1985 and it was the biggest mass murder involving Canadians in Canadas history. On December 21,1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, the bombing killed all 243 passengers,16 crew members and 11 people on the ground, totaling 270 fatalities who were citizens of 21 nationalities. The bombing was and remains the worst terrorist attack on UK soil, invasion of Grenada – a 1983 U. S. -led invasion of Grenada, triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. Salvadoran Civil War – part of the war conflicts, reached its peak in the 1980s,70,000 Salvadorans died. Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War and it occurred from 2 April to 14 July 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina as British forces fought to recover the islands. Britain emerged victorious and its stance in international affairs and its long decaying reputation as a colonial power received an unexpected boost
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1990s
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The 1990s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,1990, and ended on December 31,1999. Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. The United States also saw a revival in the use of the death penalty in the 1990s. The dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 brought wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash between 2000 and 2001, New ethnic conflicts emerged in Africa, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, the former two which led to the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, respectively. Zaire is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Second Congo War starts in 1998 in central Africa and includes 50 different cultures and 7 different nations. The Gulf War – Iraq was left in debt after the 1980s war with Iran. President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of flooding the market with oil, as a result, on 2 August 1990, Iraqi forces invaded and conquered Kuwait. The UN immediately condemned the action, and a force led by the United States was sent to the Persian Gulf. Aerial bombing of Iraq began in January 1991, and a month later, in the aftermath of the war, the Kurds in the north of Iraq and the Shiites in the south rose up in revolt, and Saddam Hussein barely managed to hold onto power. Until the US invasion in 2003, Iraq was cut off much of the world. The Chechen wars break out in the 1990s, The First Chechen War – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, during the war Russian forces largely recaptured the separatist region of Chechnya. The campaign largely reversed the outcome of the First Chechen War, the Kargil War – In May 1999, Pakistan sent troops covertly to occupy strategic peaks in Kashmir. A month later the Kargil War with India results in a fiasco for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The incident leads to a coup in October, in which Sharif is ousted by Army Chief Pervez Musharraf. This conflict remains the only war fought between two declared nuclear powers, the Kosovo War, War between Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place. After weeks of bombing, Yugoslavia submits to NATOs demands and NATO forces occupy Kosovo, the Yugoslav Wars would become notorious for numerous war crimes and human rights violations such as ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by all sides. Ten-Day War – a brief conflict between Slovenian TO and the Yugoslav Peoples Army following Slovenias declaration of independence. Bosnian War – the war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller Bosniak faction led by Fikret Abdić
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2000s (decade)
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The 2000s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1,2000, and ended on December 31,2009. The growth of the Internet contributed to globalization during the decade, in the English-speaking world, a name for the decade was never universally accepted in the same manner as for decades such as the 80s, the 90s, etc. Orthographically, the decade can be written as the 2000s or the 00s, some people read 2000s as two-thousands, and thus simply refer to the decade as the Two-Thousands, the Twenty Hundreds, or the Twenty-ohs. Some read it as the 00s, while others referred to it as the Zeros, on January 1,2000, the BBC listed the noughties, as a potential moniker for the new decade. This has become a name for the decade in the UK and Australia. Others have advocated the term the aughts, a widely used at the beginning of the 20th century for its first decade. The American Dialect Society holds an annual poll for word of the year. For 2009, the winner in the least likely to succeed category was Any name of the decade 2000–2009, such as, Noughties, Aughties, Oughties, etc. When the 20- is dropped, the years within the decade are usually referred to as starting with an oh. The option aught-seven, for reason, has never caught on idiomatically. When the 20- is retained, two options are available in speech, both of which have idiomatic currency, two thousand seven in American English or twenty-oh-seven, during the 2000s decade, it was more common to hear the first pattern than the second. The War on Terror and War in Afghanistan began after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. A United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Husseins rule as Iraqi President, Al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist militant groups performed terrorist acts throughout the decade. These acts included the 2004 Madrid train bombings, 7/7 London bombings in 2005, the European Union expanded its sanctions amid Irans failure to comply with its transparency obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and United Nations resolutions. Additional armed conflict occurred in the Middle East, including between Israel and Hezbollah, then with Israel and Hamas, cooperative international rescue missions by many countries from around the world helped in efforts by the most affected nations to rebuild and recover from the devastation. An enormous loss of life and property came in 2005. The resulting political fallout was severely damaging to the George W. Bush administration because of its failure to act promptly and effectively. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, the campaigns were launched by the United States, with support from NATO and other allies, following the September 11,2001 attacks that were carried out by al-Qaeda
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2010s
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The 2010s is the current decade of the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2010, and will end on 31 December 2019, Two pronunciations are used to mention specific years of the 21st century in English. For example,2010 is either pronounced twenty-ten or two thousand ten, with the exception of ongoing conflicts from prior decades, mostly in Africa and Asia, the 2010s started out with a relatively mild geopolitical climate. However, after the start of the Arab Spring, tensions arose between world powers that gradually worsened in the first few years. In 2014, Russian military intervention in Ukraine triggered a sharp downward trend in Russo-Western relations and that same year, the rise of the jihadist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq and Syria prompted renewed intervention in the region. Other Islamist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which both vie for regional influence and back opposing sides in the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars, deteriorated. The rise of China in international affairs has also gained momentum, starting in 2015, an influx of migrants caused internal strife in the European Union, which, on 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave. Support for Turkeys EU membership, once considerable, has eroded somewhat after a failed 2016 coup attempt triggered a widespread crackdown by the Turkish government, intensifying Islamophobia and Euroscepticism have overall contributed to a spike in nationalism throughout Europe. Events in the United States have been marked by severe political polarization, the LGBT movements in the United States scored several victories, with the historic Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. The prominent wars of the include, Israeli–Palestinian conflict – Since 1948. After Israel occupied the West Bank, it began making settlements there, tensions also remained high as Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has been launching rockets and cross-border raids into Israeli territory, which Israel has responded with force. War on Terror – Since the September 11 attacks, the United States, however, over time the war began to be seen more negatively, with various consequences. However, the Taliban later regrouped and began an insurgency in the country, combat operations were declared over on 28 December 2014, though several thousand troops remain in the country to support Afghanistans military. Iraq War – On the pretext that the government of Saddam Hussein had weapons of destruction, the United States. After the invasion, the U. S. occupied the country, however, the occupation subsequently created an insurgency by jihadist groups opposed to it and sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the country. At the end of 2011, U. S. forces officially withdrew from Iraq, military intervention in Libya – In Libya, anti-government protests evolved into an armed rebellion after forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi began military operations against protesters. In response to the crackdown, the United Nations authorized an international intervention in support of anti-Gaddafi militias. International forces, mainly from NATO countries, began airstrikes and enforced a no-fly zone, the intervention came to an end following the death of Gaddafi in Sirte
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1993
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January 1 Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce. The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market, British ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively. Euronews, a television news channels in Europe, officially launched. January 2 – Sri Lankan Civil War, The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon, January 3 In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The third Star Trek TV series Deep Space Nine premieres in syndication, January 5 The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging. US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brinks Armored Car Depot in Rochester, four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas OConnor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused. MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, January 6 – Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War. January 6–20 – The Bombay Riots take place in Mumbai, January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president. January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean. January 11 – Monday Night Raw, the longest running weekly show of the World Wrestling Entertainment/Federation. January 14 – The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, January 15 – Salvatore Riina, the Sicilian Mafia boss known as The Beast, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, after 23 years as a fugitive. January 19 The Chemical Weapons Convention is signed, IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date. U. S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraqs illegal nuclear weapons program, Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights. January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as President of the United States, January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu. January 25 Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark. The Russian space station Mir boasts the first art exhibition in outer space, January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic. February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party, february 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom. February 8 – General Motors sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places, NBC settles the lawsuit the following day
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1994
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The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. January 1 The North American Free Trade Agreement is established, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico. January 6 – In Detroit, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the leg by an assailant. January 8 – Soyuz TM-18, Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, january 11 The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLAs Royce Hall and it is the first conference to discuss the growing information superhighway and is presided over by U. S. January 15 – The SS American Star breaks tow in the Atlantic Ocean and is beached at Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands a few days later. January 17 – The 6. 5–6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, leaving 57 people dead, january 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F, is recorded in New Whiteland, january 20 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel, but soon drops out. January 21 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John. January 25 – U. S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health reform, a ban on assault weapons. January 26 – A man fires 2 blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, February 1 In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Hardings ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain, admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding, punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which will eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. February 3 William J. Perry is sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense, in the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad. February 4 – The Federal Open Market Committee raises the Fed Funds target rate for the first time since May 1989, the rate is raised by 25 basis points to 3¼ percent. February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, February 6 – Markale massacres, A Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. February 9 – The Vance–Owen Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced, February 12 Edvard Munchs painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo. The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer, February 19 – Three gunmen hijack a school bus with 74 children and 8 teachers in Peshawar, Pakistan. February 22 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice, Ames is later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, his wife receives 5 years in prison
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1995
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America Online and Prodigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public. January 1 The World Trade Organization is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs, austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union. The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, january 6–7 – A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Policemen led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find a factory and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, is arrested one month later, january 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record. January 16 An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people, the fourth Star Trek TV series, Voyager, premieres on UPN in the United States. January 17 The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5, 502–6,434 people dead, Prodigy begins offering access to the World Wide Web. January 24 – Opening statements in the O. J. Simpson murder case trial in Los Angeles, january 25 – Norwegian rocket incident, A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack. January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election, january 31 – U. S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse. His car is found two weeks later at Severn View services in Aust, february 9 – STS-63, Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale became the second African American and Briton, respectively, to walk in space. February 13 – A United Nations tribunal on human rights violations in the Balkans charges 21 Bosnian Serb commanders with genocide, february 15 – Hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with penetrating some of the United States most secure computer systems. February 17 Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting, february 21 Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria, Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half. Ibrahim Ali, a 17-year-old Comorian living in France, is murdered by 3 far-right National Front activists, Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. February 23 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 30.28 to close at 4,003.33 – the Dows first ever close above 4,000, february 25 – Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization. February 26 – The United Kingdoms oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, february 28 – Members of the group Patriots Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin. March 1 Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second term, polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy. In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman, March 2 – Nick Leeson is arrested in Singapore for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank. March 3 – In Somalia, the United Nations peacekeeping mission ends, March 6 – On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show in the United States, Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz
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1997
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January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers,3 soldiers, january 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in for a term as President of the United States. January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, january 23 – Mir Aimal Kasi is sentenced to death for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3. January 27 – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis, february 4 On their way to Lebanon,2 Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73. After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections, British Home Secretary Michael Howard informs Moors Murderer Myra Hindley that she will never be released from prison. Mr. Howard has made the decision in agreement with a made by his predecessor David Waddington in 1990. February 5 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors, morgan Stanley and Dean Witter Reynolds investment banks announce a $10 billion merger. February 10 The United States Army suspends Gene C, mcKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct. Sandline affair, Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island, february 13 STS-82, Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, february 22 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996. February 23 – A small fire occurs on the Russian space station Mir, february 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland. February 28 – North Hollywood shootout, Two robbers wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets injure 17 police officers, the incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future. March 4 – U. S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning, march 6 Pablo Picassos Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery. In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill more than 200, march 13 Indias Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. The National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, the Phoenix Lights, a series of UFOs, are seen over Phoenix, Arizona. March 16 – Sandline affair, On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International. March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s
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1998
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1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean. January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation, January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria, Over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages. January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria, January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. January 14 – Ralph Guarino is arrested for attempting to rob a Bank of America bank in the World Trade Center. January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U. S. President Bill Clintons alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, January 20 – Nepalese police intercept a shipment of 272 human skulls in Kathmandu. January 22 – Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, January 28 Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours, at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. Stade de France, as well for sports venues of France, officially opened in Saint-Denis, suburb of Paris. February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster, a United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, february 4 – The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme, february 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan. February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into an area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. February 28 – A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War, march 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion. March 2 Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiters moon Europa has an ocean under a thick crust of ice. In Austria, Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Přiklopil, march 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station. March 11 – Danish parliamentary election,1998, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected, march 13 – The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture. March 24 – First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, march 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria,52 people are killed with axes and knives,32 of the killed are babies under the age of 2. March 27 – Sildenafil, sold as Viagra and developed by Pfizer, is approved as the first oral treatment for erectile dysfunction in the USA by the Food, march 31 – Netscape released Mozilla source code under an open source license
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1999
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1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. January 1 – The euro is established, January 4 – Gunmen open fire on Shia Muslims worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 25. January 10 Sanjeev Nanda kills 3 policemen in New Delhi with his car, January 20 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés. January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, January 25 – The 6.2 Mw Armenia, Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000. January 31 – Family Guy debuts on Fox, February 4 – Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will again in 2231. February 12 – U. S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate, February 16 In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters. Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, February 21 – Sanna Sillanpää shoots 4 men, killing 3 at a shooting range in Finland. February 22 – Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated, February 23 Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles, an avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31. February 24 – LaGrand case, The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, karls brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germanys legal action in the International Court of Justice to attempt to save him. February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot, march 1 One of 4 bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy. Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember 8 foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force. March 2 – The brand new Mandalay Bay hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, march 3 – Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber in Arizona. March 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO, march 15 – In Brussels, Belgium, the Santer Commission resigns over allegations of corruption. March 21 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon, the 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture. March 23 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguays Vice President Luis María Argaña, march 24 NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country
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1996 in architecture
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The year 1996 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. June 30 - The historic Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, date unknown The Stirling Prize is instituted in memory of James Stirling. The first winner is Stephen Hodder for the Centenary Building, University of Salford, eden Project, Cornwall near St Austell is designed by Nicholas Grimshaw. The Pringle Richards Sharratt partnership is established in London, march 15 - Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund. May 26 - Hong Kong China Temple, Hong Kong, october 3 - Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta. Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, fruit Museum, Yamanashi, Japan, designed by Itsuko Hasegawa. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Denton Corker Marshall, shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, designed by K. Y. Cheung Design Associates, the tallest building in Asia until it is surpassed the following year, therme Vals in Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor. The Dancing House in Prague, designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry, maggies Centre, Edinburgh, a drop-in cancer care centre, building conversion by Richard Murphy. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Philip Johnson, Architecture Firm Award - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Dominique Perrault for Bibliothèque Nationale de France, grand prix national de larchitecture - Bernard Tschumi. Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Tadao Ando, prix de lÉquerre dArgent - Pierre-Louis Faloci. RAIA Gold Medal - Denton Corker Marshall, royal Gold Medal - Harry Seidler. Stirling Prize - Stephen Hodder, Centenary Building, University of Salford, thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Jane Jacobs. Twenty-five Year Award - United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, UIA Gold Medal – Rafael Moneo
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1996 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nations poetry or literature. April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness, november 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey by Lady Wilson. S. Eliot Prize Peter Porter, editor, The Oxford book of Modern Australian Verse, Melbourne, Oxford University Press Philip Salom, stephen Scobie, Taking the Gate, A Journey Through Scotland Raymond Souster, Close to Home. Wybor esejow 1970-1995, criticism, Kraków, Znak Urszula Koziol, Wielka pauza Ryszard Krynicki, wybrane wiersze i przeklady, Warsaw, CiS Ewa Lipska, Wspólnicy zielonego wiatraczka
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1996 in science
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The year 1996 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below. January 30 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered, february 17 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft launched. The craft will land on asteroid 433 Eros in 2001, may 20 – First naked-eye observation of Comet Hale-Bopp. November 7 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor, the second 9.8 m reflecting telescope opens at Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, is born at The Roslin Institute in Scotland. August 6 – NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaes genome is sequenced, the first eukaryotic genome to be fully sequenced. February 9 – Copernicium first created at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov and others. January – The Google web search engine originates as BackRub, a project using PageRank by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford University. January 23 – The first version of the Java programming language is released, february 10 – Deep Blue defeats chess grand-master Garry Kasparov for the first time. February 27 – Pokémon Red and Blue are released by Nintendo in Japan as Pocket Monsters, Red and Green, april 3 – Jennifer Ringley becomes an early practitioner of lifecasting, from her dorm room at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. October – The Shetland Times and The Shetland News become involved in a legal case over alleged copyright infringement. The page ranking web search engine RankDex is originated by Robin Li, brewster Kahle, with Bruce Gilliat, develops the Wayback Machine software to crawl and archive World Wide Web pages. Lov Grover, at Bell Labs, publishes the quantum database search algorithm, may 23 – Swede Göran Kropp reaches Mount Everest summit alone without oxygen after having bicycled there from Sweden. March – The Cochrane Library launched, new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease first identified in humans, in the United Kingdom. Donepezil, a treatment for moderate Alzheimers disease, is approved in the United States. Sildenafil, a treatment for erectile dysfunction, is patented by Pfizer, january 7 – A large blizzard hits the Eastern United States, killing more than 100. May 13 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kills 600, July 18–21 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, in one of Canadas most costly natural disasters. August 2 – The first blizzard of snow in Texas, Australian philosopher David Chalmers publishes The Conscious Mind, in search of a fundamental theory
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1996 in video gaming
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0391900 May 16–18 — The second annual E3 is held in Los Angeles, California, United States. April — Eidos Interactive acquires CentreGold plc, which holds Core Design, August 24 — Valve Corporation is founded. September 1 — AOL closes ImagiNation Network, the first online game with graphics. November 13 — Tom Clancy and Virtus Corp. found Red Storm Entertainment, the 3DO Company purchases New World Computing Nintendos Virtual Boy failed and the Atari Jaguar, and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was discontinued
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1996 in Bangladesh
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Events from the year 1996 in Bangladesh. 14 May - Over 400 are killed as a tornado strikes northern Bangladesh,19 May, Failed attempt of coup détat by Lt. Gen. Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim, Bir Bikram. 12 June, General election of 96, Bangladesh Awami League gains majority,12 December, a 30-year treaty on sharing of the Ganges water is signed between India and Bangladesh. List of Bangladeshi films of 1996 Timeline of Bangladeshi history
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1996 in Canada
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Events from the year 1996 in Canada. January 15 - The Corel Centre opens in Ottawa, january 25 - Jean Chrétien launches a major cabinet shuffle. Pierre Pettigrew and Stéphane Dion are brought in, despite not having seats in Parliament, january 26 - Brian Tobin becomes premier of Newfoundland, replacing Clyde Wells. January 29 - Lucien Bouchard becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Jacques Parizeau, february 7 - Bob Rae, former premier of Ontario leaves politics. February 14 - Mr. Dressup does his last show, february 15 - At a ceremony marking the first National Flag of Canada Day, Chrétien throttles a protester in Hull, Quebec, launching a small controversy over the Shawinigan Handshake. February 17 - Michel Gauthier is elected new leader of the Bloc Québécois, february 22 - Glen Clark becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Michael Harcourt. February 22 - Brian Tobin leads the Newfoundland Liberal Party to victory in the 1996 Newfoundland election, march 6 - The federal budget continues the assault on the deficit. March 26- The Anik E-1 satellite malfunctions, march 27 - The Quebec budget proposes sweeping cuts to government funding. April 3 - All members of the Canadian Forces are ordered to spend the day searching for documents that may aid the Somalia inquiry. April 5 - Gunman Mark Chahal kills nine relatives in Vernon, april 11 - The Ontario government announce a 15 per cent reduction in the civil service. April 22 - John Nunziata is expelled from the Liberal caucus for voting against the budget, april 23 - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland agree to replace their provincial sales taxes and the Goods and Services Tax with a Harmonized Sales Tax. May 8 - The Ontario government cuts provincial income taxes by 30 per cent, may 10 - Member of Parliament Jan Brown resigns from the Reform Party of Canada. May 19 - Marc Garneau flies on a space mission. May 24 - Conrad Blacks Hollinger takes over the Southam newspaper chain, may 28 - The British Columbia New Democratic Party wins a surprise re-election. June 10 - The Quebec government reintroduces the Language police, june 17 - Sheila Copps, who had resigned over the GST, wins back her Hamilton–Wentworth seat in a by-election. June 20 - Robert Thirsk flies aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, june 24 - A riot in Quebec City causes a million dollars in damage. July 7-July 11 - A major AIDS conference is held in Vancouver, july 20-July 21 - Floods in Quebec kill ten. July 25 - Coach House Press closes, august 8 - Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell is named consul general to Los Angeles
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1996 in the People's Republic of China
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The following lists events from 1996 in China. Miss Chinese International Pageant 1996 was held on January 27, intelsat 708 was destroyed on February 14. On February 14, Long March 3B launched its first flight, on February 3,1996 Lijiang earthquake hit Lijiang City and left at least 322 killed,3,925 serious injuries, and 13,000 injuries. The Republic of China presidential election took place on March 23, lee Teng-hui was elected president and Lien Chan was elected vice president. The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ended on March 23, China competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. The closing ceremony of the Olympics was on August 4, in total there were 294 athletes who competed for China. The first round of the 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix took place in Shanghai from September 27 to 29, Chinese Jia-A League 1996 ended in late October
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1996 in France
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Events from the year 1996 in France. President – Jacques Chirac Prime Minister – Alain Juppé8 January – Former president of France and founder of the Socialist Party of France, François Mitterrand,29 January – President Jacques Chirac announces a definitive end to French nuclear testing. 5 May – A fire in Paris destroys much of Crédit Lyonnais banks headquarters,23 May – Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill seven French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down. 27 –29 June – 22nd G7 summit takes place in Lyon,8 October – Launch of Renault Megane Scenic, a five-seater mini MPV based on the floorpan of the standard Megane hatchback. 18 November – Channel Tunnel fire on a truck being carried on an HGV shuttle,29 June – Tour de France begins. 30 June – French Grand Prix won by Damon Hill of the United Kingdom,21 July – Tour de France ends, won by Bjarne Riis of Denmark. 23 February - Modibo Tounkara, footballer 26 February – Bertille Noël-Bruneau,21 March - Adam Ellis, grasstrack and speedway rider. 26 April - Laurine Lecavelier, figure skater,9 May – Caroline Costa, singer and TV presenter. 13 June - Kingsley Coman, footballer,21 June - Léa Lemare, ski jumper. 29 June - Estelle Elizabeth, ice dancer,12 August – Oscar Laurent, singer-songwriter. 14 August - Neal Maupay, footballer,27 August - Estel-Anaïs Hubaud, competitor. 20 September - Anaïs Ventard, figure skater,27 September - Maxwel Cornet, footballer 12 December - Mathéo Tuscher, Swiss-born racing driver. 17 December - Anne Kuhm, gymnast, bahia Bakari 8 January – François Mitterrand, President of France from 1981 to 1995. 15 January – Max Varnel, film and television director,6 February – Jacques Wertheimer, businessman. 11 February – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, photographer and ethnographer,14 February – Louis Finot, international soccer player. 17 February – Hervé Bazin, writer,2 March – Célestin Delmer, international soccer player. 3 March – Marguerite Duras, writer and film director,3 March – Léo Malet, novelist. 17 March – René Clément, screenwriter and film director,20 March – Claude Bourdet, writer, journalist and politician
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1996 in India
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Events in the year 1996 in the Republic of India. January — Tensions with Pakistan rise sharply and there is an exchange of mortar,29 January — S. R. Bommai resigns as president of the Janata Dal party and is replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav. 27 April,2 May and 7 May — In general elections the ruling Congress Party is defeated, phoolan Devi, former bandit queen is elected to Parliament from the Samajwadi Party. 17 to 28 May - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, is elected the new Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao of the Indian National Congress. However, the party does not receive a majority and Vajpayee resigns thirteen days later rather than face a no confidence vote. 1 June — Deve Gowda is sworn in as the head of the United Front, gowdas new cabinet brings in powerful regional figures, mixing low-caste and Muslim leaders with veterans of the socialist movement. 28 June — Communists join the government for the first time since independence,11 July — A Delhi court summons Congress president P. V. Narasimha Rao to testify as the co-accused in a cheating case,28 August — At least 194 pilgrims are reported to have frozen to death in northern Kashmir after being stranded by violent rain and snow storms in the Amarnath Yatra tragedy. 19 September — The government of Gujarat under Chief Minister Suresh Mehta is sacked on recommendation of Prime Minister Gowda, the move comes a day after the BJP government in Gujarat won a controversial vote of confidence in the state legislature. Mehta won the vote after the assembly speaker suspended all opposition legislators. Fighting broke out on the floor of the assembly after marshals tried to force the suspended legislators to leave, witnesses said lawmakers hurled pin cushions and microphones at each other. Several lawmakers and journalists were injured in the scuffles. 22 September — Rao resigns as president of the Congress Party,23 September - Sitaram Kesri is elected Congress president. 10 October — Rao is arrested on charges of forgery. 11 October — An Uttar Pradesh state election returns a hung assembly,7 November - A devastating Category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 people die, 95% of the crops are completely destroyed. 12 November — A Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 jumbo jet and a Kazakhstan Ilyushin cargo plane collide near Charkhi Dadri,28 November — Chinese President Jiang Zemin begins his three-day visit, the first visit by a Chinese head of state to India. 19 December — Rao resigns as Congress parliamentary leader, his last official party position,30 December - In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26
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1996 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1996 in Ireland. 5 February – the Football Association of Ireland appointed Mick McCarthy as manager of the Irish football team. 9 February – a large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in the London Docklands area, near Canary Wharf, injuring around forty,11 March – the Hepatitis Tribunal opened in Dublin. 6 June – President Mary Robinson became the first serving Irish president to visit the United Kingdom,7 June – detective Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the IRA in Adare, County Limerick. 26 June – crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead in her car in Dublin,11 September – new £100 note with a Red & Brown front and a Green & Yellow back with Charles Stewart Parnell, replacing the 68 year old £100 note. 25 September – the last Magdalene asylum closed, in Waterford,29 November – it was revealed that Dunnes Stores paid £208,000 for an extension to Minister Michael Lowrys house. 13 December – on the day of a Dublin summit. 23 December – French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered outside her home in Schull. 11 February – the television drama series Ballykissangel first aired and it was made by BBC Northern Ireland and set in a rural Irish community. 18 May – Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest for the time with The Voice, sung by Eimear Quinn. 7 August – Marie Jones play Stones in His Pockets was premiered in Belfast,26 September – Enda Walshs play Disco Pigs was premiered by the Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork. 31 October – Irelands first Irish language television station, Teilifís na Gaeilge, was launched, on 3 November the soap opera Ros na Rún was first aired on the channel. 6 November – the film Michael Collins was shown in Cork, the following novels were published, Evening Class by Maeve Binchy. Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes. The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín, meath GAA beat Mayo in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, after a replay, to win their first title since 1988. Murphys Irish Open was won by Colin Montgomerie, wexford GAA beat Limerick GAA in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final. It was their first senior All-Ireland since 1968, swimmer Michelle Smith won three gold medals and one bronze in the Atlanta Olympics. 28 October – Una Raymond-Hoey, cricketer 8 January – Joyce McCartan,12 February – James Camlin Beckett, historian
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1996 in Israel
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Events in the year 1996 in Israel. 26 January - Israel gives $400,000 to the widow of a Moroccan waiter who was identified as Ali Hassan Salameh and killed in Norway,1973. 19 February - Israel successfully test fires its Arrow-2 anti-ballistic missile,27 March - Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, sentenced to life in prison. 28 March - Shamgar Commission report published,27 April – Operation Grapes of Wrath, The conflict de-escalated following a ceasefire agreement banning attacks on civilians. 30 May – The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu,18 June – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents his cabinet for a Knesset Vote of Confidence. The 27th Government is approved that day and the members were sworn in,5 November – Israeli Druze Azzam Azzam is arrested in Egypt on suspicion of spying for Israel. Later on, a court in Cairo sentenced Azzam Azzam to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor. 30 December – Netanyahu proposed budget cuts, sparking protests from 250,000 workers and this sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days,16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinian Terrorists were killed in the riots,25 February – Ashkelon bus station bombing. Hamas claims responsibility for the bombing,25 February – First Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing, A Hamas suicide bomber blows himself up in a commuter bus in Jerusalem, killing 26 and injuring 80 others. 3 March – Second Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing, A Hamas suicide bomber detonates a bomb on a bus in Jerusalem, killing 19,11 December – PFLP gunmen attack a car carrying Israeli settlers near the settlement of Bet El, killing a woman and her 12-year-old son. The founding of the communal settlement Bat Hefer, the founding of the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit. The founding of the communal settlement Tzukim,11 May - Valeria Patiuk, Ukraine-born tennis player 22 January – Israel Eldad, Austro-Hungarian -born Israeli independence fighter and Revisionist Zionist philosopher. 2 May – Emil Habibi, Israeli Arab author, Knesset member,26 May – Haika Grossman, Polish-born Israeli politician and member of Knesset. Zionist leader in Europe, a partisan and a participant in the uprisings in Poland and Lithuania 27 August – Yair Rosenblum. 25 December - Michael Bruno, German-born former governor of Israels central bank,1996 in Israeli film 1996 in Israeli television 1996 in Israeli music 1996 in Israeli sport Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics IDF History in 1996 @ dover. idf. il
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1996 in Japan
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Events in the year 1996 in Japan. February 10 – A boulder falls onto the Toyohama Tunnel in Furubira, Hokkaido, crushing a bus and several cars, february 27 – Pokémon Red and Green was released in Japan as the first game in the Pokémon series. April 1 - Tokyo Big Sight opens, june 13 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 crashes on takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, resulting in three fatalities. June 23 - The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan, june 25 - A train on the Takayama Main Line collides with a fallen boulder, resulting in 16 injuries. July 16 – An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Sakai City resulted in 6309 schoolchildren and 92 school staff members from 62 municipal elementary schools falling ill, august 8 - Tokyo Opera City Tower is completed. November 26 - Tamagotchi is released, in the 1990s in Japan, we begin to see an influx of growth in the fashion community. The infamous Harajuku style, as well as the birth of a style known as Gyaru. Both fashion styles as well as the many sub groups of fashion in Japan, were due to the idea that most youth in Japan were tired of being conformed into one look. We begin to see Japan break away from the idea of being a country built on tradition and monotony, and branch into what it has come today, fujio, cartoonist 1996 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 1996
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