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A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H I J   K   L   M   N   O   P Q R   S   T   U   V   W X Y Z

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Aldo Moro killing | Amin coup | Apartheid repeal   

B    Back to top   
Badajoz siege | Bangladesh cyclone disaster | Berlin border closed | Bhopal massacre | Black Hole of Calcutta | Brighton hotel bombing   

C    Back to top   
California quake | Challenger explodes | Chernobyl disaster | Chinese atomic bomb | Cuba blockade   

D    Back to top   
Dara disaster | Desert Storm | Dreyfus Affair   

E    Back to top   
East Germany opens | East Timor invasion | Ebola virus | Eichmann capture   

F    Back to top   
Falklands War   

G    Back to top   
General Belgrano sunk | Genome completion | German unification | Great fire of London   

H    Back to top   
Hitler diaries | Hong Kong returned | Hurricane Andrew   

J    Back to top   
Jonestown massacre | Jordan-Israel peace | Jutland, Battle of   

K    Back to top   
Kuwait invasion   

L    Back to top   
Lockerbie disaster   

M    Back to top   
Maastricht Treaty | Malcom X killing | Mandela released | Mandela trial | Manned space flight | Mathias Rust flight | Mecca deaths | Mexico earthquake | Moon landing | Murder of kidnapped US journalist   

N    Back to top   
New Year messages | Nixon resigns   

O    Back to top   
Oklahoma bombing | Operation Entebbe | Oswald killing   

P    Back to top   
Panama invasion | Phnom-Penh falls | Pinochet again | Polish martial law | Pope killing attempt | Princess Diana death | Princess Grace death | Pueblo seized   

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Rabin killing | Reagan killing attempt | Robert Kennedy killing | Royal wedding   

S    Back to top   
Sadat killing | Suharto resignation   

T    Back to top   
Tenerife disaster | Terrorist attacks of 9/11 | Tokyo gas attack   

U    Back to top   
US-USSR hotline | US-USSR space link-up   

V    Back to top   
Valentine's Day Massacre   

W    Back to top   
Waco siege | Warren report out | Water on the moon | Watts riots | World Trade Center convictions | World water shortage predicted   

Y    Back to top   
Yeltsin president | Yeltsin resigns   

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