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- Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
5: ...e United States Constitution|26th Amendment]] ratified
9: *[[1973]] - [[Skylab]], [[United States|USA]]'s first [[space station]] launched
29: ...ited States]] loses the [[America's Cup]] for the first time in 142 years, ending the longest winning ...
39: ...Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]'' launched as first post-''[[Space Shuttle Challenger|Challenger]]...
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- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
5: | date1=[[20 January ]], [[1989]]
19: ...der President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[G...
22: ...was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
12: ...atisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she would leave the...
14: ...[[Prime Minister]], however the results were nullified and the military refused to hand over power. Th...
18: ...said that she was free to move "because we are confident that we can trust each other." Aung San Suu K...
19: ...be extended. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4064211.stm (BBC)] - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Bhutto''' (born [[June 21]], [[1953]]) became the first woman to lead a [[Muslim]] country in modern t...
6: The daughter of former [[Pakistan]]i premier [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], Benazir was educated in the west...
8: During her time at Oxford, she was the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Un...
13: ...ber 2]], becoming the youngest (35 years old) and first woman to head the government of a Muslim-major...
15: ... PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when once again her government wa... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...nvironmental Affairs 1974-79, and became Norway's first female Prime Minister February - October [[198...
9: ... terms - from May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25,...
11: ...Brundtland was recognized in [[2003]] by [[Scientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'...
15: In 2004 the British newspaper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental...
21: ...ers|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1986–1989 | after=[[Jan P. Syse]]}} - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...r and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Presid...
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–...
10: *Member of [[Parliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]] - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
1: ...nuary 18]],[[1930]]-[[July 10]],[[2004]]) was the first woman (and the only to date) to serve as Prime...
3: ...in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ncy four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 Sept...
17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Lenihan, TD<br>
18: [[Fine Gael]]: Austin Currie, TD</table>
31: ...g fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contra... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ...use of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,...
9: ...resident [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...servative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and the figurehead of a political philosophy that became kno...
33: Her popularity finally declined when she replaced the unpopular [[R...
36: ...cal politics, serving as an [[Alderman]] (while officially described as '[[Whig|Liberal]] Independent'...
38: .... She was a member of the team that developed the first soft frozen ice cream. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
25: *''The Stories of Eva Luna'' (1989)
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...gs and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been associa...
6: ...nes to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in [[Canadian poetry]], especially as one of ...
8: ... her tale of a future [[dystopia]] in the science fiction [[novel]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (made ...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was pro...
25: :''[[Cat's Eye (novel)|Cat's Eye]]'' ([[1989]]) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ... tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...eavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...emison was Science Mission Specialist (a [[NASA]] first) on the [[STS-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[Unit...
7: ...rs (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West A...
11: ...cience degree in [[Chemical Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and A...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it...
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