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- Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
17: *[[1979]] - [[Iran hostage crisis]] begins
23: ... States|U.S.]] boycotts [[Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow]] to protest [[1979]] [[Soviet invasion of Afg...
25: ...ld Reagan]] becomes President ([[Iran]] releases hostages)
29: *[[1983]] - [[United States]] loses the [[America's Cup]] for the first time in 142...
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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ...
28: ... as [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. Afte...
30: ...since the Spring and Autumn Period and was very loosely a primitive prototype of the modern system of ... - 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... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under...
14: ...arty|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecut...
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman gove...
23: ...28]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]]...
24: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
52: *[[Hussam Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - 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...
16: ...l Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burmese government ...
19: ...vernment to release [[Parliamentary opposition|opposition]] leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a recent ann... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...Minister of Pakistan]] in [[1988]], only to be deposed 20 months later by the [[President of Pakistan]...
15: ...ober [[1990]]. She served as the leader of the opposition while [[Nawaz Sharif]] became PM for the nex...
18: Bhutto has lived in self-imposed exile since [[1999]] when she left Pakistan to ...
21: ...ally against the [[MQM]] in [[Karachi]]. Her foremost contribution without any doubt was Pakistan's Fo...
44: ...r of the East | Publisher= Hamish Hamilton | Year=1989 | ID=ISBN 0241123984}} - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...edical doctor (cand. med.) at the [[University of Oslo]] in [[1963]], and Master of Public Health at t...
9: ... terms - from May 9, [[1986]] until October 16, [[1989]] and from November 3, [[1990]] until October 25,...
15: ...paper [[The Financial Times]] listed her the 4th most influental European for the last 25 years, behin...
21: ...ers|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1986–1989 | after=[[Jan P. Syse]]}} - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
12: *Minister of Nordic Cooperation [[1989]]–[[1991]]
18: ...[1970]] and partly thanks to this she obtained a position as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of...
20: ...–[[1991]], the same year Halonen also was chosen as the chairman of the government of the intern...
24: ...previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen, who then was the [[minister...
28: ...he first round of the elections, Halonen got the most votes but failed to gain the 50% needed to win d... - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo (549 bytes)
3: ...in the [[European Parliament]] from [[1987]] to [[1989]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ... (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
31: ...d the first female to have been appointed to the post.
35: ...ver]] when her father accepted an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a v...
41: ...ations]] and led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.ed...
43: ...81]], at age 26, she received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the Graduate School of Internati... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ... of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
25: ...William Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Bacik]]....
27: ...obinson]]. Despite the fact that her family had close links to the [[Church of Ireland]], her marriage...
31: ...cians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contraception into th...
37: ...Robinson replaced McAleese in the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ... Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was...
5: ...e War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving co...
7: ...away|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hathaway only served on...
9: ...resident [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...rning McCarthy's permanent ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...nion|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck...
29: ...hip]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispa...
31: ...also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour market that would creat...
33: ...in and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and cam...
38: ...[[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop me... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...ranslated into many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling ov...
16: ...]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas]].
20: ... to her daughter Paula, who lay in a coma in the hospital (she died of [[porphyria]] in 1992). In addi...
25: *''The Stories of Eva Luna'' (1989) - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] an...
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Canada Reads]]'' compet...
25: :''[[Cat's Eye (novel)|Cat's Eye]]'' ([[1989]])
60: :''[[The Best American Short Stories 1989]]'' ([[1989]]) (with [[Shannon Ravenel]])
67: :''[[Homelanding]]'' ([[1989]]) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...he [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability and independence leads others to reject ...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
14: ... seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ... which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...elopment of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and h...
7: ... [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[Californi...
17: ...ance and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French gove...
19: ...] and [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate Ameri... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ...e]] and [[Liberia]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, workin...
11: ... refugee camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982.
17: Dr. Jemison is the host and a technical consultant to "World of Wonders"...
19: ... Hall of Fame (1993); People magazine's 1993 "50 Most Beautiful People in the World"; CORE Outstanding...
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