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Junior Chimp
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« on: July 20, 2008, 06:18:34 PM » |
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List major events that happened up to a month before and a month after you were born. I'll start, since it's one of the most important in the 20th century.
Hungary declares itself a Republic.
23 people are killed when a petrochemical plant in Texas explodes.
The first African Americans are elected governor or Virginia and NYC mayor.
The East German leadership resigns, and two days later the Berlin Wall falls.
Next day the Bulgarian Communist leader resigns.
Brazil holds the first democratic election since 1960.
Six priests are killed by El Salvadoran troops.
South Africa officially abolishes its Separate but Equal law.
Student protests begin in Czechoslovakia.
The Lebanese President is killed by a bomb.
The Czechoslovak and East German Communist Parties agrees to give up power.
Bush and Gorbachev announce that the Cold War was coming to a close.
14 women are killed in the Montreal École Polytechnique massacre.
Chile holds its first democratic elections since Pinochet took power.
In Romania, Ceausescu is overthrown. He would later be executed by kangaroo court.
The first episode of The Simpsons is broadcast.
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