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 Brazil elects first civilian president in 21 years | Terry Waite negotiates release of UK hostages held in Libya |  Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader |  Death of actor Michael Redgrave |  Scientists reveal depletion of ozone layer | You were conceived! Air India jumbo jet crashes into Irish Sea |
| Live Aid concerts for Ethiopia in London and Philadelphia |  Death of actor Orson Welles |  Titanic wreck found |  | Death of actor Rock Hudson Anglo-Irish treaty signed Volcano erupts in Colombia |  Unabomber claims first victim in 17 year mail-bomb campaign in US |
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 US space shuttle Challenger explodes Spain and Portugal join EU |  Soviet space station Mir launched Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of Philippines, toppled Swedish prime minister Olof Palme assassinated | You were born!  Death of actor James Cagney | Chernobyl nuclear accident US soldiers disco bombed in West Berlin US air strikes against Libya Journalist John McCarthy taken hostage Death of Simone de Beauvoir |  | World Cup in Mexico, Argentina beat West Germany 3-2 South Africa declares state of emergency Kurt Waldheim elected Austrian president |
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 Thousands of students march in Tiananman Square, Beijing, China Terry Waites, hostage negotiator, disappears in Beirut |  | Your 1st Birthday English Channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes, killing nearly 200 | Simpsons cartoon show launched Tamil Tigers blamed for Colombo bomb attack, killing over 100 | France pays Greenpeace compensation for sinking Rainbow Warrior |  Death of actor Fred Astaire |
 World population reaches 5 billion | Michael Ryan shoots 14 dead in Hunderford, England Death of film director John Huston |  | Hurricane rocks Britain, 13 die Black Monday - stocks around World tumble | Fire at King's Cross station, London, 30 die IRA bomb at Remembrance Day parade, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland | Digging begins in Britain for channel tunnel to France Superpowers sign INF treaty to reduce nuclear arsenal |
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| Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians outside Temple Mount, East Jerusalem |  Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada | Your 2nd Birthday  IRA gang shot dead by SAS in Gibraltar Iraq drops chemical bombs on Kurdish town of Halabja | Stephen Hawking publishes A Brief History of Time | US president Ronald Reagan makes first trip to Moscow Death of Kim Philby, Soviet spy Francois Mitterand re-elected as French president | Euros in West Germany, Netherlands beat Soviet Union 2-0 |
| Piper Alpha oil rig disaster kills 167 | Ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Massive floods overwhelm two thirds of Bangladesh | Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea Ben Johnson stripped of Gold medal US launches space shuttle Discovery | Turin Shroud declared a fake after carbon dating tests Mikhail Gorbachev elected presient of USSR | US reveals stealth aircraft George Bush elected US president Estonia demands independence Serbia holds rally for independence | Clapham rail disaster kills 35 in England Huge loss of life in Armenian earthquake Lockerbie bombing: Pan AM Flight 103 explodes killing 270 |
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| Death of Emperor Hirohito, Japan Death of Spanish artist Salvador Dali Muslims in Bradford, England burn The Satanic Verses | Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini orders fatwa against Salman Rushdie | Your 3rd Birthday  Oil tanker Exxon Valdez strikes reef, devastating Alaskan coastline | Hillsborough football stadium disaster claims 94 lives in England Vietnam announces withdrawal of troops from Cambodia | Slobodan Milosevic becomes president of Serbia Carlos Menem wins Argentine election | Tiananmen Square massacre in China Death of Ayotollah Khomeini, leader of Iran Solidarity wins polish elections, ending communist rule |
 Death of actor Laurence Olivier |  Sinking of boat Marchioness in river Thames, London | Mass demonstration in Cape Town against apartheid Last Vietnamese troops leave Cambodia |  State of emergency after earthquake in San Francisco Birth of Hungarian Republic | East Berliners pour through Berlin Wall to West Berlin Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia Civil war in El Salvador escalates | US troops invade Panama Execution of Nicolae Ceausecu, leader of Romania Communist rule abolished in Romania Death of Irish writer Samuel Beckett |
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| Soviet troops crush protestors seeking independence in Azerbaijan |  Nelson Mandela freed Free elections held in Nicaragua | Your 4th Birthday Poll tax riots in London Namibia gains independence |  |  | Death of actor Rex Harrison World Cup in Italy, West Germany beat Argentina 1-0 |
 | Iraq invades Kuwait Hostage Brian Keenan released by Islamic extremists in Lebanon |  | Germany is reunited | John Major ousts Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister | Lech Walesa becomes president of Poland |
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| USSR crushes demonstrations for independence in Lithuania |  Liberation of Kuwait by Allies | Your 5th Birthday Famine affects large parts of Sudan |  Death of British author Graham Greene | Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated | Croatia and Slovenia declare independence Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia |
| Macedonia declares independence | British hostage John McCarthy freed in Beirut Attempted coup to oust Mikhail Gorbachev |  | Dubrovnic shelled by Serbian troops Spain holds Middle East peace talks | Hostage Terry Waite released in Beirut Death of media magnate Robert Maxwell | Ukraine votes for independence Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president |
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 | Maastricht Treaty signed Winter Olympics in Albertville, France | Your 6th Birthday  Bosnia declares independence from Yugoslavia Elections in Albania end communist rule | Race riots begin in Los Angeles | Death of actor Marlene Dietrich UN Imposes sanctions on Serbia |  Danish voters reject Maastricht Treaty Euros in Sweden, Denmark beat Germany 2-0 President Mohammed Boudiaf of Algeria assassinated |
 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain | Footage of Serbian death camps shown around world |  |  Protests in Germany against racial violence | Bill Clinton elected as US president |  |
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| Single Market launched in Europe Slovakia and CZech Republic replace Czechoslovakia |  | Your 7th Birthday UN planes air drop supplies to war-stricken Bosnia Bombings in Mumbai, financial capital of India |  |  Premier League won by Manchester United (8x) |  |
 |  Worst floodings in recorded history in midwest US |  | Pakistan elects Benazir Bhutto as prime minister Toni Morrison becomes first black woman to win Nobel Prize for literature | Croat shelling destroys Mostar Bridge in Bosnia-Herzegovina War | Northern Ireland and Britain sign Declaration of Peace Aborigines celebrate Australian Native Title Act |
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 Earthquake hits Los Angeles | Carnage at Sarajevo Jewish extremists shoot 30 Palestinian worshippers in Hebron Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway | Your 8th Birthday  Zulus and ANC supporters clash in South Africa Silvio Belusconi becomes Italian prime minister |  Red Cross estimates 100,000 dead in Rwandan genocide | Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president Ayrton Senna has fatal crash in Italy President Mitterand and Queen Elizabeth inaugurate Channel Tunnel Premier League won by Manchester United (9x) |  World Cup in USA, Brazil beat Italy 3-2 on penalties |
 | IRA announces ceasefire World's most wanted terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, held | US Marines seize Haiti Estonia ferry disaster in North Sea |  Death of actor Burt Lancaster |  |  Russian troops storm Chechnya |
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 Earthquake hits Kobe, Japan | Taliban set to claim Kabul in Afghanistan | Your 9th Birthday  |  Bomb explosion in Oklahoma City, US | Ebola virus spreads rapidly in Zaire Premier League won by Blackburn Rovers (3x) |  |
| Bosnian Serbs capture Srebrenica |  |  |  | Assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin | Dayton Peace Accord, signed in Paris, ends Bosnian War |
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| US troops enter Bosnia for UN peacekeeping mission |  IRA bomb blast in London Docklands shatters ceasefire | Your 10th Birthday  Death of actor Gene Kelly |  |  Premier League won by Manchester United (10x) | Euros in England, Germany beat Czechia 2-1 |
| Dolly the sheep cloned from adult DNA Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA |  | Taliban capture Afghan capital, Kabul |  |  Communist rule ends in Romania |  Death of actor Marcello Mastroianni |
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 |  Death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaping | Your 11th Birthday Turmoil on streets of Albanian capital, Tirana |  Premier League won by Manchester United (11x) |  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone published Death of Jaques Costeau, underwater explorer | |
| Death of actor James Stewart Hong Kong handed back to China after 150 years of British rule | Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash |  |  Iraq bans UN weapons inspectors | Tourists shot by Islamic extremists in Luxor's Valley of the Kings | Kyoto Protocol drawn up n Japan to combat global warming Over 100 countries ban use of landmines |
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 |  Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan | Your 12th Birthday  | Good Friday Agreement signed as part of Northern Ireland peace process Death of Pol Pot, former leader of Khmer Rouge | Pakistan tests 5 nuclear weapons Death of actor Frank Sinatra Premier League won by Arsenal (11x) |  World Cup in France, France beat Brazil 3-0 Japan in recession |
 David Trimble elected first minister in Northern Ireland |  Two US Embassies bombed in Africa | Iran lifts fatwa against Salman Rushdie President Clinton's testimony in front of Grand Jury is televised | Death of Ted Hughes, British poet Chilean General Augusto Pinochet arrested in London |  | War in the Gulf as Britain and US launch air strikes against Iraq |
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| Euro launched in European Union Worst massacre of ethnic Albanians by Serbs in Racak, Kosovo |  President Clinton acquitted by US Senate | Your 13th Birthday  |  Refugees flee Kosovo in fear of Serbian purges |  Premier League won by Manchester United (12x) |  Thabo Mbeki becomes president of South Africa |
 | Total solar eclipse |  Death of actor George C. Scott | General Musharraf takes control of Pakistan in military coup |  | Macau reverts to Chinese after Portuguese rule |
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 |  | Your 14th Birthday  Dot-com boom climaxes before crash |  |  Israel announces its withdrawal from South Lebanon Premier League won by Manchester United (13x) |  Euros in Belgium and Netherlands, France beat Italy 2-1 |
 Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes killing all on board |  Death of actor Alec Guinness Russian submarine Kursk destroyed by its own torpedo - all 118 crew killed |  Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia | Death of actor Walter Matthau Bulldozer Revolution in Belgrade Slobodan Milosevic resigns as Yugoslav president |  |  Rizal Day bombings in Philippines |
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| Wikipedia, collaberative online encyclopedia, launched George W Bush sworn in as US president Earthquake in Gujarat, India |  Human genome sequence revealed | Your 15th Birthday Real IRA bomb at BBC TV studios in London Taliban destroy Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan Worldwide economic recession starts |  Same-sex marriage legalized in Netherlands Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police |  Premier League won by Manchester United (14x) | Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family Tony Blair re-elected as UK prime minister Death of musician John Lee Hooker |
 Death of actor Jack Lemmon |  Death of actor Anthony Quinn | Terror attacks on New York and Washington President Bush delares war on terror |  Apple launches iPod War in Afghanistan in response to 9/11 IRA announces disarmament |  | China joins WTO Enron files for bankruptcy Afghan Taliban regime collapses Economic crisis in Argentina Shoe bomber attempts to blow up plane |
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| Euro launched as full currency End of civil war in Sierra Leone UN starts arms embargo against Osama Bin Laden |  Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA | Your 16th Birthday  Death of actor Dudley Moore | Netherlands becomes first nation to legalize euthanasia Civil war ends in Angola Attempted coup against president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela | Independence of East Timor recognized by Portugal Premier League won by Arsenal (12x) |  Death of actor Rod Steiger World Cup in Japan and South Korea, Brazil beat Germany 2-0 |
| Launch of the African Union Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents sold for £49 million in London |  |  | Death of actor Richard Harris Hundreds killed in Bali nightclub bombing Siege of Moscow Theatre by Chechen militants |  Argentina defaults on $805 million World Bank payment |  Death of Joe Strummer, lead singer of British rock band The Clash |
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 | US space shuttle Colombia disintegrates upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere Serbia and Montenegro emerge from Yugoslavia Civil war in Darfur, Sudan | Your 17th Birthday  Invasion of Iraq by US and British led forces |  Human Genome Project completed Apple launches iTunes Music Store Saddam Hussein's regime collapses in Iraq | Nestor Kircher becomes president of Argentina Huge car bomb explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Premier League won by Manchester United (15x) |  40,000 die across Europe (Jun-Aug) in record breaking heatwave |
| Death of actor Gregory Peck WHO declares SARS outbreak is contained Cyclist Lance Armstrong claims 5th Tour de France | Death of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Fever To Tell released | Death of musician Johnny Cash Swedish referendum rejects adopting Euro Anna Lindh, Swedish foreign minister, fatally stabbed while shopping | Concorde makes last commercial flight China launches first manned space mission Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Governor of California |  Two bomb attacks in Istanbul, Turkey | Death of actor Alan Bates Saddam Hussein captured Earthquake in San Simeon, California Earthquake devastates Bam in Iran |
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 |  | Your 18th Birthday Madrid train bombings in Spain Republic of Ireland first country to ban smoking in all work places | Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq, abuses revealed |  Ten countries join EU Premier League won by Arsenal (13x) |  Euros in Portugal, Greece beat Portugal 1-0 Death of former US president Ronald Reagan |
 Death of actor Marlon Brando |  Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece | Beslan school seige, North Ossetia, Russia |  Famine and violence in Darfur, Sudan | Seige of Fallujah in Iraq by US forces Death of Yassir Arafat, leader of PLO | Tsunami in Indian Ocean kills approx 227,898 people in 14 countries |
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| Mahmoud Abbas becomes leader of PLO |  Youtube launched Kyoto Protocol come sinto force Israel-Palestine ceasefire | Your 19th Birthday  |  Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon |  Premier League won by Chelsea (2x) |  |
| London hit by 4 terrorist bombs on transport system, killing 52 and injuring over 700 | Hurricane Katrina blasts New Orleans, US, killing over 1000 Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter launched to explore Mars |  | Earthquake in Kashmir, India, kills around 75,000 Trial of Saddam Hussein begins in Iraq | Civil unrest in Paris suburbs, France | Same sex marriage legalized in UK |
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| Hamas wins elections in Palestine Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has 2nd stroke |  Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy | Your 20th Birthday  Basque separatists, ETA, declare permanent ceasefire | Construction begins on Freedom Tower, New York Iran enriches uranium | Three Gorges Dam completed in China Premier League won by Chelsea (3x) |  World Cup in Germany, Italy beat France 5-3 on penalties Montenegro becomes independent |
| Bomb explosions on Mumbai railway, India |  |  |  North Korea tests nuclear weapon |  | Death of Augusto Pinochet, former Chilean dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death |
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 |  | Your 21st Birthday  |  |  Premier League won by Manchester United (16x) |  Apple launches the iPhone |
| Final Harry Potter book published |  | Death of Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti British troops withdraw from Basra, Iraq | Housing bubble bursts in US |  | Nepal announces plan to abolish monarchy Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister, assassinated |
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 Death of New Zealand explorer Sir Edmund Hillary Malta and Cyprus adopt the Euro Violence in Kenya after elections |  Death of actor Heath Ledger Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba, retires after 52 years in power | Your 22nd Birthday  Death of actor Roy Scheider Dmitry Medvedev elected as Russian president |  Bionic eyes implanted into blind patients at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital | Earthquake in Western China kills 68,000 Premier League won by Manchester United (17x) |  Euros in Austria and Switzerland, Spain beat Germany 1-0 Ireland rejects Lisbon treaty |
 | Summer Olympics in Beijing, China Death of Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11 climbers die on K2 | Death of actor Paul Newman Large Hadron Collider is started near Geneva, Franco-Swiss border Dow Jones falls 778 points in 1 day | Spotify launched in Sweden Global financial crisis : US creates 700 billion dollar fund to buy failing bank assets |  Terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India |  |
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| Barack Obama sworn in as 44th US president US flight ditches in Hudson river, 155 rescued | Bitcoin blockchain decentralized payment system started Bush fires across Victoria, Australia | Your 23rd Birthday  |  Earthquake kills 308 near L'Aquila, Italy Albania and Croatia are admitted to NATO |  After over 25 years Sri Lankan Civil War ends, Tamil Tigers defeated Premier League won by Manchester United (18x) |  Death of musician Michael Jackson |
 Islamic extremist group Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria |  |  |  | Death of actor Richard Todd NASA finds water in Cabeus crater on the Moon | Lisbon Treaty comes into force Exoplanet GJ1214b discovered, on which water could exist |
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 Death of US author JD Salinger | Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada | Your 24th Birthday  Controversial healthcare reform bill passed in US | BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes causing vast spill in Gulf of Mexico Eyjafjallajokull erupts |  Greece accepts IMF bailout in rescue package Premier League won by Chelsea (4x) |  World Cup in South Africa, Spain beat Netherlands 1-0 |
| The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse WikiLeaks publishes 90,000 reports |  US troops withdraw from Iraq | Death of actor Tony Curtis Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand |  Chilean miners emerge after 10 week ordeal underground | Aung San Suu Kyi released from house arrest in Burma North Korea attacks South Korean island |  Climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico |
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 Floods devastate parts of Australia Activists in Egypt call for uprising against the government |  President Mubarak of Egypt steps down 200 killed in Benghazi massacre, Libya | Your 25th Birthday Huge earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing meltdown at Fukushima nuclear plant Death of actor Elizabeth Taylor | Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton A barrage of storms kills over 300 in US Portugal seeks economic bailout from EU |  Syrian government tanks fire on protestors in Derea US forces kill Osama Bin Laden Premier League won by Manchester United (19x) | Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand and Australia |
 Severe floods in Thailand In Norway Anders Behring Breivik massacres 69 |  NASA announces photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons | The MV Spice Islander I sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States and spread to 82 countries | Global population reaches seven billion The EU announces an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis UNESCO admits Palestine as a member | The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity launched from the Kennedy Space Center The UK severs diplomatic relations with Iran |  Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines |
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| A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11 Passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy |  Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (60 years) EU agrees a second 130 billion euro bailout for Greece | Your 26th Birthday  After 246 years the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition |  |  The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million Vladimir Putin elected president of Russia Tokyo Skytree, tallest tower in the world (634m) opened to public Premier League won by Manchester City (3x) |  Euros in Poland and Ukraine, Spain beat Italy 4-0 |
 Summer Olympics in London, UK CERN finds Higgs bosons lurking in the Large Hadron Collider |  Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars |  Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran | Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier jumping from balloon at 128,000 ft Seven paintings worth $25 million are stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam | Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific |  In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020 |
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 Over 100 killed in bomb blasts in Pakistan The French military intervene in the Northern Mali conflict | US scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring around 1500 people | Your 27th Birthday  The EU agrees €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus, precipitating a banking crisis in Cyprus |  Boston Marathon bombs kill 3 and injure 264 In Bangladesh the Savar building collapse kills 1,134 |  Production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning described in journal Nature The El Reno tornado, widest tornado ever recorded developed near El Reno, Oklahoma Premier League won by Manchester United (20x) |  Former CIA employee Edward Snowden spills the beans RE mass surveillance and takes asylum in Russia |
 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the EU Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup | 1,429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack during the Syrian Civil War UK parliament votes against military attacks on Syria | Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170 |  Death of actor Peter O'Toole |  Three Studies of Lucian Freud, by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142 million in a New York City auction, setting a world record for an auctioned work of art | WTO delegates sign the Bali Package agreement aimed at loosening global trade barriers Chinese unmanned spacecraft Chang'e 3, becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since 1976 |
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 Death of actor Maximilian Schell Latvia officially adopts the euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone |  Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa kills over 11,000 Belgium legalizes euthanasia for terminally ill patients | Your 28th Birthday  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board Russia suspended from G8 |  |  Death of actor Mickey Rooney The Royal Thai Army overthrows the caretaker government of Thailand Premier League won by Manchester City (4x) |  World Cup in Brazil, Germany beat Argentina 1-0 ISIS/ISIL begins an offensive through northern Iraq |
 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile, killing 298 |  The United States military begins an air campaign in northern Iraq to stem the influx of ISIL militants | Death of actor Robin Williams Scotland holds a referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom, and a majority votes to remain part of the union |  Alan Eustace sets the current world record highest and longest free fall jump from 135,908 feet, reaching 822 miles per hour | IPCC warns the world faces severe, pervasive and irreversible damage from global emissions of CO2 Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P |  US resumes normal relations with Cuba Japan launches spaceprobe on a 6 year mission to astroid Ryugu to collect rock samples |
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| Boko Haram massacre more than 2,000 people in Baga, Nigeria Terrorists kill 12 people at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo |  | Your 29th Birthday  NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet | A magnitude 7,8 earthquake strikes Nepal and causes 8,857 deaths WHO declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas |  Version O of Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179 million at Christie's auction in New York Premier League won by Chelsea (5x) |  Cuba becomes the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis |
| NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto Cuba and the US end a 54-year stretch of hostility |  | Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest serving head of state of any nation in modern history Volkswagen diesel emissions tests scandal surfaces | Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere with winds of 215 mph |  Multiple terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris, France, result in 130 fatalities |  SpaceX lands an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, the first reusable rocket to successfully enter orbital space and return |
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 The highest ever recorded individual cricket score, 1,009 not out, is made by Pranav Dhanawade Death of musician David Bowie |  North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into space, condemned as a long-range ballistic missile test | Your 30th Birthday The ESA and Roscosmos launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars Barack Obama visits Cuba, the first sitting US president to do so since 1928 |  |  Premier League won by Leicester City (1x) |  Euros in France, Portugal beat France 1-0 The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened after 20 years of construction work UK votes to leave EU |
| NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter The app Pokémon Go is released on smartphones Swiss Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth |  Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |  Global CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history |  | Businessman and television personality Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States as a Republican after running a campaign widely characterized as populist |  United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving behind 8,400 troops stationed at 4 garrisons (Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram, and Jalalabad) |
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 Death of actor John Hurt Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States |  | Your 31st Birthday The UN warns that the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria UK begins Brexit |  In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the US military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria |  Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries Premier League won by Chelsea (6x) |  A fire at Grenfell Tower in London kills 72 people |
 Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile | The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected |  Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere | Catalonia declares independence from Spain, but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation | Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's, a new record price for any work of art Asteroid Oumuamua is recognized as the first known interstellar object |  The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion |
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 Scientists in China report the creation of the first monkey clones using somatic cell nuclear transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua |  Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea | Your 32nd Birthday Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and Heathrow Airport, making it the first commercial non-stop service between Australia and the UK |  Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro |  The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in England has an estimated global audience of 1,9 billion The separatist group ETA announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain Premier League won by Manchester city (5x) |  World Cup in Russia, France beat Croatia 4-2 Saudi Arabia allows women to drive At least 109 people are killed by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala |
 Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1,5 km below the southern polar ice cap and extending sideways about 20 km | Apple Inc becomes the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion NASA launches the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind | The Supreme Court of India decriminalises homosexuality A magnitude 7,5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 2,256 people | The IPCC warns rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society are needed to ensure that global warming is kept below 1,5 °C Canada legalises the sale and use of cannabis | He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist, claims to have altered the DNA of twin human girls to try to make them resistant to infection with the HIV virus |  |
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