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Ford |
USA:
James Carter (President) |
USA:
Ronald Reagan (Pres.) |
USA:
George H. W. Bush (Pres.)
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USA:
William Clinton (Pres.) |
| Warren
Berger (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) |
William
Rehnquist (Chief Justice) |
| Carl
Albert (Speaker) |
Thomas P.
O'Neill (Speaker of the House) |
James
Wright (Speaker) |
Thomas
Foley (Speaker) |
Newt
Gingrich (Speaker) |
Dennis Hastert |
| Mike
Mansfield (Senate Maj.) |
Robert
Byrd (Senate Majority Leader) |
Howard
Baker (Senate Maj.) |
Robert
Dole (Senate Maj.) |
Robert
Byrd (Senate Maj.) |
George
Mitchell (Senate Maj.) |
Robert Dole |
Trent
Lott (Senate Maj.) |
 Canada:
Pierre Trudeau |
Joseph Clark |
Canada:
Pierre Trudeau |
John Turner |
Canada:
Brian Mulroney |
Kim Campbell |
Canada:
Jean Chrétien |
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Mexico:
José _López Portillo |
Mexico:
Miguel _de la Madrid_ Hurtado |
Mexico:
Carlos _Salinas_ de Gortari |
Mexico:
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De Leon |
 UN:
Kurt Waldheim |
UN:
Javier _Pérez de Cuéllar |
UN:
Boutros _Boutros Ghali |
UN:
Kofi Annan |
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Harold Wilson |
UK:
James Callaghan |
UK:
Margaret Thatcher |
UK: John
Major |
UK:
Anthony Blair |
| UK: Queen _Elizabeth_ II |
 France:
Valery _Giscard d'Estaing |
France:
François Mitterrand |
France:
Jacques Chirac |
 BRD
(West Germany): Helmut Schmidt |
BRD
(West Germany): Helmut Kohl |
Deutschland:
Helmut Kohl |
DE:
Gerhard Schröder |
 DDR
(East Germany): Erich Honecker |
 USSR: Leonid Brezhnev |
USSR:
Yuri Andropov |
USSR: Konstantin Chernenko |
USSR:
Mikhail Gorbachev |
 Rossiya:
Boris Yeltsin |
 Leonid
Kravchuk |
Ukrayina:
Leonid Kutchma |
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Edward Gierek |
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Polska:
Wojciech Jaruzelski |
Polska:
Lech Walesa |
Polska:
Aleksander Kwasniewski |
 Romania:
Nicolae Ceauescu |
Romania:
Ion Iliescu |
Emil
Ion Constantinescu |
 Pope
_Paul VI |
_John Paul |
Pope _John Paul II |
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_Miki_ Takeo |
Nihon:
_Fukuda_ Takeo |
Nihon:
_Ohira_ Masayoshi |
Nihon:
_Suzuki_ Zenko |
Nihon:
_Nakasone_ Yasuhiro |
Nihon:
_Takeshita_ Noboru |
_Uno_ Sosuke |
_Kaifu_ Toshiki |
Nihon:
_Miyazawa_ Kiishi |
_Hosokaya_ Morihiro |
Nihon:
_Murayama_ Tomiichi |
Nihon:
_Hashimoto_ Ryutaro |
Nihon:
_Obuchi_ Keizo |
| Nihon: (Showa Emperor)
Hirohito |
Nihon: Emperor Akihito |
 Zhong
Guo: _Mao_ Zedong |
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Zhong
Guo: _Deng_ Xiaoping |
Zhong
Guo: _Jiang_ Zemin |
NVN |
Vietnam:
Le Duan |
Vietnam:
Nguyen Van Linh |
Vietnam:
Dô Mùói |
Vietnam:
Lê Kha Phieu |
SVN |
| 2nd Indochinese War |
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Vietnamese occupation |
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Khmer Rouge |
 Kampuchea:
Heng Samrin |
 Cambodia: Interim |
 Kingdom of Kampuchea: Sihanouk |
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Bharat:
Indira Gandhi |
Bharat:
Rajiv Gandhi |
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Bharat:
P.V. Narasimha Rao |
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 Pakistan:
Zulfikar Bhutto |
Pakistan: Mohammad
Zia-ul-Haq |
Pakistan:
Benazir Bhutto |
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Pakistan:
Benazir Bhutto |
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 Iran: Muhammad Reza Shah
Pahlavi |
 Iran: Ruhollah Khomeini |
Iran: Islamic Republic |
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Gulf War |
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Chechen War |
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 Ba'ath Party |
Iraq: Saddam Hussein |
 Afghanistan: Republic |
 Afghanistan:
Communist Govt. |
 Afghanistan: Mujahadeen
Govt. |
 Afghanistan: Taliban Govt. |
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Soviet-Afghan War |
Civil War in Afghanistan |
| War
in Lebanon |
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Yitzhak Rabin |
Israel:
Menachem Begin |
Yitzhak Shamir |
Israel:
Shimon Peres |
Israel:
Yitzhak Shamir |
Israel:
Yitzhak Rabin |
Israel:
Benjamin Netanyahu |
 Philippines: Ferdinand
Marcos |
Philippines:
Corazon Aquino |
Philippines:
Fidel Valdez Ramos |
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 Australia: Malcolm Fraser |
Australia:
Robert Hawke |
Australia:
Paul Keating |
Australia:
John Howard |
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 Zaire: Mobutu Sese Seko |
 Congo: Laurent-Désiré
Kabila |
| Uganda: Idi Amin |
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in the Sudan |
 South Africa: Balthazar
Johannes Vorster |
South Africa: P. W. Botha |
South Africa: F. W. _de
Klerk |
 South
Africa: Nelson Mandela |
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Falklands War |
Grenada Invasion |
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Panama Invasion |
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Rwandan Genocide |
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Argentina: Military Rule |
Argentina:
Civilian Rule |
 Nicaragua: Anastazio
_Somoza_ Debayle |
Nicaragua: Sandinista Front |
Nicaragua:
Daniel _Ortega_ Saavedra |
Nicaragua:
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro |
Nicaragua:
José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo |
 Cuba:
Fidel _Castro_ Ruz |
 Chile:
Augusto _Pinochet_ Ugarte |
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Smallpox eradicated in
the wild |
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Music Recording: CDs replace LPs |
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Videotaping: VHS overcomes Betamax |
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| Altair home
computer |
Floppy Disc |
Apple II personal
computer |
Evidence that an
asteroid killed the dinosaurs |
3M Post-it notes |
MS DOS |
IBM Personal
Computer |
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Microsoft Windows |
Hewlett Packard
LaserJet Printer |
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High-temperature
superconductor |
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Hypertext Markup
Language |
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Mosaic Internet
browser |
First spam, bulk
e-mail advertizing |
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Short-acting
insulin, Humalog, for diabetes |
Pfizer Viagra for
impotence |
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| Lyme Disease
identified |
Atenolol (Tenormin)
for blood pressure |
Magnetic Resonance
Imaging |
First test tube
baby |
Sony Walkman |
Volcanic eruption: Mt. St. Helens |
AIDS: Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
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DNA Fingerprinting
used to solve crime |
Eli Lilly Prozac
for depression |
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The World Wide Web |
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B-2 Spirit stealth
bomber |
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Nationwide Caller ID (USA) |
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Dolly the Sheep
cloned from an adult cell |
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Legionaire's
Disease identified |
Jumbo jet collision, Tenerife, Canary Is. |
3.6
MYO fossil footprints, demonstrating upright hominids
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Artificial skin to
treat 3rd degree burns |
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Dinosaur killer
Chicxulub crater in Yucatán Peninsula |
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B-1B
Lancer bomber |
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1999 |
| Jaws |
Earthquake: Tangshan, China |
Close
Encounters of the Third Kind |
Maiasaurus fossils
suggest dinosaur familes |
Accident: Three Mile Island (USA) Nuclear
Plant |
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F-117a Stealth
fighter |
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Chemical Spill: Bhopal India |
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Wreck: US Space Shuttle Challenger |
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Forrest Gump |
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Independence
Day |
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Star Wars |
Grease |
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The Empire
Strikes Back |
Raiders of the
Lost Ark |
E.T. |
Return of the
Jedi |
Ghostbusters |
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Nuclear Meltown: Chernobyl, USSR |
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Home Alone |
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Jurassic Park |
The Lion King |
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Titanic |
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The Phantom
Menace |
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| TV: All in the Family |
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TV: A Different World |
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| Gunsmoke |
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TV: Three's Company |
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TV: Home Improvement |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. |
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TV: Dallas |
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TV: Friends |
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TV: Laverne & Shirley |
TV: The Cosby Show |
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TV: Frasier |
| TV: The Waltons |
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TV: Cheers |
TV: E R |
| TV: Sanford and Son |
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TV: Family Ties |
TV: Seinfeld |
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| TV: Happy Days |
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TV: Roseanne |
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| TV: 60 Minutes |
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