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Year
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Question
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Answer
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1901
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First _____ Prizes awarded
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Nobel
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1903
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First flight of the ______ Brothers
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Wright
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1903
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The first Tour de ______ is held
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France
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1904
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Construction of the ______ Canal begins
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Panama
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1905
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Einstein creates formulation of __________
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Relativity
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1908
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First commercial _____ transmissions
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Radio
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1911
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Ernest Rutherford identifies the atomic _______
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Nucleus
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1912
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Republic of _____ is established, after the dissolution of the Empire
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China
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1913
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Niels ____ formulates the first cohesive model of the atomic nucleus, and in the process paves the way for quantum mechanics
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Bohr
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1913
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Ford introduces the first moving ________ line
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Assembly
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1914
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Gavrilo _______ assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Princip
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1917
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_______ Revolution ends the _______ Empire
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Russian
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1918
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Partitioning of the ________ Empire begins
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Ottoman
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1919
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The Treaty of __________ redraws European borders
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Versailles
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1920
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Mohandas ______ launches non-cooperation movement
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Gandhi
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1921
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Adolf Hitler becomes ______ of the Nazi Party
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Fuhrer
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1922
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The province of Northern _______ is created within the United Kingdom
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Ireland
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1922
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March on Rome brings Benito _________ to power in Italy
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Mussolini
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1922
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Howard Carter discovers ___________'s tomb
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Tutankhamen
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1922
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The ____, the world's first officially Communist state, is formed
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USSR
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1923
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The Walt ______ company is formed
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Disney
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1924
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Death of Vladimir _____ triggers power struggle between Trotsky and Stalin
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Lenin
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1927
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________ becomes first Emperor of Japan
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Hirohito
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1927
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World population reaches two _______
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Billion
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1928
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Discovery of __________ by Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin
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1929
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Wall Street crash and beginning of the Great __________
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Depression
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1931
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The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao ______
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Zedong
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1932
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___ World Service starts broadcasting
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BBC
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1935
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Persia becomes ____
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Iran
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1937
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Japanese invasion of China, and the _______ Massacre
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Nanking
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1937
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____ _____ and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie released
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Snow White
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1938
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The Great _____ ends in the Soviet Union
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Purge
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1938
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First appearance of DC Comics hero ________
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Superman
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1939
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End of Spanish Civil War, Francisco ______ becomes dictator of Spain
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Franco
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1940
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The _____ invade France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway
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Nazis
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1943
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The Battle of __________ ends with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German army
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Stalingrad
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1945
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World War II ends, United _______ is founded
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Nations
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1947
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Independence of _____ and Pakistan
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India
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1947
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Creation of the US Central ___________ Agency
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Intelligence
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1949
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Creation of North ________ Treaty Organisation
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Atlantic
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1952
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Queen _________ II becomes Monarch of the Commonwealth realms
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Elizabeth
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1952
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First scheduled flight by commercial ___
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Jet
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1953
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Elvis _______'s musical career is launched
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Presley
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1957
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Launch of _______ 1 and the beginning of the Space Age
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Sputnik
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1959
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Cuban revolution led by Fidel ______
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Castro
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1959
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Admission of Alaska and ______ into the United States
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Hawaii
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1959
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First documented cases of ____
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AIDS
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1959
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Beginning of the _______ War
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Vietnam
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1959
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World population reaches _ billion
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3
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1961
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The Great ____ Forward ends in China, after the deaths of roughly 20 million people
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Leap
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1961
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Construction of the ______ Wall
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Berlin
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1962
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Cuban _______ crisis
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Missile
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1963
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a _____" speech
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Dream
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1964
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The Civil ______ Act abolishes segregation in the USA
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Rights
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1971
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Completion of the World _____ Centre
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Trade
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1972
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The ______ Massacre occurs at the Summer Olympics
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Munich
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1973
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Beginning of the _________ scandal
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Watergate
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1974
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World population reaches _ billion
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4
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1975
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The fall of ______ ends the Vietnam War
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Saigon
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1976
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Steve Jobs initiates the birth of the _____ computer
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Apple
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1979
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Implementation of China's one-_____ policy
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Child
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1981
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Wedding of Prince _______ and Princess Diana
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Charles
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1982
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Sony launches the world's first commercially sold __ Player
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CD
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1985
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Mikhail _________ becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
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Gorbachev
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1985
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First use of ___ fingerprinting
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DNA
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1986
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Challenger and _________ disasters
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Chernobyl
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1987
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World population reaches _ billion
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5
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1989
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Akihito becomes Emperor of _____
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Japan
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1990
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Tim _______-___ invents the World Wide Web
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Berners-Lee
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1991
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Dissolution of the ______ Union, and independence of 15 former ______ republics
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Soviet
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1991
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Boris _______ becomes the first President of Russia
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Yeltsin
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1992
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Maastricht Treaty creates the ________ Union
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European
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1992
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Discovery of the ______ belt and the first extrasolar planets
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Kuiper
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1994
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Beginning of the _______ genocide
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Rwandan
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1994
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Kim Jong-__ becomes the Supreme Leader of North Korea
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Il
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1996
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_____ the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal
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Dolly
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1997
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Transfer of sovereignty of ____ ____ from UK to China
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Hong Kong
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1997
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Princess _____ is killed in a car accident in Paris
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Diana
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1997
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_____ barrier broken on land
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Sound
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1998
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______ is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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Google
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1999
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World population reaches _ billion
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6
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2000
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Vladimir _____ becomes President of Russia
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Putin
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