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| 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal |
1997 Land mine ban signed by 122 countries. (The USA hasn't signed.) |
| 1969 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark assassinated by FBI & Chicago Police |
| 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott begins |
| 1865 slavery abolished (13th amendment) |
| 1941 FDR goads Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor |
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1954 Joseph McCarthy censured |
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| | | | | | 1791 ratification of the Bill of Rights |
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| | | | | 1919 "Red Scare" begins in USA -- deportation of Emma Goldman and 250 other radicals |
1956 Montgomery, Alabama, public buses were officially integrated |
1991 USSR peacefully dissolved |
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| 1992 President GHW Bush pardons the Iran-Contra Six |
| | | 1914 International Fellowship of Reconciliation founded |
| | 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre |
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| 1915 US branch of Fellowship of Reconciliation |
| 1959 Castro overthrows Batista |
1994 NAFTA takes effect; Zapatistas take Chiapas |
| | | 1965 Free Speech Movement begins in Berkeley |
| 1968 "Prague Spring" begins |
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