Features: biography of Ayatollah Khomeni, biography of Norman Schwarzkopf, images, trivia quiz.
Contents:
1981- Assissanation attempt on Pope John Paul II -- 1981- AIDS identified by scientists -- 1981- U.S. President Reagan shot by assassin -- 1981- Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer marry -- 1981- Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat assassinated -- 1982- The Falkland Islands War -- 1983- USSR shoots down a Korean Airlines 747 -- 1986- The Challenger Disaster: 7 astronauts die in shuttle explosion -- 1986- The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster -- 1988- The Lockerbie disaster: terrorists blow up a 747 over Scotland -- 1989- The Tiananmen Square massacre -- 1989- The fall of the Berlin Wall reunites Germany -- 1990- Mandela released from prison: South Africa begins a new era -- 1991- Operation Desert Storm: The Gulf War begins -- 1991- Coup agains Gorbachev fails: the collapse of Communism -- 1991- Treaty of Maastricht: beginning of a European Union -- 1992- The Los Angeles riots -- 1992- The U.S. and Russia agree to reduce nuclear weapons -- 1993- Israel and PLO reach an accord for peace -- 1994- Rwandan Massacre -- 1994- The Northridge Earthquake: a 6.7 shaker wallops L.A. -- 1994- "Trial of the Century": O.J. Simpson arrested for murder -- 1995- Oklahoma City bombing: terrorism hits America's heartland -- 1995- Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Israeli radical -- 1997- Dolly the sheep is cloned -- 1997- Princess Di is killed in a high speed car crash in Paris -- 1998- President Bill Clinton is impeached then acquitted by the Senate.
Summary:
Assembled from the archival vaults of Pathe and the BBC, Encyclopedia of the 20th Century traces the global milestones of our era. Acclaimed documentarian Gary Tarpinian presents a narrative portrait of the events that shook our world and changed our lives forever.
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