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Nelson Mandela
Released on 11 February 1990. He was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994. Mandela's words, "The struggle is my... |
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Kim Jong-il, Leader of North Korea
Kim Jong-il is the leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a position he has held since 1994. Officially he is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission of... |
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Herman Brood
Herman Brood was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Brood was the Dutch personification of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. After playing piano in Cuby and the... |
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Peter Sloterdijk, Philosopher
Peter Sloterdijk studied philosophy, Germanistics and history at the University of Munich. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. Since 1980 he has... |
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Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of The Web
In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work, it was designed to allow people to work together... |
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Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux
The story of Linux is one of the great fables of computing yet it begins as recently as 1991. That was when Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at Helsinki University,... |
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Unabomber Timeline
May 26, 1978 - Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. An unmailed package is found in a parking lot at the University of Illinois, Chicago, on May 25, 1978. The package,... |
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Ghosts of Rwanda : Genocide
Significant events, statements and decisions that reveal how the United States and the West chose not to act to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the Rwandan genocid... |
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Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Intern... |
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Massacre in Srebrenica
In the summer of 1995, two years after it was designated a United Nations Safe Area, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica became the scene of the worst massacre in the Bosnian... |
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eBay History
eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for i... |
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Amazon.com : Timeline
Who says you can't sell stuff over the Internet? Jeff Bezos believes you can, and created one of the best-known e-commerce sites on the Internet, Amazon.com, devoted to s... |
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Dolly, 1st Cloned Mammal (Sheep)
Dolly (July 5, 1996 – February 14, 2003), a ewe, was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. The cell used was a mammary cell, which is why she was name... |
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Google Milestones
Unable to interest the major portal players of the day, Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to make a go of it on their own. All they needed was a little cash to move out... |
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