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 Adams, Bryan
 Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich
 Al-Assad, Hafiz
 Ali, Ali
 Alia, Ramiz
 Almond, Peter Mark Sinclair
 Altatas, Ali
 Andreotti, Giulio
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 Arafat, Yasser
 Archer, Jeffrey
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 Armstrong, Lance
 Baburin, Sergei Nikolaevich
 Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad
 Bakatin, Vadim Viktorovich
 Baker, James Addison
 Barannikov, Viktor Pavlovich
 Barchuk, Vasily Vasilevich
 Barrah, Muhammad Siyad
 Barre, Siad
 Bawoyeu, Jean Alingue
 Berners-Lee, Tim
 Bielicki, Jan Krzystof
 Bildt, Carl
 Birt, John
 Bolan, Marc
 Bongo, Pascaline Mferri
 Brooks, Garth
 Burchill, Charlie
 Busek, Erhard
 Bush, George Herbert Walker
 Carey, George
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 Castro Ruz, Fidel Alejandro
 Ciller, Tansu
 Cools, Andre
 Cotti, Flavio
 Cresson, Edith
 Demirel, Suleyman
 Dongfang, Han
 Dunem, Fernando de Franca Dias van
 Elias, Jorge Serrano
 Ferguson, Alexander Chapman
 Gandhi, Rajiv
 Gascoigne, Paul John
 Ghalib, Umar Arteh
 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
 Graf, Steffi
 Hammett, Kirk
 Hashimoto, Ryutaro
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 Hayatou, Sadou
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 Hesketh
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 Hussein I
 Indurain, Miguel
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 Kohl, Helmut
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 Kryuchkov, Vladimir
 Kucan, Milan
 Kumar, Ntish
 Kurosawa, Akira
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 Kyi, Aung San Suu
 Laden, Osama bin
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 Mariam, Mengistu Haile
 Masire, Quett Ketumile Joni
 Maxwell, Robert
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 Newsted, Jason
 Nu, U
 Oddsson, David
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 Osbourne, John Michael "Ozzy"
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 Popov, Gavriil Kharitonovich
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 Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich
 Remick, Lee
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   1st Lesbian Priest   Carl, Elizabeth
  5th June   Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church
   Accords of Paris   Kiet, Vo van
   Paris   Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia after signing the Paris Peace Accords
   Accords of Peace   Klerk, Frederik Willem de
  1st Feb   A "national peace accord" is agreed between the Inkatha, ANC & National Party
   Accords of Peace   Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
  1st Feb   A "national peace accord" is agreed between the Inkatha, ANC & National Party
   Agreement Paris Peace   Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
   Paris   The Peace Agreement with the USA enables withdrawal of Vietnam from Cambodia
   Alliance   Havel, Vaclav
   Feb Visegrad Rep   Hungary, Poland & Czech join the Visegrad Triangle for investment & EU membership
   Alliance   Ali, Zine El Abidine Ben
   Tunis   Opposes USAaction during the Gulf War
   Alliance   Bush, George Herbert Walker
   April   The USAgives aid to Hanoi when it helps account for 2,276 missing USAsoldiers
   Al Qaeda   Laden, Osama bin
     A bomb explodes at the World Trade Center
     Sudan becomes alQaeda's base for business operations and preparations for jihad, from here a number of attacks on Western targets are alleged to have been organised or supported
   ANC   Klerk, Frederik Willem de
     The ANC is legalized
   Angolan Armed Forces   Savimbi, Jonas
  31st May Lisbon   The accords attempt to demobilize the 152,000 active fighters and integrate the remaining Government troops and UNITA rebels into a 50,000-strong Angolan Armed Forces (FAA)
   Apartheid   Klerk, Frederik Willem de
  1st Feb   Promises to end all Apartheid Legislation & to create a new multi racial constitution
  4th Sep   Announces a new Constitution that will provide suffrage for black people
   Archbishop of Canterbury   Carey, George
   Canterbury   Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
  25th July Canterbury   Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, announcement made
   Arrest   Dongfang, Han
     Released after 2 years on grounds of ill health
   Arrest   Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
  19th Aug Foros   Arrested during a Coup d'etat
   Arrest   Yanaev, Gennady Ivanovich
  21st Aug Moscow   The Coup fails & Yanaev is arrested but later amnestied by the Russian Duma
   Arrest   Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich
  18th Aug Crimea   Gorbachev is detained in his summer residence on the orders of Kryuchkov
   Arrest   Tyson, Mike
  22nd July   Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room 3 days earlier, Tyson is later convicted of rape and served three years in prison
   Assassination   Cools, Andre
  18th July   Socialist Party leader Andre Cools is murdered, Cools had worked for more regional autonomy for Wallonia, the French-speaking southern half of Belgium, and the Dutch-speaking Flanders
   Assassination   Gandhi, Rajiv
  21st May   Killed in a bomb attack during an election campaign by a Tamil suicide bomber
   Award Mitchel   Mitchel, Joni
  5th Feb   Joni Mitchel is inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
   Battle of Qaruh   Hussein, Saddam
  24th Jan Qaruh   The Allies liberate the 1st part of Kuwait after a 5 hour battle at Qaruh