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1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.[59]
1957 – George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.[60]
1958 – European Economic Community is established.[61]
1959 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro‘s forces.[62]
1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.[63]
1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.[64]
1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.[65]
1965 – The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1970 – The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.[66]
1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
1973 – Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.[67]
1976 – A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.[68]
1978 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.[69]
1979 – Normal diplomatic relations are established between the People’s Republic of China and the United States.[70]
1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.[71]
1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.[72]
1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.[73]
1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.[74]
1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.[75]
1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
1987 – The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.[76]
1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.[77]
1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.[78]
1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City‘s first black mayor.[79]
1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.[80]
1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.[81]
1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.[82]
1995 – The World Trade Organization comes into being.[83]
1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.[84]
1995 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.[85]
1998 – Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.[86]
1999 – Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is “deemed to be elected” to the office of President until October 2007.[87]
2007 – Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia killing all 102 people on board.[88]
2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.[89]
2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.[90]
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