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 & August 1 & Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe signed by the United States, Canada, the Soviet Union and Europe \tn 
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 & October 30 & Western Sahara War begins between Morocco, Mauritania and Polisario Front \tn 
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 & February & Soviet and Cuban forces install a communist government in Angola \tn 
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 & March 24 & National Reorganization Process takes power in Argentina following a successful military coup \tn 
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 & June 29 & Seychelles becomes independent \tn 
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 & July 2 & Vietnam was reunited \tn 
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 & July 20 & Military personnel withdraw from Thailand \tn 
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 & March 8 & A rebellion occurred in the Shaba Province, Zaire \tn 
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 & May 30 & Mozambican Civil War begins \tn 
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 & June 6 & US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance assures skeptics that the Carter administration will hold the Soviet Union accountable for its recent crackdowns on human rights activists \tn 
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 & June 27 & Djibouti becomes independent \tn 
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 & July 21-24 & Egypt and Libya fought a war at the Egyptian-Libyan border \tn 
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 & July 23 & Ogaden War begins when Somalia attacks Ethiopia \tn 
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 & March 15 & Ogaden War ends with a cease-fire \tn 
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 & March 16 & Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped in Rome by a far-left extremist terrorist group called the Red Brigades. His body would be found on the 9th of May after 55 days of captivity \tn 
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 & April 27 & President of Afghanistan Sardar Mohammed Daoud's government is overthrown when he is murdered in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. \tn 
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 & May 11 & The second rebellion in the Shaba Province, Zaire occurred \tn 
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 & December 18 & Deng Xiaoping announces the reform and opening up of China. \tn 
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 & December 25 & Communist regime is installed in Afghanistan. Vietnam invades Cambodia \tn 
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 & January 16 & Iranian Revolution ousts the pro-Western Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and installs a theocracy under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Central Treaty Organization dissolves as a result \tn 
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 & February 22 & Saint Lucia becomes independent \tn 
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 & February 24 & A war broke out between Yemen Arab Republic and South Yemen \tn 
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 & May 4 & Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, becoming the first female to lead a major Western democracy \tn 
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 & May 9 & Civil war breaks out in El Salvador between Marxist-led insurgents and the U.S.-backed government. \tn 
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 & June 2 & Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to his native Poland \tn 
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 & June 18 & President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement \tn 
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 & July 3 & President Carter signs the first directive for financial aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, Afghanistan \tn 
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 & July 16 & Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq after Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr steps down \tn 
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 & July 17 & Marxist-led Sandinista revolutionaries overthrow the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. The Contra insurgency begins shortly thereafter \tn 
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 & August 3 & Francisco Macias Nguema was deposed by a coup led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo \tn 
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 & September & Nur Mohammed Taraki, The Marxist president of Afghanistan, is deposed and murdered. The post of president is taken up by Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin \tn 
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 & November 4 & Islamist Iranian students take over the American embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution. The Iran hostage crisis lasts until January 20, 1981 \tn 
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 & November 20-December 4 & Juhayman al-Otaybi and his followers seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia \tn 
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 & December 12 & NATO Double-Track Decision – NATO offers mutual limitation of ballistic missiles combined with the threat that in case of disagreement NATO would deploy more middle-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe \tn 
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 & December 21 & Rhodesian Bush War ends with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement. Zimbabwe is granted independence \tn 
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 & December 24 & Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to oust Hafizullah Amin, beginning the Soviet–Afghan War and resulting in the end of Détente \tn 
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 & January 27 & The Carter doctrine commits the US to defending the Gulf States \tn 
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 & \seqsplit{February} 25 & A  military coup occurred in Suriname eventually lead to the establishment of a military regime in the country \tn 
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 & March 21 & United States and its allies boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics (July 15 – August 3) in Moscow \tn 
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 & May 4 & Josip Broz Tito, communist leader of Yugoslavia since 1945, dies at the age of 87 in Ljubljana \tn 
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 & May 18-27 & An anti-government uprising occurred in Gwangju, South Korea \tn 
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 & July 3 & CIA begins Operation Cyclone - a program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan \tn 
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 & August 31 & In Poland, the Gdańsk Agreement is signed after a wave of strikes which began at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdańsk. The agreement allows greater civil rights, such as the establishment of a trade union, known as Solidarity, independent of communist control \tn 
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 & \seqsplit{September} 22 & Saddam's Iraq started to invade Iran, which ignites the Iran–Iraq War \tn 
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 & April 1 & United States suspends economic aid to Nicaragua \tn 
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 & April 6 & Somaliland War of Independence was waged by the Somali National Movement in northern Somalia \tn 
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 & August 19 & Gulf of Sidra Incident: Libyan planes attack U.S. jets in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya has illegally annexed. Two Libyan jets are shot down; no American losses are suffered \tn 
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 & August 4 & Thomas Sankara overthrows Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and becomes president. He also renamed the country of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso a year later \tn 
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 & August 21 & Former senator Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino was assassinated at Manila International Airport \tn 
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 & May 24 & Congress ratifies the Boland Amendment banning U.S. aid to the contras \tn 
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 & March 24 & Major Arthur D. Nicholson, a US Army Military Intelligence officer is shot to death by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. He is listed as the last US casualty in the Cold War \tn 
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 & April 11 & Enver Hoxha dies. Ramiz Alia takes over as First Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania, becoming the de facto leader of Albania \tn 
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 & April 22 & Trial of the Juntas convenes to prosecute the members of the National Reorganization Process (the military junta that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during its existence \tn 
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 & August 6 & Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union begins what it has announced is a 5-month unilateral moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. The Reagan administration dismisses the dramatic move as nothing more than propaganda and refuses to follow suit. Gorbachev declares several extensions, but the United States fails to reciprocate, and the moratorium comes to an end on February 5, 1987 \tn 
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 & November 21 & Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at a summit in Geneva, Switzerland, where they agree to two (later three) more summits \tn 
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 & April 15 & US planes bomb Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon \tn 
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 & November 3 & Iran–Contra affair: the Reagan administration publicly announces that it has been selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and illegally transferring the profits to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua \tn 
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 & February 25 & Phosphorite War breaks out in Estonia \tn 
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 & June 12 & During a visit to West Berlin, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (The Berlin Wall) \tn 
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 & June 15 & Famous Italian Singer and Songwriter Adriano Celentano lands in Moscow to present his movie Joan Lui in Soviet theaters, another step that opens the Soviet world to the Western one \tn 
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 & December 9 & First Intifada was waged by Palestinians against the Israeli government \tn 
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 & May 15 & Soviets begin withdrawing from Afghanistan \tn 
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 & May 29-June 1 & Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Moscow. INF Treaty ratified. When asked if he still believes that the Soviet Union is still an evil empire, Reagan replies he was talking about "another time, another era" \tn 
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 & October 5 & Chile's Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule \tn 
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 & November 6 & Soviet scientist and well-known human rights activist Andrei Sakharov begins a two-week visit to the United States \tn 
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 & December 22 & South Africa withdraws from South West Africa (Namibia) \tn 
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 & January 7 & Emperor Hirohito dies, marking the end of the Showa era in Japan \tn 
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 & January 11 & Communist Hungary introduces political reforms \tn 
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 & January 19 & The trade union Solidarity is legalized by the Polish government \tn 
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 & January 20 & George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as 41st President of the United States \tn 
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 & February 2 & Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan \tn 
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 & February 3 & Alfredo Stroessner was deposed in a coup led by Andrés Rodríguez \tn 
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 & February 14 & Contra war effectively ends with the Tesoro Beach Accords happening in El Salvador with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua participating \tn 
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 & February 15 & Afghan Civil War begins after Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan \tn 
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 & February 19-21 & Jakarta Informal Meeting II was held in Jakarta \tn 
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 & March 26 & Soviet Union holds the first round of legislative elections to the Congress of People's Deputies \tn 
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 & June 3 & Ayatollah Khomeini dies \tn 
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 & June 4 & Tiananmen Square Massacre: Beijing protests are crushed by the communist Chinese government, resulting in an unknown number of deaths \tn 
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 & June 4 & Elections in Poland show complete lack of backing for the Communist Party; Solidarity trade union wins all available seats in the Parliament and 99\% in the Senate \tn 
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 & August 19 & Opening of the border gate between Austria and Hungary at the Pan-European Picnic set in motion a chain reaction, at the end of which there was no longer a GDR and the Eastern Bloc had disintegrated \tn 
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 & August 23 & Baltic Way: independence protesters in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania set up a human chain across the three Baltic states, from Tallinn to Vilnius via Riga \tn 
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 & October 7 & Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, the ruling party of Hungary, is dissolved \tn 
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 & October 18 & Hungarian constitution is amended to allow a multi-party political system and elections. In East Germany, the nearly 20-year term of communist leader Erich Honecker comes to an end. \tn 
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 & November 7 & Civil unrest occurred in Moldova \tn 
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 & December 2 & End of the Second Malayan Emergency with the Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989 \tn 
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 & December 10 & Mongolian Revolution begins when Mongolians held peaceful demonstrations to end the one-party rule in the country \tn 
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 & December 16-25 & Romanian Revolution: rioters overthrow the Communist government of Nicolae Ceauşescu, executing him and his wife, Elena. Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to violently overthrow its Communist government or to execute its leaders \tn 
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 & February 12-14 & The Dushanbe riots occurred in Tajikistan \tn 
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 & December 16 & Kazakhstan declares its full independence from the Soviet Union \tn 
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 & December 22 & The Georgian civil war begins \tn 
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 & December 25 & Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the USSR, The flag of the Soviet Union is lowered for the last time over the Kremlin and is later replaced by the Russian flag \tn 
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 & December 26 & The Council of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dissolves the Soviet Union \tn 
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% That's all folks
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