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| This oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound Alaska | Exxon Valdez |
| The Soviet military withdraw from this Asian country | Afghanistan |
| Student led protests began on April 15th in this most populous nation | China (Tiananmen Square) |
| This US Speaker of the House resigned due to ethics violations | Jim Wright |
| Human Rights activitist Aung San Suu Kyi was first placed under house arrest in this nation | Myanmar (Burma) |
| F.W. de Klerk is elected President of this nation promising change | South Africa |
| This strom swept through the Carolinas and the Caribbean | Hurricane Hugo |
| This symbol of the Cold War was opened up | The Berlin Wall |
| An earthquake hit this area disrupting the World Series | San Francisco Bay Area |
| This Communist Eastern European leader was executived on Christmas Day | Nicolae Ceausescu (Romania) |
| This Paris landmark opened a new entrance designed in a glass pyramid design by I.M. Pei | The Louvre Museum |
| The US invaded this Central American Country to remove Manual Noriega from power | Panama |
| This Disney film launched a Disney Renaissance | The Little Mermaid |
| This Tim Burton movie starred Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson | Batman |
| Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for this author's death for writing the novel the Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced they achieved what? | Nuclear fusion at room temperature |
| This team won their first NBA championship | Detroit Pistons |
| This baseball star was banned from the game for life for involvement in gambling | Pete Rose |
| This team won the World Series | The Oakland As defeated the San Francisco Giants |
| Tim Berners-Lee conceptualizes what | The World Wide Web |
