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  Core beetles member John Lennon is assassination outside of his home The Dakota in New York City, the assassin was Mark David Chapman.
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  The hit E.T smashes onto the big screen!
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  Cabbage Patch Kids are released into NYC the night before christmas,
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  NASA's Challenger shuttle explodes killing all crew members on board.
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  Soviet's finally allow east germans to west germany.
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  President Frederik Willem de Klerk freed anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela.
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  Rodney King is assasulted by the L.A Police Department
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  Lorena Bobbitt assasulted her serverly husband
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  Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda.
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  While many were ready to party "like it was 1999," many others predicted catastrophe at the end of the year from a small assumption made long ago when computers were first being programmed.