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Iranian Hostage Release
The release of he Iranian hostages at the United States Embassy was a major event that led to a change in how we interact with parts of the world -
First Massive Computer Virus
The Elk Cloner Computer was one of the first major computer virus outbreaks at apple computers and spread by floppy disks.
This made the effort to better organize how files and systems are stored so that virses wouldn't have effects like this
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Challenger Explosion
The explosion of the Challenger can be considered one of the worst disasters in science. This has led to the increse of organiztion in the inspection of parts of the space shuttles
http://www.history.com/topics/challenger-disaster -
Chernobyl disaster
The cherynobyl disaster was deemed to have been caused by faulty engineering and inadequately trained personell. This brought change to the regulations behind nuclear reactor regulations.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety-of-Plants/Chernobyl-Accident/ -
Black Monday
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
With the fall of the Berlin Wall it brought about major change to the way the western world was recieved by the russians and much of eastern Europe
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Release of Nelson Mandela
With the relase of Nelson Mandela it brought major change to the end of apartheid in South Africa and also brought about the unbanning of liberation groups fighting fo civil rights.
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Hubble Telescope
The hubble telescope was launched which greatly shanged the way we interact with space. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Soviet Union brought major change to eastern euapoe and many countries around eur-asia. The collapse brought about change that is still beng felt today in countries such as Ukraine -
Y2K Scare
A large panic spread across the contry as people though computers and infrastucture would fail becaue of the numerical value of teh year 2000 when calculated into computers
