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The German Democratic Republic was dissolved and became part of the German Federal Republic.
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Appears in Costa Rica and Panama, an earthquake of 7.7 degrees, there are approximately 2,000 dead.
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Five hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America ocean ("discovery" of America).
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The first appears of the International Telecommunication Union
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Sony's first console, the PlayStation, first appears. In Japan.
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Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
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The writer Antonio Muñoz Molina joined the Royal Spanish Academy. With 40 years, is the youngest academic of the institution.
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The Spanish scientists from the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) by evidence that a drug by German researchers kills cancer cells without affecting healthy ones.
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Premiered in the cinema Shakespeare in Love, won 7 Oscars.
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USA launches earth observation satellite Landsat 7.
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Last day of the twentieth century and the second millennium.
