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Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. Palau becomes a self-governing territory. January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. January 20 – Iran releases theContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist 1982 (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., United States, then falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 people. January 18 – 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs DiamondContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist 1983 (click top right icon for songtitles)  January January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). January 10 – Canada and the United States launch the television series Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock, an educational co-production advocating tolerance January 19 – High-ranking Nazi warContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888 January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 10 The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. The Victoria AgreementContinue Reading

Music from the times of Johannes Vermeer January–March January 5 – Franco-Dutch War – Battle of Turckheim: The French defeat Austria and Brandenburg. January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native American Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger a year-long war between the English American colonists of New England, and the Algonquian Native American tribes. February 4 – The Italian opera La divisione del mondo, by GiovanniContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 The Internet’s Domain Name System is created. Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by anyContinue Reading

Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles) January January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world’s longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.Continue Reading