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- From left to right, top to bottom:
*an earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 63 people;
*the proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted;
*the Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large oil spill;
*the fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification;
*the United States invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega;
*the Baltic Way led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union;
*the stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred;
*students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party.
*the state funeral procession of Hirohito (en)
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