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Tiananmen Square 1989 A hunger strike
by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a
million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven
weeks students of the People's Republic, protested in Tiananmen
Square with the government dispatched soldiers and tanks to curb the
rally. As the world waited as young man simply would not
move, standing with his shopping bags before a line of tanks, a hero
was born. Today this brave man is commonly referred to as
"The Tank Man" His true identity is still unknown. It
is believed he will not reveal himself for fear of the long jail
term
A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush
the man, and instead drove his tank around him. Soon this
dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture
had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope
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The fall of the Berlin
Wall 1989 At that time, the Cold War was still dominant.
Hardly anybody predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union until just
before it happened in 1989, so most 1980 forecasts for the year 2000
retained the Cold War as the defining feature. The fall of the Berlin Wall is a very visible sign of the collapse
of the Soviet Union. Nobody anticipated this dramatic change even a few years in advance.
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28 January 1986 The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up.
The astronauts' families, at the airbase, and millions of Americans witnessed the world's worst space disaster live on TV. The danger from falling debris prevented rescue boats reaching the scene for more than an
hour
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Lisa Marie Presley married Danny Keough on October 3, 1988. They had two children, Danielle Riley, born May 29, 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born October 21, 1992. After
Lisa Marie divorced Keough in 1994, Presley married Michael Jackson on May 26, 1994, in the Dominican
Republic. The two divorced after 18 months on January 18, 1996 on grounds of irreconcilable differences.
Lisa Marie Presley stated she had not seen Jackson during the last six months of their marriage.
Lisa
Marie Presley was engaged in 2000 to rocker John Oszajca. She broke off the engagement after meeting Nicolas Cage at a party.
Lisa Marie wed Cage, August 10, 2002, in Los Angeles. They were divorced
a mere three months later. Lisa
Marie was married for a fourth time on January 22, 2006, to Michael
Lockwood- her guitarist and music producer. Keough served as best man at the couple's wedding, held in Japan. Priscilla
Presley and Lisa Marie's two children were in attendance. In March 2008,
Lisa Marie announced that she is pregnant.
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