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| 1997 |
| | | Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The first module is launched of the International Space Station, a cooperative venture by five space agencies (USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, Europe) | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Libya hands over, for trial in the Hague, two men suspected of causing the Lockerbie disaster of 1988 | |
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| 2001 |
| | | UK terrorist Richard Reid tries to bring down a Paris-Miami flight but fails to light the exposive in his shoe | |
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| 2012 February 4 |
| | | Russia and China use their Security Council veto to block a UN resolution to end the violence in Syria | |
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| 2012 March 4 |
| | | Vladimir Putin is elected president in Russia, prompting large public protests and widespread allegations of fraud | |
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| 2012 March 13 |
| | | 244 years after its launch in Scotland in 1768 the Encyclopedia Britannica publishes its final printed edition | |
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| 2012 May 22 |
| | | A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for US $120 million, by far the record for any work of art | |
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| 2012 July 10 |
| | | Russia and China again veto a UN Security Council attempt to apply economic sanctions on Syria | |
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