Launch of the International Space Station
The Zarya module begins a shared home in orbit
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On 20 November 1998 the Zarya module, the first component of the International Space Station, launched from Baikonur. The station is a partnership of the space agencies of Russia, the US, Europe, Japan and Canada, and has been continuously crewed since 2000.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 18 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 10 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 9 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 9 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 7 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 6 years earlier
- 2002 Euro notes and coins — 4 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 18 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 13 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 12 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 9 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 7 years earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 19 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 18 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 8 years earlier
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 24 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 15 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 4 years earlier
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 15 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 8 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 3 years later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 5 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 9 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 6 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 80)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 68)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 87)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 79)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 74)
- Fidel Castro (aged 72)
- Elizabeth II (aged 72)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 71)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 67)
- Boris Yeltsin (aged 67)