Jeltoqsan: December 1986 protests in Almaty
Young Kazakhs protest a party boss sent from Moscow
On 16 December 1986 Moscow replaced Kazakhstan's party leader Dinmukhamed Kunaev with Gennady Kolbin, who had never worked in the republic. Next day students and young people filled the central square; troops and police dispersed them. Officially two died, other estimates are higher; thousands were detained and dozens sentenced.
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Whole world
- 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — 18 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 6 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 5 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 11 years later
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 22 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 3 years later
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 3 years later
- 1990 German reunification — 4 years later
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- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 6 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 25 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 1 year earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — same year
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Middle East
- 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War — 2 years later
- 1988 Spitak earthquake — 2 years later
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- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 4 years later
- 1990 Black January in Baku — 4 years later
Africa
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 19 years earlier
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 12 years earlier
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Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 17 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 16 years earlier
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 3 years earlier
- 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — same year
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 15 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 6 years later
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- Nelson Mandela (aged 68)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 56)
- Jorge Luis Borges (aged 87)
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) (aged 85)
- Mother Teresa (aged 76)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 75)
- Richard Nixon (aged 73)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 67)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 62)
- Fidel Castro (aged 60)