Oslo Accords
Israel and the PLO recognise each other for the first time
After secret talks in Norway, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a Declaration of Principles at the White House on 13 September 1993, sealed by a handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. The two sides recognised each other and the Palestinian Authority was created. Core issues — borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements — were deferred; in 1995 Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli opponent of the accords.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 13 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 12 years earlier
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 15 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 4 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 4 years earlier
- 1990 German reunification — 3 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 2 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 1 year earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 13 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 8 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 7 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 4 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 19 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 10 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 1 year later
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 5 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 18 years earlier
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 4 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 2 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 11 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 18 years later
Americas
- 1969 Moon landing — 24 years earlier
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 23 years earlier
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 10 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 3 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 1 year earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 75)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 63)
- Mother Teresa (aged 83)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 82)
- Richard Nixon (aged 80)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 74)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 69)
- Fidel Castro (aged 67)
- Elizabeth II (aged 67)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 66)