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The world population is 5.3 billion.
The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750-1950, edited by F. M. L. Thompson, is published.
Antonia Susan Byatt's novel Possession is published.
Ian McEwan's novel The Innocent is published.
Damian Hirst sculpts My Way.
Brian Ferneyhough composes String Quartet No. 4.
Xavier Koller's film Journey of Hope premieres.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn receives the Russia State Literature Prize for The Gulag Archipelago (1974-1978).
Canadian scientists discover fossils of the oldest known multicellular animals, dating from six hundred million years ago.
Pope John Paul II consecrates the largest cathedral in the world in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
1 Jan.
Vaclav Havel, playwright and former dissident and prisoner of conscience, is sworn in as president of Czechoslovakia. After Slovakia secedes from the union, he remains president of the Czech Republic.
3 Jan.
Panamanian president Manuel Noriega surrenders to American authorities and is extradited to the United States to face charges of drug...
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