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Solidarity Founder Germany reunifies as the Berlin Wall topples. |
Iraq invades Kuwait, and the U.S. begins Operation Desert Shield.
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| Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for smoking crack.
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| Lech Walesa wins Poland's first democratic presidential election.
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Nelson Mandela is freed in South Africa, and the African National Congress is free to organize legally.
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Boris Yeltsin assumes control of the Russian Republic. | |