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Bonus puzzle #4 answers
Starting event: Haruki Murakami publishes Norwegian Wood (1987)
The full timeline
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1183Politics
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan
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1581Politics
Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake for completing a circumnavigation of the world
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1632
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1676
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1741War
King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India
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1816
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1824
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1844
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1869
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1919Disaster
Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150
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1947
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1961
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1970War
Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings
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1973
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1975Space
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations
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1977Medicine
Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease
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1987
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1988Sport
The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar
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2002
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2010
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2011