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class="timeline-year"> <div style="width:100%" class="year1">1995 </div> </td> <td style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: top; "> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top;min-height:60px;"> <tr> <td class="timeline-box2"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: 14px">Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/murder">murder</a> for the <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/December">December</a> 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top;min-height:60px;"> <tr> <td class="timeline-box2"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: 14px">The Cenepa War between <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/Peru">Peru</a> and <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/Ecuador">Ecuador</a> ends on a cease-fire brokered by the <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/United_Nations">UN</a>.</div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="timeline-year"> <div style="width:100%" class="year1">1979 </div> </td> <td style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: top; "> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top;min-height:60px;"> <tr> <td class="timeline-box2"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: 14px">The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.</div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="timeline-year"> <div style="width:100%" class="year1">1978 </div> </td> <td style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: top; "> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top;min-height:60px;"> <tr> <td class="timeline-box2"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: 14px"><a class="glink2" href="/timeline/The_Troubles">The Troubles</a>: The <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army">Provisional IRA</a> detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.</div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="timeline-year"> <div style="width:100%" class="year1">1974 </div> </td> <td style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; vertical-align: top; "> <table style="border-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: top;min-height:60px;"> <tr> <td class="timeline-box2"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: 14px">Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/White_House">White House</a> in a stolen <a class="glink2" href="/timeline/helicopter">helicopter</a>.</div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="main-content-section"> <div class="thumbs-list-left"> <div class="color-bar green-light add-space">FACTOIDS</div> <div class="featured-topics-section"> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Vincent_van_Gogh'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/v/vi/vincent_van_gogh.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Vincent van Gogh</div> <div class="tb-top-text">Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime.</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Blue_Whale'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/b/bl/blue_whale.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Blue Whale</div> <div class="tb-top-text">The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Gold'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/g/go/gold.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Gold</div> <div class="tb-top-text">Every ton of seawater contains approximately 1 milligram of dissolved gold.</div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-big" onclick="location.href='/topics/Mosquito'"> <div class="thumb-box-image"><img src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/m/mo/mosquito.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-middle-text">Mosquito</div> <div class="tb-top-text">Studies show that mosquitoes prefer biting blondes to brunettes.</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="thumbs-list-right"> <div class="color-bar grey add-space">Timelines</div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/flags/full/1100.jpg" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/United_States">United States</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/a/am/american_civil_war.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/American_Civil_War">American Civil War</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/flags/full/1233.jpg" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/India">India</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/w/wi/winston_churchill.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/Winston_Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/topicimages/m/mi/middle_east.gif" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/Middle_East">Middle East</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/flags/full/88.jpg" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/flags/full/719.jpg" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/People's_Republic_of_China">People's Republic of China</a></div> </div> <div class="thumb-box-small go-link"> <div class="thumb-box-image" style="height:55px;width:75px;"><img style="height:55px;width:75px;min-height:55px" src="http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/flags/full/1266.jpg" /></div> <div class="tb-top-text"><a href="/timeline/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2025. 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