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2010s Host nation of the 2016 Summer Olympics ★
2010s Osama Bin Laden is executed in this country ★★
2010s A massive earthquake kills approximately 220,000 people ★★★
2010s First nation to hold demonstrations which began the Arab Spring ★★★★
2010s Became the world's newest nation in 2011 ★★★★★
2000s Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is built here ★
2000s 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were citizens of this nation ★★
2000s The first genocide of the 21st century takes place in this country ★★★
2000s US-led coalition invades this nation and overthrows the Ba'ath Party ★★★★
2000s This Eurozone country announces huge deficit figures leading to a massive debt crisis and bailout ★★★★★
1990s Along with Slovakia, this nation was formed after the dissolution of its parent country ★
1990s Genocide committed by the Hutus on Tutsis in this nation ★★
1990s This country was invaded by Iraq which led to the Gulf War ★★★
1990s F.W. de Klerk is succeeded by new leader in this post-Apartheid nation ★★★★
1990s A genocide takes place in Srebrenica & Žepa, towns located in this nation, leading to NATO intervention ★★★★★
1980s Pan Am Flight 103 crashes here after a timer-activated bomb explodes onboard, killing 270 people ★
1980s Famine sweeps this nation and prompts Live Aid charity ★★
1980s Greenpeace's 'Rainbow Warrior' ship is sunk off the coast of this country ★★★
1980s Chernobyl nuclear disaster takes place in this country, when it was still a Soviet territory ★★★★
1980s The cube invented by Ernő Rubik, born in this nation, is released worldwide and becomes wildly popular
1970s Ayatollah Khomeini returns as leader of this nation ★
1970s Pol Pot becomes communist dictator in this country ★★
1970s Jonestown massacre takes place here ★★★
1970s Soviet Union invades this country ★★★★
1970s Terracotta Army is discovered by farmers in this country ★★★★★
1960s Bay of Pigs Invasion takes place here ★
1960s Muhammad Ali refuses to join US army and fight this country ★★
1960s This country's Prime Minister, Harold Holt, disappears while swimming ★★★
1960s Che Guevara is killed here ★★★★
1960s Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes first elected female leader, heading this nation, then known as Ceylon ★★★★★
1950s President Truman signs Treaty of San Francisco restoring sovereignty to this nation ★
1950s This country's First Lady, Eva Perón, dies ★★
1950s Marilyn Bell of this nation becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario ★★★
1950s Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of this nation ★★★★
1950s Country of Tenzing Norgay who summits Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary ★★★★★
1940s Country of Chuck Yeager who breaks the speed of sound in flight ★
1940s This nation is established on May 14, 1948, marking the end of the British Mandate for Palestine ★★
1940s Anne Frank goes into hiding here ★★★
1940s D-Day landings take place on the shores of this country ★★★★
1940s Syngman Rhee elected first President after war results in the formation of this country ★★★★★
1930s LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in this country ★
1930s 1st FIFA World Cup is hosted here ★★
1930s Salt March takes place in this country and its leader is imprisoned ★★★
1930s Civil War involving Francisco Franco breaks out in this nation ★★★★
1930s The Lego company is created here ★★★★★
1920s Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founds this modern day country ★
1920s Violet Gibson almost kills this nation's infamous dictator ★★
1920s Future dictator of this nation is sentenced to 5 years in jail and writes a book ★★★
1920s Tomb of King Tut discovered in this nation ★★★★
1920s Pancho Villa retired from military activity in this country ★★★★★
1910s A typhus epidemic occurs here, drastically dropping this country's population ★
1910s Easter Rising & War of Independence begin here ★★
1910s Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is built in this nation ★★★
1910s This nation's Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole ★★★★
1910s Machu Picchu is discovered in the mountains of this country ★★★★★
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