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REMNANTS OF THE

TRAGEDIES

The Ethiopian Famine
South African apartheid
The hijacking of the Kuwait Airliner
The Union Carbide gas leak in India

March 15, 44BC Julius Caesar
64AD Rome burned while Nero fiddled
August 19, 14AD Augustus died
.216BC 50,CXX) Romans killed at Canriae

WORLD EVENTS

The Baby Fae heart transplant
William Schroeder's mechanical heart
President Reagan's re-election
Geraldine Ferraro's running for the vice-presidency
The birth of Prince Henry
The games of the twenty-third Olympics in Los Angeles
The winning of the Nobel Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu
The death of Indira Gandhi
The death of Solidarity priest Popieluszko
The death of Truman Capote
The discovery of another planet

The First and Second Triumvirate
The Three Punic Wars
The war between Rome and Macedon
Constantine reunited the empire
Greece comes under Roman control
Civil war begins in Rome
Roman army regains control of Italy
Roman invasion of Britain
The Parthian War
The dispersion of Jews from Jerusalem after the Jewish revolt
Rome founded by Romulus and Remus

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