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Samantha Smith's trip in July 1983 as a "goodwill ambassador" to the U.S.S.R. was a media sensation, although some dismissed her visit as a Soviet PR stunt. She spent three days at the most popular Young Pioneers' camp called Artek, which was located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
Earth Day, first time celebrated in 1970, is an annual event celebrated around the world on 22 April to demonstrate support for environmental protection, and now is globally coordinated by the Earth Day Network (EDN).
As cities around the world try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, history offers a sobering lesson about the effectiveness of lockdowns and banning mass gatherings. In 1918 amid the Spanish flu pandemic, the city of Philadelphia in the United States decided not to cancel a huge parade.
Azerbaijanis Mark 30th Anniversary Of Bloody 'Black January' Crackdown
A Bolshevik uprising in Berlin, civil war in Russia, the first nonstop transatlantic crossing by air, and daily commutes by zeppelin. These seldom-seen images show some of the events and moments that helped to define life a century ago.
On November 17, Slovakia and the Czech Republic mark the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the nonviolent protest movement that brought communist rule to an end in Czechoslovakia.
Thirty years ago, Hungary lifted restrictions on travel to Austria, enabling tens of thousands of East Germans to flee to the West. The September 1989 events in Hungary are often described as the first cracks in the Berlin Wall.
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