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1990 to 1999 Decade of fiscal stimulus packages ai_extracted 1 cit. During the 1990s the Japanese government implemented over a dozen large-scale spending packages totaling more than 145 trillion yen, without producing a sustained recovery. ●●●

1990 Mieno publicly defies the Finance Ministry ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1990 Governor Mieno engaged in a rare high-profile disagreement with the Finance Ministry, which opposed monetary tightening, and stuck to his tight money policy throughout his term. ●●

1990 Ministry of Finance total volume regulation of bank lending ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1990 the Ministry of Finance imposed its sōryō kisei, a rare total volume regulation of bank lending, though it was administered by the Bank of Japan and followed the BoJ's earlier tightening of 1988-89. ●●●

1990 Holes appear in Gatto's classroom floor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in October 1990 three holes appeared in the floor of his classroom at Booker T. Washington Junior High in Spanish Harlem. His attempt to fix them, blocked by bureaucracy for five months, becomes his illustration of school power fragmentation. ●●

1990 First government disclosure of Operation Gladio ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says the first on-the-record government disclosure of Operation Gladio came in 1990, only because earlier denials could no longer hold. It presents the operation as hidden for more than forty years. ●●

1990 Iraq's invasion of Kuwait ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Graeber notes Iraq was still paying reparations to Kuwait for the aggression. ●●

1990 CIA operations with Massoud in 1990 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the winter of 1990, the CIA had been working closely with Ahmad Shah Massoud in northeastern Afghanistan. ●●

1990 Eagleburger mediates the Noriega standoff in Panama ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger arrived in Panama to mediate the standoff with General Noriega, who was holed up in the papal nunciatura. ●●

1990 Noriega surrenders to US forces in Panama ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces on January 3 after spending eleven days hiding in the papal nunciatura. He was immediately arrested and transported to Miami for trial. ●●

1990 Critical Acclaim for Ron Chernow’s The House of Morgan, WIN rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Critical Acclaim for Ron Chernow’s The House of Morgan, WINNER OF THE 1990 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION: “The House of Morgan offers a long look at how the contemporary financial landscape ca... ●●

1990 American-led order reaches zenith rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the 1990s, the American-led order was at a zenith with the Western world dominating global politics and economics ●●

1990 Bush proclaims a 'new world order' to Congress contested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President George H.W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on September 11, 1990, at the start of the first Iraq War, describing the emergence of a 'new world order,' a phrase that later became subject to conspiracy theories. ●●

1990 Manly P. Hall dies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Manly P. Hall, the legendary esoteric philosopher and author of The Secret Teachings of All Ages, died. In his final years, he was concerned that his work would be forgotten and his Los Angeles campus neglected. ●●

1990 Yeltsin declares Russia belongs in the West ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Speaking in Kiev on November 19, 1990, Yeltsin asserted Russia's belonging in the West and its intent to imitate Western development, explicitly repudiating the Russian imperial legacy. ●●

1990 France and Germany commit to a federal Europe ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 6, 1990, the French president and German chancellor committed themselves to the goal of a federal Europe, reflecting their determination to create stronger European unity. ●●

1990 “that effectively lowered the age of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “that effectively lowered the age of consent to 12. ●●

1990 Haddon represented ‘gonzo’ journalist Hunter S. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Haddon represented ‘gonzo’ journalist Hunter S. ●●

1990 By the 1990s, free peoples everywhere were again looking to America for guidance in constructing yet rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the 1990s, free peoples everywhere were again looking to America for guidance in constructing yet another new world order. ●●

1990 Baltic States secede as the USSR disintegrates ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1990, the Baltic States seceded and the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. ●●

1990 Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York/Oxford: Oxford Universi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hendrickson, Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. ●●

1990 1990: 21 By the end of 1990 he had created a suite of tools that ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story urce Locators—those URLs, such as http://www.cern.ch , that we now use every day. 21 By the end of 1990 he had created a suite of tools that allowed his network to come to life: a Hypertext Transfer P ●●

1990 1990: as http://www.cern.ch , that we now use every day. 21 By the end of 19 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story as http://www.cern.ch , that we now use every day. 21 By the end of 1990 he had created a suite of tools that allowed his network to come to life: a H ●●

1990 Event of 1990 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story s “near” targets were the Saudi government and its regional partner states; its “far” enemy was the United States, which al-Qaeda reviled for supporting non-sharia-based state governments in the Middle East and for supposedly defiling Islam by deploy ●●

1990 Information history in 1990 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ♦ IN THE WANING YEARS OF TSARIST RUSSIA: Obituary, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 22 (1990): 31; A. N. ●●

1990 FBI inaugurates the CODIS DNA database ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of criminals, suspects, arrestees and unidentified individuals whose DNA is found at crime scenes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Combined National DNA Index System (CODIS) was inaugurated in 1990 and has been steadily databasing DNA from criminal encounters. All fifty states have now passed ●●

1990 cation-even if the insurance claim is unrelated to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story cation-even if the insurance claim is unrelated to the medical condition. Precedents abound for such retroactive invalidations, albeit based on family health history rather than genetic testing. In a 1990 Quebec case, a man was killed in a car crash. He carried the gene for a degenerative disease, a ●●

1990 But whereas some in the pro-life community really do see their struggle as otherworldly, this way... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But whereas some in the pro-life community really do see their struggle as otherworldly, this way of thinking is debilitating for people who are genuinely committed 376 f a t a l m i s c o n c e p ... ●●

1990 In the period from independence through the early 1990s, Julius Nyerere’s effort to build African so rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the period from independence through the early 1990s, Julius Nyerere’s effort to build African socialism in Tanzania was an utter disaster in every respect other than nation building. ●●

1990 The middle classes, who had strongly supported the democratic opening in the early 1990s, turned aga candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The middle classes, who had strongly supported the democratic opening in the early 1990s, turned against Thaksin and supported a military coup that forced him from power in 2006. ●●

1990 1 Sweden, Finland, and other Scandinavian countries found their large welfare states in crisis durin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1 Sweden, Finland, and other Scandinavian countries found their large welfare states in crisis during the 1990s and were able to make adjustments to their tax and spending levels. ●●

1990 It is hard to envision the democratic transitions that occurred in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is hard to envision the democratic transitions that occurred in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s absent the power of the images of the crumbling Berlin Wall that echoed around the world. ●●

1990 Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990. ●●

1990 Even more signifi- cant, an engineer with the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even more signifi- cant, an engineer with the Swiss company declared that he had told the Lockerbie investiga- tors abou ●●

1990 Sandinistas defeated in Nicaraguan elections ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 25 February 1990, the Sandinistas were defeated in national elections by a coali- tion of political parties running u ●●

1990 -52In December 1990, when President Guillermo Endara was rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story -52In December 1990, when President Guillermo Endara was faced with a military rebellion he was unable to put down, he c ●●

1990 City of Freedom tent camp set up in Sofia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A “City of Freedom” consisting of more than 60 tents was set up in the center of Sofia, occupied by people who said they ●●

1990 in debt, while Syria, China, Turkey, the Soviet rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story in debt, while Syria, China, Turkey, the Soviet Union, and other countries received military or economic aid and World 3 ●●

1990 Over and over, Bush repeated the mantra: no rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Over and over, Bush repeated the mantra: no negotiations, no deals, no face- saving, no rewards, and specifically, no li ●●

1990 78 By April 1990, 14 months after the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 78 By April 1990, 14 months after the Soviet withdrawal, the Los Angeles Times described the state of the rebels thusly: ●●

1990 This, then, was the power and the glory rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This, then, was the power and the glory of President Reagan’s “freedom fighters”, who had become yet more anti-American ●●

1990 8 There followed more than two years of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 8 There followed more than two years of regular political violence, coup attempts, and repression, casting off the vesti ●●

1990 This organization played a very partisan role in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This organization played a very partisan role in the 1990 elections when it was allied with US-favorite Marc Bazin, form ●●

1990 Soon thereafter, South Africa freed Nelson Mandela and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Soon thereafter, South Africa freed Nelson Mandela and apartheid began to crumble, and before the year 1990 was over Hai ●●

1990 forces”, Harper’s Magazine (New York), September 1990; 2) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story forces”, Harper’s Magazine (New York), September 1990; 2) Los Angeles Times, 1 April 1990, op-ed article by David and Jo ●●

1990 Tariq Aziz, to the Secretary-General of the Arab rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tariq Aziz, to the Secretary-General of the Arab League, July 15, 1990”, Appendix 1 of Pierre Salinger and Eric Laurent, ●●

1990 Legislative action rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Encyclopedia of American History and Biography (New York: Facts on File, 1990), p ●●

1990 Berners-Lee completes the core tools of the Web ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the end of 1990 Berners-Lee had built HTTP, HTML, a browser, and server software. ●●

1990 Cooper Signs the Preface to Behold a Pale Horse rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cooper dated and signed the preface and creed section of his book from Camp Verde, Arizona, laying out his personal warning about a coming New World Order before the book's 1991 publication. ●●

1990 Mandela invokes Kimathi on his first visit to Kenya ai_extracted 1 cit. On his first visit to Kenya in July 1990, Nelson Mandela invoked Kimathi in a speech at Kasarani Stadium, saying the image of fighters like Kimathi had sustained him through 27 years of imprisonment. He lamented the absence of a proper burial site for Kimathi. ●●

February 1990 The murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko 5 cit. Foreign Minister Robert Ouko disappeared from his rural home and was found dead days later near Got Alila hill, shot and his body burned. A respected figure seen as a possible reformer, his killing shocked the country and drew British investigators. The perpetrators were never brought to justice, and the case became a symbol of impunity that hardened opposition to the government. politics ●●●

c. 1990 Mara group ranches are subdivided into private titles 2 cit. Group ranches around the Maasai Mara, including major blocks such as Koiyaki and Lemek, came under pressure to subdivide into individual parcels. Many landowners wanted title deeds, inheritance security and a direct share of rising land values, while others feared committee capture and elite dealing. The result fragmented open grazing land into marketable private plots, making it easier to sell, fence, farm or lease the land. economy / politics / society ●●●●

February 1990 Scotland Yard investigates Robert Ouko's murder 1 cit. After Foreign Minister Robert Ouko was found dead in February 1990, Kenya asked detectives from London's Metropolitan Police, commonly known through Scotland Yard, to investigate. The point is not that London solved Kenyan politics. The point is that a politically charged killing was seen as too compromised for domestic police credibility alone. politics / society ●●●

1991 Japan becomes a net capital importer ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1991 Japan suddenly turned from being the biggest net capital exporter ever to a net importer of capital, a reversal that defied traditional economic models. ●●●

1991 Japanese foreign investment tide reverses ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1991, even as the current account headed for record surpluses over $90 billion, Japan's long-term capital outflows vanished and the country recorded $40 billion of net inflows, its first in more than a decade, becoming a net seller of foreign assets. ●●●

1991 Japan slides into its longest postwar recession ai_extracted 1 cit. With paralyzed banks shrinking credit creation, Japan's economy slid from 1991 into the longest and deepest postwar recession since the 1930s, with unemployment at postwar records and probably more than five million jobs lost. ●●●●

July 1991 BoJ begins cutting the official discount rate ai_extracted 1 cit. Starting with the first reduction in July 1991, when the rate stood at 6 percent, the Bank of Japan lowered the official discount rate ten times during the 1990s, reaching 1.75 percent by September 1993 and 0.5 percent by September 1995. ●●●

1991 to 1992 U.S. recession of 1991 and rapid Fed reflation ai_extracted 1 cit. After a credit boom turned to bust and bad debts paralyzed U.S. banks, real GDP contracted about 1 percent in 1991; the Federal Reserve printed money from 1990 onward and the economy had fully recovered by 1992. ●●●

July 1991 BoJ announces immediate abolition of window guidance ai_extracted 1 cit. In July 1991, shortly after publishing an English-language report claiming window guidance had not been applied since 1982, the Bank of Japan announced that window guidance would be abolished immediately. ●●●

1991 EMEAP central bank club formed ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1991 the eleven central banks of the East Asia and Pacific region formed the Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP), a low-profile club whose deputy governors met twice a year. ●●

1991 Bank of Japan declares window guidance abolished ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1991 the chief of the Bank of Japan's Banking Department, Tamura, told the press that the abolition of window guidance was final and that it would never be reinstituted. ●●●

July 1991 to September 1995 Bank of Japan begins 1990s rate-cutting cycle ai_extracted 1 cit. The Bank of Japan lowered the official discount rate ten times during the 1990s, starting with the first cut in July 1991 from 6 percent, reaching 1.75 percent by September 1993 and 0.5 percent by September 1995. ●●●

1991 Gatto resigns from teaching ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After thirty years as a New York City teacher, Gatto quit on July 5, 1991. His resignation essay ran in The Wall Street Journal twenty days later. ●●

1991 Gulf War air campaign begins ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The seven-week air war on Iraq opened after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. The CIA picked bombing targets until one it selected turned out to be a civilian air-raid shelter, killing hundreds. ●●

1991 Bill Clinton announces his 1992 presidential campaign ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton officially announced his candidacy for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, beginning a campaign with substantial Wall Street funding. ●●

1991 Bin Laden expelled from Saudi Arabia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In spring 1991, the Saudi government, concerned about bin Laden's Islamic activism and radical statements, expelled him from the kingdom. According to various accounts, he was either ordered to leave or facilitated departure to attend an Islamic conference in Pakistan. He never returned to Saudi Arabia. ●●

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On August 19, 1991, hard-line Soviet communists attempted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed, and within weeks the Communist Party collapsed as an effective political organization. The Soviet Union formally dissolved shortly thereafter. ●●

1991 U.S. and Soviet Union agree to end arms supplies to Afghanistan ai_extracted 2 cit. On September 13, 1991, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin pledged a mutual cutoff of all arms to Najibullah and the Afghan rebels, effective January 1, 1992. The superpower agreement ended official support for both sides in the Afghan war. ●●

1991 Coalition begins bombing Iraq in the Gulf War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 16, 1991, a 34-nation coalition led by the United States launched a bombing campaign against Iraqi military targets and forces occupying Kuwait. ●●

1991 Marie Warburg, letter to the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Marie Warburg, letter to the author, October 31, 1991. 15. ●●

1991 The New York Times, August rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The New York Times, August 11, 1991. 28. ●●

1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The power structure became unipolar in the 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and continuing growth of America's material capabilities ●●

1991 Soviet Union dissolved, replaced by the CIS ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In December 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved by the heads of its Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian republics and formally replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States. ●●

1991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ukraine's declaration of independence in December 1991 and control over Soviet army units on its soil prevented the CIS from becoming a confederal USSR and set an example for other republics. ●●

1991 He was back in the States rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was back in the States on September 26, 1991. ●●

1991 Little was indicted, brought to trial, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Little was indicted, brought to trial, and then acquitted on April 17, 1991. ●●

1991 When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Bor candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When he was toppled from power in 1991, the Soviet army had thrown its support behind his rival, Boris Yeltsin, the Communist Party had been declared illegal, and the empire which had been so bloodily assembled by every Russian ruler since Peter the ●●

1991 Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), p rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt, 1991), p. ●●

1991 1991: ” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launc... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee intended it to be used as a collaboration tool, which is why he was dismayed that ●●

1991 1991: Presper, 69 , 70 –72, 74 –75, 81 , 82 , 83 –84, 88 , 94 , 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story self-driving cars of, 456 Google Glass, 259 –60 Gopher, 415 Gore, Al, 260 , 400 –403 Gore Act (1991), 402 , 416 , 423 government funding, 73 –74, 482 , 484 see also ARPANET Graetz, Martin, 204 , 205 G ●●

1991 1991: , 167 , 188 Hayes Smartmodem, 387 Heart, Frank, 252 “Heat... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 64 Hewlett-Packard, 156 , 189 , 199 , 344 , 345 , 348 , 351 , 450 High Performance Computing Act (1991), 402 , 416 Higinbotham, William, 215 Hilbert, David, 43 , 44 , 45 , 47 , 78 , 103 Hiltzik, Micha ●●

1991 1991: of the basic desires that drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story of the basic desires that drive the digital world.” 79 WARD CUNNINGHAM, JIMMY WALES, AND WIKIS When he launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee inten ●●

1991 1991: nest, Les, 251 , 281 Easy Writer, 356 Eckert, J. Presper, 69 , 70 –72, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story nest, Les, 251 , 281 Easy Writer, 356 Eckert, J. Presper, 69 , 70 –72, 74 –75, 81 , 82 , 83 –84, 88 , 94 , 105 , 106 , 109 , 110 , 119 , 134 , 137 , 2 ●●

1991 1991: –5, 106 , 222 , 271 , 328 –29 Hayden, Stone & Co., 167 , 188 Hayes Sma rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story –5, 106 , 222 , 271 , 328 –29 Hayden, Stone & Co., 167 , 188 Hayes Smartmodem, 387 Heart, Frank, 252 “Heath Robinson,” 79 Heinlein, Robert, 257 , 299 ●●

1991 or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the operation peaked in 1991, fiber was being rolled out, globally, at over 5,000 miles per hour, or nine times the speed of sound: Mach 9 ●●

1991 Later in 1991, at Senate hearings on the confirmation of Robert Gates ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Later in 1991, at Senate hearings on the confirmation of Robert Gates as head of the CIA, former CIA officers Melvin Goodman and Harold Ford testified that the CIA’s analysis of the Bulgarian Connecti ●●

1991 The most recent of these imperial dissolutions was that of the former Soviet Union, a country built rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The most recent of these imperial dissolutions was that of the former Soviet Union, a country built on ostensibly universalistic ideological principles which collapsed after 1991 into smaller states based on ethnolinguistic solidarity. ●●

1991 Most of the colonial empires were dismantled in the three decades following World War II; one of the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Most of the colonial empires were dismantled in the three decades following World War II; one of the last large ones, that of the former Soviet Union, fell apart in 1991. ●●

1991 It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spre rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that stable liberal democracy finally spread throughout Western Europe, and not until the collapse of communism in 1989–1991 that it was extended into Eastern Europe as well. ●●

1991 191 Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 191 Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, and also founded the Center for Democracy, one o ●●

1991 Panama signs treaty expanding US legal authority ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eventually, after many American threats to cut off aid, Panama signed a treaty in April 1991 giving US authorities parti ●●

1991 The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, in an April 1991 secret report, warned that “if DU gets in the food chain or ●●

1991 Father Charles Beirne, vice rector of the Jesuit rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Father Charles Beirne, vice rector of the Jesuit university, declared in 1991 that “the Americans were helping to protec ●●

1991 The United States had waged ruthless war against rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United States had waged ruthless war against the Salvadorean revolution, and threatened worse—in April 1991, Chairma ●●

1991 Aristide takes office as president of Haiti ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The president-priest took office in February 1991 after a coup attempt against him in January failed ●●

1991 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide served less than eight months rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide served less than eight months as Haiti’s president before being deposed, on 29 September 1991, ●●

1991 ) National Platform, 1900 Following its bombing of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ) National Platform, 1900 Following its bombing of Iraq in 1991, the United States wound up with military bases in Saudi ●●

1991 How the Bush Administration Bungled its Way to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How the Bush Administration Bungled its Way to War in the Gulf”, The Village Voice (New York), 22 January 1991, p ●●

1991 Bob Woodward, The Commanders (Simon & Schuster, New rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bob Woodward, The Commanders (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991), pp ●●

1991 Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Needless Deaths in the Gulf War: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War, a report ●●

1991 Torvalds announces the Linux kernel ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Linus Torvalds posted a message about his new kernel on the MINIX newsgroup. ●●