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  1. 1995 Sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A religious cult released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, killing twelve and injuring thousands. It signaled terrorism's shift from nation-states to self-anointed groups. ●●
  2. 1995 Srebrenica massacre missed by CIA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A spy satellite photographed Serb gunmen guarding prisoners outside Srebrenica, but no one at the CIA looked at the image for three weeks. Eight thousand people were killed in the worst mass murder in Europe since the Nazi death camps. ●●
  3. 1995 CIA deploys Predator drones to Bosnia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA deployed unmanned Predator reconnaissance drones secretly to Bosnia in 1995. ●●
  4. 1995 Yeltsin issues official CIS policy document ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In September 1995, President Yeltsin issued an official document on Russian policy toward the CIS that established Russia's imperial restoration goals and determination to maintain dominance. ●●
  5. 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997 First Congo War 0 cit. no story Rwanda and Uganda back Laurent Kabila's rebellion, which sweeps across Zaire and topples Mobutu. The fragile new order collapses into the far larger Second Congo War a year later. politics / war ●●●
  6. 18 August 1996 Gary Webb publishes Dark Alliance 1 cit. no story Journalist Gary Webb's San Jose Mercury News series links the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras' fundraising to the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles. Attacked by major papers and largely retracted by his editor, aspects were partly vindicated by a 1998 CIA Inspector General report acknowledging contra-drug connections. politics / society ●●●●
  7. 1996 Pastor's Panama ambassadorship blocked by Helms ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1996 Bill Clinton nominated Robert Pastor as Ambassador to Panama, but Senator Jesse Helms blocked the confirmation over Pastor's role in the 1976 Panama Canal giveaway. ●●
  8. 1996 AFT lawyer calls parents 'inconsequential conduits' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that on June 24, 1996, in a Franklin County, Ohio court, an attorney for the American Federation of Teachers opposing a parent-choice initiative called parents 'inconsequential conduits.' He uses it to show school interests' contempt for parents. ●●
  9. 1996 NEA convention offers delegate bounty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that at the 1996 NEA convention the union offered members a $1000 bounty for getting elected as delegates to the Democratic National Convention. He uses it to show the NEA's political alignment. ●●
  10. 1996 Vermont Senate forces a loan on Benson ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that in January 1996 the Vermont State Senate passed a bill forcing Benson to accept a 'loan' equal to its rejected school budget, plus interest. He uses it as an example of the state overriding local voters. ●●
  11. 1996 CIA creates the bin Laden station ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The CIA set up a dedicated counterterrorism unit of about a dozen people focused entirely on Osama bin Laden. There was a sense he might begin aiming at American targets abroad. ●●
  12. 1996 Saddam crushes CIA-backed coup plot ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Saddam's spies penetrated a CIA-supported coup plan and he arrested at least two hundred officers around Baghdad. He executed at least eighty of them, including a general's sons. ●●
  13. 1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani support for Taliban ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A December 1996 State Department cable documents Pakistani intelligence secretly supplying cash, equipment, and military advisers to the Taliban, with ISI officers fighting inside Afghanistan. ●●
  14. 1996 Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1996 manifesto, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”: “Governments of the Industrial World,…on behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone ●●
  15. 1996 Russian Duma declares Soviet dissolution invalid ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In early 1996, the Russian Duma went so far as to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Union to be invalid, reflecting nationalist rejection of Russia's reduced geopolitical status. ●●
  16. 1996 Russia and Belarus sign integration agreements ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During spring 1996, Russia signed agreements providing for closer economic and political integration with Belarus and other CIS members, attempting to recreate post-Soviet imperial structures. ●●
  17. 1996 Zaire's army collapses under AFDL invasion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zaire had a large army that looked impressive on paper, but when the country was invaded from the east by troops of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire in 1996, its military collapsed overnight. ●●
  18. 1997 Gatto hears the Dalai Lama at Naropa Institute ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts attending a 1997 Spirituality in Education conference at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he heard the Dalai Lama speak. He was invited to speak at the non-sectarian gathering. ●●
  19. 1997 Tony Lake withdraws as CIA nominee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Facing a hostile Senate hearing, Tony Lake withdrew his nomination to lead the CIA, calling it a political circus. The job then fell to George Tenet. ●●
  20. 1997 George Tenet becomes CIA director ai_extracted 2 cit. no story George Tenet was sworn in as the eighteenth director of central intelligence. He inherited a nearly bankrupt agency with a clandestine service in disarray. ●●
  21. 1997 Travelers acquires Salomon Brothers ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sandy Weill's Travelers Insurance acquired Salomon Brothers for $9 billion and merged it with Smith Barney, creating a major investment banking operation. ●●
  22. 1997 CIA briefs Congress on Afghan intelligence operations ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1997, the CIA's Counterterrorist Center briefs Congress in closed session about running operations to collect intelligence in Afghanistan. ●●
  23. 1997 Pakistan recognizes Taliban government ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pakistan's foreign ministry announces on May 26, 1997 that Pakistan recognizes the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government. ●●
  24. 1997 United States closes the Afghan embassy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1997, the State Department closes the Afghan embassy in Washington, formally suspending Afghanistan's status as a recognized government. ●●
  25. 1997 Paulo Freire dies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paulo Freire died on May 2, 1997, ending a life dedicated to the struggle for liberation education. His work had profoundly influenced educational movements and critical pedagogy across the world. ●●
  26. 1997 Hong Kong reverts to Chinese sovereignty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Attempts to settle or annex their territories in the nineteenth century were all defeated or reversed, up to the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. ●●
  27. 1997 Chongqing split from Sichuan as a municipality ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The city of Chongqing, which was split off from Sichuan Province as a separate administrative unit in 1997, by itself has a population of almost thirty million. ●●
  28. 1997 John Barger coins the term weblog ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Barger coined 'weblog' to describe his website Robot Wisdom. ●●
  29. 1997 Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov ai_extracted 1 cit. no story IBM's chess computer Deep Blue beat world champion Garry Kasparov, reviving popular debate about artificial intelligence. ●●
  30. 30 September 1998 Founding of ICANN 0 cit. no story The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is incorporated in California to manage the internet's domain name system and address allocation, taking over functions previously run under US government contract. diplomacy / technology ●●●
  31. 6 May 1998 to 18 June 2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian War 0 cit. no story Eritrea and Ethiopia fight a trench war over a disputed border town, killing tens of thousands. A cold standoff follows until the 2018 peace agreement. war ●●●
  32. 28 February 1998 to 11 June 1999 Kosovo War 0 cit. no story The Kosovo Liberation Army fights Serbian forces whose ethnic cleansing prompts a 78-day NATO bombing campaign. Serbia withdraws and Kosovo comes under UN administration, declaring independence in 2008. politics / war ●●●
  33. 1998 IPv6 internet addressing standard formalized ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The IPv6 internet addressing standard was initially formalized in 1998, vastly expanding the pool of unique device addresses. Wood argues this makes the Internet of Things and remote control of appliances possible. ●●
  34. 1998 Zuckerman essay on the American economy in Foreign Affairs ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto analyzes a June 1998 Foreign Affairs essay by Mortimer Zuckerman praising the American economy's structural lead, which Gatto attributes to attitudes trained by schooling. ●●
  35. 1998 Daniele Ganser begins researching Operation Gladio ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says that in 1998 Daniele Ganser chose Operation Gladio as a PhD topic and uncovered secret CIA- and NATO-linked armies across Europe. It uses his work to support its claims about hidden Western operations. ●●
  36. 1998 India tests a nuclear bomb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story India exploded a nuclear bomb, catching the CIA by surprise and remaking the global balance of power. It exposed a systemic breakdown in the agency's espionage and analysis. ●●
  37. 1998 East Africa embassy bombings ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Near-simultaneous truck bombs destroyed the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing hundreds including a young CIA officer. The attacks marked al Qaeda's escalating war on the United States. ●●
  38. 1998 Russia defaults and devalues the ruble ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia devalued the ruble and defaulted on its international loans, creating a financial crisis that spread globally and threatened major banks. ●●
  39. 1998 Bin Laden announces World Islamic Front for Jihad ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bin Laden announces the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders on February 23, 1998 with Egyptian militant leaders including Ayman al-Zawahiri. ●●
  40. 1998 Richard Clarke named White House counterterrorism czar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 22, 1998, President Clinton signs PDD-62 formally appointing Richard Clarke as the White House's new counterterrorism czar with unprecedented Cabinet-level authority. ●●
  41. 1998 US embassies bombed in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Al Qaeda suicide bombers attack US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, killing 213 people in Nairobi and 11 in Dar es Salaam. ●●
  42. 1998 CIA's first secret plan to kidnap bin Laden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tarnak Farm had been the target of the CIA's first secret plan to kidnap bin Laden in 1998. ●●
  43. 1998 NATO intervention in Kosovo ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As diplomatic negotiations at U.N. Security Council over Kosovo crisis unfolded in 1998, Russia refused authorization and American-led NATO intervened ●●
  44. 1998 Brin and Page present Google search paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their foundational paper on Google's search engine at the World Wide Web Conference. ●●
  45. 1998 Iceland creates first national DNA database ai_extracted 1 cit. no story every person’s profile should be added to the databank. Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has urged that a DNA fingerprint be recorded for every American at birth.30 That day is coming. In 1998, Iceland created the world’s first national DNA database of its citizens. Almost all of its 275, ●●
  46. 1998 Page and Brin present the PageRank paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Page and Brin delivered 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine' at an Australian conference. ●●
  47. 1998 Bechtolsheim writes Google's first check ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After meeting Page and Brin, Bechtolsheim wrote a check that let them incorporate Google. ●●
  48. 1999 Bolivarian Revolution wikidata 0 cit. no story political process in Venezuela led by the late Hugo Chávez ●●●
  49. 10 November 1999 Founding of the World Anti-Doping Agency 0 cit. no story The IOC and governments establish WADA in Lausanne after the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal, creating a single world authority for anti-doping rules in sport. Its headquarters moved to Montreal in 2002. diplomacy / science / society ●●
  50. 3 May 1999 to 26 July 1999 Kargil War 0 cit. no story Pakistani soldiers and militants infiltrate Indian positions in the Kargil heights, triggering a high-altitude war between the two new nuclear powers. India retakes the peaks and Pakistan withdraws under international pressure. war ●●
  51. 1999 75.5 million people involved in U.S. education by 1999 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by the end of 1999, 75.5 million people out of a U.S. population of 275 million were directly involved in giving or receiving education. He uses the figure to show how central schooling had become to national life. ●●
  52. 1999 Gatto speaks at Cypress Semiconductor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts going to Silicon Valley in mid-1999 to speak to executives at Cypress Semiconductor about school reform. His thesis there was that forced schooling follows the requirements of business. ●●
  53. 1999 Senate passes the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Senate overwhelmingly passed Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, repealing Glass-Steagall and enabling mergers of commercial and investment banks with insurance companies. ●●
  54. 1999 CIA locates bin Laden at Helmand hunting camp ai_extracted 2 cit. no story CIA tracking team locates bin Laden at an elaborately provisioned hunting camp in Helmand Province on February 9, 1999, providing opportunity for military strike. ●●
  55. 1999 Abdul Haq's wife and children murdered ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Pakistani intelligence operatives murder anti-Taliban commander Abdul Haq's wife and children on January 12, 1999 to prevent him organizing Pashtun opposition. ●●
  56. 1999 Musharraf seizes power in Pakistani coup ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Pervez Musharraf seizes power in a military coup on October 12, 1999, dismissing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and assuming control of Pakistan. ●●
  57. 1999 Jordanian police seize millennium-plot explosives ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian police arrest militants and discover seventy-one containers of explosives on December 5, 1999 for planned attacks on the Radisson Hotel and movie theater. ●●
  58. 1999 Abu Zubaydah directs millennium terror plots ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian intelligence intercepts bin Laden's top lieutenant Abu Zubaydah giving orders for coordinated terror attacks timed for the millennium. ●●
  59. 1999 George W. Bush disparages military Wiccan worship ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Governor George W. Bush of Texas criticized military leaders at Fort Hood for accommodating Wiccan worship circles, stating 'I don't think witchcraft is a religion.' Despite this, the military continued to accommodate Wiccan and other nature-based faiths. ●●
  60. 1999 Google announces $25 million equity investment ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google held its first press conference announcing a $25 million equity investment, fielding seven million search requests daily. ●●
  61. 1999 East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story East Timor had been a province of Indonesia when it voted for independence and became a sovereign state in 1999. ●●
  62. 1999 East Timor votes for independence ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Timor Leste nonetheless voted for independence in a 1999 referendum, and became, despite terrible violence by pro-Indonesian militias, an independent country in 2002. ●●
  63. 1999 Evan Williams launches Pyra Labs and Blogger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Williams and Meg Hourihan launched Pyra Labs, whose product Blogger helped popularize blogging. ●●
  64. 12 December 2000 Algiers Agreement (2000) wikidata 0 cit. no story peace agreement signed in 2000 between Eritrea and Ethiopia ●●●
  65. 2000 Earth Charter completed and published ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Earth Charter, called for at the 1992 Rio conference by Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, was completed and published on June 29, 2000. ●●
  66. 2000 Gatto's estimate of the cost of a schooled child in 2000 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto estimates that in the year 2000 the cost of producing a well-schooled child in New York State was $200,000 per body once lost interest is counted. ●●
  67. 2000 Ohio state motto ruled unconstitutional ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2000 the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ohio's state motto 'With God, all things are possible' unconstitutional. Gatto lists it among decisions removing religious expression from public life. ●●
  68. 2000 First Predator flight over Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The pilotless Predator, equipped with cameras and sensors, was declared ready for use over Afghanistan and made its first flight. The agency and the air force later worked out how to arm it with missiles. ●●
  69. 2000 Bombing of the USS Cole ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two men in a speedboat blew a huge hole in the American warship USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, killing seventeen sailors. Al Qaeda was the obvious suspect. ●●
  70. 2000 CIA obtains Khalid al-Mihdhar's US visa copy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By January 5, 2000, the CIA obtains a copy of Khalid al-Mihdhar's passport showing a valid US B1/B2 visa issued in Jeddah that would not expire until April 6, 2000. ●●
  71. 2000 Clinton approves Predator missions over Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Clinton approved a limited proof-of-concept mission in September 2000 to launch Predator drones. ●●
  72. 2000 Tonga sells its gene pool to Autogen ai_extracted 1 cit. no story anies that want to find disease genes common to most Europeans.”33 The tiny Polynesian nation of Tonga sold the information on its unique gene pool to Autogen, an Australian genetic research firm, in 2000. Tonga’s 170 islands host a group of some 108,000 natives isolated for more than three millenni ●●
  73. 2000 Argentina abandons dollar peg amid economic crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But then Argentina succumbed to a major economic crisis in 2000–2001 as the dollar peg was abandoned, and the country fell into a huge depression. ●●
  74. 2000 Nupedia publishes its first article ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nupedia, the free encyclopedia project that preceded Wikipedia, published its first peer-reviewed article. ●●
  75. 16 November 2001 Cape Town Treaty wikidata 0 cit. no story 2001 treaty ●●●
  76. 7 October 2001 to 30 August 2021 War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) 0 cit. no story The United States and allies topple the Taliban after the September 11 attacks, then fight a twenty-year insurgency. The Taliban retake Kabul in 2021 as the last American forces withdraw, ending America's longest war. politics / war ●●●●
  77. 2001 Robert Pastor publishes Toward a North American Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Robert A. Pastor's book Toward a North American Union was published in 2001, just before the 9/11 attacks. It argued for deep integration beyond NAFTA. ●●
  78. 2001 Ark of Hope Earth Charter celebration ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 9, 2001, two days before 9/11, an Earth Charter celebration in Vermont unveiled the Ark of Hope holding a papyrus copy of the charter. It was later carried to U.N. headquarters. ●●
  79. 2001 Time Magazine reports China's turn to technocracy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2001 Time Magazine documented China's shift toward rule by technocrats in an article titled "Made in China: The Revenge of the Nerds." Wood argues China became a technocracy following Deng Xiaoping's post-1978 reforms. ●●
  80. 2001 Epicyte announces a contraceptive corn ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts, in a footnote drawing on William Engdahl, that in September 2001 Epicyte reported creating a contraceptive corn. It presents this as part of a claimed depopulation agenda. ●●
  81. 2001 Bush's secret directive unleashes the CIA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush issued a top-secret directive ordering the CIA to hunt, capture, imprison, and interrogate suspects worldwide with no limits. It became the foundation for a system of secret prisons and torture. ●●
  82. 2001 Bush orders warrantless eavesdropping ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Bush ordered the NSA to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists' communications inside the United States without judicial warrants. General Hayden said he could not not do it. ●●
  83. 2001 Taliban leadership toppled in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The American military knocked out the Taliban's political leadership and paved the way for a new government in Kabul. Tens of thousands of Taliban loyalists melted into the villages to fight another day. ●●
  84. 2001 Enron reveals massive loss and accounting fraud ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Enron announced $681 million third-quarter loss and $1.2 billion shareholder equity reduction, revealing magnitude of its fraudulent accounting scheme. ●●
  85. 2001 Bush asks George Tenet to stay as CIA director ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Just after New Year's Day 2001, President-elect George W. Bush called Senator David Boren about George Tenet. ●●
  86. 2001 Taliban announces plan to destroy Afghan statues ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On March 1, 2001, the Taliban announced its intention to destroy all statues in Afghanistan. ●●
  87. 2001 Mullah Omar warns Musharraf in private letter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 16, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Omar wrote a private letter to General Musharraf. ●●
  88. 2001 Deputies committee prioritizes bin Laden and Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On April 30, 2001, the Bush administration's deputies committee held its first meeting on bin Laden and Afghanistan. ●●
  89. 2001 State Department meets Taliban in Pakistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On June 26, 2001, State Department diplomats met with Taliban representatives in Pakistan. ●●
  90. 2001 CIA warns Bush of imminent al Qaeda attack ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 10, 2001, the CIA prepared a briefing paper warning of imminent al Qaeda attack. ●●
  91. 2001 Abdul Haq leads resistance mission into Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Afghan rebel commander Abdul Haq crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan with twenty fighters in October 2001 to lead a political and military campaign against the Taliban regime. ●●
  92. 2001 US launches Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7, 2001, with air strikes against Taliban military installations and Al Qaeda training camps. ●●
  93. 2001 September 11 attacks on the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. ●●
  94. 2001 CIA team deploys to the Northern Alliance with cash ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A ten-person CIA team carrying $3 million in cash departed Washington on September 20, 2001, to provide direct military funding to Northern Alliance commanders fighting the Taliban. ●●
  95. 2001 US-led intervention in Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After September 11, the American-led intervention in Afghanistan used military force to topple regime protecting terrorist attackers ●●
  96. 2001 Blow film released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The drug-themed film Blow, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, was released based on the true story of cocaine trafficker George Jung. ●●
  97. 2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Laura Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie was released with a 94 million budget involving tax shelters in Germany and the UK. ●●
  98. 2001 A Beautiful Mind released ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind depicted John Nash, a figure with possible NSA connections, portrayed as paranoid schizophrenic. ●●
  99. 2001 Estonia launches the Estonian Genome Project ai_extracted 1 cit. no story elhi and Tokyo. The name of the company is IBM. Its Iceland project operates under a division known as “Life Services-Nordic.”32 Estonia became the second nation to databank its entire population. In 2001, Estonia created the Estonia Genome Project to capture the genetic profiles of its 1.4 million ●●
  100. 2001 NSA mass surveillance of Americans after 9/11 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And, as the world has come to know through the revelations of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency has been given broad leave to collect data not just on foreign activities but also on American citizens since September 11, 2001. ●●