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On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 in the morning, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into...
The Siege of Mecca
Doomsday Clock – Wieviel Zeit bleibt der Welt?
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's...
1979: Big Bang of the Present