Demonstrations broke out in Tbilisi, Georgia, after attempts by the USSR to repress the Georgian language.
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The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
NATO accidentally bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo, killing seventy-three.
The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
J.C. Penney's opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
Sputnik 2 soviet spacecraft burned up, returning through Earth's atmosphere.
