Heineken International was founded in the Netherlands.
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Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization.
The Soviet Union announced that all of its troops had officially withdrawn from Afghanistan.
The Greek philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of Athens's youth.
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
