Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1989
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This city ceases to be divided by a wall
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Berlin
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1988
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Terrorists from this country cause Pan Am 103 to crash into Lockerbie, Scotland
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Libya
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1987
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This British P.M. wins a rare third term in office
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Margaret Thatcher
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1986
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This space shuttle explodes
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Challenger
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1985
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This reformer becomes leader of the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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1984
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The Soviet Union boycotts the Summer Olympics which are held in this city
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Los Angeles
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1983
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This singer "moonwalks" for the first time
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Michael Jackson
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1982
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The U.K. fights a war with this country over the Falkland Islands
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Argentina
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1981
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This political leader quips "Honey, I forgot to duck" after being shot in an assassination attempt
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Ronald Reagan
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1980
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This volcano violently erupts in Washington State
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Mount St. Helens
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1979
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Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in this country
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Iran
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1978
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Over 900 followers of Jim Jones commit suicide by drinking poison mixed with this beverage
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Flavor Aid
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1977
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This singer "leaves the building" for the last time
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Elvis Presley
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1976
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This Canadian tower becomes the highest free-standing structure in the world
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CN Tower
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1975
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Pol Pot becomes dictator of this country
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Cambodia
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1974
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President Nixon is forced to resign due to this scandal
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Watergate
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1973
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Several Arab states launch a surprise attack on Israel during this Jewish holy day
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Yom Kippur
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1972
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The U.K. fights the second "Cod War" against this country
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Iceland
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1971
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Relations improve as American athletes visit China to play this sport
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Table Tennis
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1970
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The Aswan Dam is completed in this country
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Egypt
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Brilliant analysis there.
Note that I'm not an American and therefore I'm not famillair with all American brands.
Flavor Aid is not a popular or well-known brand. It still exists in the U.S. but people in casual usage (and even people at the time) would call it Kool-Aid, since that's become a generic term for instant drink mix. The piece of "interesting" trivia here is the brand.
Punch may mean different things to different people. I don't think every flavor of instant drink mix would be described as "punch", in fact. Lemonade, for example, and maybe not even the grape flavor.
I'm not sure how reliable this is, but apparently grape was the flavor of Flavor Aid used at Jonestown. Is that "punch"? I'm not sure.
Some people might use punch as a general term for this kind of drink. But it's even more generic than that, since it also includes non-instant drinks maid with mixed fruit juices and a number of alcoholic drinks. So "punch" may be correct, but if so, it's meaninglessly, tautologically so; as if we were to accept "beverage" itself.
And besides, it's not that hard to type one more letter...
I think
*face palm*