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  CDC first publishes an article on a disease that will later be known as HIV.
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  Rock Hudson dies of AIDs and the nation is shocked. His friend Elizabeth Taylor helps launch the American Foundation for AIDs research
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  Three brothers, Ricky, Robert, and Randy Ray, are barred from school for having AIDs. They are thought to have gotten it from blood treatments for their hemophilia.
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  AIDs began being recognized and taken as a n international crisis
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  Magic Johnson tells the world he has contracted HIV and will retire from the Lakers.
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  China Acceded to the NPT
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  France acceded to the NPT
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  Mary Fisher is an AIDs activist and makes her famous speech "A Whisper of AIDs"
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  European Union Treaty went into effect
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  The Movie Phildelphia is released. It's about a man with HIV getting fired from a coservative law firm, so he hires a homophobic lawyer in order to sue the company.
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  European Union introduced the euro
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  The Clinton Administration declares, for the first time, that AIDs is a threat to national security and global stability.
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  10 additional countries joined the European Union & drafted new constitution. This brought a total of twenty-five members in the union. The Netherlands and France refused to ratify the new constitution.
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  North Korea became the 8th country to explode a nuclear device.
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  The EU adopted a new economic policies. They did this to strengthen the economy of its member states.