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The United States government applies economic sanctions against certain institutions and key members of the Chinese government and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), certain companies linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and other affiliates that the US government has accused of aiding in human rights abuses.
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February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States. [9] February 14 – The Internet site YouTube goes online. February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia. [10]
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in the United States. [5] January 18 – Plans to build the World Trade Center in New York City are announced. January 20 – Meet the Beatles!, the first Capitol Records Beatles album in the United States, is released. January 23
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Clockwise from top-left: the Ash Wednesday bushfires burned around 2,080 km 2 (510,000 acres), killing 75 people in Victoria and South Australia; a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon killed 63 people (+1 suicide bomber) and injuring 120; Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 shoots Korean Air Lines Flight 007 killing all aboard; the video game crash of 1983 caused a large-scale recession in the North American ...
The 2000 United States Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906. Boomerang, a secondary digital Cartoon Network channel, debuts. April 3 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.