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Wangari Maathai and other women, the nucleus of the Green Belt Movement , planted seven trees at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, to mark World Environment Day (established on this day in 1972 by...

China invaded Vietnam, giving as reasons the disputed status of border territory and Vietnamese incursions across its border.

The United Nations sponsored a second global conference on women, held in Copenhagen.

Iraq invaded Iran, following a border dispute which hinged on control of the waterway separating the two countries. The Iran-Iraq war lasted till July 1988.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1979, came into force.

Alva Myrdal was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Alfonso García Robles . The two were recognized for their work, some of which was done with the United Nations , on nuclear disarmament.

The United Nations sponsored the third global conference on women, opened in Nairobi (following that in Copenhagen in 1980); it ran for eleven days.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988, published its first report.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child came into effect, having been adopted the previous November.

More than a hundred Muslims were massacred in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici; for this, in January 2000, five men were found guilty of war crimes by a United Nations tribunal.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into effect, having been ratified by 191 member nations.

The massacre and mass-grave burial of 7,000 Muslims by Serbs at Srebrenica in a United Nationssafe area called into question the UN's ability to keep the peace or to mitigate war.

After a ten-year gap, the third United-Nations -sponsored global conference on women took place, this time in Beijing.

The Dayton Peace Accords, formally known as the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were signed in Paris after their conception in November at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.

The United Nations adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which bans the detonation of all nuclear explosives and makes provision for nuclear monitoring and testing. More than a decade after its adoption it had...