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As the anniversary of that earthquake approaches on March 11, Japanese researchers predicted in January 2012 that another major earthquake will strike the southern Kanto region, including Tokyo, by 2016 with 70% probability.
So why has its anniversary all but been ignored?
This year Israel is celebrating both the 100th anniversary of the founding of Zionism and its 50th anniversary as an independent nation.
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian War.
Since the vote falls on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 military coup, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is portraying the referendum as an opportunity to reject the military regime’s legacy.
Far from being an occasion for popular condemnation of the coup on its anniversary, the referendum is a mark of the AKP’s failure to gain widespread support for its project.
This week’s anniversary of UNCLOS is a reminder of the great things that countries can accomplish when they work together – and of the significant steps that remain.
Just like the veterans of World War II who commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the victory over Nazi Gerrmany are a dying out, so the generation, which has been shaped by the early years of the Cold War and whose support for c1ose transatlantic ties was instinctive and unquestioning, is losing political influence in both Europe and America.
Israel at SixtyTel Aviv – Ten years ago, on Israel’s 50th anniversary, the peace process begun by the path-breaking Oslo accord, reached by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1993, established the legitimacy of two peoples’ national existence in their shared homeland on the basis of territorial compromise.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian War.
Another example: To commemorate Facebook’s ten-year anniversary, Time, Inc. offered to assess people’s newsfeeds to estimate how much time they had wasted on the site.
In 1999, during the New York celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I myself heard Shevardnadze assert that Georgia had given the twentieth century two historic figures: “One who erected the Iron Curtain [Joseph Stalin], and one who tore it down” – meaning himself.
This year’s triple anniversary – 25 years of democracy, 15 years of NATO membership, and ten years of European Union membership – is a source of pride for the Polish people, and rightly so.
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
BERLIN – On the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States elected a president who plans to build an even bigger wall, this time on the border with Mexico.
Two weeks ago, when Obama had to choose between a meeting of ASEAN or the celebrations in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, he chose to go to Asia.
The Soviet Union Is Dead for GoodMOSCOW – This New Year’s Eve marks the 25th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union.
But this was a sophisticated audience of economists and students, gathered for the 20th anniversary of Moscow’s New Economic School.
China’s Modernization AmbitionsBEIJING – Last October, as he opened the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping vowed that the country would have a “fully modern” economy by 2035, and would reach high-income status by 2049 – the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
Philip Verleger, a respected energy analyst, argues that, by 2023, the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s “Project Independence,” the US will be energy independent in the sense that it will export more energy than it imports.
Yet the anniversary passed almost unnoticed.
One Country, One SystemSTOCKHOLM – July 1 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s handover of Hong Kong to China, under a model called “one country, two systems.”
If you had asked Deng Xiaoping, the architect of the “one country, two systems” model, what the handover’s 20th anniversary would look like, he might have said that Hong Kong’s residents would be toasting to their prosperity and liberty.
The first centennial goal is to build a “moderately prosperous society” (xiao-kang) by 2021, the 100th anniversary of the CPC’s founding.
The second centennial goal is to transform China into a “fully developed and advanced nation” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
The Great War and Global GovernanceISTANBUL – This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I – and, arguably, the worst year in human history.
The Yom Kippur War TodayMADRID – The approach of the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War has been marked in Israel largely by the recurrent debate about the failures of Israeli intelligence in detecting and thwarting Egypt’s surprise attack.
For example, in October, on the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (the likely successor to President Hu Jintao) dubbed the conflict a glorious fight against a “US-initiated invasion.”
Although 130 people were murdered – more than in any other episode of violence against civilians in France since World War II – France’s commemoration of the second anniversary was extremely subdued.
Much of the news coverage accompanying this anniversary showed that for most victims, even those who were not physically harmed, relearning “the next life” is an everyday ordeal.
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