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International, the

Coordinating body established by labour and socialist organizations, including:First International or International Working Men's Association (1864–72), formed in London under Karl Marx;Second International (1889–1940), founded in Paris;Third (Socialist) International or Comintern (1919–43), formed in Moscow by the Soviet leader Lenin, advocating from 1933 a popular front (communist, socialist, liberal) against the German dictator Hitler;Fourth International or Trotskyist International (1938), somewhat indeterminate, anti‐Stalinist;Revived Socialist International (1951), formed in Frankfurt, Germany, a largely anticommunist association of social democrats.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Sudan
Chechnya in Focus
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
Iraq
Global Warming
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence
THE FIRST 48: At Close Range/Murder in Motor City
The Negotiator
Yasser Arafat
Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed
FIRST 48: Desert Bones/Party's Over
Isaac's Storm
The Industrial Revolution
The Olympics
D-Day
The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia
The Olympic 28
Biggin Hill 2005
The New Big Picture Show: War at Home
Corgi
Biggin Hill 2007
Breitling Jet Team
Breitling Media
Sudan
Chechnya in Focus
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
Iraq
Global Warming
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
5 January 1971
Birth of 'One Day' international cricket - England v. Australia in Melbourne - after the planned five-day Test Match is abandoned because of rain.
15 January 1997
In Britain, Diana, Princess of Wales is criticised for becoming embroiled in international politics by calling for a ban on the production and sale of landmines during her four-day visit to Angola.
19 January 1946

The Charter for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East is proclaimed. The charter creates the legal foundations for the "Tokyo trails", the trials of Japanese war criminals.  

24 January 1986

In London, Newspaper workers launch a strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International for wanting to move newspaper production away from Fleet Street. The action comes to be known as the Wapping dispute.

25 January 1999

Six members of the International Olympics Committee face expulsion as they are accused of accepting bribes.

26 January 1980

In response to the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan and at the request of President Carter, the US Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Committee to cancel or move the Moscow Olympics.

4 February 1973
The Vietnam War: The International Commission of Control and Supervision, created by the Paris Peace Accords to supervise the ceasefire between North and South Vietnam, starts work.
2 March 1919
In the Soviet Union, the first Communist International (Comintern) meets in Moscow.
22 March 1945
Seven Middle East countries agree to form The Arab League which will resist the international decision to create the state of Israel in Palestine.
27 March 1871
Scotland beats England in the first international rugby union match in Edinburgh.
2 April 1955
Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards makes his England debut at Wembley -the youngest England international. He's among the players killed in the Munich Air Crash in February 1958.
5 April 1902
25 football fans are killed at Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland when a stand collapses during a Scotland-England international match. At least another 200 are injured.
11 April 1919
Founding of the International Labour Organisation.
14 April 1900
French President Loubet opens the Paris International Exhibition
15 April 1986
USAF planes based in Britain, bomb Libya in retaliation for various acts of international terrorism thought to have been ordered by Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi.
26 April 1962
In a joint USA-British venture, the first international satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
9 May 1998
Sex changed singer Dana International wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Israel with the song: 'Diva'.
21 May 1904
Football's international governing body, FIFA, is established in Paris.
27 May 1998
18 year old Michael Owen becomes the youngest ever England international goalscorer with the only goal in 1-0 friendly against Morocco in Casablanca.
29 May 1999
US space shuttle Discovery becomes the first spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station still under construction in space.
30 May 1986
England cricketer Ian Botham is banned from international matches for two months for possession of drugs.
5 June 1968
Alan Mullery becomes the first England footballer to be sent off the field during a full England international during a European Championship match against Yugoslavia in Florence.
14 June 1970
Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England v West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico.His first game had been in April 1958 against Scotland.
16 June 1982
England international Bryan Robson scores a goal against France in Bilbao after just 27 seconds of the game - the quickest World Cup goal in history.
17 June 1994
Start of football's World Cup Finals in the United States of America with an opening ceremony which included President Bill Clinton; television celebrity Oprah Winfrey and international singer Diana Ross.
24 June 1859
Swiss businessman Henri Dunant witnesses the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in Italy - the large number of wounded soldiers, many of whom later die from their injuries, inspires him to found the International Red Cross.
5 July 1965
International opera singer Maria Callas, aged 41, gives her last public stage performance in 'Tosca' at Covent Garden, London.
9 July 1991
The International Olympic Committee lifts its 21 year old boycott of South Africa.
23 July 1982
The International Whaling Commission votes for a total ban on commercial whaling from 1985.
8 August 1900
Start of the first Davis Cup international tennis tournament, named after Dwight Filley Davis, at Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Cup is won by the United States.
14 August 1908
Staging of Britain's first international beauty contest - at the Pier Hippodrome in Folkestone.
15 August 1994
The French authorities announce the capture of the world's most wanted criminal in Sudan - the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal - real name Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
22 August 1864
Signing of the Geneva Convention for the protection of wounded and those taken prisoner during war - leading to the founding of the International Red Cross.
5 September 1864
A combined fleet of British, French and Dutch ships attacks Japan in the Shimonoseki Straits after the Japanese have closed their ports to internationalshipping and expelled foreigners.
10 September 1996
Switzerland faces international pressure, particularly from Britain, to give up an estimated £4 billion in gold looted by the Nazis during World War II.
28 September 1946
Future England football captain Billy Wright plays in his first England international.
1 October 1977
The world's most famous footballer, Brazilian international Pele, retires from the game.
3 October 1906
SOS, popularly refered to as 'Save Our Souls', is established as the international distress signal, replacing the call sign CDQ - popularly interpreted as 'Come Damn Quick!
5 October 1969
In Britain, BBC TV screens the first 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' comedy programme which soon becomes an international success.
7 October 1988
The launch of an international rescue mission after several grey whales are discovered trapped under the ice in Alaska.
9 October 1948
English football legend Billy Wright first captains the England international team aged 24 - against Northern Ireland.
17 October 1996
England international footballer Paul Gascoigne is accused of beating up his wife Sheryl at a hotel in Scotland.
19 October 1978
For the first time in Britain, the International Motor Show is held outside London. Its new home is the newly-completed National Exhibition Centre (NEC) near Birmingham.
29 October 1863
Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant founds the International Red Cross, after seeing the number of casualties at the Battlle of Solferino in northern Italy, and noting how many die from their untreated wounds.
7 November 1997
Despite him being instrumental in their overnight phenomenal international success British group 'The Spice Girls' sack their creator and manager Simon Fuller.
10 November 1991
In Calcutta, a record 95,000 people watch South Africa's return to Test Match cricket after the lifting of the ban on South African sport introduced as an international sanction against Apartheid.
14 November 1973
England football captain Bobby Moore plays his last international match - against Italy at Wembley - his 108th game for his country.
30 November 1872
In Glasgow, the first international football match is played between England and Scotland and ends in a 0-0 draw.
10 December 1990
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein refuses international calls for him to withdraw his troops from Kuwait.
16 December 1955
In London, the officially opening of a new international airport at Heathrow.
 

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