What happend on 1st January

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1995

The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.

1995

The World Trade Organization comes into effect.

1994

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.

1994

The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.

1993

Velvet Divorce: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.

1993

A single market within the European Community is introduced.

1992

George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States of America to address the Australian Parliament.

1988

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States of America.

1987

The city of Frobisher Bay, in Canada's Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit.

1987

Battle of Ashdown