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** Schengen Agreement signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of ( at this time ) five states with no internal border controls.
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** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.
** Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, started as a civil war between North Korea and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ).
** The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks reach a successful conclusion after 7 years.
** The Cuyahoga River fire helps spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency
** Agreement for merger between the General Electric Company and English Electric, the largest industrial merger in the UK up to this date.
** The World Trade Organization ( WTO ) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ).
** Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby the U. S. will return control of Okinawa.
** The 1998 Good Friday Agreement required that the Police Service of Northern Ireland recruit equal numbers of Catholics and Protestants in order to eliminate the service's perceived bias towards Protestants.
** The Metering and Reconciliation Information Agreement ( MARIA ) was set up as a multilateral arrangement to allow for retail competition for customers with half-hour interval meters.
** 1664-The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There
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** The Corfu Declaration, which enabled the establishment of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.
** Japan-U. S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.
** Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
** Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed by United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.
** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).
** Mexican – American War formally ends, making the unincorporated, unorganized California Territory a provisional official possession: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest United States.
** Commonwealth of Independent States Collective Security Treaty ( CST ) signed ( effective 20 April 1994 ).
** A ' Joint Understanding ' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this is later codified in START II ).
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