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AIDS

7 dated entries naming AIDS, drawn from 6 separate years between 1981 CE and 1993 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1981June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, the first recognized cases of AIDS.source
  • 1984June 25 – Michel Foucault, 57, French philosopher, AIDSsource
  • 1990February 16 – Keith Haring, 31, American artist, AIDS.source
  • 1991November 24 – Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies in London from AIDS induced pneumonia. In an unrelated incident, Kiss drummer Eric Carr dies from heart cancer.source
  • 1991November 24 – Freddie Mercury, 45, British singer (Queen) and songwriter ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions"), AIDS.source
  • 1992April 20 – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, London, is televised live to over one billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.source
  • 1993January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, 54, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, AIDS.source

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