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=='''Appendix III'''==
==Appendix III==
==='''Timeline of Events, 1962-1966'''===
===Timeline of Events, 1962-1966===




'''1962'''
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!style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1962||align=center|January 30|| style="background:#dfd;"|NM’s first volume of poems, Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), is published by Putnam’s
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|align=center|February 7|| style="background:#fed;"|The [[Republic of Bolivia]] changes its name to the '''[[Plurinational State of Bolivia]]'''. [[La Paz]] and [[Sucre]] remain the capitals.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2008||align=center|August 27|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Russian Federation]] recognizes the independence of the '''[[Republic of South Ossetia]]''' and the '''[[Republic of Abkhazia]]''' from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Georgia and much of the [[international community]] maintain that they are both were [[Occupied territories of Georgia|illegally occupied by Russia]] during [[Russo-Georgian War]] and legally remain integral regions of Georgia. Their capitals are [[Tskhinval]] and [[Sukhumi]], respectively.
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|align=center|May 28|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|February 17|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija]] declares its independence from the [[Republic of Serbia]] as the '''[[Republic of Kosovo]]'''. [[Priština]] remains the capital. Serbia maintains that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2007||align=center|October 22|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Republic of Montenegro]] changes its name to '''[[Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|February 21|| style="background:#ffd;"|The [[French Republic]] separates the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy]]''' and the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Martin]]''' from the [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy|Gustavia]] and [[Marigot, Saint Martin|Marigot]] are the capitals respectively.
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|align=center|January 15|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Kingdom of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[State of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2006||align=center|October 7|| style="background:#eff;"|The '''[[Republic of Palau]]''' moves its capital from [[Koror]] to [[Ngerulmud]].
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|align=center|August 14|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Republic of Nigeria]] transfers sovereignty of [[Bakassi]] to the '''[[Republic of Cameroon]]'''.
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|align=center|June 5|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[Republic of Serbia]]''' supersedes the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|June 3|| style="background:#eef;"|[[Montenegro]] secedes from the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]] as the '''[[Republic of Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|2005||align=center|November 6|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Union of Myanmar]]''' moves its capital from [[Yangon]] to [[Naypyidaw]].
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2004||align=center|September 1|| style="background:#fff;"|The [[Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty]] administering '''[[Antarctica]]''' and all lands and waters south of the [[60th parallel south]] establishes its headquarters in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].
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|align=center|February 27|| style="background:#eff;"|The [[French Republic]] elevates the [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]] to the '''[[Overseas Country of French Polynesia]]'''. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|January 4|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] changes its name to the '''[[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]]'''. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="7"|2003||align=center|May 26|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Rwandese Republic]] changes its name to the '''[[Republic of Rwanda]]'''. [[Kigali]] remains the capital.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|March 28|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[French Republic]]''' revises its [[Constitution of France|constitution]]. New [[polity|polities]] include:
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*The [[Overseas Region of Réunion]]. [[Saint-Denis, Réunion|Saint-Denis]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Territory of French Southern and Antarctic Lands]]. [[Port-aux-Français]] remains the administrative center.
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*The [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]]. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Wallis and Futuna]]. [[Mata-Utu]] remains the capital.
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*The [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Basse-Terre]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Region of Martinique]]. [[Fort-de-France]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon]]. [[Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Saint-Pierre]] remains the capital.
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*The [[Overseas Region of Guyane]] ([[French Guiana]]). [[Cayenne]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|February 4|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] changes its name to the '''[[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]'''. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2002||align=center|May 21|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] changes the title of each of its [[British Dependent Territories]] to that of a [[British Overseas Territory]]. The citizens of each British Overseas Territory gain full [[British citizenship]].
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|align=center|May 20|| style="background:#fee;"|[[East Timor]] gains independence from the [[Portuguese Republic]] as the '''[[Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste]]'''. East Timor was occupied by [[Indonesia]] in 1975, and was placed under [[United Nations]] administration in 1999. [[Dili]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|March 10|| style="background:#dfd;"|The '''[[Union of the Comoros]]''' reabsorbs the ''[[de facto]]'' independent [[State of Anjouan]] and the [[Democratic Republic of Mohéli]]. [[Mutsamudu]] and [[Fomboni]] yield to [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] as the capital.
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|align=center|February 14|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Bahrain]] changes its name to the '''[[Kingdom of Bahrain]]'''. [[Manama]] remains the capital.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2001||align=center|December 23|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros]] changes its name to the '''[[Union of the Comoros]]'''. [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|November 13|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Islamic State of Afghanistan]]''' supersedes the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|July 1|| style="background:#dfd;"|The "temporarily independent" [[Puntland State of Somalia]] adopts a new constitution explicitly identifying itself as part of the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Garowe]] yields to [[Mogadishu]] as the capital.
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|align=center|January|| style="background:#fee;"|[[Taloqan]], the ''[[de facto]]'' capital of the [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] government, falls to the '''[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]'''. The capital moves to [[Fayzabad, Badakhshan|Fayzabad]].
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! style="width: 6em; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | 30 January: 
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2000||align=center|July 16|| style="background:#dfd;"|[[Somalia]] changes its name to the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Mogadishu]] remains the capital.
| style="vertical-align: top;" | NM’s first volume of poems, ''Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)'', is published by Putnam’s
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|align=center|February 6|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] capitulates and is reabsorbed by the '''[[Russian Federation]]'''. [[Grozny|Ƶovxar-Ġala]] (Grozny) yields to [[Moscow]] as the capital.
 
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{{in5|60}}Late March: NM divorces his second wife, Adele Morales, in Juarez, Mexico.
 
{{in5|60}}April: NM marries Lady Jean Campbell and they move into his apartment at 142 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.
 
{{in5|60}}Mid-August: NM submits the first (of 14) columns, titled “The Big Bite,” for publication in the November ''Esquire''.
 
{{in5|60}}18 August: NM’s third daughter, Kate, born to Jean Campbell.
 
{{in5|60}}22 September: NM debates William F. Buckley, Jr. on “The Role of the Right Wing” before an audience of 4,000 in Chicago.
 
{{in5|60}}25 September: NM covers the heavyweight prizefight between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in Chicago.
 
{{in5|60}}'''October-November: Cuban Missile Crisis.  The Soviet Union removes missile sites from Cuba after the U.S. threatens a military attack.'''
 
{{in5|60}}Late fall: NM separates from Jean Campbell.
 
{{in5|60}}December: NM publishes the first of six columns of reflections on Martin Buber’s ''Tales of the Hasidim in Commentary''.
 
{{in5|60}}20 December: “An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer” appears in the ''Village Voice''.
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1963'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}January-February: ''Playboy'' publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.
 
{{in5|60}}February: “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in ''Esquire''.
 
{{in5|60}}March: NM meets Beverly Bentley.
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1963'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}24 March: NM speaks on existentialism and psychoanalysis at Harvard.
 
{{in5|60}}31 May: NM presents “An Existential Evening” at Carnegie Hall, discussing the FBI, President Kennedy and Communism with the audience.
 
{{in5|60}}Summer: “The First Presidential Paper,” NM’s essay on heroes and leaders, is published in ''Dissent''.
 
{{in5|60}}July-August: NM and Beverly drive cross-country and back, stopping in Arkansas, Las Vegas (where they see Liston defeat Patterson for the second time), San Francisco and Georgia.
 
{{in5|60}}'''28 August: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Monument during the Civil Rights March on the Capital.'''
 
{{in5|60}}Late Summer: Scott Meredith becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to Dial Press and Dell Books. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.
 
{{in5|60}}29 September: NM’s review of Victor Lasky’s ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week (N.Y. Herald Tribune)''.
 
{{in5|60}}Mid-October: NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''.
 
{{in5|60}}8 November: Putnam’s publishes ''The Presidential Papers'', a collection of assorted prose focused on J.F.K.
{{in5|60}}Mid-November: The December ''Esquire'' containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called ''An American Dream'', in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.
 
{{in5|60}}'''22 November: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Johnson is sworn in as President.'''
 
{{in5|60}}27 November: NM begins working on the third installment.
 
{{in5|60}}Mid-December: The January issue of ''Esquire'' containing the first installment appears.
 
{{in5|60}}16 November: After obtaining a Mexican divorce from Jean Campbell, NM marries Beverly Bentley in New York.
 
{{in5|60}}26 December:  NM contributes to a ''New York Review of Books'' symposium on J.F.K.
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1964'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}Mid-January: The fourth installment of the novel is completed.
 
{{in5|60}}Late January: NM debates William F. Buckley, Jr. in New York on a taped television program.
 
{{in5|60}}'''29 January: American premiere of “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”'''
 
{{in5|60}}'''3 February: The Beatles arrive in America.'''
 
{{in5|60}}11 February: The fifth installment is completed.
 
{{in5|60}}25 February: NM is in the audience in Miami when Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship.
 
{{in5|60}}17 March: Beverly gives birth to Michael Burks Mailer, NM’s first son, at about the same time that he completes the sixth installment.
 
{{in5|60}}20 April: The seventh installment is completed.
 
{{in5|60}}Late May: Warner Brothers buys an option on the film rights to ''An American Dream''.
 
{{in5|60}}Early June: The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the ''Esquire'' version for book publication.
 
{{in5|60}}'''2 July: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act against discrimination.'''  
 
{{in5|60}}Mid-July: NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the Republican Convention in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November ''Esquire''.
 
{{in5|60}}'''7 August: The U.S. Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the President to use military force in Vietnam.'''
 
{{in5|60}}'''September: The Free Speech movement begins at the University of California at Berkeley.'''
 
{{in5|60}}12 October: An advertisement for ''An American Dream'' in book form appears in ''Publishers’ Weekly'' and gives a January 1965 publication date.
 
{{in5|60}}'''3 November:  Johnson elected President.'''
 
{{in5|60}}20 December: Working on the Dial Press galleys, NM completes a second revision of the novel.
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1965'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}Early January: NM testifies on behalf of William Burroughs’s novel, ''Naked Lunch'', at its Boston obscenity trial.
 
{{in5|60}}27 January: NM writes to his Japanese translator that Warner Brothers has purchased the film rights to the novel.  It sells for $200,000.
 
{{in5|60}}'''21 February: Malcolm X is assassinated.'''
 
{{in5|60}}'''March 1965: U.S. troops arrive in force in Vietnam, escalating the War.'''
 
{{in5|60}}14 March: Tom Wolfe’s negative review of the novel appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''.
 
{{in5|60}}15 March: Official publication date of ''An American Dream'' by Dial Press.
 
{{in5|60}}19 March: “The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer,” a positive review by John W. Aldridge, appears in ''Life''. NM pays to reprint the heart of the review in the spring number of ''Partisan Review'' to “accompany” Elizabeth Hardwick’s negative review.
 
{{in5|60}}27 March: The novel rises to number four on the bestseller list of the ''Chicago Daily News''.
 
{{in5|60}}1 April: NM travels to Alaska for a four-day visit, speaking at the University of Alaska.  He uses his impressions for his 1967 novel, ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''
 
{{in5|60}}11 April: The novel rises to number eight on the bestseller list of the ''New York Times Book Review''.
 
{{in5|60}}20 April: NM arrives in London to promote the British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April.
 
{{in5|60}}21 May: NM speaks out against the Vietnam War at the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
 
{{in5|60}}15 July: NM speaks at a Harvard teach-in against the Vietnam War.
 
{{in5|60}}Late July: NM travels to Puerto Rico for the Jose Torres-Tom McNeeley prizefight and meets with Muhammad Ali.
 
{{in5|60}}'''6 August: Voting Right Act of 1965 signed into law by President Johnson.'''
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1965'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}'''11 August: Race riots break out in Watts, Los Angeles.'''
 
{{in5|60}}Fall: NM contributes to a ''Partisan Review'' symposium, “On Vietnam.”
 
{{in5|60}}24 September: Brock Brower’s biographical article on NM appears in ''Life''.
 
{{in5|60}}'''29 September: National Endowment for the Arts signed into law by President Johnson.'''
 
{{in5|60}}Late December: NM addresses the Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago on the American novel. His talk is published in the March 1966 issue of ''Commentary''.
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;">'''1966'''</div>
 
{{in5|60}}March: The Dell paperback edition of ''An American Dream'' is published.
 
{{in5|60}}10 March: NM’s second son, Stephen McLeod Mailer, is born to Beverly.
 
{{in5|60}}June: NM purchases a house at 565 Commercial Street in Provincetown.
 
{{in5|60}}August: The first stage version of NM’s 1955 novel, ''The Deer Park'', with Beverly Bentley as Lulu Meyers, is presented at Act IV, a Provincetown theater.
 
{{in5|60}}26 August: The film version of ''An American Dream'' premiers.
 
{{in5|60}}28 August: NM’s review of Mark Lane’s ''Rush to Judgment'', an analysis of the Warren Commission Report on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in
 
{{in5|60}}''Book Week (Washington Post)''.
 
{{in5|60}}29 August: Dial Press publishes ''Cannibals and Christians'', NM’s third volume of collected prose and poetry.
 
{{in5|60}}'''29 October: National Organization for Women established.'''

Revision as of 11:27, 3 April 2019

Appendix III

Timeline of Events, 1962-1966

Year Date Event
1962 January 30 NM’s first volume of poems, Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), is published by Putnam’s
February 7 The Republic of Bolivia changes its name to the Plurinational State of Bolivia. La Paz and Sucre remain the capitals.
2008 August 27 The Russian Federation recognizes the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia from Georgia. Georgia and much of the international community maintain that they are both were illegally occupied by Russia during Russo-Georgian War and legally remain integral regions of Georgia. Their capitals are Tskhinval and Sukhumi, respectively.
May 28 The State of Nepal changes its name to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Kathmandu remains the capital.
February 17 The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija declares its independence from the Republic of Serbia as the Republic of Kosovo. Priština remains the capital. Serbia maintains that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia.
2007 October 22 The Republic of Montenegro changes its name to Montenegro. Podgorica remains the capital.
February 21 The French Republic separates the Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy and the Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Martin from the Overseas Region of Guadeloupe. Gustavia and Marigot are the capitals respectively.
January 15 The Kingdom of Nepal changes its name to the State of Nepal. Kathmandu remains the capital.
2006 October 7 The Republic of Palau moves its capital from Koror to Ngerulmud.
August 14 The Federal Republic of Nigeria transfers sovereignty of Bakassi to the Republic of Cameroon.
June 5 The Republic of Serbia supersedes the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Belgrade remains the capital.
June 3 Montenegro secedes from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro as the Republic of Montenegro. Podgorica remains the capital.
2005 November 6 The Union of Myanmar moves its capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw.
2004 September 1 The Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty administering Antarctica and all lands and waters south of the 60th parallel south establishes its headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
February 27 The French Republic elevates the Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia to the Overseas Country of French Polynesia. Papeetē remains the capital.
January 4 The Islamic State of Afghanistan changes its name to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Kabul remains the capital.
2003 May 26 The Rwandese Republic changes its name to the Republic of Rwanda. Kigali remains the capital.
March 28 The French Republic revises its constitution. New polities include:
February 4 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changes its name to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Belgrade remains the capital.
2002 May 21 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland changes the title of each of its British Dependent Territories to that of a British Overseas Territory. The citizens of each British Overseas Territory gain full British citizenship.
May 20 East Timor gains independence from the Portuguese Republic as the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. East Timor was occupied by Indonesia in 1975, and was placed under United Nations administration in 1999. Dili remains the capital.
March 10 The Union of the Comoros reabsorbs the de facto independent State of Anjouan and the Democratic Republic of Mohéli. Mutsamudu and Fomboni yield to Moroni as the capital.
February 14 The State of Bahrain changes its name to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Manama remains the capital.
2001 December 23 The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros changes its name to the Union of the Comoros. Moroni remains the capital.
November 13 The Islamic State of Afghanistan supersedes the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Kabul remains the capital.
July 1 The "temporarily independent" Puntland State of Somalia adopts a new constitution explicitly identifying itself as part of the Somali Republic. Garowe yields to Mogadishu as the capital.
January Taloqan, the de facto capital of the Islamic State of Afghanistan government, falls to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The capital moves to Fayzabad.
2000 July 16 Somalia changes its name to the Somali Republic. Mogadishu remains the capital.
February 6 The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria capitulates and is reabsorbed by the Russian Federation. Ƶovxar-Ġala (Grozny) yields to Moscow as the capital.
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