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The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases. (17. May 1990)
Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests. (17. May 1992)
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections. (17. May 1994)
Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. (17. May 1997)
The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts. (17. May 2004)
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef. (17. May 2006)
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. (17. May 2007)
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