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1995 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV

1993 Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States

1991 Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent

1991 Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R.

1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president

1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London

1990 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs

1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing

1986 Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curaeao

1984 Brunei becomes independent of UK

1981 According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa

1980 National Black Independent Party forms

1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

1979 Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe

1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (Natl Day)

1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent

1974 Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal

1972 East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh

1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen

1970 Rhodesia becomes independent republic

1964 Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74

1963 Zanzibar becomes independent from UK

1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth

1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria

1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule

1962 Rwanda and Burundi become independent

1962 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent

1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth

1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France

1958 French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea

1956 Sudan becomes independent

1955 Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again

1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union

1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared

1950 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands

1949 Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy

1944 John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News

1942 U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France

1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949

1934 U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945

1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City

1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent

1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent

1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)

1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation

1922 Ecuador becomes independent

1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep

1918 Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown

1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent

1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent

1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis

1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)

1888 Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India

1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent

1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"

1856 Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art

1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom and Luxembourg a Grand Duchy

1832 Greece becomes independent republic

1822 Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US

1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

1813 Henry Ward Beecher, Litchfield, Connecticut, clergyman/orator, Independent

1803 Dessalines and Christophe declare St. Domingue (Haiti) independent

1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States"

1775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent

1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rakoczi II

1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

1032 Rudolf III, last independent king of Bourgundy, dies



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