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| 1975 |
| | | Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philips and Sony jointly introduce a new device, the compact disc | |
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| 1991 |
| | | A treaty signed in the Netherlands town of Maastricht establishes the European Union and prepares for the introduction of the euro | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The TV reality show Big Brother, devised by John de Mol, is broadcast for the first time in the Netherlands | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize euthanasia, allowing doctors to end the life of a patient suffering 'unbearably' from a terminal condition | |
|  | ‘The right to choose a merciful death'
Wellcome Library, London
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| 2001 |
| | | The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan, Al-Megrahi, of responsibility for the Pan-Am Lockerbie bomb | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is handed over to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague | |
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| 2002 |
| | | The trial of Slobodan Milosevic begins at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague | |
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| 2002 |
| | | Controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated outside a a radio station in Hilversum | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Slobodan Milosevic dies of a heart attack in gaol in the Hague, with his trial for war crimes in Yugoslavia still incomplete | |
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