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These 5 historical events share the same month and year. Can you piece together when they occurred?

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  1. artsThe former Gare d’Orsay railway station was converted into the Musée d’Orsay, dedicated to 19th- and early 20th-century art. Its inauguration marked a major expansion of France’s national museum network
  2. historyPalestinian students at Birzeit University staged sit-ins and demonstrations against an Israeli military roadblock. Four protesters—two 16-year-olds, a 12-year-old, and a university staff member—were killed, and the campus was shut down by Israeli authorities. These clashes foreshadowed the wider uprising that would erupt as the First Intifada one year later.
  3. technologyDesigned by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the experimental aircraft Voyager took off from Edwards AFB, California, aiming to make the first nonstop, non-refueling circumnavigation of the globe.
  4. politicsA popular uprising broke out after Moscow replaced long-time Kazakh party chief Dinmukhamed Kunaev with an ethnic Russian. Soviet troops were sent in, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of arrests, and it became a flashpoint in early nationalist movements within the USSR.
  5. historyAn arson attack on the Dupont Plaza Hotel killed 97 people and injured over 140, making it one of the deadliest hotel fires in U.S. territory history.

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