Events/agreements
- Abu Ghraib (Iraq) — the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in 2003
- Attica (New York) — the Attica Prison riots in 1971
- Beijing (China) — the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1994
- Bretton Woods (New Hampshire) — The Bretton Woods system from 1944
- Cairo (Egypt) — the International Conference on Population and Development of 1994
- Camp David (U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland) — the Camp David Accords of 1978 and the Camp David 2000 Summit
- Copenhagen (Denmark) — the World Summit for Social Development in 1995
- Dayton (Ohio) — the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995
- Doha (Qatar) — the Doha round of World Trade Organization negotiations that began in 2001
- Durban (South Africa) — the World Conference against Racism in 2001
- Geneva (Switzerland) — the Geneva Conventions, and the unofficial Geneva Accord negotiations of 2003
- Gleneagles (Scotland) — the 31st G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland
- Hillsborough (Sheffield, England) — the Hillsborough disaster of 1989
- Hiroshima (Japan) — the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945
- Jackson State (Mississippi) — the Jackson State killings in 1970
- Kent State (Ohio) — the Kent State shootings in 1970
- Kyoto (Japan) — the Kyoto Protocol of 1997
- Lockerbie (Scotland) — the Lockerbie bombing of 1988
- Maastricht (The Netherlands) — the Maastricht treaty of 1992
- Marrakesh (Morocco) — the Marrakesh Agreement of 1994 establishing the World Trade Organization
- Munich (Germany) — the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- My Lai (Vietnam) — the My Lai Massacre of 1968
- Nuremberg (Germany) — the Nuremberg Trials of 1945 to 1949
- Oslo (Norway) — the Oslo Accords of 1993
- Portsmouth (New Hampshire) — the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 (not Portsmouth, England)
- Potsdam (Germany) — the Potsdam Conference in 1945
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) — site of the Earth Summit, officially the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) of 1992
- Schengen (Luxembourg) — the Schengen treaty of 1985
- Seattle (Washington) — the WTO Meeting of 1999 in Seattle
- Tordesillas (Spain) — the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494
- Trafalgar (a headland in Spain) — the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
- Uruguay — the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations from 1986 to 1994 that transformed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- Versailles (France) — the Treaty of Versailles in 1919
- Yalta (Ukraine) — the Yalta Conference in 1945
- Warsaw (Poland) — the Warsaw Pact (1955–1991)
- Waterloo (Belgium) — the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
- Watergate (office building in Washington, D.C.) — the Watergate scandal of 1972 to 1975
- Woodstock (New York) — the Woodstock Festival in 1969
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“Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The Federal Constitution has stood the test of more than a hundred years in supplying the powers that have been needed to make the Central Government as strong as it ought to be, and with this movement toward uniform legislation and agreements between the States I do not see why the Constitution may not serve our people always.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)