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HOW aware of the world around them were the children above, planting saplings in the cold earth of Meltham in December 1990?

Did they know that across the world in the US, Tim Berners-Lee was launching the very first website on the very first web server, thus changing the way they – and we – look at the world for ever?

Another two very bright people were battling it out in Russia for the World Chess Championship title.

Garry Kasparov held on to the title after a tough challenge from fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov.

Were our children aware that just across the water, Mary Robinson had been elected the first woman president of Ireland, striking a blow for feminism in a country not renowned for its relaxed attitude to sexual equality?

It was this month in 1990 that engineers first shook hands through an aperture in rock 40 metres below the Channel seabed, a moment that created the first ‘dry land’ link between France and England in more than 8,000 years.

The Channel Tunnel was finally opened in 1993.

We were, in December, 1990, a nation holding its breath as Saddam Hussein in Iraq decided whether or not to comply with the United Nations’ demand and withdraw from his invasion of Kuwait before January 15, 1991.

Saddam decided to bluff it out – and the devastating Operation Desert Storm was launched that month.

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