This year has seen reality television have a psychological breakthrough where kindness and vulnerability have become the most celebrated attributes of the best shows of 2018. They are now an act of self-care yes, ironically they have become a sanctuary from the grimness of real life. In 2018 the reality shows that have been most popular and most effective have been escapist. Not only are people struggling with the trauma that rolling news vomits up daily, but the fictional television they are binging on is injected with dark, complex themes where any glimmers of hope are squashed under a jackboot of nihilism. The unnecessary nastiness and toxic behaviour that viewers have normally relished is becoming a turn-off – this year finally saw the end of Big Brother, after it turned into the uninvited guest that refused to leave, and humiliation game-show The X Factor has lost its iron grip on its prime-time audience, haemorrhaging viewers with each wink of Cowell's tiny, coal-like eyes. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other embassy officials.With world leaders taking their cues from the tropes of reality telly this year – from Theresa May creakily dancing around like a dusty cadaver on Britain's Got Talent to Donald Trump helping us all believe we are stuck in some sort of doomsday Apprentice Matrix – reality telly in 2018 has started to cautiously move in a different direction. Day 11-9 year 2012: Armed gunmen stormed the American consulate in Benghazi and killed U.S.A short while later, another plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pa. Day 11-9 year 2001: Two hijacked commercial jets were crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers.Day 11-9 year 1997: In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic affairs, after 290 years of union with England.Day 11-9 year 1971: Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.Day 11-9 year 1962: The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me Do.Day 11-9 year 1936: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada.And he is also the only minister to be printed on the US 20-dollar bill. Day 11-9 year 1789: Alexander Hamilton was appointed America's first Secretary of the Treasury.Background: Middle East Peace Negotiations Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward (Oct.Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London (Oct.Russia fights to avert financial collapse (Aug.US cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan (Aug. US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed (Aug.Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors (Aug.Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power (May 21).Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response (May 29, 30). India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval (May 11, 13).Europeans agree on single currency, the euro (May 3).Irish Parliament backs peace agreement (April 22). Good Friday Accord is reached in Northern Ireland (April 10).NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo (Oct. Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels (June 1). Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 5 et seq.).Events in 1998 and 11-9 Events in the world in the birth year of Zacc Milne
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