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| 1992 |
| | | Eric Clapton's album Unplugged includes 'Tears in Heaven', mourning the death of his four-year-old son | |
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| 1992 |
| | | David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP, becomes the first woman Speaker of Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Manuel Noriega, ex-president of Panama, is convicted in a US court of drug trafficking | |
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| 1992 |
| | | US screenwriter Quentin Tarantino makes his debut as a director with Reservoir Dogs | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Mohammad Najibullah, Russia's puppet ruler in Afghanistan, is finally overwhelmed in Kabul by the mujaheddin | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The mujaheddin, after removing from power the Soviet-backed president Najibullah, proclaim an Islamic state | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The Mabo Case in Australia establishes Aboriginal common law land rights | |
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| 1992 |
| | | All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico | |
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| 1992 |
| | | English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Albanians in Kosovo proclaim independence, prompting increased Serb oppression | |
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| 1992 |
| | | UNITA revives the Angolan civil war after the MPLA wins a decisive election victory | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Democrat Bill Clinton beats incumbent George Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot in a three-cornered US presidential election | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The UN sends troops to famine-stricken and war-torn Somalia | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, announce that they have agreed to separate | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Czechoslovakia divides peacefully into the Czech and Slovak Republics | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Steven Spielberg directs Jurassic Park, in which dinosaurs are cloned (and animated) to terrifying effect | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin drugs cartel in Colombia, is cornered and shot | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Apartheid ends in South Africa, after two thirds of white voters vote for its abolition in a referendum | |
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| 1993 |
| | | English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of World War I | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The Branch Dravidians, members of a religious cult, burn to death in their Waco headquarters under siege by the FBI | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Guinea's first democratic election is won by the incumbent president, Lansana Conté | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The UN imposes sanctions because of Libya's refusal to cooperate in the Lockerbie air disaster enquiry | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US author Annie Proulx wins major awards with her second novel, The Shipping News | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, is premiered in London | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid | |
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| 1993 |
| | | US tennis player Pete Sampras wins the first of his record-breaking seven Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Vikram Seth publishes his novel A Suitable Boy, a family saga in post-independence India | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The new federalist regime in Ethiopia cedes independence to Eritrea | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Eduardo Paolozzi's vast bronze sculpture The Wealth of Nations is installed at South Kyle, near Edinburgh | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Scottish author Irvine Welsh publishes his first novel, Trainspotting | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Irish author Roddy Doyle publishes a novel that wins the Booker Prize, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Work begins on China's ambitiious and controversial Three Gorges Dam project | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The Oslo Accords, brokered by the Norwegian government between the PLO and Israel, are seen as a breakthrough in the Middle East crisis | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (House) is a concrete cast of the interior of a house in London's East End | |
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| 1993 |
| | | President Habyarimana alienates Rwanda's Hutu Power extremists by coming to terms with the Rwandan Patriotic Front | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Meeting in Washington, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat accept the Oslo Accords, promising autonomy for Palestine within five years | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Steven Spielberg directs a film of Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark, giving it the title Schindler's List | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu president of Burundi, is killed by Tutsis within months of his election | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Civil war in Burundi, between Hutus and Tutsis, follows the murder of the first Hutu president | |
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| 1993 |
| | | After only three years in opposition, Benazir Bhutto wins a second term as prime minister of Pakistan | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Liberal leader Jean Chrétien begins a 10-year spell as Canadian prime minister | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Loyal troops storm the parliament in Moscow, ending a putsch against President Yeltsin | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The separatist Bloc Québecois becomes (until losing seats in the next election) the official Opposition in the Canadian parliament | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their partnership in South Africa | |
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| 1993 |
| | | UK and Irish premiers John Major and Albert Reynolds sign the Downing Street Declaration, a strategy for peace in Nothern Ireland | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Media magnate Silvio Berlusconi founds Forza Italia as a new centre-right political party in Italy | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The Hutu government in Rwanda preaches genocide against Tutsis | |
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| c. 1994 |
| | | Mullah Mohammed Omar, in Kandahar, forms a group devoted to fundamentalist Islam and calls it Taliban (meaning students of the Qur'an) | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Former prime minister Bettino Craxi leaves Italy to escape a gaol sentence for corruption | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Sylvio Berlusconi's new party, Forza Italia, wins enough votes for him to head a coalition as prime minister | |
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| 1994 |
| | | US and European troops are withdrawn from the UN force in turbulent Somalia | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, dies when his plane is shot down | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Cyprian Ntayamira, the second Hutu president of Burundi, dies in the crash of the president of Rwanda's plane | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana sparks the outbreak of genocide | |
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| 1994 |
| | | As many as 800,000 people die, most of them slashed to death with machetes, in three months of genocide in Rwanda | |
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| 1994 |
| | | A new constitution in South Africa guarantees equal rights to all citizens | |
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| 1994 |
| | | South Africa's first non-racial election is won by the ANC with 63% of the vote | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first president of the new democratic South Africa | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna dies when the steering column of his car shears during the San Marino Grand Prix | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Hastings Banda, president since independence in 1964, is defeated in Malawi's first multiparty elections | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Israel recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the representative body of the Palestinian people | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The New Zealand government pays compensation to the Waikato tribe in the first of several settlements for land illegally seized | |
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| 1994 |
| | | France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel | |
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| 1994 |
| | | In his apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis John Paul II forbids even any discussion of the ordination of women | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Mogadishu, the capital, is divided between two factions in Somalia's civil war | |
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