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| 1994 |
| | | With apartheid ended, South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Trinidadian cricketer Brian Lara sets a new world record, scoring 501 not out when playing for Warwickshire against Durham | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Italian architect Renzo Piano completes Kansai airport, on an artificial island in Osaka bay | |
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| 1994 |
| | | President Clinton's bill to provide health insurance for all US citizens is defeated in Congress | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Italian-occupied Cephalonia | |
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| 1994 |
| | | After the genocide in Rwanda, the Rwandan Patriotic Front captures Kigali and replaces the Hutu government | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Tony Blair wins the leadership of the Labour party, and sets about establishing what he calls New Labour | |
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| 1994 |
| | | North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung dies and is succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Il | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The IRA declares a cease-fire in Northern Ireland, a gesture followed a month later by Protestant paramilitaries | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, under UN protection, leads to a period of relative calm unusual in the republic | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Divorce is legalized in the republic of Ireland | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin share the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to solve the Israel-Palestine problem | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Hussein, the king of Jordan, sign a historic peace agreement | |
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| 1994 |
| | | More than a million Hutus, escaping from the backlash after the genocide in Rwanda, are in refugee camps in Zaire | |
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| 1994 |
| | | After 18 years in the USA, living in Vermont, Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to post-Communist Russia | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1994 |
| | | German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins his first world championship title in Formula One | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Riverdance, based on traditional Irish step dancing, is presented first as an entertainment in the Eurovision Song Contest | |
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| 1994 |
| | | A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market | |
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| 1994 |
| | | The collapse of Sylvio Berlusconi's coaltion brings to an end his short-lived first period as Italy's prime minister | |
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| c. 1994 |
| | | Potholers discover the world's oldest known paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France | |
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| 1994 |
| | | Russian troops enter Chechnya to crush the armed separatist movement | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Sithole is arrested, on a charge of plotting to assassinate Mugabe, in a move widely seen as a way of keeping him out of the 1996 presidential election | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Asian and African UN troops withdraw from Somalia, though the country is still in a state of violent civil war | |
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| 1995 |
| | | British mathematician Andrew Wiles publishes, in Annals of Mathematics, his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem | |
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| 1995 |
| | | A massive bomb destroys federal buildings in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Ethiopians have their first experience of democracy in a free presidential election, won by Meles Zenawi | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Jacques Chirac defeats the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the French presidential election | |
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| 1995 |
| | | British choreographer Matthew Bourne has a great success with his all-male Swan Lake | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Bosnian Serbs massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims after laying siege to the town of Srebrenica | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi is released, and told that she can leave the country but will not be able to return | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organizes a Million Man March into Washington | |
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