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| 1995 |
| | | US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth | |
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| 1995 |
| | | The jury acquits O.J. Simpson of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, after a trial lasting almost a year | |
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| 1995 |
| | | British artist Tracey Emin causes a stir with Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 | |
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| 1995 |
| | | The US hosts peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia to end the Bosnian civil war | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Yitzhak Rabin, after addressing a mass rally for peace in Tel Aviv, is killed by an Israeli assassin | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Mozambique joins the Commonwealth, as the first member not to have emerged from the British empire | |
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| 1995 |
| | | An atmospheric probe, released from the US spacecraft Galileo, enters the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Yasser Arafat is elected president of the new Palestinian National Authority | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Mugabe is elected unopposed for a new six-year term as president | |
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| 1996 |
| | | An IRA bomb at Canary Wharf shatters the fifteen-month ceasefire achieved after the Downing Street Declaration | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Liberal leader John Howard heads the winning coalition in Australia's general election | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Expelled from Sudan, Osama bin Laden moves to Afghanistan where he builds training camps for al-Qaeda | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with a fortune of $20 billion, is calculated to be the richest man in the world | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The Stone of Scone is returned from Westminster to Scotland, exactly seven centuries after its removal by Edward I | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Benjamin Netanyahu leads the Likud party to victory in an Israeli election overshadowed by Palestinian suicide bombers | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Archbishop Desmond Tutu chairs South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission | |
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| 1996 |
| | | In the Wik Decision the Australian High Court gives strong support to Aboriginal land rights | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung | |
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| 1996 |
| | | American painter Julian Schnabel turns his hand to film-making with Basquiat, a tribute to graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Jerry Rawlings has a convincing electoral victory after seventeen years in power in Ghana | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The British pop group Spice Girls sell millions of their first album, Spice>/I>, breaking all previous UK records | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The divorce is finalized of Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Russian troops withdraw from Grozny after a peace deal that leaves Chechnya with effective autonomy | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The Taliban capture Kabul, driving out rival Afghan guerrilla groups | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The Taliban hang ex-president Najibullah and his brother at Kabul's major traffic intersection | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Irish author Marina Carr's play Portia Coughlin is performed at the Abbey Theatre | |
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| 1996 |
| | | A fatal variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease) is first identified in Britain, linked to BSE but capable of infecting humans | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Bill Clinton wins re-election as US president, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Benazir Bhutto is dismissed from government in Pakistan for a second time, again on corruption charges | |
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| 1996 |
| | | The guerrilla groups in Guatemala sign a treaty which provides for them to become a recognized political party | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Tupac Amaru guerrillas take 460 guests hostage at the Japanese ambassador's Christmas party in Lima, Peru | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Dolly the Sheep is cloned in an epoch-making experiment at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh | |
|  | Reflections on cloning
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1997 |
| | | Deng Xiaoping dies and is succeeded by Jiang Zemin as China's leader | |
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