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| 1998 |
| | | A proposed referendum on northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement | |
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| 1998 |
| | | A UN peacekeeping force takes responsibility for maintaining order in the Central African Republic | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Civil war breaks out again in the Congo, after a Tutsi uprising against Laurent Kabila's government | |
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| 1998 |
| | | In the referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England | |
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| 1998 |
| | | President Suharto is finally forced to resign, after more than 30 corrupt and embezzling years as Indonesia's dictator | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Bitter and devastating warfare breaks out again between Eritrea and Ethiopia as the result of a border dispute | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble becomes First Minister of the newly convened Northern Ireland Assembly | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Neighbouring African nations, with an interest in Congo's mineral wealth, take part on both sides in a developing civil war | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The TV quiz Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, hosted by Chris Tarrant, has its first transmission in the UK | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Violent gangs, calling themselves the Mugabe War Veterans Association, start to 'liberate' more than 100,000 sq km of white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Shikoku and Honshu in Japan, creates a new record as the longest suspension bridge | |
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| 1998 |
| | | 224 deaths in simultaneous attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are linked to al-Qaeda | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Taliban recapture Mazar-e-Sharif, giving them control of 90% of Afghanistan | |
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| 1998 |
| | | A sudden collapse of the Brazilian stock market follows the earlier slump in the Asian markets | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland | |
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| 1998 |
| | | President Clinton admits to having had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky | |
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| 1998 |
| | | US cruise missiles attack al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Khartoum | |
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| 1998 |
| | | SPD leader Gerhard Schröder replaces Helmut Kohl as German chancellor, in a coalition with the Green party | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Civil war begins in Kosovo with a guerrilla campaign by Albanians in the Kosovo Liberation Army | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The European Court of Human Rights replaces a preceding part-time court in Strasbourg | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Steps are taken to end Sudan's fifteen-year civil war, with an undated government promise of a referendum in the south | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Brutal reprisals by Serb troops against Albanians in Kosovo include systematic ethnic cleansing | |
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| 1998 |
| | | The first module is launched of the International Space Station, a cooperative venture by five space agencies (USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, Europe) | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Eleven of the nations in the European Union adopt the euro as a shared single currency | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The US Senate begins an impeachment trial of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction | |
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| 1999 |
| | | King Hussein of Jordan dies and is succeeded by his son as Abdullah II | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Marxist guerrillas in Colombia, in partnership with drug cartels, control much of the south of the country | |
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| 1999 |
| | | President Clinton escapes impeachment when the Senate divides 55-45 and 50-50 on the two charges, well short of the required two thirds majority | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Moderate Shiite cleric Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr and two of his sons are assassinated in the Iraqi city of Najaf | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel kills 39 people and closes the tunnel for three years | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Libya hands over, for trial in the Hague, two men suspected of causing the Lockerbie disaster of 1988 | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Two teenage boys in Littleton, Colorado, open fire on their fellow students in Columbine High School, killing twelve and one teacher | |
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