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Yitzhak Rabin returns as prime minister of Israel after the Labour party wins a general election
Slobodan Milosevic is elected president of Yugoslavia (by now only Serbia and Montenegro)
The New York company Dance Theatre of Harlem tours South Africa, with the slogan 'Dancing Through Barriers'
After a single term as president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino returns to private life
Eric Clapton's album Unplugged includes 'Tears in Heaven', mourning the death of his four-year-old son
David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics
Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP, becomes the first woman Speaker of Britain's House of Commons
Manuel Noriega, ex-president of Panama, is convicted in a US court of drug trafficking
US screenwriter Quentin Tarantino makes his debut as a director with Reservoir Dogs
Mohammad Najibullah, Russia's puppet ruler in Afghanistan, is finally overwhelmed in Kabul by the mujaheddin
The mujaheddin, after removing from power the Soviet-backed president Najibullah, proclaim an Islamic state
The Mabo Case in Australia establishes Aboriginal common law land rights
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS
Albanians in Kosovo proclaim independence, prompting increased Serb oppression
UNITA revives the Angolan civil war after the MPLA wins a decisive election victory
Democrat Bill Clinton beats incumbent George Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot in a three-cornered US presidential election
The UN sends troops to famine-stricken and war-torn Somalia
Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, announce that they have agreed to separate
A train carrying Hindu activists back to Gujarat from Ayodhya is burnt by Muslims, killing 58 people and triggering violent reprisals against the Muslim minority in the state
The chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, is accused of failing to intervene in the widespread attacks on Muslims after the burning of the train from Ayodhya
After a long dispute Hindu nationalists destroy the ancient Babri mosque in Ayodyha, claiming it replaced a temple on the site where Lord Rama was born
Czechoslovakia divides peacefully into the Czech and Slovak Republics
Steven Spielberg directs Jurassic Park, in which dinosaurs are cloned (and animated) to terrifying effect
Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin drugs cartel in Colombia, is cornered and shot
