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German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins his first world championship title in Formula One
Riverdance, based on traditional Irish step dancing, is presented first as an entertainment in the Eurovision Song Contest
A devaluation of the Mexican peso leads to a sudden collapse in the local stock market
The collapse of Sylvio Berlusconi's coaltion brings to an end his short-lived first period as Italy's prime minister
Potholers discover the world's oldest known paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France
Russian troops enter Chechnya to crush the armed separatist movement
Aung San Suu Kyi is released, and told that she can leave the country but will not be able to return
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
Britain and Argentina come to an agreement concerning the future exploitation of oil around the Falkland Islands
Asian and African UN troops withdraw from Somalia, though the country is still in a state of violent civil war
British mathematician Andrew Wiles publishes, in Annals of Mathematics, his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
A massive bomb destroys federal buildings in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people
Austria, neutral since World War II, join's Nato's Partnership for Peace and sends troops to Bosnia in a peace-keeping role
Ethiopians have their first experience of democracy in a free presidential election, won by Meles Zenawi
Jacques Chirac defeats the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the French presidential election
British choreographer Matthew Bourne has a great success with his all-male Swan Lake
The restored Privy Garden at Hampton Court is opened following extensive archaeological excavations and meticulous investigation beneath the hugely overgrown predecessor garden, matching in with the newly restored South Front after the fire
A new extension to the Public Record Office building in Kew is completed. All the PRO’s records are now in one place and Chancery Lane is closed
Bosnian Serbs massacre thousands of Bosnian Muslims after laying siege to the town of Srebrenica
Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam organizes a Million Man March into Washington
US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth
Bryan Singer directs the film The Usual Suspects, an intricate crime drama written by Christopher McQuarrie
The jury acquits O.J. Simpson of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, after a trial lasting almost a year
British artist Tracey Emin causes a stir with Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995
The US hosts peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia to end the Bosnian civil war
