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Events relating to north america
The US rock group Nirvana become the leading performers of grunge
Carl Lewis beats his own previous 100-metre world record, winning gold at the World Championships in Tokyo
Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient
US sculptor Jeff Koons marries one of his favourite subjects, Italian porn star La Cicciolina
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in the film The Silence of the Lambs
The US spacecraft Galileo provides scientists with close-up photographs of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres
Riots follow the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen charged with assaulting the African American Rodney King
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg
The New York company Dance Theatre of Harlem tours South Africa, with the slogan 'Dancing Through Barriers'
David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics
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
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico
Democrat Bill Clinton beats incumbent George Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot in a three-cornered US presidential election
Steven Spielberg directs Jurassic Park, in which dinosaurs are cloned (and animated) to terrifying effect
The Branch Dravidians, members of a religious cult, burn to death in their Waco headquarters under siege by the FBI
US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper
US author Annie Proulx wins major awards with her second novel, The Shipping News
Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, is premiered in London
US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid
US tennis player Pete Sampras wins the first of his record-breaking seven Wimbledon singles titles
Meeting in Washington, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat accept the Oslo Accords, promising autonomy for Palestine within five years
Steven Spielberg directs a film of Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark, giving it the title Schindler's List
The separatist Bloc Québecois becomes (until losing seats in the next election) the official Opposition in the Canadian parliament
