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1995 World History Seamus Heaney (1939– ) Archive Photos William J. Clinton (1946– ) The White House Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995) Archive Photos 1995 Republicans take control of Congress(Jan. 4).More than 5,000 dead in Japanese earthquake(Jan. 17et seq.). Criminal trial of O. J. Simpsonopens in California(Jan. 24).U.S. rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program(Feb. 21).Senate rejects balanced-budget amendment(March 2).Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo(“Supreme Truth”) cult is to blame(March 20).Major League Baseball strike ends(April 2).Appeals court upholds woman's plea to enter Citadelmilitary academy(April 13).UN Council votes easier sanctions for Iraq(April 14).Scores killed as terrorist's car bombblows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building(April 19); Timothy McVeigh, 27, Army veteran, arrested as suspect(April 21);authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing(April 22).Death toll 2,000 in Rwandamassacre(April 22).Fighting escalates in Bosniaand Croatia(May 1).U.S. shuttle docks with Russian space station(June 27).F.B.I. suspends four in Idaho siege inquiry(Aug. 11).France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue(Sept. 5).Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon resigns under pressure for sexual and official misconduct(Sept. 6).Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs(Sept. 24).Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges(Oct. 3).Pope John Paul IIvisits U.S. on whirlwind tour(Oct. 4–8).Warring parties agree on cease-fire in Bosnia(Oct. 5).Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital(Oct. 16).Quebec narrowly rejects independence from Canada(Oct. 30).Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabinslain by Jewish extremist at peace rally(Nov. 4).U.S. servicemen admit rape of Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa(Nov. 7). Nigeriahangs writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other minority rights advocates(Nov. 10).Irish voters approve end to constitutional ban on divorce(Nov. 24).Combatants sign Bosnia peace treaty(Dec. 14).House move stalls Congress–White House negotiations to avert government shutdown(Dec. 20). Seamus Heaneywins Nobel prizefor literature.

1996 World History Ella Fitzgerald (1918–1996) Archive Photos Madeleine Albright (1937– ) U.S. State Department Kofi Annan (1938– ) United Nations 1996 U.S. budget crisis in fourth month(Jan. 3).Clinton approves resumption of many government operations(Jan. 6).Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty(Jan. 26). Franceannounces end to nuclear tests(Jan. 29).At least 73 dead in Sri Lankan suicide bombing(Feb. 1).Suicide bombers kill 59 in Israel(March 4).Bob Dole sweeps Republican primaries(March 5).Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease (March 20et seq.). UN tribunal charges war crimes by Bosnian Muslims and Croats(March 22).Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown killed in plane crash(April 3).FBI arrests suspected Unabomber(April 3).Clinton signs line-item veto bill(April 9).President blocks ban on late-term abortions(April 10).ValuJet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed(May 11). Chechnyapeace treaty signed(May 27).Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahuas prime minister(May 31). Chinaagrees to world ban on atomic testing(June 6).Leaders in Balkans sign accord on arms limits(June 14).Jazz great Ella Fitzgeralddies(June 15).Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia(June 25). Boris Yeltsinis reelected in Russian election(July 3).Prince Charlesand Princess Dianaagree on divorce(July 12).747 airliner crashesin Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish(July 17).Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta(July 25).Clinton signs bill to raise minimum wage(Aug. 2).Congress passes welfare reform bill(Aug. 2);approved by Clinton(Aug. 22).Republican convention opens in San Diego(Aug. 12);Bob Dole and Jack Kemp nominated(Aug. 14).Democrats convene in Chicago(Aug. 26).Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave(Aug. 31);after warning, U.S. attacks Iraq's southern air defenses(Sept. 2–3);Iraq halts attacks on U.S. planes enforcing flight exclusion zones in north and south(Sept. 13).Violence flares in Jerusalem over Israel opening tourist tunnel(Sept. 24).Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Afghancapital(Sept. 27).Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps(Oct. 13);thousands of refugees from Rwanda and Burundi abandon camps(Oct. 21).Clinton-Gore ticket wins national election; Republicans retain control of Congress(Nov. 5).Mid-air collision in India kills 342(Nov. 12).Texaco settles racial bias suit(Nov. 15).Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees return to Rwanda(Nov. 15–18).Clinton appoints Madeleine Albrightas first female U.S. secretary of state(Dec. 5). Kofi Annannamed UN secretary-general(Dec. 13).FBI agent charged with spying for Moscow(Dec. 18).Thousands march in Belgrade in continuing protest against president's annulment of election results(Dec. 26).

1993 World History Toni Morrison (1931– ) Archive Photos Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933– ) U.S. Supreme Court 1993 Vaclav Havelelected as Czechpresident(Jan. 26).Clinton agrees to compromise on military's ban on homosexuals(Jan. 29).U.S. begins airlift of supplies to besieged Bosniatowns(Feb. 28).Federal agents besiege Texas Branch Davidianreligious cult after six are killed in raid (March 1et seq.). Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York(March 29).Two police officers convicted on federal civil rights charges in Rodney King beating(April 17);sentenced(Aug. 4).Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault(April 19).President of Sri Lankaassassinated(May 1).British Commons approves European unity pact(May 20).Twenty-two UN troops killed in Somalia(June 5). Ruth Bader Ginsburgappointed to Supreme Court(June 14).Iraq accepts UN weapons monitoring(July 19).Vincent W. Foster, Jr., senior White House lawyer, commits suicide(July 22).Midwest flood damage expected to exceed $10 billion(July 24). Israeli-Palestinianaccord reached(Aug. 28).U.S. agents blamed in Waco, Tex., siege(Oct. 1). Yeltsin's forces crush revolt in Russian Parliament (Oct. 4et seq.). Chinabreaks nuclear test moratorium(Oct. 5). Canada's opposition Liberal Party regains power in landslide(Oct. 25).Europe's Maastricht Treaty takes effect, creating European Union(Nov. 1).Jean Chretien sworn in as Canada's 20th prime minister(Nov. 4).House of Representatives approves North American Free Trade Agreement(Nov. 17);Senate follows(Nov. 21). South Africaadopts majority rule constitution(Nov. 18).Clinton signs Brady bill regulating firearms purchases(Nov. 30). Toni Morrisonwins Nobel prizefor literature.

1994 World History Nelson Mandela (1918– ) AMW Pressedienst/Archive Photos Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1953– ) Consolidated News/Archive Photos 1994 Serbs' heavy weapons pound Sarajevo(Jan. 5–6).Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerriganattacked(Jan. 6);three arrested in attack(Jan. 13).Major earthquake jolts Los Angeles; 51 dead(Jan. 17et seq.). Clintonends trade embargo on Vietnam(Feb. 9). Aldrich Ames, high C.I.A. official, charged with spying for Soviets(Feb. 22).Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing(March 4). Mexicanpresidential candidate assassinated(March 23). Rwandangenocide of Tutsis by Hutus begins; estimated 800,000 slaughtered in c. 100 days(April 6). South Africaholds first interracial national election(April 29); Nelson Mandelaelected president. Israel and Palestinianssign accord(May 4).Clinton accused of sexual harassment while governor of Arkansas(May 6).Congress votes protection for women's health clinics(May 12). O. J. Simpsonarrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman(June 18).Supreme Court approves limit on abortion protests(June 30).Senate confirms Stephen G. Breyerfor Supreme Court(July 29).Women's health clinic doctor shot dead outside Florida clinic(July 29).Major league baseball players strike(Aug. 13).“Carlos the Jackal,” international terrorist, captured(Aug. 15). IRAdeclares cease-fire in Northern Ireland(Aug. 31).Small plane crashes into White House(Sept. 12).Baseball owners end season and cancel World Series(Sept. 14).Powerful earthquakestrikes Japan(Oct. 4). Aristidereturns to joyous Haiti(Oct. 4).U.S. sends forces to Persian Gulf(Oct. 7).Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire(Oct. 13).Israel and Jordan sign peace treaty(Oct. 17). Reagan, 83, reveals he has Alzheimer's disease(Nov. 6).G.O.P. wins control of House and Senate(Nov. 8).Aristide forms Haitian government with prime minister and full cabinet(Nov. 9).Clinton orders Bosnian arms embargo ended(Nov. 10).Newt Gingrich named House Speaker(Dec. 5). Bentsenresigns as Treasury Secretary(Dec. 6).Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya(Dec. 11et seq.). John Salvi kills two at Massachusetts Planned Parenthood clinic(Dec. 30).

1991 World History Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) Imapress/Archive Photos 1991 U.S. and Allies at war with Iraq(Jan. 15). Warsaw Pactdissolves military alliance(Feb. 25).Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War; UN forces are victorious(April 3).Europeans end sanctions on South Africa(April 15).Supreme Court limits death row appeals(April 16).Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping(May 13).William H. Webster retires as director of CIA; Robert H. Gates succeeds him(May 14).France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons(June 3).Communist government of Albaniaresigns(June 4). Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide(June 4).South African Parliament repeals apartheidlaws(June 5).Warsaw Pact dissolved(July 1).Boris N. Yeltsininaugurated as first freely elected president of Russian Republic(July 10).Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty(July 31).China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty(Aug. 10). Lithuania, Estonia, and Latviawin independence(Aug. 25);Bush recognizes them(Sept. 2).Haitian troops seize president in uprising(Sept. 30).U.S. suspends assistance to Haiti(Oct. 1).Professor Anita Hill accuses Judge Clarence Thomasof sexual harassment(Oct. 6);Senate, 52–48, confirms Thomas for Supreme Court after stormy hearings(Oct. 15). Israeland Soviet Union resume relations after 24 years(Oct. 18).U.S. indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland(Nov. 15).Anglican envoy Terry Waite and U.S. Prof. Thomas M. Sutherland freed by Lebanese(Nov. 18).Last three U.S. hostages freed in Lebanon(Dec. 2–4). Soviet Unionbreaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States(Dec. 25).