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A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing the permanent…
Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was officially established following a constitutional…
Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats…
Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220…
Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship"…
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's…
U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan…
First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but…
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on…
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical wea
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year his
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first com
The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in h
The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in h
Troops of Laurent-Désiré Kabila march into Kinshasa