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Diana, the Princess of Wales, and her friend Dodi Fayed die after a car crash in Paris
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath
A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Indian author Arundhati Roy publishes her first novel, The God of Small Things
Bertie Ahern, leader of Fianna Fáil, becomes the prime minister (Taoiseach) of the republic of Ireland
Elton John sings a revised version of Candle in the Wind in Westminster Abbey, as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales
The Real IRA, a splinter group of the Provisional IRA, declares its commitment to a continuing campaign of violence
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport
A proposed referendum on northern Irish issues is accepted by all the relevant political parties in what becomes known as the Good Friday Agreement
In the referendum to endorse the Good Friday Agreement, the terms are accepted by majorities in both the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England
Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen dramatizes the visit of Werner Heisenberg to Niels Bohr in wartime Denmark
The Real IRA kills 26 people and injures about 200 with a bomb planted in Omagh, in northern Ireland
Civil war begins in Kosovo with a guerrilla campaign by Albanians in the Kosovo Liberation Army
Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge
The European Court of Human Rights replaces a preceding part-time court in Strasbourg
Brutal reprisals by Serb troops against Albanians in Kosovo include systematic ethnic cleansing
The first module is launched of the International Space Station, a cooperative venture by five space agencies (USA, Russia, Japan, Canada, Europe)
Eleven of the nations in the European Union adopt the euro as a shared single currency
A fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel kills 39 people and closes the tunnel for three years
Libya hands over, for trial in the Hague, two men suspected of causing the Lockerbie disaster of 1988
NATO peacekeepers enter Kosovo after Milosevic agrees to withdraw Serb troops
A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf
The Russian army returns to Chechnya after Islamic militants commit acts of terrorism
