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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
Yitzhak Rabin, after addressing a mass rally for peace in Tel Aviv, is killed by an Israeli assassin
Ken Saro-Wiwa, playwright and pro-democracy campaigner in Nigeria, is among a group hanged by the ruling junta
Mozambique joins the Commonwealth, as the first member not to have emerged from the British empire
An atmospheric probe, released from the US spacecraft Galileo, enters the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter
New West Stand opens at Twickenham rugby ground increasing capacity to 75,000.
Yasser Arafat is elected president of the new Palestinian National Authority
Mugabe is elected unopposed for a new six-year term as president
An IRA bomb at Canary Wharf shatters the fifteen-month ceasefire achieved after the Downing Street Declaration
Liberal leader John Howard heads the winning coalition in Australia's general election
Dolly, a domestic sheep, becomes the first mammal to be cloned by the nuclear transfer of an adult somatic cell, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh
Expelled from Sudan, Osama bin Laden moves to Afghanistan where he builds training camps for al-Qaeda
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with a fortune of $20 billion, is calculated to be the richest man in the world
The Stone of Scone is returned from Westminster to Scotland, exactly seven centuries after its removal by Edward I
Benjamin Netanyahu leads the Likud party to victory in an Israeli election overshadowed by Palestinian suicide bombers
Archbishop Desmond Tutu chairs South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In the Wik Decision the Australian High Court gives strong support to Aboriginal land rights
Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin is embellished with elephant dung
American painter Julian Schnabel turns his hand to film-making with Basquiat, a tribute to graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jerry Rawlings has a convincing electoral victory after seventeen years in power in Ghana
The British pop group Spice Girls sell millions of their first album, Spice>/I>, breaking all previous UK records
