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David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics
Albanians in Kosovo proclaim independence, prompting increased Serb oppression
The Branch Dravidians, members of a religious cult, burn to death in their Waco headquarters under siege by the FBI
Guinea's first democratic election is won by the incumbent president, Lansana Conté
Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, is premiered in London
Mayan Indians in Chiapas rebel in an armed uprising against the Mexican government
In his apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis John Paul II forbids even any discussion of the ordination of women
Italian architect Renzo Piano completes Kansai airport, on an artificial island in Osaka bay
Two leading members of Mexico's ruling party, Luis Donaldo Colosio and José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, are assassinated
The Stables Gallery is opened in the stables of Orleans House
Ethiopians have their first experience of democracy in a free presidential election, won by Meles Zenawi
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
A fatal variant CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease) is first identified in Britain, linked to BSE but capable of infecting humans
The British film The Full Monty follows six unemployed steel workers in their transformation into male strippers
Two boys aged 11 and 13 fire on a school group in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing four girls and a teacher
The TV quiz Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, hosted by Chris Tarrant, has its first transmission in the UK
Violent gangs, calling themselves the Mugabe War Veterans Association, start to 'liberate' more than 100,000 sq km of white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe
Civil war begins in Kosovo with a guerrilla campaign by Albanians in the Kosovo Liberation Army
Brutal reprisals by Serb troops against Albanians in Kosovo include systematic ethnic cleansing
Michel Houellebecq publishes Les Particules élémentaires ("The Elementary Particles"), a picture of a future without love where humans are cloned
A fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel kills 39 people and closes the tunnel for three years
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
On the eve of the new millennium twenty-one Coptic Christians are murdered by Muslims in the Egyptian village of Kosheh
A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board
