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Euro is established
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1999
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U.S. senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton
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Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car
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one of the largest drug busts in American history
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A 6.1 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000
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Hugo Chávez becomes President of Venezuela
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King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.
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Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune
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U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate.
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An avalanche destroys the village of Galtür, Austria, killing 31
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The brand new Mandalay Bay hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas
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Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber in Arizona
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Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO
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Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña
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The Melissa worm attacks the Internet
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Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder
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Bill Gates personal fortune exceeds $100 Billion dollars
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Ibrahim Baré Maînassara, president of Niger, is assassinated
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Tercentenary celebrations of the creation of the Sikh Khalsa are held
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two kids kill twelve other students and one teacher then take their own lives at Columbine High School
two kids kill twelve other students and one teacher then take their own lives -
Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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Microsoft releases Windows 98
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Nancy Mace becomes the first female cadet to graduate from The Military College of South Carolina
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel
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Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy
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Napster, a revolutionary music downloading service, debuts
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American Airlines Flight 1420 overruns the runway in Little Rock, Arkansas killing 11 people
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George W. Bush announces he will seek the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States
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Thabo Mbeki is elected President of South Africa
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Turin, Italy is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13
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A major flash flood in Las Vegas swamps hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills 2 people
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The official series premiere of the long-running cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants debuts
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The first version of MSN Messenger is released by Microsoft
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Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France
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A total solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia
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A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit and levels much of northwestern Turkey
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Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 crashes in Hong Kong
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Apple Computer releases the Power Macintosh G4
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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Athens
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Viacom and CBS merge
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Sega Dreamcast was released as well as Sonic Adventure
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Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations
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NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter
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Thirty-one people die in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, west of London, England.
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Elections are held in Portugal
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Date selected by the UN as when the world population reaches 6 billion people
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The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
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Australians defeat a referendum proposing the replacement of The Queen and The Governor General with a President to make Australia a republic
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A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Duzce and northwestern Turkey, killing 845 and injuring 4,948
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The Aggie Bonfire collapses in College Station, TX, killing 12.
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The People's Republic of China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft
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An earthquake and tsunami strike Vanuatu
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The ExxonMobil Corporation merger is completed, forming the largest company in the world
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NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere
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NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
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The sovereignty of Macau is transferred from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 422 years of Portuguese rule.
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Storm Lothar killed 137 people as it crossed France, southern Germany, and Switzerland
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The U.S. turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government
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Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia
