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| 1993 |
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| The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to NELSON MANDELA and F. W. DE KLERK for their achievement in bringing about a peaceful transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa. | 1 |
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| Jan |
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| U.S. president Bush and Russian president Yeltsin initialed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which called for significant reductions. | 2 |
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| Feb |
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| The World Trade Center in New York City was bombed by terrorists. A group of people from a number of Muslim countries were arrested. | 3 |
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| April |
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| Eritreans by referendum overwhelmingly approved of total independence from Ethiopia. | 4 |
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| May |
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| The International Whaling Commission rejected Japanese proposals for limited whaling in its coastal waters. | 5 |
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| June |
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| A UN-supervised election in CAMBODIA brought Norodom Sihanouk, the former monarch, to power at the head of a coalition government as a part of the ending of the long-lasting civil war. | 6 |
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| July |
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| Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian Muslim cleric, was detained by the United States for possible involvement in the bombing of the World Trade Center and a major terrorist plot for other attacks. | 7 |
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| Sept |
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| ISRAEL and the PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, with the assistance of the U. S., signed a peace agreement bringing a formal end to decades of conflict and beginning a process of creating structures for peaceful coexistence. | 8 |
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| Nov |
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| The TREATY ON EUROPEAN UNION (Maastricht Treaty) officially took effect following ratification by each of the twelve members of the European Community, which was transformed into the EUROPEAN UNION. | 9 |
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| Dec |
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| The Uruguay round of negotiations in GATT was concluded with an agreement by 117 states which transformed the structure of GATT into the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION as well as making major changes in trade regulations. | 10 |
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