World Events 1993-2000

Date

Event

1993	Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) sign peace accords that pave the way for limited Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1993	The United States Congress approves the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a pact that calls for the gradual removal of tariff and other trade barriers on most goods produced and sold in North America.
1993	Mosaic, the first major browser for the World Wide Web, is introduced.
1994	Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
1994	About one million Rwandan refugees flee into neighboring Zaire to escape ethnic conflict.
1994	Russian troops invade the Republic of Chechnya in an attempt to suppress a separatist movement.
1995	The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed, killing 168 people.
1995	The leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia sign an agreement to end the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
1995	Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish extremist.
1997	Scottish researchers announce the first successful cloning of a mammal, a sheep named Dolly.
1997	Britain returns Hong Kong to the control of the People's Republic of China.
1997	Rebels led by Laurent Désiré Kabila overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko, the longtime dictator of Zaire. Kabila declares himself president and renames the country the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1998	Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland reach a historic power-sharing agreement that brings self-government to the British region.
1998	The United States House of Representatives impeaches President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. In 1999 the U.S. Senate acquits Clinton of the charges.
1999	A majority of the European Union states introduces a common currency known as the Euro.
1999	The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conducts an 11-week bombing campaign in Serbia to halt the forced expulsion of ethnic Albanians from the Serbian province of Kosovo.