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1999
 
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A Scottish parliament resumes business in Edinburgh after an interval of 292 years     
1999
 
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President Kabbah and the guerrilla leader Foday Sankoh arrange for shared government in Sierra Leone        
1999
 
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A peace plan signed in Lusaka brings to an end eleven months of renewed civil war in the Congo      
1999
 
    
A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf       
1999
 
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An amnesty is declared for some 8000 Muslim terrorists held in Algeria's gaols      
1999
 
   
Labour leader Helen Clark heads a coalition government as prime minister of New Zealand      
1999
 
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Approximately 130,000 Hutus are held in gaol awaiting trial for their part in Rwanda's genocide       
1999
 
 
Sam Mendes directs Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in American Beauty    
1999
 
   
The Russian army returns to Chechnya after Islamic militants commit acts of terrorism      
1999
 
    
The TV reality show Big Brother, devised by John de Mol, is broadcast for the first time in the Netherlands