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| 1999 |
| | | Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the new president of Algeria, reveals that as many as 100,000 people have died in seven years of civil war and massacre | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The Scottish parliament and the Welsh assembly hold their first elections, both narrowly won by Labour | |
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| 1999 |
| | | UNITA's widespread advance in Angola's long civil war brings terror and starvation | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Buena Vista Social Club, a nostalgic documentary by Wim Wenders, triggers a cult for Cuban music | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A plebiscite in East Timor delivers a vote for independence from Indonesia | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Ehud Barak becomes prime minister after leading the Labour party to election victory in Israel | |
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| 1999 |
| | | NATO peacekeepers enter Kosovo after Milosevic agrees to withdraw Serb troops | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Nelson Mandela retires from active politics and is succeeded by Thabo Mbeki as South Africa's president | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A Scottish parliament resumes business in Edinburgh after an interval of 292 years | |
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| 1999 |
| | | President Kabbah and the guerrilla leader Foday Sankoh arrange for shared government in Sierra Leone | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A peace plan signed in Lusaka brings to an end eleven months of renewed civil war in the Congo | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A translation by Irish author Seamus Heaney brings many new readers to the Old English poem Beowulf | |
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| 1999 |
| | | An amnesty is declared for some 8000 Muslim terrorists held in Algeria's gaols | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Labour leader Helen Clark heads a coalition government as prime minister of New Zealand | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Approximately 130,000 Hutus are held in gaol awaiting trial for their part in Rwanda's genocide | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The Russian army returns to Chechnya after Islamic militants commit acts of terrorism | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The TV reality show Big Brother, devised by John de Mol, is broadcast for the first time in the Netherlands | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The UN commits 6000 troops to a peace-keeping role in war-torn Sierra Leone | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A Pakistani general, Pervez Musharraf, takes power in a military coup | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The UN sends in KFOR (Kosovo Force) to supervise post-war recovery in Kosovo | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Britain's hereditary peers lose their rights in the House of Lords, apart from a few elected to serve for an interim period | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Floods and massive mudslides in the Vargas state of Venezuela kill an estimated 25,000 people | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The island of Macau reverts from Portuguese ownership to the People's Republic of China | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Boris Yeltsin announces his completely unexpected resignation on New Year's Eve and effectively hands power to Vladimir Putin as acting president | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The US relinquishes sovereignty over the canal zone to Panama on the last day of the century, as agreed in the 1977 treaty | |
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| 1999 |
| | | Chromosome 22 becomes the first human genome to be fully sequenced, at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England | |
|  | Read-out from gene sequencer
Wellcome Photo Library
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| 2000 |
| | | Trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai leads a newly formed party in Zimbabwe, the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The new Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended because of IRA failure to decommission arms | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The voters in Zimbabwe reject a new constitution enabling the government to acquire land compulsorily without compensation | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, judges Augusto Pinochet mentally incapable to stand trial and returns him to Chile | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Vladimir Putin wins the presidential election in Russia on the first round | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Rap artist Eminem's album The Marshall Mathers LP enters the US charts at no. 1 | |
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| 2000 |
| | | In Zimbabwe's elections, marred by intimidation and violence, Mugabe's party wins 62 and Tsvangirai's 57 seats in the assembly | |
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