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4 Jul 1997
NASA's Pathfinder Space probe landed on Mars.
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9 May 1997
Pete Peterson becomes the first U.S. ambassador to visit Vietnam after the end of the war.
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29 Apr 1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effective.
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22 Mar 1997
Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest female figure skating world champion.
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14 Mar 1997
US president Bill Clinton tore his knee and required surgery.
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13 Mar 1997
A series of unidentified lights appear over Phoenix, Arizona.
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28 Feb 1997
The FDA in the US started requiring that those purchasing cigarettes under the age of 27 must provide ID to prove they are over 18.
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14 Nov 1996
The musical 'Chicago' opened at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City.
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6 Aug 1996
A team of NASA scientists declared that the Martian ALH 84001 meteorite might contain traces of alien life.
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1 Aug 1996
The US won gold in the first-ever women's soccer at the Olympics.
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23 Jun 1996
The Nintendo 64 went on sale in Japan three months before hitting US shelves.
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19 May 1996
STS 77 (Endeavour 11) was launched into orbit.
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11 May 1996
ValuJet flight 592 crashes into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff.
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20 Jan 1996
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
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29 Nov 1995
President Bill Clinton lifted the Alaskan oil exports ban.
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12 Nov 1995
US/Russian STS 74 Atlantis space shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center.
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3 Oct 1995
O.J. Simpson acquitted in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman.
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15 Sep 1995
The psychological crime thriller movie 'Se7en,' starring Morgan Freeman, premiered in New York.
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7 Sep 1995
The STS-69 became the 100th successful crewed NASA spaceflight.
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1 Sep 1995
A bill in New York to reinstate the death penalty became law.
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29 Jun 1995
The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir joined, forming the largest artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
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23 Apr 1995
President Bill Clinton declared this day as the National Day of Mourning.
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21 Apr 1995
The FBI arrested an American terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, who was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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19 Apr 1995
168 die in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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17 Mar 1995
The FDA approved the first chickenpox vaccine.
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16 Mar 1995
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
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23 Dec 1994
Whitey Bulger, an organized crime boss, fled Boston after fearing arrest from the FBI.
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14 Oct 1994
NASA's space probe Magellan burned in the Venus atmosphere.
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30 Sep 1994
NASA launched the Endeavour space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on Mission STS-68.
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9 Sep 1994
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from Florida on its 19th mission, STS-64.
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11 May 1994
The 'Grease' musical production opened at the Eugene O' Neill Theater in New York City, running for 1,503 performances.
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28 Apr 1994
Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union.
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22 Apr 1994
President Richard Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
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8 Mar 1994
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.
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3 Feb 1994
A Russian cosmonaut flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle for the first time.
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14 Dec 1993
Philadelphia premiered in Century City, California. It was one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme.
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2 Dec 1993
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
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10 Sep 1993
The pilot episode of the science-fiction series 'The X-Files' aired on FOX in the US & Canada.
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21 Aug 1993
NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
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26 Jun 1993
President Bill Clinton ordered a US cruise missile strike on Iraq.
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8 Apr 1993
NASA's Discovery space shuttle launched on mission STS-56.
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26 Feb 1993
A car bomb explodes below the World Trade Center in New York.
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11 Feb 1993
Janet Reno became the first female to be appointed US Attorney General by President Clinton.
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3 Jan 1993
The second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) is signed.
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9 Dec 1992
US Marines landed in Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope in order to secure the trade routes to deliver food to the people.
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9 Oct 1992
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
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25 Sep 1992
NASA launched the Mars Observer, a space probe designed to study Mars' geology and climate.
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20 Sep 1992
NASA's 50th space shuttle mission, STS-47, landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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12 Sep 1992
Mae Jemison becomes first Black woman in space.
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11 Aug 1992
Mall of America Opens its Doors to Shoppers.
