06 Jan	Mystery assailant attacks top US skater
14 Jan	Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church
17 Jan	Massive earthquake hits Los Angeles
01 Feb	MPs condemn sale of Rover
05 Feb	Market massacre in Sarajevo
08 Feb	Police probe MP's suspicious death
12 Feb	Art thieves snatch Scream
25 Feb	Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site
01 Mar	West charged as death toll mounts
27 Mar	Maiden flight for future fighter jet
06 Apr	Rwanda presidents' plane 'shot down'
18 Apr	Killing spreads in Rwanda
21 Apr	'Guildford Four' man cleared of IRA murder
28 Apr	CIA double agent jailed for life
01 May	Race ace Senna killed in car crash
10 May	Mandela becomes SA's first black president
25 May	Camelot wins UK lottery race
27 May	Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn returns
02 Jun	MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash
06 Jun	Asylum seekers flee detention centre
01 Jul	Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile
21 Jul	Labour chooses Blair
26 Jul	Israel's London embassy bombed
01 Aug	Library fire wipes out historic records
26 Aug	Man gets 'bionic' heart
28 Aug	Sunday trading legalised
31 Aug	IRA declares 'complete' ceasefire
28 Sep	Hundreds feared dead in ferry disaster
30 Sep	Sleepy Boris 'snubs' Irish leader
05 Oct	Cult members die in 'mass suicide'
13 Oct	Loyalists announce a ceasefire
26 Oct	Israel and Jordan make peace
19 Nov	Britain braced for first lottery draw
28 Nov	Norway votes 'no' to Europe
30 Nov	Blazing liner abandoned off east Africa
06 Dec	Royal approval for oil drilling at Windsor
11 Dec	Russian troops storm into Chechnya
15 Dec	Modahl banned for drug taking
30 Dec	Gunman kills two women at abortion clinic