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Al Gore(Born March 31, 1948 in Washington, D.C.)45th Vice President of the United States

U.S. news• Tonya Harding wins

the national Figure Skat-ing title but is stripped of her title following an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan

• First genetically engineered tomatoes available

• Magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake hits San Fernando Val-ley

• OJ Simpson flees police in his white Ford Bronco

• MLB players begin 232-day strike• Orange County, Calif. files for

bankruptcy protection• The Whitewater scandal investiga-

tion begins

• NAFTA begins• Violent wildfires

destroy 286,000 acres in Montana

Sports• Su- perbowl XXVIII, Dallas

30, Buffalo 13• NBA Finals, Houston Rockets 4,

New York Knicks 3

Technology• World’s first satellite digital tele-

vision service launched• Netscape Navigator released,

quickly becomes market leader for browsing the web

• Java programming language re-leased

• Scientists estimate the oldest Europeans at 500,000 years old

• The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, and is 31 miles long joining France and England, opens

Popular culture• Lisa Marie Presley marries Mi-

chael Jackson• Kurt Cobain commits suicide

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Bill Clinton(Born Aug. 19, 1946 in Hope, Ark.)

42nd President of the United States

World events• Intermittent Civil War in Rwanda

between majority Hutus and minority Tutsis after assassination of President estimates of 1/2 million people killed

in civil wars• Nelson

Mandella becomes president of South Af-rica

• Channel Tunnel opened between

England and France

• 48 members of the Order of the Solar Tradition Cult commit suicide to escape the hypocrisies and oppression of this world

• PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Palestine after 27 years in exile

• Ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic

Sea off coast of Finland killing over 900

• The Achille Lauro is de-stroyed in a fire off the coast of

Somalia• The journal

Nature reports the find-ing in Ethiopia

of the first complete Australo-

pithecus afa-rensis skull

• Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty

• The IRA announces a complete cessation of mili-tary operations

• Outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire

“Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.” — Bill Clinton

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Popularmusic• The Sign, Ace of Base

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Popular TV shows• Seinfeld• E.R.• Home Improvement• Grace Under Fire• NYPD Blue• Murder, She Wrote• Friends• Roseanne• Mad About You• Madman of the People

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