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1995
• A Serb massacre of 4,000 Muslims at Srebrenica results in Nato air attacks on Serb troops. The Bosnian peace accord, signed in Dayton, Ohio, ends the civil war. A 60,000-strong UN peacekeeping force is deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina. • In March, the Aum doomsday cult – which claims 10,000 adherents in Japan alone, and believes that the world is to end in 1997 or 1999 – releases Sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo underground system during rush hour, killing 12 people and injuring thousands. • In the United States on 19 April – the anniversary of the US government assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993 – a right-wing terrorist bomb attack in Oklahoma City destroys the Federal Building and kills 168 people. Timothy McVeigh is convicted of their murders in June 1997, and is executed four years later. • On 10 July, Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's National League for Democracy in Burma, is released from house arrest, almost exactly six years since she was first held by the military junta. • On 2 November, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist. • British mathematician Andrew Wiles is the first to publish a general proof of Fermat's last theorem, a mathematical problem first posed in the 17th century. • In Britain, controversial young artist Damien Hirst wins the prestigious Turner Prize for works such as Mother and Child Divided, a cow and calf sawn in half and suspended in formaldehyde. |
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