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L.A erupts in riots after Rodney King is videotaped being beaten by police.
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Great Flood of '93, from Minnesota to Missouri, caused an estimated $12 billion in damage and covered over 10 million acres.
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Major league baseball players went on strike and the world series was cancelled.
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Sony comes out wtih flat screens.
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J. K. Rowling publishes the first Harry Potter book.
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Google introduces their search engine to the Web
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Anti-impotence drug Viagra is introduced to the market.
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President Bill Clinton is accused of having sex with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. He denies the charges, then admits to the affair. An independent counsel brings charges against Clinton, and the House impeaches him for lying and obstructing justice.
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Tobacco companies admit that their products harm smokers.
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.The Y2K Scare raises the possibility that databases all over the world – including in U.S. military computers – would go haywire because they were designed to recognize only two digits in dates.
