ABSTRACT
In 1996, a ceasefire between Russia and Chechnya called an end to the First Chechen War. France ceased testing of nuclear weapons. As part of an investigation into the Whitewater scandal, Hillary Clinton testified in front of a grand jury. René Préval became President of Haiti, succeeding Jean-Baptiste Aristide. “Deep Blue,” a computer designed to defeat chess champions, beat Russian Garry Kasparov; later, Kasparov triumphed over Deep Blue. Pokémon Red Version and Blue Version were released. In Burundi, there were massacres of Hutus and Tutsis, with hundreds falling within the span of several days. After the horrific Port Arthur massacre, Australia passed a measure that banned automatic and semi-automatic weapons for private citizens and included a buy-back provision, effectively ending mass shootings in the country. A sheep was cloned. A tribunal in The Hague issued arrest warrants against Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law that drastically changed welfare in the United States, Operation Desert Strike was begun against Iraq.
