olve hijacking of aircraft.
11/6/2001, In the US, Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
16/11/2000, Bill Clinton became the first US President to visit Vietnam.
8/11/2000, (1) In the controversial US Presidential Elections, Republican George W Bush defeated Democrat Vice President Al Gore but the final result was delayed for over a month because of a disputed vote count in Florida.
(2) Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the US Senate
24/7/2000, A concert planned for Central Park, New York, was cancelled due to the threat of West Nile virus, carried by mosquitoes and birds. The virus had been detected in new York in 1999 and appeared to have persisted over-winter.
11/1/2000, US President Clinton established three new National Parks in the USA.
30/11/1999, In Seattle, a large-scale protest by the anti-globalisation movement caught the authorities unaware and forced the cancellation on a WTO meeting.
4/1999, President Clinton considered housing Kosovan refugees at Guantanamo bay, but the idea was scrapped.
20/4/1999, US teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took two submachine guns to Columbine High School, for an attack planned for Hitler’s birthday. 15 children were killed or injured before the two killed themselves.
22/3/1999, Jack Kevorkian, pro-euthanasia doctor, went on trial for murder in Pontiac, Michigan. He was later convicted of second-degree murder.
8/3/1999. Monica Lewisnky arrived in Britain for a book-signing tour, beginning at Harrods.
12/2/1999, President Clinton was acquitted at his impeachment trial.
7/1/1999, The impeachment trial of US President Bill Clinton began in Washington DC
19/11/1998, The US Senate began impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. President Clinton was impeached on 19/12/1998.
5/10/1998, The US Congressional Committee debated whether to impeach president Clinton overt the Monica Lewinsky affair, over allegations he had abused power and tampered with witnesses.
17/8/1998, President Bill Clinton gave evidence to a Grand Jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
21/1/1998, US President Clinton denied he had any sexual relationship with 24-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. Rumours had circulated in the Press of an 18-month affair in 1995.
2/6/1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 15 charges of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P Murragh building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. On 13/6/1997 he was sentenced to death.
27/7/1996, A nail bomb exploded at the Atlanta Olympics, killing two people and injuring over 100.
8/6/1996, US President Clinton established the 1.9 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Park in Utah.
3/4/1996, Theodore Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor, was arrested and charged with being the Unabomber. Overall he was reckoned to have committed 16 bombings, killing 23. His motive was to persuade the world of the unsustainability of modern technology as a threat to the planet.
16/10/1995, The Million Man March was held in Washington DC. It was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
11/5/1995, In New York City, 170 nations agreed to extend the nuclear non-proliferation treaty indefinitely, without conditions.
19/4/1995. A car bomb in Oklahoma City killed 168 including 12 children. The bomb hidden in a truck contained 4,000 lb of explosive and blew up in front of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building, where the Federal ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) was housed, and also a children’s nursery. Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of the bombing.
24/3/1995. The House of Representatives, USA, passed welfare reforms denying state benefits to immigrants, unmarried mothers, and those who refused to work.
3/3/1995, The UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended.
8/12/1994, US President Clinton signed for the USA to agree to the Uruguay Round of the GATT trade liberalisation agreement, This replaced GATT by the WTO in 1995.
8/11/1994. The Republicans gained control of the US Congress.
19/9/1994, US troops went to