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  • Thirtynine members of the Heaven's Gate religious cult were found dead in California.

  • OJ Simpson is found liable in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald GOldman.

  • THe first spacecraft to land on Mars since 1976 touched down on the planet's surface on July 4.

  • Dolly the sheep is the first animal cloned.

  • Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in June for the April 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City.

  • Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31.
  • The Chigago Bulls defeat the Utah Jazz to take their 5th NBA championship in 7 years.

  • The Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI.

  • Tiger Woods wins the Masters with the lowest score in the tournaments history.

  • Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear and was fined and barred from Las Vegas for a year.

  • The Detroit Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup since 1955.

  • THe Florida Marlins win their first ever World Series Championship.
  • The Lost World, a sequel to Jurassic Park comes out.

  • Ellen announces that shes a lesbian.

  • LeAnn Rimes at the age of 14 wins two Grammy awards.
  • January 20, Bill Clinton is inaugurated for a new term.

  • March 26, thirty nice members of the Heaven's Gate kill themselves to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet.
  • August 31, Princess Diana dies in Paris.

  • April 6, Jack Kent Cooke dies.

  • November 30, Tiny Tim dies at the age of 64.

  • July 23, Gianni Versace is gunned down.

  • JonBenet Ramset was found murdered in her home.