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Salman Rushdie's novel The Moor's Last Sigh is published.
Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before is published.
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov is published.
David Hare's play Racing Demon premieres.
Marleen Gorris's film Antonia's Line premieres.
1 Jan.
Sweden, Finland, and Austria join the EU, bringing its total membership to fifteen.
1 Jan.
The World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to GATT, comes into existence with eighty-one member countries.
11 Jan.
Pope John Paul II begins an eleven-day tour of Asia and Australia. An estimated four million people attend his open-air mass in Manila on the 15th.
15 Jan.
In Northern Ireland troops end daytime patrols in Belfast in response to the ceasefire.
17 Jan.
In Kobe, Japan, more than five thousand people are killed in an earthquake.
19 Jan.
Russian troops take the presidential palace in Grozny.
31 Jan.
Severe flooding affects large areas of northern Europe, and in the Netherlands alone...
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