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Last Updated: Monday, 19 August, 2002, 17:26 GMT 18:26 UK
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HISTORICAL BROADCASTS
The global political change continued in 1990 - with the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in jail; the British hostage, John McCarthy, was released by his captors in Lebanon; Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and was forced out by the Gulf War allies; the Israelis and Palestinians signed a historic peace treaty; the Bosnian war introduced the words ethnic cleansing to the language; and in 1997, Britain returned Hong Kong to China.
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John Major became Prime Minister in 1990; the government faced a crisis over the Exchange Rate Mechanism; two boys were convicted of killing the Merseyside toddler James Bulger; the Labour leader John Smith died; the IRA ordered the "complete cessation" of military activities;16 children were shot dead at their school in Dunblane; Labour won a landslide victory in the 1997 general election; the people of Northern Ireland backed the Good Friday peace agreement; but terrorists bombed the centre of Omagh, killing 29 people.
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The death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 shocked the world. She was killed in a car crash in Paris. A million people lined the streets of London for her funeral.
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