The Human Genome Project was completed in London, England.
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The French Revolutionary War began after France declared war on Austria.
NATO accidentally bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo, killing seventy-three.
The children's cooking show, Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, premiered on CBBC in the UK.
J.C. Penney's opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.