Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization.
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The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
A trade union was founded that later became the current British Labor Party.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was sentenced to life in prison.
Greece legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, becoming the first Orthodox Christian Country to do so.
The Greek philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of Athens's youth.
