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After Rain, a collection of stories by William Trevor, is published.
Patrick O'Brian's novel The Yellow Admiral is published.
Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes is published.
Kobo Abe's novel Kangaroo Notebook is published.
Jan Sverak's film Kolya premieres.
15 Jan.
Russian troops storm the village of Pervomaiskoye, where Chechen rebels had held more than one hundred hostages for a week.
16 Jan.
Captain Julius Maado Bio stages a military coup and seizes control of the government in Sierra Leone.
21 Jan.
PLO chairman Yassir Arafat is elected the first president of Palestine in history.
29 Jan.
The two-hundred-year-old La Fenice opera house in Venice is destroyed by fire.
31 Jan.
Tamil Tiger terrorists detonate a truck bomb in central Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 55 and wounding 1,500.
7 Feb.
One hundred and eighty-nine people die when a Boeing 757 crashes off the coast of the Dominican Republic.
9 Feb.
An IRA bomb kills two in London...
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