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Margaret Thatcher's The Downing Street Years is published.
Sculptor Rachel Whiteread receives the Turner Prize for House, the plaster cast of the inside of a house in the East End of London.
Isabel Allende's novel The Infinite Plain is published.
Roddy Doyle's novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is published.
Dacia Maraini's novel The Silent Duchess is published.
Harold Pinter's play Moonlight premieres.
British mathematician Andrew Wiles solves "Fermat's Last Theorem," a mathematical problem first posed by the Frenchman Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century.
Russian authorities announce that they possess the Schliemann Gold, objects found by Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient city of Troy in 1873 and which disappeared from Berlin at the end of World War II.
Samples of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from the Duke of Edinburgh and other relatives of the Romanov royal family prove that recently discovered remains are indeed those of Czar Nicholas II...
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