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November 11, 1999 A.D.: With Hillary Rodham Clinton in the audience, Yasser Arafat's wife Suha Arafat accuses Israel of "consistently and daily using poisonous gas against Palestinians for the past years." The next day, Clinton criticizes Arafat's comments. | |||||||||
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November 24, 1999 A.D.: In Shanghai, four people are put on trial for publishing 50,000 pamphlets for the banned Falun Gong sect. |
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December 7, 1999 A.D.: Seattle police chief Norm Stamper announces his retirement, but denies that he was pushed out because of the riots that disrupted the previous week's World Trade Organization meetings. |
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December 19, 1999 A.D.: Four centuries of European imperialism in Asia comes to a close as Portugal hands over the island of Macau to the People's Republic of China. |
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January 1, 2000 A.D. |
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