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1997
Diana, the Princess of Wales, and her friend Dodi Fayed die after a car crash in Paris

1998
The European Court of Human Rights replaces a preceding part-time court in Strasbourg

1999
A fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel kills 39 people and closes the tunnel for three years

2000
A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board

2001
UK terrorist Richard Reid tries to bring down a Paris-Miami flight but fails to light the exposive in his shoe

2004
Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies in a hospital near Paris

2005
The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse

2005
The French people become the first to reject, in a referendum, the proposed European Constitution

2005
US cyclist Lance Armstrong retires from competition after winning a seventh successive victory in the Tour de France

2005
French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens carry out the first human face transplant

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