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The Oxford English Dictionary has 62 words with first citations from 1994. In that year, Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa; investigators begin to look into the U. S. President Clinton’s involvement in the Whitewater development project; Russia sends troops into Chechnya; Olympic skater Tonya Harding tries to have rival Nancy Kerrigan kneecapped; Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, commits suicide; comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 strikes Jupiter; the Netscape Navigator web browser is released; Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity of mutilating her husband’s genitals; and former American football star O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.