20th Century
Events from 1900 to 2000 CE: world wars, cold war, space age
History: January 2 (#2)
January 2, 1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia....
History: January 2 (#3)
January 2, 1981 One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire....
History: January 2 (#4)
January 2, 1978 On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Mu...
History: January 2 (#5)
January 2, 1976 The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and ...
History: January 5 (#5)
January 5, 1993 The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil....
History: January 7 (#5)
January 7, 1994 A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board....
History: January 11 (#4)
January 11, 1996 Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour....
History: January 11 (#5)
January 11, 1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin....
History: January 12 (#5)
January 12, 1997 Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay ...
History: January 13 (#5)
January 13, 1993 Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center....
History: January 14 (#4)
January 14, 1993 Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz: In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers....
History: January 14 (#5)
January 14, 1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history....
History: January 17 (#5)
January 17, 1998 Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website....
History: January 19 (#5)
January 19, 1997 Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city....
History: January 22 (#5)
January 22, 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India....
History: January 24 (#3)
January 24, 1990 Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other t...
History: January 24 (#4)
January 24, 1987 About 20,000 protestors march in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States....
History: January 24 (#5)
January 24, 1978 Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered....
History: January 30 (#3)
January 30, 1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner"....
History: January 30 (#4)
January 30, 1979 A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo....
History: January 30 (#5)
January 30, 1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary....
History: February 3 (#4)
February 3, 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy....
History: February 3 (#5)
February 3, 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
History: February 4 (#5)
February 4, 1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city....
History: February 5 (#5)
February 5, 1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families....
History: February 6 (#4)
February 6, 1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest....
History: February 6 (#5)
February 6, 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757....
History: February 8 (#5)
February 8, 1993 An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people onboard both aircraft....
History: February 9 (#5)
February 9, 1996 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people....
History: February 15 (#5)
February 15, 1996 At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3B rocket carrying Intelsat 708 veers off course and crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing somewhere betw...
History: February 16 (#4)
February 16, 1998 China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground....
History: February 16 (#5)
February 16, 1996 A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people....
History: February 17 (#3)
February 17, 1996 NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros....
History: February 17 (#4)
February 17, 1996 The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving 166 people dead or m...
History: February 17 (#5)
February 17, 1992 First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians during the Capture of Garadaghly....
History: February 19 (#4)
February 19, 1989 Flying Tiger Line Flight 066 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four....
History: February 19 (#5)
February 19, 1988 A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight 3378 crashes in Cary, North Carolina, killing 12....
History: February 21 (#3)
February 21, 1995 Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon....
History: February 21 (#4)
February 21, 1994 Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia....
History: February 21 (#5)
February 21, 1975 Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison....
History: February 25 (#4)
February 25, 1994 American-Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein commits a mass shooting at the Cave of the Patriarchs mausoleum, leaving 29 dead and over 100 injured before he is disarmed and beaten to...
History: February 25 (#5)
February 25, 1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first female president....
History: March 3 (#5)
March 3, 1991 United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs killing everyone on board....
History: March 5 (#4)
March 5, 1993 Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83....
History: March 5 (#5)
March 5, 1981 The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world....
History: March 6 (#5)
March 6, 1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius....
History: March 7 (#5)
March 7, 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses....
History: March 9 (#5)
March 9, 1997 Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day....
History: March 14 (#5)
March 14, 1995 Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle....
History: March 15 (#2)
March 15, 1991 Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany....
History: March 15 (#3)
March 15, 1986 Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses....
History: March 15 (#4)
March 15, 1974 Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran....
History: March 15 (#5)
March 15, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells the U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act....
History: March 17 (#5)
March 17, 1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143....
History: March 18 (#3)
March 18, 1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board....
History: March 18 (#4)
March 18, 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the F...
History: March 18 (#5)
March 18, 1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship....
History: March 21 (#1)
March 21, 1989 Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people....
History: March 21 (#2)
March 21, 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research....
History: March 21 (#3)
March 21, 1983 The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic....
History: March 21 (#4)
March 21, 1980 Cold War: American President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War....
History: March 21 (#5)
March 21, 1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO....
History: March 24 (#5)
March 24, 1999 Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country....
History: March 25 (#4)
March 25, 1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)....
History: March 25 (#5)
March 25, 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham....
History: March 26 (#5)
March 26, 1998 During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives....
History: March 28 (#4)
March 28, 1994 In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters....
History: March 28 (#5)
March 28, 1990 United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal....
History: March 30 (#2)
March 30, 1982 Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico....
History: March 30 (#3)
March 30, 1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident....
History: March 30 (#4)
March 30, 1979 Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility....
History: March 30 (#5)
March 30, 1976 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day....
History: March 31 (#4)
March 31, 1995 Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas....
History: March 31 (#5)
March 31, 1995 TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board....
History: April 4 (#4)
April 4, 1997 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-83. However, the mission is later cut short due to a fuel cell problem....
History: April 4 (#5)
April 4, 1991 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania....
History: April 5 (#5)
April 5, 1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands....
History: April 8 (#5)
April 8, 1990 The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election....
History: April 9 (#5)
April 9, 1992 A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison....
History: April 15 (#5)
April 15, 1989 Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans....
History: April 17 (#4)
April 17, 1992 The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean....
History: April 17 (#5)
April 17, 1986 An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered t...
History: April 18 (#1)
April 18, 1996 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who we...
History: April 18 (#2)
April 18, 1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II....
History: April 18 (#3)
April 18, 1988 In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned....
History: April 18 (#4)
April 18, 1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official ...
History: April 18 (#5)
April 18, 1972 East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43....
History: April 22 (#3)
April 22, 1993 Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham....
History: April 22 (#4)
April 22, 1974 Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board....
History: April 22 (#5)
April 22, 1970 Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park....
History: April 23 (#3)
April 23, 1999 NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
History: April 23 (#4)
April 23, 1993 Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum....
History: April 23 (#5)
April 23, 1993 Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province....
History: April 24 (#3)
April 24, 1994 A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive....
History: April 24 (#4)
April 24, 1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine....
History: April 24 (#5)
April 24, 1979 Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London....
History: April 26 (#4)
April 26, 1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board....
History: April 26 (#5)
April 26, 1994 South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress....
History: April 27 (#4)
April 27, 1994 South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force....
History: April 27 (#5)
April 27, 1993 Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Sene...
History: April 28 (#2)
April 28, 1996 Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense....
History: April 28 (#3)
April 28, 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others....
History: April 28 (#4)
April 28, 1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia....
History: April 28 (#5)
April 28, 1991 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense....
History: April 29 (#4)
April 29, 1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories....
History: April 29 (#5)
April 29, 1992 Riots in Los Angeles begin, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hun...
History: May 5 (#4)
May 5, 1994 The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
History: May 5 (#5)
May 5, 1991 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man....
History: May 7 (#5)
May 7, 1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054....
History: May 8 (#4)
May 8, 1997 China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people....
History: May 8 (#5)
May 8, 1988 A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history"....
History: May 13 (#4)
May 13, 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped....
History: May 13 (#5)
May 13, 1998 India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India....
History: May 14 (#4)
May 14, 1988 Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in...
History: May 14 (#5)
May 14, 1987 Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka....
History: May 15 (#5)
May 15, 1997 The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans....
History: May 16 (#4)
May 16, 1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress....
History: May 16 (#5)
May 16, 1988 A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine....
History: May 17 (#2)
May 17, 1997 Troops of Laurent-Désiré Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo....
History: May 17 (#3)
May 17, 1995 Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage....
History: May 17 (#4)
May 17, 1992 Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially co...
History: May 17 (#5)
May 17, 1990 The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases....
History: May 18 (#5)
May 18, 1994 Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern....
History: May 24 (#3)
May 24, 1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in...
History: May 24 (#4)
May 24, 1995 While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Dunkeswick, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board....
History: May 24 (#5)
May 24, 1994 Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison....
History: May 26 (#5)
May 26, 1998 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New Y...
History: May 27 (#5)
May 27, 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station....
History: May 29 (#4)
May 29, 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule....
History: May 29 (#5)
May 29, 1993 The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens....
History: June 4 (#4)
June 4, 1989 In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini....
History: June 4 (#5)
June 4, 1989 The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate)....
History: June 6 (#3)
June 6, 1994 China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board....
History: June 6 (#4)
June 6, 1992 Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard....
History: June 6 (#5)
June 6, 1985 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have dro...
History: June 7 (#2)
June 7, 1989 Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard....
History: June 7 (#3)
June 7, 1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits....
History: June 7 (#4)
June 7, 1977 Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television....
History: June 7 (#5)
June 7, 1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the U...
History: June 8 (#4)
June 8, 1992 The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....
History: June 8 (#5)
June 8, 1992 GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston Regional Airport in Anniston, Alabama, killing three....
History: June 9 (#2)
June 9, 1995 Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four....
History: June 9 (#3)
June 9, 1972 Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage....
History: June 9 (#4)
June 9, 1968 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy....
History: June 9 (#5)
June 9, 1965 The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ....
History: June 11 (#5)
June 11, 1998 Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition....
History: June 12 (#5)
June 12, 1999 Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
History: June 14 (#4)
June 14, 1994 The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and...
History: June 14 (#5)
June 14, 1986 The Mindbender derails, killing three riders and severely injuring one at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta....
History: June 15 (#2)
June 15, 1996 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people....
History: June 15 (#3)
June 15, 1992 The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them...
History: June 15 (#4)
June 15, 1991 In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people....
History: June 15 (#5)
June 15, 1977 After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections take place in Spain....
History: June 17 (#3)
June 17, 1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman....
History: June 17 (#4)
June 17, 1992 A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. president George Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II)....
History: June 17 (#5)
June 17, 1991 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth....
History: June 18 (#3)
June 18, 1998 Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11....
History: June 18 (#4)
June 18, 1994 The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded...
History: June 18 (#5)
June 18, 1984 A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of striking miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike....
History: June 20 (#2)
June 20, 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-78 to conduct life science and microgravity research aboard the Spacelab module....
History: June 20 (#3)
June 20, 1991 The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin....
History: June 20 (#4)
June 20, 1990 The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000....
History: June 20 (#5)
June 20, 1988 Haitian president Leslie Manigat is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant General Henri Namphy....
History: June 28 (#5)
June 28, 1997 Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear....
History: June 29 (#4)
June 29, 1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time....
History: June 29 (#5)
June 29, 1995 The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937....
History: July 1 (#5)
July 1, 1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scot...
History: July 2 (#4)
July 2, 1994 USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board....
History: July 2 (#5)
July 2, 1990 In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca....
History: July 3 (#2)
July 3, 1988 United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard....
History: July 3 (#3)
July 3, 1988 The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus....
History: July 3 (#4)
July 3, 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul....
History: July 3 (#5)
July 3, 1973 David Bowie retires his stage persona Ziggy Stardust with the surprise announcement that it is "the last show that we'll ever do" on the last day of the Ziggy Stardust Tour....
History: July 8 (#5)
July 8, 1994 Kim Jong Il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung....
History: July 11 (#4)
July 11, 1991 Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board....
History: July 11 (#5)
July 11, 1983 A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board....
History: July 12 (#4)
July 12, 1998 The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers....
History: July 12 (#5)
July 12, 1995 Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11....
History: July 15 (#4)
July 15, 1996 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport....
History: July 15 (#5)
July 15, 1983 An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured....
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July 18, 1996 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever....
History: July 19 (#5)
July 19, 1997 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland....
History: July 25 (#4)
July 25, 1995 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded....
History: July 25 (#5)
July 25, 1994 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948....
History: July 27 (#2)
July 27, 1996 In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics....
History: July 27 (#3)
July 27, 1990 The Byelorussian Soviet Republic declares independence from the Soviet Union, becoming the Republic of Belarus. Until 1996, the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; aft...
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July 27, 1989 While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people o...
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July 27, 1983 Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days....
History: July 30 (#4)
July 30, 1990 Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them....
History: July 30 (#5)
July 30, 1981 As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland....
History: July 31 (#5)
July 31, 1999 Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface....
History: August 1 (#5)
August 1, 1998 Puntland, an autonomous state in northeastern Somalia, was officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe, Issims and tribal chiefs agreed to create a self-decl...
History: August 2 (#2)
August 2, 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: Iraq invades Kuwait and temporarily establishes the Republic of Kuwait puppet state on the orders of Saddam Hussein, eventually leading to the Gulf War....
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August 2, 1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972....
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August 2, 1989 A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians....
History: August 2 (#5)
August 2, 1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137....
History: August 3 (#5)
August 3, 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara....
History: August 6 (#5)
August 6, 1996 NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms....
History: August 7 (#3)
August 7, 1998 Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people....
History: August 7 (#4)
August 7, 1997 Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida....
History: August 7 (#5)
August 7, 1995 The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake....
History: August 9 (#5)
August 9, 1999 Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet....
History: August 12 (#5)
August 12, 1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series....
History: August 13 (#3)
August 13, 1978 One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War....
History: August 13 (#4)
August 13, 1977 Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries....
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August 13, 1973 Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing all 85 people on the plane and one other one the ground....
History: August 18 (#4)
August 18, 1993 American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members....
History: August 18 (#5)
August 18, 1983 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars)....
History: August 21 (#2)
August 21, 1995 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carro...
History: August 21 (#3)
August 21, 1991 Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940....
History: August 21 (#4)
August 21, 1988 The 6.9 Mw Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured....
History: August 21 (#5)
August 21, 1986 Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometre (12 mi) range....
History: August 25 (#5)
August 25, 1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall....
History: August 28 (#5)
August 28, 1999 The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life....
History: August 30 (#3)
August 30, 1998 Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and...
History: August 30 (#4)
August 30, 1983 Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board....
History: August 30 (#5)
August 30, 1983 STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission....
History: August 31 (#3)
August 31, 1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground....
History: August 31 (#4)
August 31, 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris....
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August 31, 1996 Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK....
History: September 1 (#3)
September 1, 1985 The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel....
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September 1, 1983 Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressma...
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September 1, 1981 Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba....
History: September 3 (#3)
September 3, 1997 Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64....
History: September 3 (#4)
September 3, 1989 Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 crashes into a residential area of Havana shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 150....
History: September 3 (#5)
September 3, 1981 The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations....
History: September 5 (#4)
September 5, 1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people....
History: September 5 (#5)
September 5, 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport....
History: September 13 (#4)
September 13, 1997 A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33....
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September 13, 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited P...
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September 15, 1981 The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States....
History: September 15 (#5)
September 15, 1981 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C....
History: September 18 (#4)
September 18, 1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada....
History: September 18 (#5)
September 18, 1988 General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril....
History: September 22 (#1)
September 22, 1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed....
History: September 22 (#2)
September 22, 1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed....
History: September 22 (#3)
September 22, 1981 During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground....
History: September 22 (#4)
September 22, 1979 A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined....
History: September 22 (#5)
September 22, 1976 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs....
History: September 23 (#5)
September 23, 1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers....
History: September 25 (#1)
September 25, 1998 PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people....
History: September 25 (#2)
September 25, 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion....
History: September 25 (#3)
September 25, 1987 Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka....
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September 25, 1985 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings....
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September 25, 1978 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven peop...
History: September 27 (#3)
September 27, 1988 The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar....
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September 27, 1977 Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board....
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September 27, 1973 Texas International Airlines Flight 655 crashes into the Black Fork Mountain Wilderness near Mena, Arkansas, killing all 11 people on board....
History: September 30 (#4)
September 30, 1999 The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident....
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September 30, 1993 The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000....
History: October 3 (#3)
October 3, 1995 O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman....
History: October 3 (#4)
October 3, 1993 An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die....
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October 3, 1990 The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day....
History: October 4 (#4)
October 4, 1993 Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians....
History: October 4 (#5)
October 4, 1992 El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground....
History: October 5 (#1)
October 5, 1994 Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple, who had died in a cult mass murder-suicide....
History: October 5 (#2)
October 5, 1990 After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper....
History: October 5 (#3)
October 5, 1985 Seven Israeli vacationers, including four children, are killed in a mass shooting at Ras Burqa in the Sinai Peninsula by an Egyptian soldier....
History: October 5 (#4)
October 5, 1970 The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada....
History: October 5 (#5)
October 5, 1963 The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem....
History: October 6 (#3)
October 6, 1990 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions....
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October 6, 1985 Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London....
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October 6, 1981 NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board....
History: October 8 (#5)
October 8, 1991 Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia....
History: October 9 (#4)
October 9, 1992 The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York...
History: October 9 (#5)
October 9, 1986 The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre....
History: October 11 (#2)
October 11, 1999 Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself....
History: October 11 (#3)
October 11, 1991 Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination....
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October 11, 1987 The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights....
History: October 11 (#5)
October 11, 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe....
History: October 13 (#3)
October 13, 1990 Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace....
History: October 13 (#4)
October 13, 1976 The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy....
History: October 13 (#5)
October 13, 1976 A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from El Trompillo Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, killing 91....
History: October 15 (#5)
October 15, 1994 The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island....
History: October 16 (#2)
October 16, 1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523....
History: October 16 (#3)
October 16, 1975 Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox....
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October 16, 1975 The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget....
History: October 16 (#5)
October 16, 1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute....
History: October 17 (#5)
October 17, 1994 Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces....
History: October 18 (#5)
October 18, 1992 Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31....
History: October 19 (#5)
October 19, 1988 The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups....
History: October 20 (#5)
October 20, 1991 A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums....
History: October 21 (#4)
October 21, 1994 North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections....
History: October 21 (#5)
October 21, 1989 In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa....
History: October 22 (#5)
October 22, 1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity....
History: October 25 (#4)
October 25, 1999 A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland....
History: October 25 (#5)
October 25, 1989 The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal....
History: October 27 (#5)
October 27, 1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United ...
History: November 1 (#5)
November 1, 1991 President of the Chechen Republic Dzhokhar Dudayev declares sovereignty of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from the Russian Federation....
History: November 3 (#3)
November 3, 1997 The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist g...
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November 3, 1996 Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar (a le...
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November 3, 1992 Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential election....
History: November 6 (#3)
November 6, 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore....
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November 6, 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province....
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November 6, 1986 Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helico...
History: November 13 (#5)
November 13, 1996 As part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project, Joel Armengaud discovers the project's first Mersenne prime number,...
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November 16, 1997 After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons....
History: November 17 (#4)
November 17, 1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre....
History: November 17 (#5)
November 17, 1993 United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement....
History: November 18 (#3)
November 18, 1996 A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel....
History: November 18 (#4)
November 18, 1993 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives....
History: November 18 (#5)
November 18, 1993 In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule....
History: November 20 (#4)
November 20, 1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania....
History: November 20 (#5)
November 20, 1998 The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....
History: November 22 (#4)
November 22, 1994 A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft collide on the runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Bridgeton, Missouri, killing t...
History: November 22 (#5)
November 22, 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Premiership....
History: November 25 (#4)
November 25, 1999 A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast....
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November 25, 1992 The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993....
History: November 28 (#5)
November 28, 1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major....
History: November 29 (#5)
November 29, 1986 The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children....
History: December 2 (#4)
December 2, 1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement....
History: December 2 (#5)
December 2, 1993 Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope....
History: December 4 (#5)
December 4, 1992 Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa....
History: December 6 (#5)
December 6, 1999 A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement....
History: December 12 (#4)
December 12, 1999 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila....
History: December 12 (#5)
December 12, 1988 The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom....
History: December 13 (#5)
December 13, 1995 Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing 49....
History: December 14 (#5)
December 14, 1999 Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's i...
History: December 19 (#4)
December 19, 1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached....
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December 19, 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky....
History: December 21 (#5)
December 21, 1999 The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain....
History: December 24 (#5)
December 24, 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December ...