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Historical Events

Results 1 - 18 of 18

1st - 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
1st - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2nd - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
4th - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
9th - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
11th - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
11th - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez takes place.
12th - Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez.
12th - Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
13th - Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office.
14th - Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
14th - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
15th - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
17th - Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.
26th - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
27th - The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
29th - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
30th - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.

Famous Birthdays

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11th - Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 30 of 30

1st - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905)
3rd - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
4th - Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
5th - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
7th - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
8th - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
9th - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
9th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
13th - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
15th - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
15th - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
16th - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
16th - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
18th - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
18th - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
19th - Layne Staley, Alice in Chains (b. 1967)
20th - Layne Staley, American grunge singer of Alice in Chains
20th - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
22nd - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
25th - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
25th - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
26th - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983)
27th - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
27th - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
27th - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
28th - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
28th - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
29th - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
29th - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
30th - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)