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Historical Events

Results 101 - 160 of 160

Jul 7th - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
Jul 9th - The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
Jul 10th - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
Jul 14th - French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
Jul 15th - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
Jul 15th - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Jul 20th - South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
Jul 21st - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
Jul 22nd - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
Jul 24th - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
Jul 27th - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
Jul 28th - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
Jul 30th - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
Aug 4th - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
Aug 19th - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
Aug 20th - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
Aug 26th - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sep 8th - Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to the Tampa Bay
Sep 9th - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
Sep 10th - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
Sep 11th - Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
Sep 20th - The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
Sep 23rd - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
Sep 25th - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
Sep 26th - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
Sep 27th - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
Oct 2nd - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
Oct 6th - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Oct 6th - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
Oct 11th - A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
Oct 12th - Terrorists explode two bombs in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists
Oct 16th - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Oct 23rd - Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
Oct 24th - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
Oct 26th - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
Oct 27th - Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim
Oct 27th - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
Oct 29th - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
Oct 30th - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview begins transmitting in parts of the United Kingdom.
Oct 31st - A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
Nov 4th - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
Nov 6th - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
Nov 7th - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
Nov 8th - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
Nov 13th - The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
Nov 13th - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
Nov 14th - Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
Nov 14th - The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.
Nov 15th - Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
Nov 18th - Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
Nov 21st - NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
Nov 22nd - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
Dec 8th - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
Dec 13th - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
Dec 17th - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
Dec 18th - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
Dec 20th - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
Dec 22nd - Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash, dies at age 50
Dec 23rd - A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
Dec 27th - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.

Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 357

Apr 7th - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
Apr 8th - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
Apr 9th - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
Apr 9th - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
Apr 13th - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
Apr 15th - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
Apr 15th - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
Apr 16th - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
Apr 16th - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
Apr 18th - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
Apr 18th - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
Apr 19th - Layne Staley, Alice in Chains (b. 1967)
Apr 20th - Layne Staley, American grunge singer of Alice in Chains
Apr 20th - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
Apr 22nd - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
Apr 25th - Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
Apr 25th - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
Apr 26th - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983)
Apr 27th - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
Apr 27th - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
Apr 27th - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
Apr 28th - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
Apr 28th - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
Apr 29th - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
Apr 29th - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
Apr 30th - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
May 2nd - John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
May 2nd - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
May 3rd - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
May 3rd - Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
May 5th - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
May 5th - Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
May 5th - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
May 6th - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
May 6th - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
May 7th - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (b. 1974)
May 7th - Kevyn Aucoin, Makeup Artist and Photographer (b. 1962)
May 9th - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
May 10th - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
May 10th - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
May 11th - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
May 11th - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
May 12th - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
May 13th - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
May 13th - Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
May 16th - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
May 16th - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
May 17th - Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
May 17th - Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
May 17th - Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
May 18th - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
May 19th - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
May 19th - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
May 20th - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
May 21st - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
May 23rd - Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
May 24th - Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)
May 25th - Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
May 26th - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
May 28th - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
May 29th - Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
Jun 1st - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
Jun 4th - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
Jun 5th - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
Jun 5th - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952)
Jun 6th - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
Jun 7th - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
Jun 10th - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
Jun 12th - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
Jun 13th - John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
Jun 14th - June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
Jun 15th - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
Jun 17th - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
Jun 17th - Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
Jun 18th - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
Jun 20th - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
Jun 20th - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
Jun 22nd - Ann Landers, American columnist (b. 1918)
Jun 22nd - Darryl Kile, American baseball player (b. 1968)
Jun 23rd - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
Jun 24th - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
Jun 25th - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
Jun 26th - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
Jun 26th - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
Jun 27th - John Entwistle, bass-player with The Who dies in his sleep of a heart attack in his Las Vegas hotel room aged 57
Jun 29th - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
Jun 29th - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
Jun 29th - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
Jun 30th - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
Jul 2nd - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
Jul 4th - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
Jul 4th - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
Jul 4th - Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
Jul 5th - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84
Jul 5th - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
Jul 6th - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
Jul 6th - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
Jul 7th - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
Jul 7th - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
Jul 8th - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)