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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
1st - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
3rd - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
4th - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
4th - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
5th - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
5th - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
6th - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
9th - At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.
10th - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
11th - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
12th - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
27th - The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
30th - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
31st - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 37 of 37
1st - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2nd - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
3rd - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
3rd - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
5th - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
6th - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
6th - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
7th - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
7th - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
7th - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
8th - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
8th - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
9th - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
10th - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
11th - Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
11th - John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
13th - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
15th - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
16th - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
16th - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
17th - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
17th - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
19th - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
20th - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
20th - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
21st - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
21st - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
22nd - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
22nd - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
23rd - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
25th - Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
27th - Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
28th - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
30th - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
30th - Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
30th - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
31st - Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
