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1. Three Apollo astronauts—Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee—killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch.
2. Jan, Biafra secedes from Nigeria.
3. May, Israeli and Arab forces battle; six-day war ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and east bank of Suez.
4. June, Red China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb.
5. June, Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks occur in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala, and New Britain, Conn.
6. July, Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
7. Oct, Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec, 3)—patient dies 18 days later.

Grissom, White & Chaffe

1. Jan, North Korea seizes U.S. Navy ship Pueblo; holds 83 on board as spies.
2. Jan - Feb, Tet offensive, turning point in Vietnam war. 3. March, My Lai massacre.
4. March, President Johnson announces he will not seek or accept presidential renomination.
5. April, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, is slain in Memphis.
6. June, James Earl Ray, indicted in murder, captured in London. (In 1969 Ray pleads guilty and is sentenced to 99 years.)
7. June 5, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in Los Angeles hotel after winning California primary (June 5)—dies June 6. (Sirhan B. Sirhan convicted 1969).
8. August, Czechoslovakia is invaded by Russians and Warsaw Pact forces to crush liberal regime.

Martin Luther King Jr

Robert F Kennedy

1. Jan, Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th president of the U.S.
2. June, Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement.
3. July, Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins claim to have taken man's first walk on moon.
4. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18), in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25).
5. Woodstock Festival (Aug. 15–17).
6. Sesame Street debuts.
7. Internet (ARPA) goes online.

1. March, Rhodesia severs last tie with British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
2. June, Biafra surrenders after 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
3. May, U.S. troops invade Cambodia.
4. May, Four students at Kent State University in Ohio slain by National Guardsmen at demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
5. June, Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

1. April, Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
2. May, Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington — police and military units arrest as many as 12,000; most are later released.
3. June, Pentagon Papers published.
4. Twenty-sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18.
5. Oct, UN seats Communist China and expels Nationalist China.

1. Feb, President Nixon makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong.
2. March, Britain takes over direct rule of Northern Ireland in bid for peace.
3. May, Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at Laurel, Md., political rally.
4. June, Five men are apprehended by police in attempt to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate complex—start of the Watergate scandal.
5. June, Supreme Court rules that death penalty is unconstitutional.
6. Sept, Eleven Israeli athletes at Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invade Olympic Village; five guerrillas and one policeman are also killed.
7. Dec 25, “Christmas bombing” of North Vietnam.

George C Wallace

1. Jan 1, Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community.
2. Jan 22, Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade.
3. Jan 27, Vietnam War ends with signing of peace pacts.
4. April 30, Nixon, on national TV, accepts responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate; accepts resignations of advisers H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, fires John W. Dean III as counsel.
5. June 1, Greek military junta abolishes monarchy and proclaims republic.
6. Aug 15, U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
7. Sept 11, Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown.
8. Oct 6, Fourth and biggest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar.
9. Oct 10, Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967, while governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
10. Oct 20, In the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus; Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigns.
11. Nov 11, Egypt and Israel sign U.S.-sponsored cease-fire accord.
12. Duke Ellington's autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, is published

Salvadore Allende

Duke Ellington

1. Feb 5, Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army.
2. July 30, House Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment charging President Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.
3. August 8, Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign, is the first president to do so.
4. August 9, Vice President Gerald R. Ford of Michigan is sworn in as 38th president of the U.S.
5. Sept 8, Ford grants “full, free, and absolute pardon” to ex-president Nixon.

1. Jan 1, John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman found guilty of Watergate cover-up (Jan. 1); sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail (Feb. 21).
2. April, Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia.
3. May, American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed.
4. July, Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
5. Sept 5, President Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento, Calif.
6. Sept 22, President Ford escapes second assassination attempt in 17 days.

1. March 24, Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority.
2. May 11, Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act.
3. July 3, Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
4. July 4, USA celebrates bicentennial.
5. July 4, Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid.
6. August 4, Mysterious disease that eventually claims 29 lives strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
7. Nov 2, Jimmy Carter elected U.S. president.

1. Jan 1, First woman Episcopal priest ordained.
2. Jan 18, Scientists identify previously unknown bacterium as cause of mysterious “legionnaire's disease”.
3. Jan 21, Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders.
4. May 23, Scientists report using bacteria in lab to make insulin.
5. June 20, Supreme Court rules that states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.
6. July 22, Deng Xiaoping, purged Chinese leader, restored to power as “Gang of Four” is expelled from Communist Party.
7. Sept 12, South African activist Stephen Biko dies in police custody.
8. Sept 21, Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, signed by 15 countries, including U.S. and USSR.

Bantu Stephen Biko

1. Jan 19, President chooses Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster as F.B.I. Director.
2. Feb 15, Rhodesia's prime minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule.
3. April 18, U.S. Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000.
4. May 9, Former Italian premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain.
5. June 6, Californians in referendum approve Proposition 13 for nearly 60% slash in property tax revenues.
6. June 28, Supreme Court, in Bakke case, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
7. August 6, Pope Paul VI, dead at 80, mourned.
8. Sept 28, new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office.
9. Oct 16, dead pope succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II.
10. Sept 17, “Framework for Peace” in Middle East signed by Egypt's president Anwar Sadat and Israeli premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Carter.
11. Nov 18, Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Pope John Paul 1

Pope John Paul 2

1. Jan 1,Oil spills pollute ocean waters in Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico (Jan. 1, June 8, July 21).
2. Jan 4, Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings.
3. Jan 7, Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodian capital, and collapse of Pol Pot regime.
4. Jan 16, Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil.
5. Feb 1, evolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over.
6. March 28, Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., releases radiation.
7. May 3, Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher new prime minister.
8. July 17, Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14). Nicaraguan president Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
9. July 19, Sandinistas form government.
10. July 25, first test tube baby born in England (girl).
11. August 27, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 79, British World War II hero, and three others killed by blast on fishing boat off Irish coast.
12. August 30, two I.R.A. members accused of Mountbatten murder.
13. Nov 4, Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy in Teheran and hold hostages.
14. Dec 27, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests.

Earl Mountbatten

1. Jan 29, Six U.S. embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help.
2. Feb 2, F.B.I.'s undercover operation “Abscam” (for Arab scam) implicates public officials.
3. April 7, U.S. breaks diplomatic ties with Iran.
4. April 25, Eight U.S. servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran.
5. June 30, Supreme Court upholds limits on federal aid for abortions.
6. July 27, Shah of Iran dies at 60.
7. Sept 17, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ousted Nicaragua ruler, and two aides assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay capital.
8. Sept 19, Iraq troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq war begins.
9. Nov 4, Ronald Reagan elected president in Republican sweep.
10. Dec 4, Three U.S. nuns and lay worker found shot in El Salvador.
11. Dec 8, John Lennon of the Beatles shot dead in New York City.
12. Dec, Smallpox eradicated.

Anastasio Somoza Debayle

1. Jan 20, Ronald Reagan takes oath as 40th president.
2. Jan 20, U.S.-Iran agreement frees 52 hostages held in Teheran since 1979;
3. Jan 25, hostages welcomed back in U.S.
4. March 30, President Reagan wounded by gunman, with press secretary and two law-enforcement officers.
5. May 14, Pope John Paul II wounded by Turkish gunman.
6. July 7, Reagan nominates Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, of Arizona, as first woman on Supreme Court.
7. July 18, More than 110 die in collapse of aerial walkways in lobby of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City; 188 injured.
8. August 3, Air controllers strike, disrupting flights;
9. August 11, government dismisses strikers.
10. August 11, AIDS is first identified.

Sandra Day O'Connor

1. April 2 - June 15, British overcome Argentina in Falklands war.
2. June 4, Israel invades Lebanon in attack on P.L.O.
3. June 21, John W. Hinckley, Jr., found not guilty because of insanity in shooting of President Reagan.
4. June 25, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., resigns as secretary of state.
5. Sept 14, Equal Rights Amendment fails ratification (June 30). Princess Grace, 52, dies of injuries when car plunges off mountain road; daughter Stephanie, 17, suffers serious injuries.
6. Sept 15, Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut. 7. Nov 10, Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75.
7. Nov 15, Yuri V. Andropov, 68, chosen as successor to Brezhnev.
8. December 2, Permanent artificial heart implanted in human for first time in Dr. Barney B. Clark, 61, at University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

Leonid Brezhnev

Yuri A Andropov

1. Jan 25, Pope John Paul II signs new Roman Catholic code incorporating changes brought about by Second Vatican Council.
2. April 4, Second space shuttle, Challenger, makes successful maiden voyage, which includes the first U.S. space walk in nine years.
3. June 15, U.S. Supreme Court declares many local abortion restrictions unconstitutional.
4. June 18, Sally K. Ride, 32, first U.S. woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger.
5. August 15, U.S. admits shielding former Nazi Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, 69, the “butcher of Lyon,” wanted in France for war crimes.
6. August 21, Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., 50, political rival of Philippines president Marcos, slain in Manila.
7. August 30, South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Seoul apparently strays into Soviet airspace and is shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter after it had tracked the airliner for two hours; all 269 aboard are killed, including 61 Americans.
8. Oct 23, Terrorist explosion kills 237 U.S. Marines in Beirut.
9. Oct 25, U.S. and Caribbean allies invade Grenada.

Benigno S Aquino

1. Jan 1, Bell System broken up.
2. Jan 1, France gets first deliveries of Soviet natural gas.
3. Jan 3, Syria frees captured U.S. Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr.
4. Jan 10, U.S. and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus.
5. Feb 7, Reagan orders U.S. Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force.
6. Feb 9, Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet Union leader.
7. Feb 18, Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion.
8. March 30, Reagan ends U.S. role in Beirut by relieving Sixth Fleet from peacekeeping force.
9. April 10, Congress rebukes President Reagan on use of federal funds for mining Nicaraguan harbors.
10. May 7, Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in U.S., and other bloc nations follow.
11. May 11, José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador.
12. June 6, Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
13. July 16-19, Thirty-ninth Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco, nominates Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro.
14. August 20-25, Thirty-third Republican National Convention, at Dallas, renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush.
15. Sept 4, Brian Mulroney and Conservative party win Canadian election in landslide.
16. Oct 31, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her.
17. Nov 6, President Reagan re-elected in landslide with 59% of vote.
18. Dec 3, Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000.

Jose Napoleon Duarte

Konstantin U. Chernenko

1. Jan 20, Ronald Reagan, 73, takes oath for second term as 40th president.
2. Feb 18, General Westmoreland settles libel action against CBS.
3. Feb 20, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses Congress, endorsing Reagan's policies.
4. March 11, USSR leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54.
5. June 14, Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans;
6. June 30, 39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut.
7. July 1, Supreme Court, 5–4, bars public school teachers from parochial schools.
8. August 9, Arthur James Walker, 50, retired naval officer, convicted by federal judge of participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John Walker.
9. Oct 7, P.L.O. terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew.
10. Oct 8, American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed.
11. Oct 16, Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking.
12. Oct 28, John A. Walker and son, Michael I. Walker, 22, sentenced in Navy espionage case.
13. Nov 19, Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit.
14. Nov 21, agree to step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts.
15. Nov 23, Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens;
16. Nov 24, 59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta.
17. Dec 12, U.S. budget-balancing bill enacted.

Mikhail Gorbachov

Leon Klinghoffer

1. Jan 1, Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community.
2. Jan 8, President freezes Libyan assets in U.S.
3. Jan 14, Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection.
4. Jan 26, Voyager 2 spacecraft reports secrets of Uranus.
5. Jan 28, Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard.
6. Feb 7, Haiti president Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France.
7. Feb 26, President Marcos flees Philippines after ruling 20 years, as newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him.
8. Feb 28, Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden shot dead. 9. March 3, Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's service as Nazi army officer revealed.
9. March 22, Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India.
10. April 10, Halley's comet yields information on return visit.
11. April 14, U.S. planes attack Libyan “terrorist centers”.
12. April 14, Desmond Tutu elected archbishop in South Africa.
13. April 26, Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world.
14. June 4, Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel.
15. June 11, Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights.
16. June 27, World Court rules U.S. broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters.
17. July 7, Supreme Court voids automatic provisions of budget-balancing law.
18. July 24, Jerry A. Whitworth, ex-Navy radioman, convicted as spy ; he is also part of Walker family spy ring.
19. July 26, Muslim captors release Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco.
20. August 14, Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of U.S.
21. August 15, House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting administration's “Star Wars” policy.
22. August 29, Three Lutheran church groups in U.S. set to merge.
23. Set 29 & oct 2, Congress overrides Reagan veto of stiff sanctions against South Africa.
24. Oct 17, Congress approves immigration bill barring hiring of illegal aliens, with amnesty provision.
25. Oct 21, Reagan signs $11.7-billion budget reduction measure.
26. Oct 22, Reagan approves sweeping revision of U.S. tax code.
27. Nov 4, Democrats triumph in elections, gaining eight seats to win Senate majority.
28. Nov 6, Secret initiative to send arms to Iran revealed.
29. Nov 19, Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales.
30. Nov 25, diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras revealed.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

1. Jan 20, William Buckley, U.S. hostage in Lebanon, reported slain.
2. May 4, Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women.
3. May 17, Iraqi missiles kill 37 in attack on U.S. frigate Stark in Persian Gulf.
4. May 18, Iraqi president apologizes.
5. June 11, Prime Minister Thatcher wins rare third term in Britain.
6. June 26, Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retires.
7. July 4, Klaus Barbie, 73, Gestapo wartime chief in Lyon, sentenced to life by French court for war crimes.
8. July 7-10, Oliver North, Jr., tells congressional inquiry higher officials approved his secret Iran-Contra operations.
9. July 15-22, Admiral John M. Poindexter, former National Security Adviser, testifies he authorized use of Iran arms sale profits to aid Contras.
10. July 23-24, Secretary of State George P. Shultz testifies he was deceived repeatedly on Iran-Contra affair. 11. July 31-August 3, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger tells inquiry of official deception and intrigue.
12. August 12, Reagan says Iran arms-Contra policy went astray and accepts responsibility.
13. Oct 1, Severe earthquake strikes Los Angeles, leaving 100 injured and six dead.
14. Oct 23, Senate, 58–42, rejects Robert H. Bork as Supreme Court justice.

Margaret Thatcher

George P Shultz

1. Jan 2, U.S. and Canada reach free trade agreement.
2. March 11, Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Adviser, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra case.
3. July 3, U.S. Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed.
4. July 11, Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise.
5. July 17, Democratic convention nominates Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for president and Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen for vice president.
6. August 15, Republicans nominate George Bush for president and Indiana senator Dan Quayle for vice president.
7. August 17, Plane blast kills Pakistani president Mohammad Zia ul-Haq.
8. Nov 8, Republicans sweep 40 states in election. Bush beats Dukakis.
9. Dec 1, Benazir Bhutto, first Islamic woman prime minister, chosen to lead Pakistan.
10. Dec 21, Pan-Am 747 explodes from terrorist bomb and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on ground.

Mohammad Zia ul Haq

1. Jan 4, U.S. planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean.
2. Jan 7, Emperor Hirohito of Japan dead at 87.
3. Jan 20, George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st U.S. president.
4. Feb 14, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death.
5. March 24, Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
6. April 19, Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy.
7. May 4, U.S. jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair.
8. May, More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation.
9. May 25, Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet president. 10. June 4, Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators.
10. August 9, Army general Colin R. Powell is first black chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
11. August 14, P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's president.
12. August 29, Voyager 2 spacecraft speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about the planet and its moons.
13. Nov 9, Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership.
14. Nov 11, After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West.
15. Nov 30, Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role.
16. Dec 15, Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government.
17. Dec 20, U.S. troops invade Panama, seeking capture of Gen. Manuel Noriega.
18. Dec 24, resistance to U.S. collapses.
19. Dec 24, Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize.
20. Dec 25, President Ceausescu and wife executed.

George H. W. Bush

Ayatollah Khoemini

1. Jan 3, World Wide Web debuts, popularizes Internet. Gen. Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama.
2. Jan 22, Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power.
3. Feb 7, Soviet Communists relinquish sole power.
4. Feb 11, South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 271/2 years.
5. April 25, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro inaugurated as Nicaraguan president. Hubble Space Telescope launched.
6. June 1, U.S.-Soviet summit reaches accord on armaments.
7. July 6, Western Alliance ends cold war and proposes joint action with Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
8. July 20, U.S. Appeals Court overturns Oliver North's Iran-Contra conviction.
9. August 2, Iraqi troops invade Kuwait and seize petroleum reserves, setting off Persian Gulf War (For detailed chronology, see The Persian Gulf War.).
10. Oct 3, East and West Germany reunited.
11. Nov 8, Republicans set back in midterm elections.
12. Nov 17, Gorbachev assumes emergency powers in Russia.
13. Nov 21, Leaders of 34 nations in Europe and North America proclaim a united Europe.
14. Nov 22, Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister.
15. Nov 28, John Major succeeds Margaret Thatcher.
16. Dec 9, Lech Walesa wins Poland's runoff presidential election.
17. Dec 17, Haiti elects leftist priest as president in first democratic election.

Nelson Mandela

1. Jan 15, U.S. and Allies at war with Iraq.
2. Feb 25, Warsaw Pact dissolves military alliance.
3. April 3, Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War; UN forces are victorious.
4. April 15, Europeans end sanctions on South Africa.
5. April 16, Supreme Court limits death row appeals.
6. May 13, Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping.
7. May 14, William H. Webster retires as director of CIA; Robert H. Gates succeeds him.
8. June 3, France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons.
9. June 4, Communist government of Albania resigns.
10. June 4, Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide.
11. June 5, South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws.
12. July 1, Warsaw Pact dissolved.
13. July 10, Boris N. Yeltsin inaugurated as first freely elected president of Russian Republic.
14. July 12, remains of Nicholas Romanov & family found in Koptyaki forest, Yekaterinburg.
15. July 31, Bush-Gorbachev summit negotiates strategic arms reduction treaty.
16. August 10, China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
17. August 25, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence.
18. Spet 2, Bush recognizes Lit, Est & Latvia.
19. Sept 30, Haitian troops seize president in uprising.
20. Oct 1, U.S. suspends assistance to Haiti.
21. Oct 6, Professor Anita Hill accuses Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
22. Oct 15, Senate, 52–48, confirms Thomas for Supreme Court after stormy hearings.
23. Oct 18, Israel and Soviet Union resume relations after 2 years.
24. Nov 15, U.S. indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
25. Nov 18, Anglican envoy Terry Waite and U.S. Prof. Thomas M. Sutherland freed by Lebanese.
26. Dec 2-4, Last three U.S. hostages freed in Lebanon.
27. Dec 25, Soviet Union breaks up after President Gorbachev's resignation; constituent republics form Commonwealth of Independent States.

Tsar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov

1. Jan 15, Yugoslav Federation broken up.
2. Feb 1, Bush and Yeltsin proclaim formal end to cold war.
3. Feb 21, U.S. lifts trade sanctions against China.
4. April 7, U.S. recognizes three former Yugoslav republics. 5. April 9, Gen. Noriega, former Panama leader, convicted in U.S. court.
6. April 29, Four police officers acquitted in Los Angeles beating of Rodney King; rioting erupts in South-Central Los Angeles.
7. June 16, Caspar W. Weinberger indicted in Iran-Contra affair.
8. June 17, Last Western hostages freed in Lebanon.
9. June 29, Supreme Court reaffirms right to abortion.
10. July 1, Democrats nominate Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
11. July 10, Gen. Noriega sentenced to 40 years on drug charges.
12. July 10, Court clears Exxon Valdez skipper.
13. July 13, Israeli Parliament approves Yitzhak Rabin's coalition government, dominated by Labor Party.
14. August 5, Police officers acquitted in April on criminal charges in Rodney King beating are indicted on federal civil rights charges.
15. Aug 12, North American trade compact announced.
16. August 20, Republicans renominate Bush and Quayle.
17. Sept 22, UN expels Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia.
18. Oct 1, Senate ratifies second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
19. Oct 14, Top Japanese leader, Shin Kanemaru, resigns in scanda.
20. Nov 3, Bill Clinton elected president, Al Gore vice president; Democrats keep control of Congress.
21. Nov 4, Russian Parliament approves START treaty.
22. Nov 24, U.S. forces leave Philippines, ending nearly a century of American military presence.
23. Nov 25, Czechoslovak Parliament approves separation into two nations.
24. Dec 3, UN approves U.S.-led force to guard food for Somalia.
25. Dec 9, Prince and Princess of Wales agree to separate.
26. Dec 24, Bush pardons former Reagan administration officials involved in Iran-Contra affair.

General Noriega

1. Jan 26, Vaclav Havel elected as Czech president.
2. Jan 29, Clinton agrees to compromise on military's ban on homosexuals.
3. Feb 28, U.S. begins airlift of supplies to besieged Bosnia towns.
4. March 1, Federal agents besiege Texas Branch Davidian religious cult after six are killed in raid.
5. March 29, Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York.
6. April 17, Two police officers convicted on federal civil rights charges in Rodney King beating, sentenced (Aug. 4).
7. April 19, Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault.
8. May 1, President of Sri Lanka assassinated.
9. May 20, British Commons approves European unity pact.
10. June 5, Twenty-two UN troops killed in Somalia.
11. June 14, Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed to Supreme Court.
12. July 19, Iraq accepts UN weapons monitoring.
13. July 22, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., senior White House lawyer, commits suicide.
14. July 24, Midwest flood damage expected to exceed $10 billion.
15. August 28, Israeli-Palestinian accord reached.
16. Oct 1, U.S. agents blamed in Waco, Tex., siege.
17. Oct 5, Yeltsin's forces crush revolt in Russian Parliament.
18. Oct 5, China breaks nuclear test moratorium.
19. Oct 25, Canada's opposition Liberal Party regains power in landslide.
20. Nov 1, Europe's Maastricht Treaty takes effect, creating European Union.
21. Nov 4, Jean Chretien sworn in as Canada's 20th prime minister.
22. Nov 17, House of Representatives approves North American Free Trade Agreement; Senate follows (Nov. 21).
23. Nov 18, South Africa adopts majority rule constitution.
24. Nov 30, Clinton signs Brady bill regulating firearms purchases.
25. Nov 30, Toni Morrison wins Nobel prize for literature.

1. Jan 5-6, Serbs' heavy weapons pound Sarajevo.
2. Jan 6, Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked; three arrested in attack Jan. 13.
3. Jan 17, Major earthquake jolts Los Angeles; 51 dead.
4. Feb 9, Clinton ends trade embargo on Vietnam.
5. Feb 22, Aldrich Ames, high C.I.A. official, charged with spying for Soviets.
6. March 4, Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing.
7. March 23, Mexican presidential candidate assassinated.
8. April 6, Rwandan genocide of Tutsis by Hutus begins; estimated 800,000 slaughtered in c. 100 days.
9. April 29, South Africa holds first interracial national election; Nelson Mandela elected president.
10. May 4, Israel and Palestinians sign accord.
11. May 6, Clinton accused of sexual harassment while governor of Arkansas.
12. May 12, Congress votes protection for women's health clinics.
13. June 18, O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman.
14. June 30, Supreme Court approves limit on abortion protests.
15. July 29, Senate confirms Stephen G. Breyer for Supreme Court.
16. July 29, Women's health clinic doctor shot dead outside Florida clinic.
17. August 13, Major league baseball players strike.
18. August 15, “Carlos the Jackal,” international terrorist, captured.
19. August 31, IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland.
20. Sept 12, Small plane crashes into White House.
21. Sept 14, Baseball owners end season and cancel World Series.
22. Oct 4, Powerful earthquake strikes Japan.
23. Oct 4, Aristide returns to joyous Haiti.
24. Oct 7, U.S. sends forces to Persian Gulf.
25. Oct 31, Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire.
26. Oct 17, Israel and Jordan sign peace treaty.
27. Nov 6, Reagan, 83, reveals he has Alzheimer's disease.
28. Nov 8, G.O.P. wins control of House and Senate.
29. Nov 9, Aristide forms Haitian government with prime minister and full cabinet.
30. Nov 10, Clinton orders Bosnian arms embargo ended.
31. Dec 11, Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya.

Nancy Kerrigan

Carlos the Jackal

1. Jan 4, Republicans take control of Congress.
2. Jan 17, More than 5,000 dead in Japanese earthquake.
3. Jan 24, Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California.
4. Feb 21, U.S. rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program.
5. March 2, Senate rejects balanced-budget amendment.
6. March 20, Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo (“Supreme Truth”) cult is to blame.
7. April 13, Appeals court upholds woman's plea to enter Citadel military academy.
8. April 14, UN Council votes easier sanctions for Iraq.
9. April 19, Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building.
10. April 21, Timothy McVeigh, 27, Army veteran, arrested as suspect; authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing.
11. April 22, Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre.
12. May 1, Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia.
13. June 27, U.S. shuttle docks with Russian space station.
14. August 11, F.B.I. suspends four in Idaho siege inquiry.
15. Sept 5, France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue.
16. Sept 6, Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon resigns under pressure for sexual and official misconduct.
17. Sept 24, Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs.
18. Oct 3, Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges.
19. Oct 4-8, Pope John Paul II visits U.S. on whirlwind tour.
20. Oct 5, Warring parties agree on cease-fire in Bosnia.
21. Oct 16, Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital.
22. Oct 30, Quebec narrowly rejects independence from Canada.
23. Nov 4, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally.
24. Nov 7, U.S. servicemen admit rape of Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa.
25. Nov 10, Nigeria hangs writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other minority rights advocates.
26. Nov 24, Irish voters approve end to constitutional ban on divorce.
27. Dec 14, Combatants sign Bosnia peace treaty.
28. Dec 20, House move stalls Congress–White House negotiations to avert government shutdown.
29. Dec 20, Seamus Heaney wins Nobel prize for literature.

Timothy McVeigh

Oklahoma City Federal Building

Russian Space Station, Mir

1. Jan 3, U.S. budget crisis in fourth month.
2. Jan 6, Clinton approves resumption of many government operations.
3. Jan 26, Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty.
4. Jan 29, France announces end to nuclear tests.
5. Feb 1, At least 73 dead in Sri Lankan suicide bombing.
6. March 4, Suicide bombers kill 59 in Israel.
7. March 5, Bob Dole sweeps Republican primaries.
8. March 20, Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease.
9. March 22, UN tribunal charges war crimes by Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
10. April 3, Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown killed in plane crash.
11. April 3, FBI arrests suspected Unabomber.
12. April 9, Clinton signs line-item veto bill.
13. April 10, President blocks ban on late-term abortions.
14. May 11, ValuJet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed.
15. May 27, Chechnya peace treaty signed.
16. May 31, Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.
17. June 6, China agrees to world ban on atomic testing.
18. June 14, Leaders in Balkans sign accord on arms limits.
19. June 15, Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald dies.
20. June 25, Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia.
21. July 3, Boris Yeltsin is reelected in Russian election.
22. July 12, Prince Charles and Princess Diana agree on divorce.
23. July 17, 747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish.
24. July 25, Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta.
25. August 2, Clinton signs bill to raise minimum wage.
26. August 2, Congress passes welfare reform bill; approved by Clinton Aug. 22.
27. August 12, Republican convention opens in San Diego;
28. August 14, Bob Dole and Jack Kemp nominated.
29. August 31, Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave.
30. Sept 2-3, U.S. attacks Iraq's southern air defenses.
31. Sept 13, Iraq halts attacks on U.S. planes enforcing flight exclusion zones in north and south.
32. Sept 24, Violence flares in Jerusalem over Israel opening tourist tunnel.
33. Sept 27, Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Afghan capital.
34. Oct 13, Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps; thousands of refugees from Rwanda and Burundi abandon camps Oct. 21.
35. Nov 5, Clinton-Gore ticket wins national election; Republicans retain control of Congress.
36. Nov 12, Mid-air collision in India kills 342.
37. Nov 15, Texaco settles racial bias suit.
38. Nov 15-18, Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees return to Rwanda.
39. Dec 5, Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. secretary of state.
40. Dec 13, Kofi Annan named UN secretary-general.
41. Dec 18, FBI agent charged with spying for Moscow.
42. Dec 26, Thousands march in Belgrade in continuing protest against president's annulment of election results.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Diana & Charles

1. Jan 3, Two Hutu sentenced to death in Rwandan genocide.
2. Jan 5, Floods cause wide damage in U.S. West.
3. Jan 7, Newt Gingrich reelected as House Speaker.
4. Jan 16, Hebron agreement signed; Israel gives up large part of West Bank city of Hebron.
5. Jan 17, U.S. shuttle joins Russian space station.
6. Jan 17, Gingrich found guilty of ethics violations.
7. Jan 20, President Clinton starts second term.
8. Feb 3, U.S., U.K., and France agree to freeze Nazis' gold loot.
9. Feb 5, O. J. Simpson found liable in civil suit.
10. Feb 19, Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader, dead at 92.
11. Feb 26, Israeli government approves establishment of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, a setback in Middle East peace process.
12. March 3, Tornadoes wreak havoc in Arkansas, Ohio, and Kentucky.
13. March 13, State of anarchy in Albania when third of population loses savings because of pyramid schemes.
14. MArch 22, Hale-Bopp comet is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397.
15. March 27, Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California.
16. April 8, U.S. Appeals Court upholds California ban on affirmative action.
17. April 11, U.S. judge upholds California marijuana law.
18. April 13, Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in Masters golf tournament.
19. April 15, Fire kills 300 pilgrims outside Mecca.
20. April 24, Senate, 74–26, approves chemical-weapons treaty.
21. April 27, Thousands flee North Dakota flood.
22. May 7, Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene C. McKinney, charged in sex cases.
23. May 12, Russian president Yeltsin signs Chechnya peace treaty.
24. May 21, U.S.-Russian spaceship linkup in orbit ends.
25. June 16, European Union bolsters currency merger.
26. June 30, Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule.
27. July 4, U.S. spacecraft begins exploration of Mars.
28. July 15, Andrew Cunanan murders fashion designer Gianni Versace.
29. July 25, Khmer Rouge hold trial of longtime leader Pol Pot.
30. August 14, Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing.
31. August 31, Princess Diana, 36, killed with two others in Paris car crash.
32. Spet 4, Three Islamic suicide bombers kill four persons in Jerusalem.
33. Sept 5, Mother Teresa dead at 87.
34. Sept 17, Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust victims.
35. Sept 27, Militant Taliban leaders seize Kabul.
36. Oct 29, Iraq expels all U.S. members of UN arms-inspection team.
37. Nov 10, Pakistani convicted in 1993 CIA killings.
38. Nov 12, Two convicted in New York World Trade Center bombing.
39. Nov 17, Egyptian Islamic militants kill 62 at Luxor tourist site.
40. Nov 18, FBI ends 16-month investigation of crash of Flight 800 off Long Island; denies sabotage.
41. Dec 13, European Union plans to admit six nations.
42. Dec 24, U.S. company launches first commercial spy satellite.
43. Dec 24, Paris court convicts “Carlos the Jackal” of murder.

Hale-Bopp comet

Princess Diana

Mother Theresa

1. Jan 9, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life for 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2. Jan 21-25, Pope John Paul II visits Cuba.
3. Jan 21, President accused in White House sex scandal; denies affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
4. Feb 3, U.S. plane cuts ski cable in Italy and sends car plunging; 20 killed.
5. Feb 4, Thousands dead in Afghanistan quake.
6. Feb 18, Austrian Rockstar Falco dies
7. March 5, Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
8. March 13, U.S. drops condemnation of China's human rights record.
9. March 19, Hindu nationalist Vajpayee becomes India's prime minister.
10. March 27, FDA approves Viagra, male impotence.
11. April 10, peace settlement, Good Friday Accord, Northern Ireland.
12. May 3, Europeans agree on single currency, the euro.
13. May 4, Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, sentenced to four life terms.
14. May 11 & 13, India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval.
15. May 21, Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power.
16. May 29 & 30, Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response to India's.
17. June 1, Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels.
18. June 4, Life sentence meted out to Terry Nichols.
19. June 8, Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha dies.

Tsar Nicholas Romanov & family

July 17, Tsar Nicholas, Tsarina Alexandra, and their children, Olga, Tatyana and Anastasia are given a funeral and entombed in the family crpyt of St Peter and Paul Catherdral in St Petersburg.

21. August 5, Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors.
22. August 7, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed.
23. August 17, Clinton admits to affair with White House intern in televised address to nation.
24. August 17, Russia fights to avert financial collapse.
25. August 20, U.S. cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan.
26. August 31, North Korea fires missile across Japan.
27. Sept 2, Swissair jet crashes; kills 229.
28. Sept 11, Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against president.
29. Spet 18, Senate sustains veto of bill to outlaw late-term abortions.
30. Sept 24, Iran lifts death threat against Salman Rushdie.
31. Sept 27, German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder.
32. Oct 6, Matthew Shepard, gay Wyoming student, fatally beaten in hate crime.
33. Oct 12, NATO, on verge of air strikes, reaches settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo.
34. Oct 16, Former Chilean dictator Pinochet arrested in London.
35. Oct 23, Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward.
36. Nov 1, More than 10,000 die in Central American hurricane, Mitch.
37. Dec 16-19, Clinton orders air strikes on Iraq.
38. Dec 19, House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice.

Gerhard Shroeder

1. Jan 4, U.S. agrees to ease restrictions on Cuba.
2. Jan 24, International Olympic Committee expels six members as bribery scandal widens.
3. Feb 7, King Hussein of Jordan dies.
4. Feb 12, Senate acquits President Clinton of impeachment charges.
5. Feb 28, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo elected president of Nigeria.
5. March 4, Marine pilot acquitted in killing of 20 in 1998 Italian ski gondola accident; Italians outraged.
6. March 5, U.S. accuses China of stealing nuclear secrets.
7. March 8, Joe DiMaggio dies at age 84.
8. March 12, Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary join NATO.
9. March 24, NATO launches air strikes on Serbia to end attacks against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (March 24).
10. March 26, Dr. Jack Kevorkian convicted of second-degree murder in assisted-suicide case.
11. March 27, “Melissa” computer virus spreads through the Internet.
12. April 5, Libya hands over two suspects in 1988 Pan Am jet bombing.
13. April 20, Two Colo. students go on shooting spree in Columbine High School, killing 15, including themselves.
14. May 7, NATO bombs mistakenly hit Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
15. May 17, Ehud Barak defeats Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli prime minister election.
16. May 20, U.S. inspects suspected nuclear weapons site in North Korea, finds nothing.
17. June 9, Serbs sign agreement to pull troops out of Kosovo after 11 weeks of NATO air attacks.
18. June 16, Nelson Mandela retires as president of South Africa; succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.
19. June 19, Britain's Prince Edward marries Sophie Rhys-Jones.
20. June 29, Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan sentenced to death for treason in Turkey.
21. July 2-5, White supremacist goes on shooting spree in Midwest, killing three including self and wounding eight. 22. July 11, Taiwanese leader Lee Teng-hui challenges “One China” policy.
23. July 16, John F. Kennedy, Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette killed in plane crash off coast of Martha's Vineyard.
24. July 16, Col. Eileen Collins becomes first female to head a space shuttle mission.
25. Aug 9, Yeltsin replaces Prime Minister Stepashin with Vladimir Putin in fourth government shakeup in 17 months.
26. Aug 10, Islamic militants declare independence for Dagestan and announce holy war against Russia.
27. Aug 17, More than 17,000 people die in 7.4 earthquake in Turkey.
28. Aug 25, Attorney General Janet Reno reopens investigation of 1993 Waco, Tex., stand-off.
29. Aug 31, People of East Timor vote for independence from Indonesia.
30. Sept 4, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasir Arafat announce peace accord.
31. Sept 23, NASA accidentally loses $125 million spacecraft as it orbits Mars.
32. Sept 30, Dozens of people exposed to radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident.
33. Oct 1, Russia sends ground troops to Chechnya as conflict with Islamic militants intensifies.
34. Oct 11, World population reaches six billion milestone.
35. Oct 12, Military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf overthrows Pakistani government.
36. Oct 13, Tobacco companies admit to harm caused by cigarette smoking.
37. Oct 20, Indonesia elects Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid president (Oct. 20).
38. Oct 31, EgyptAir flight crashes over Atlantic, killing all 217 on board.
39. Nov 21, China launches first spacecraft.
40. Nov 25, Five-year-old Cuban refugee Elián González gets caught in politically charged custody battle.
41. Dec 2, New Northern Ireland government begins self-rule for first time in 25 years.
42. Dec 24, Muslim terrorists hijack Indian Airlines jet with 189 on board.

Things I remember as they happened.

1. April, sinking of the Wahine

1. Sept 6, 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich are killed after eight members of an Arab terrorist group invade the Olympic Village.

Failed Rescue Mission

Israeli Hostages Killed

1. Bulls Bridge collapses

1. August 31, Prime Minister Norman Kirk dies
2. Bill Rollings made Prime Minister

Wallace (Bill) Rollings

1. 31 May, 18 year old Mona Blades went missing.
2. Channel 2 stars broadcasting.
3. Robert Muldoon elected Prime Minister
4. Muldoon enacts dawn raids to deport over stayers

Robert Muldoon

1. Jan 1, Heidi Charles vanishes near Rotorua

1. Sept 12, Stephen Biko, South African rights activist dies in Police custody

1. August 6, Death of Pope Paul.
2. Sept 28, Pope John Paul 1 dies after 34 days in office.
2. Oct 16, Pope John Paul 2.
4. Nov 18, Jim Jones and 900 of his followers commit suicide.

Bantu Stephen Biko

1. Jan 16, Shah leaves Iran
2. January, Brenda Spencer goes on shooting rampage in San Diego infamous I don't like Mondays excuse.
3. July 25, first test tube baby born in England.
4. August 27, Earl Mountbatten killed by IRA (bomb placed on his boat).
5. November, Flight TE 901 crashes on Mt Erebus, no survivors
6. Dec 27, Russia invades Afghanistan.
7. Independent search team discovers Romanov remains in Koptyaki Forest near Yekaterinburg. Covers them again telling no one, for fear that Communists would take them and conceal them elsewhere.

Brenda Spencer

2000 Mt Erebus 1979

Romanov family

Earl Mountbatten

1. Dec 4, three nuns found dead in El Salvadore.
2. Dec 8, John Lennon shot dead in New York.

Springbok Tour Protests in New Zealand 1981

Springbok Tour Protest 1981

1. May 11, Bob Marley died
2. March 30, Ronald Reagan shot.
3. April, Springbok Tour.
4. May 14, Pope John Paul 2 shot.
5. August, Charles and Diana marry.

Pope Paul John 2

Charles & Diana

1. April, Falkland Islands War begins
2. Oct, French test nuclear bombs at Mururoa Attoll

Nuclear Explosion over Mururoa

French Nuclear Tests over Mururoa Atoll

Soldiers prepare to go to battle in the Falkland Islands

1. August, Paul Chase shot by Police
2. December, Kirsa Jenson goes missing while horse back riding, is never found

1. July 13, Aid for Africa, biggest famine relief effort to date held by British artists, headed by Bob Geldof.
2. July 26, David Lange elected New Zealand Prime Minister.
3. August, New Zealand declares itself a nuclear free zone.
4. September, New Zealand enrages Pentagon Officials when she refuses to allow nuclear capable ships into her waters and harbours.
5. October, New Zealand expelled from ANZUS.

Spandau Ballet

1. July 10, Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland Harbour by operatives of French intelligence of the DGSE killing Portugese photographer Fernando Pereira.
2. September, French minister of defense Charles Hernu resigned and prime minister Laurent Fabius admitted on television that agents of the French secret service had sunk the Rainbow Warrior on orders.
3. USA copycats Britain's Live Aid and does USA for Africa.

Rainbow Warrior

Laurent Fabius

Warrior Rainbow

Fernando Pereira

USA for Africa

1. April, Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown.
2. June 1986, Prime Minister of New Zealand David Lange and presided over by the United Nations Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, cut a deal, France agreed to pay compensation of NZ$13 million (US$6.5 million) to New Zealand and 'apologise' for sinking the Rainbow Warrior, in return for which Mafart and Prieur (DGSE agents) would be detained at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years.

1. Jan 20, Willian Buckley US hostage in Lebanon, slain.
2. Austrian rock singer Falco releases Cowboyz & Indianz song, tribute to the arms race betwee Russia and America.
3. May 17, Iraqi missiles kill 37 in attack on US frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf.
4. July 4, Klaus Barbie sentenced to life in prisonment for wars (holocaust) crimes.
5. Oct 1, Los Angeles earthquake 100 injured, 10 dead.

William F Buckley

U.S Frigate Stark

Red Square, White House
Only today and tomorrow
Hard times for the Soviets
The Bear is not a problem,
it makes no impact
'Cause uncle Sam is playing space cadet

Cowboyz and indianz
Russia and the U.S.A.
Are the cowboys and indianz of today

Mikail Gorbachov

1. March 10, Andy Gibb dies at age 30 in England.
2. Aug 17, Muhammad Pakistani President Zia ul Haq killed in plane explosion.
3. Dec 21, Pan-Am 747 crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland due to terrorist attack, all 259 souls on board die.

Lockerbie, Scotland, Pan Am 747 debris

1. Jan 20, George H. Bush elected president of USA.
2. Feb 14, Ayatollah condemns Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses and condemns him to death.
3. March 24, Tanker Exxon Valdez spills oil into Prince William Sounds on the coast of Alaska.
4. June 4, Tiananmen Square demonstration sees thousands killed when Chinese take hard line against protestors.
5. Nov 10, Berlin Wall comes down, built Nov 10, in 1961.
6. Dec 15, Romanian uprising overthrows Communist Govt.
7. Dec 24, Dalai Lama awarded Nobel Peace prize.
8. Dec 25, President Ceausescu and wife executed.
9. Dec, Slobodan Milosevic made president of Serbia.

Ayatollah Khomeini

Salman Rushdie

Nicolae Ceausescu & wife

Oil on Alaskan shore

Slobodan Milosevic

Tanks used to run down the Tiananmen Square protestors

Then the wall came down, we thought it was a new beginning...

Prayer vigil at the wall, 1970s

Construction of the wall in Nov, 1961

East meets West

The Berlin wall

Tearing down the wall

1. Feb 7, Soviet Communists relinquish sole power.
2. Feb 11, Nelson Mandela is freed from prison.
3. New Zealand Bill of Rights enacted.
4. August 2, Iraq invades Kuwait.
5. October 27, Jim Bolger elected Prime Minister of New Zealand.
6. November, David Grey kills 13 in Aramoana killing spree.
7. Nov 28, John Major becomes Prime Minister of Britain.

Oilfields burn in Kuwait

Saddam Hussein

David Gray Aramoana

Nelson Mandela

1. May 13, Winnie Mandela is sentenced for kidnapping.
2. June 3, France signs 1968 Treaty banning spread of nuclear weapons.
3. June 4, Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide.
4. July 10, Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected President of Russian Republic.

Winnie Mandela

July 12, Remains of Romanov family 'officially' found in Koptyaki Forest near Yekaterinburg.

6. September 30, Haitian troops seize president in uprising.
7. November 15, USA indicts two Libyans for Lockerbie bombing of 1988.
8. November 18, Terry Wait & Thomas Sutherland freed by Lebanese.
9. November 24, Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS.
10. December, TVNZ plays controversial documentary of the torture and murder of toddler Delcelia Whittaker.
11. New Zealand currency change of $1 & $2 notes to coins.

Romanov family

Thomas Sutherland

Jean Bertrand Aristide (Haitian President)

Freddie Mercury

New Zealand $1.00 note replaced with $1.00 coin

New Zealand $2.00 note replaced with $2.00 coin

1. February 1, Boris Yeltsin and George H Bush formally announce end to cold war.
2. April 29, LA riots break out after four policemen acquitted of beating Rodney King.
3. 25 June, Raymond Ratima kills seven family members, also an unborn child,in Masterton, New Zealand.
4. July 10, Captain of Exxon Valdez cleared of charges in relation to Prince William Sound oil spill in 1989.
5. August 5, Police acquitted in Rodney King beating are indicted on Federal Civil Rights charges.
6. Novmber 3, Bill Clinton elected president of USA.
7. November, Ex Prime Minister Rob Muldoon dies.
8. December 9, Prince Charles & Princess Diana agree to separate.

Raymond Ratima

Boris Yeltsin & George H Bush

Capt Joseph Hazelwood (Exxon Valdez)

Prince Charles & Princess Diana

1. January 26, Vaclav Havel elected Checz President.
2. February 26, The World Trade Center in USA is bombed.
3. February 28, USA begins airlift of aid to beseiged Bosnian towns.
4. April 19, FBI storm Branch Davidian's compound at Waco, Texas killing 72 Davidians.
5. Momcilo Krajisnik & Radovan Karadzic accused of slaughtering non Serb civilians in current Bosnian war.

Momcilo Krajisnik

World Trade Center bombing

Radovan Karadzic

Storming branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

1. January 17, LA earthquake kills 51.
2. February 22, Aldrich Ames, high CIA official charged with spying for the Soviets.
3. April 6, Rwandan genocide of Tutsis by Hutus, 800'000 slaughtered.
4. April 29, Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa.
5. June 18, OJ Simpson arrested for murder of wife.
6. September 12, A small plane crashes into the Whitehouse.

Aldrich Ames, CIA operative being arrested as a spy for the Soviets

Los Angeles earthquake devastation

The Whitehouse

Tutsi genocide victims

...more Tutsi victims of Hutu soldiers

President Nelson Mandela

1. January 17, Kobe earthquake in Japan kills 5000.
2. March 20, Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway.
3. April 19, Oklahoma Federal building bombed.
4. May 1, Bosnia & Coatia fighting intensifies.
5. June 17, US shuttel docks with Russian space station.
6. Septermber 5, France explodes nuclear device in Pacific.
7. October 3, OJ Simpson found innocent of all charges.
8. October 4-8, Pope John Paul 2 visits USA.
9. November 4, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin is killed by Jewish extremists at a rally.
10. November 10, Nigeria hangs writer Saro Wiwa.
11. December 14, Bosnia signs peace treaty.
12. December 20, Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Peace Prize for literature.

Japan, Kobe earthquake damage

Oklahoma Federal building

Tokyo nerve gas attack in train station

Bosnian city in ruins

Nuclear explosion

Croatian Soldiers

Pope John Paul 2

Ken Saro Wiwa US shuttle docks with Russian Mir

Yitzhak Rabin funeral Yitzhak Rabin

1. February 1, Sri Lankan suicide bombing kills 73.
2. March 4, Suicide bomb in Israel kills 53.
3. MArch 20, Britain hit by Mad Cow disease.
4. April 3, FBI arrests Unabomber suspect.
5. May 11, Valu Jet crashes in Everglades killing all 110 passengers.
6. May 31, Benjamin Netanyahu elected president of Israel.
7. June 15, Jazz great Ella Fotzgerald dies.
8. July 14, Plane crash in Greece.
9. July 17, 747 airliner crashes into Atlantic off Long Island all 230 passengers dead.
10. July 25, Bomb mars summer Olympics in Atlanta.
11. September 10, Taliban Muslim Fundamentalists capture Afghan capital.
12. September 28, Mohammad Najibullah leader of the People's Democractic Party of Afghanistan is executed by Taliban fundamentalists. Worldwide condemnation follows including condemnation from the Muslim world.
13. October 13, Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps.
14. December 13, Kofi Annan announced UN Secretary-General.

Suicide bomb in Sri Lanka

Dollie & her baby Bonnie

Suicide bomb in Israel

President Benjamin Netanyahu

Britain battles Mad Cow disease

Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski

Ella Fitzgerald

Plane crash in Greece Plane wreckage in Greece

Mohammad Najibullah Executed

Kofi Annan Secretary General of the UN

1. January 5, Bad floods cause havoc in US West.
2. January 16, Israel gives up sizable portion of the West Bank city of Hebron.
3. February 19, Deng Xiaoping dies at age 92.
4. March 13, Big tornadoes his Arkansas, Ohio & Kentucky.
5. March 22, Commet Hale Bopp is closest to earth.
6. March 27, Heaven's Gate members commit mass suicide in California.
7. April 15, Fire kills 300 pilgrams outside Mecca.
8. May 12, Boris Yeltsin signs Chechnya Peace Treaty.
9. June 30, Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule.
10. July 15, Gianni Versace murdered.
11. July 25, Pol Pot put on trial.
12. August 31, Lady Diana, Dodi al Fayed & Henri Paul killed in car accident in Paris whilst being pursued by paparazzi.
13. September 5, Mother Theresa dies aged 87.
14. October 12, Singer John Denver dies in plane crash.
15. November 12, Two convicted in World Trade Bombing.
16. November 17, Egyptian Islamics kill 62 at Luxor tourist site.
17. December 8, New Zealand elects first female Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley.
18. December 24, Carlos the Jackyl convicted of murder.

Tornado over Kentucky

Lady Diana's funeral

Hale Bopp Comet

Gianni Versace

Mother Theresa laying in State

Luxor tourist killings

Mother Theresa funeral

John Denver Mecca fire Carlos the Jackal

1. January 9, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life for 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2.January 21, Bill Lcinton accused of affair with intern Monica Lewinski.
3. US plane cuts ski cable in Italy killing 20.
4. February 4, Afghanistan hit by powerful earthquake.
5. February 18, Austrian singer Falco dies in the Dominican Republic in a car accident.
6. March 19, Vajpayee becomes Indian Prime Minister.
7. March 21, Indonesion dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power.
8. June 8, Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha dies.

R. A. Yousef Monica Lewinsky

July 17, Tsar Nicholas, Tsarina Alexander and three of their daughters are brought home to Petrograd (St Petersburg), given a funeral and interred at St Peter and Paul Catherdral beside the Neve. President Boris Yeltsin attends the funeral also.

Afghan earthquake

10. August 7, US embassies at Kenya and Tanzania bombed.
11. August 17, Clinton publically admits Lewinski affair.
12. September 2, Swissair jet crashes killing all 229 souls on board.
13. September 12, President Clinton visits New Zealand.
14. September 27, Gerhard Shroeder becomes German Chancellor.
15. October 16, Former Chilean dictator Pinochet arrested in London.
16. October 23, Wye Mills Agreement made between Netanyahu and Arrafat.
17. November 1, Hurricane Mitch devastates Central America.

Romanov caskets bearing the ancient Romanov family crest

Tsar Nicholas casket bearing his sword

Tsar Nicholas with his wife and children

Tsar Nicholas Romanov comes home Boris Yeltsin pays his respects

Swissair jet wreckage American embassy in Kenya Netanyahu & Arafat

Hurricane Mitch damage

Clinton in Kiwiland

Pinochet Gerhard Schroder

1. January 25, Colombia hit by massive earthquake.
2. February 7, King Hussein of Jordan dies.
3. February 28, General Olusegun Obasanjo elected president of Nigeria.
4. March 8, Joe DiMaggio dies aged 84.
5. March 26, Dr Jack Kevorkian convicted of 2nd degree murder is assisted suicides.
6. March 27, Melissa computor virus hits internet.
7. April 5, Libya hands over two suspects of the 1988 Pan Am jet bombing.
8. April 20, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold go on shooting rampage at Columbine High school. 15 die including Dylan and Eric who turned their guns on themselves.
9. May 17, Ehud Barak becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
10. June 16, Nelson Mandela retires and is suceeded by Thabo Mbeki.
11. June 29, Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan sentenced to death for treason in Turkey.
12. July 16, John F Kennedy Jnr, wife & sister in law die in air crash off the coast of MArtha's Vineyard.
13. August 9, Vladimir Putin becomes Russian Prime Minister.
14. August 17, Turkey hit by massive earthquake.
15. October 20, Indonesia elects Abdurraham Wahid Prime Minister.
16. October 31, Egypt Air flight crashes over the Atlantic.
17. December 24, Muslim terrorists hijack Indian Airline jet.

General Olusegun Obasanjo

Eric Harris Dylan Klebold Terrorising Columbine High School

Jack Kevorkian

Egypt Air flight

Abdullah Ocalan

Vladimir Putin

Abdurraham Wahid

Indian plane and hijacker

John F Kennedy Jr & wife

Out with the old an

d in with the new...

Millennium celebrations were held all around the world

New Zealand Russia

1. January-February, New Zealand hosts America's Cup in Auckland.
2. February, Russia captures Groznyi.
3. March 2, Baby born in a tree during Mozambique floods.
4. July 12, Toddler Hinewaioriki (Lillybing) murdered in Masterton, New Zealand.
5. July 30, Helen Clark becomes Prime Minister.
6. August 8, Pushkin Square and other locations in Moscow bombed by terrorists.
7. October, Colombian State Department begins arresting Paramilitaries.
8. November 7, George W Bush elected US President.
9. December 22, Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle openly opposes US war on drugs.

Hinewaioriki (Lillybing) Karaitiana-Matiaha

Terrorist attacks in Moscow

Baby born in tree during Mozambique floods

Floods in Mozambique

Colombian paramilitaries

Helen Clark George Bush

1.January 1, Salvador hit by severe earthquake, 100s dead.
2. January 16, Congo Preseident Laurent Kabila assassinated.
3. January 26, Gujarat earthquake causes devastation.
4. January 30, George W Bush sworn into office.
5. February 6, Ariel Sharon wins Irsraeli elections.
6. April 12, US spy plane and Chinese jet collide.
7. August, The Hague War Crimes Tribunal finds General Radislav Krstic guilty of massacre of thousands of boys and men in Srebrenica and sentence his to 46 years jail.
8. August 8, First anniversary of Pushkin Square bombing in Russia.
9. September 11, Terrorists crash planes into Twin Towers and Pentagon.
10. September 12, Osama Bin Laden identified as mastermind behind bombings.
11. October 7, USA invades Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden.
12. December 1, New Zealand Sir Peter Blake shot dead on boat overseas.
13. December 5, Hamid Karzi selected as head of transitional Afghani Government at UN sponsored summit held in Bonn.
14. December 9, Taliban regime collapses.

Laurent Kabila

Sir Peter Blake

Osama Bin Laden

General Radislav Krstic

US soldiers in Afghanistan

Terrorist attacks

September 11th

More US troops in Arghanistan

One year anniversary of Moscow bombings marked by monuments to those who died

1. February 9, Princess Maragaret dies.
2. February 12, the trial of Slobodan Milosevic's trial for crimes against humanity opens at the Hague.
3. February 22, Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan Govt reach peace deal ending 19 years of civil war.
4. February 27, Gujarat Muslims bomb a train killing Hindu activists. Hindus strike back and over 1000 people are killed.
5. March 2, USA launches project Anaconda in Afghanistan.
6. March 27, Actor Dudley Moore dies.
7. March 29, Israel attacks West Bank towns in retalliation for a string of Palestinian suicide bombings.
8. April 12, Venuzuelan President Hugo Chavez ousted in coup, reinstated 2 days later.
9. May 13, Russia and USA reach disarmament of nuclear weapons agreement.
10. June 10, Gangster John Gotti dies.
11. October ?, Biljana Plasvic (Serb President) pleads guilty to charges of crimes against humanity.
12. October 12, Terrorist bombing in Bali.
13. October 16, Korea admits developing nuclear arms in defiance of treaty.
14. October 23, Chechnyan rebels take 763 Russian hostages in a Moscow theater.
15. October 26, Russian special forces attempt rescue of the hostages, killing 116 of them, but freeing the rest.
16. November 8, Kofi Annan passes unanimous resolution calling on Iraq to disarm.
17. November 18, UN Weapons Inspectors return to Iraq.
18. November 14, Hu Jiantao succeeds Jiang Zemin as General Secretary of China.

Princess Margaret

Slobodan Milosevic on trial at the Hague

Dudley Moore John Gotti Hugo Chavez Bali Bombing Victims of Bali bombing

Rescue attempt

Massacre in theater Tribute to Russia's dead

Woman prays for hostages in the Moscow theater

1. January 5, Adnan Terzic new Serbian President.
2. January 10, Korea officially withdraws from nuclear non-proliferation agreement.
3. January 12, Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees dies.
4. January 28, In a State of Union address, President Bush announces plans to invade Iraq without a UN mandate.
5. January 29, Areil Sharon is elected President of Israel.
6. March 19, USA & Britain launch war against Iraq.
7. April 9, Baghdad falls to US troops.
8. April 29, Mahmoud Abbas becomes first elected Presidentof Palestine.
9. April 30th, Road Map to Peace in Middle East proposed.
10. May 12, Terrorist attack at Western Compound in Saudi Arabia kills 34.
11 May 21, Algeria hit by massive earthquake.
12. May 30, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi placed under house arrest.
13. June 18, IAEA discovers Iran's covert nuclear activities.
14. June 29, Legendary actress Audrey Hepburn dies.
15. August 11, Liberia's autocratic President Charles Taylor forced to flee the country.
16. August 11, NATO takes over peace keeping duties in Afghanistan.
17. August 19, Suicide bombing destroys UN headquarters in Baghdad kills envoy Sergio Viera de Mello and 23 others.
18. August 19, Suicide bombing in Israel kills 20.
19. September 6, Road Map to Peace collapses.
20. September 11, Actor John Ritter dies on set of his show of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenaged Daughter.
21. September 12, Country singer Johnny Cash dies.
22. November 15, Suicide bombers attack two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey killing 25.
23. Novermber 20, Another suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey kills 26.
24. November 23, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns.
25. December 26, Iran hit by massive earthquake.

Korean President

Tony Blair & George Bush

Aung S S Kyi Charles Taylor

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Johnny Cash John Ritter Eduard Shevardnadze

Mahmoud Abbas Audrey Hepburn

Algeria earthquake

UN Headquarters in Bagdad Sergio Viera de Mello

Iran earthquake

1. February 1, One third of Iran's parliament steps down due to 2000 reformists being banned from running in the elections.
2. February 4, A Q Khan admits selling nuclear designs to other countries.
3. February 29, Haitian President Aristide forced to flee Haiti.
4. March 11, Spain rocked by terrorist bombings.
5. March 29, NATO admits 7 new countries, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romaina, Slovakia & Slovenia.
6. April 12, Ariel Sharon announces Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
7. May 26, Sedan rebels & Sedan Government make peace ending 21 years of civil war.
8. June 5, Ex US President Ronald Reagan dies.
9. June 10, Musician Ray Charles dies.
10. June 23, Lyad Allawi becomes Iraqi Prime Minister.
11. July 1, Actor Marlon Brando dies.
12. August 13, Summer olympics begin in Athens.
13. September 1, Chechen terrorists take 1'200 people (mostly school children) hostage in Belsen, Russia.
14. September 3, Chechen terrorists detonate explosives killing 340 people (mostly children) in Belsen, Russia.
15. November 11, Yasir Arafat dies in France.
16. December 26, Viktor Yushchenko elected Ukranian Prime Minister.
17. December 26, A magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Asia triggers a powerful tsunami that hits Asia killing in excess of 200'000 people.

Madrid train bombing

Marlon Brandon

Iyad Allawi Ray Charles

Viktor Yushchenko

Belsen, Russia survivors trying to get children out Russians of Belsen mourn their dead

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1. January 30, Iraq holds elections to elect a 275 seat National Assembly.
2. February 14, Rafiki Hariri, Nationalist who asked Syria to leave Lebanon, is assassinated.
3. MArch 13, Violent protests in Kygyzstan force President Askar Akayev to resign and flee the country.
4. April 2, Pope John Paul 2 dies.
5. April 24, Benedict XVI becomes Pope.
6. April 26, Syrian military withdraws from Lebanon after 29 years.
7. May 5, Tony Blair wins a third term in office.
8. June 24, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes Iran's President.
9. July 7, London hit by Islamic suicide bombers killing 52 and injuring 700.
10. July 8, G8 pledges to double aid to Africa and to wipe some poorer nations debts by 2010.
11. July 27, IRA pledges to cease bloodshed and pursue their cause through political avenues.
12. August 15, Israel removes 8000 of their citizens from the Gaza Strip.
13. October 2, Kashmir hit with massive earthquake 800'000 killed and 4 million homeless.
14. October 10, Angela Merkel elected first women Chancellor of Germany.
15. October 19, Saddam Hussein goes on trial.
16. October 24, Rosa Parks (rights activist) dies.
17. December 10, Actor Richard Pryor dies.
18. December 15, Iraq General Elections held to form a permanent Parliament.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Funeral in Rome for Pope John Paul 2

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Rosa Parks & Bill Clinton

Saddam Hussein on trial

1. January 1, In a price dispute, Russian state owned company Gazprom reduces the flow of natural gas to the Ukraine. Facing criticism, gas flow is restored the next day.
2. January 3, Iran vows to resume Nuclear research in a letter to the IAEA.
3.January 5, Ariel Sharon, Irael's Prime Minister suffers a massive stroke.
4. January 20, The results of the Iraqi elections are released.
5. January 23, A new judge,Raouf Rasheed Abdel Rahman, is appointed to preside of the Saddam Hussein trial, replacing Rizgar Muhammad Amin.
6. January 25, Hammas (who has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel) takes 76 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian elections.
7. February 4, The Atomic Energy Board reports Iran to the UN.
8. February 4, Throughout the Muslim world there are angry protests about cartoons that depict Muhammad in a negative light.
9. February 18, Hammas nominates Ismail Haniya as Prime Minister of Palerstine.
10. February 22, A very ancient Shiite shrine is destroyed during an insurgent attack in Iraq.
11. March 11, Slobodan Milosevic dies in prison at the Hague.
12. March 15, Saddam Hussein testifies at his own trial for the first time.
13. March 20, Belarus elections declared fraudulent. Aleksandr G. Lukashenko has opposition leader Aleksandr Kazulin arrested.
14. March 28, Nationwide strike in France cripples the nation and violence breaks out in Paris.
15. March 28, Ehud Olmert is elected Israeli Prime Minister.
16. April 2, French President Chirac signs controversial labour legislation allowing bosses to fire anyone under the age of 26 within a year with a reason. The original bill had bosses being able to fire anyone under the age of 26 within two years without a reason.
17. April 4, Saddam Hussein is formally charged with genocide in 1988 when he tried to rid Iraq of the Kurdish population.
18. April 11, Romano Prodi wins Italian elections under dispute. On the 28th Italy's highest court officially declares Prodi the winner of the election.
19. April 18, Germany announces it will allow access to 50 million documents containing information on Holocaust victims.
20. April 22, Many killed in Egypt terrorist bombing.
21. May 3, Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks in USA.
22. May 15, Saddam Hussein officially charged with Crimes Against Humanity in relation to the execution of 150 Shiites in Dujail in 1982.
23. May 21, Montenegro votesfor independence from Serbia.
24. May 29, CBS journalists Paul Douglas and James Brolan are killed by a roadside bomb in Baghda, Iraq.
25. June 5, Terrorists take control of Mogadishu.
26. June 8, Prominent militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda dies in an attack north of Baghdad.
27. June 9, Hammas ends ceasefire with Israel.
28. June 21, Saddam Hussein's defense lawyer, Khamis al-Obeidi is abducted, beaten and shot making hi mthe 10th person connected to the trial to be killed.
29. June 24, Twin babies Chris and Cru Kahui are murdered.
30. July 5, North Korea launches a series of trial missiles and comes under world wide condemnation.
31. July 8, President Xanana Gusmao appoints Jose Ramos-Horta as Prime Minister of East Timor.
32. July 10, Lebanon kidnaps two Israeli soldiers sparking retaliation from Israel that escalates into almost full blown war.
33. July 17, Teacher Lois Dear found murdered in her classroom.
34. July 24, A 23 year old man is arrested for the murder of Lois Dear in Tokoroa.
35. July 25th, 300 Lebanese and 40 Israelis have been killed during the conflict thus far.
36. July 27, 4 UN officials are killed in Lebanon by an Israeli missile.
37. August 10, Britain foils terrorist plot to bomb 20 planes mid air between UK & USA with bombs in hand luggage.

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