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Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 140

Jan 1st - Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometre peaked at 45 degrees celsius, sparking bushfires and power outages.
Jan 4th - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Jan 8th - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Jan 12th - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
Jan 12th - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.
Jan 12th - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
Jan 12th - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
Jan 16th - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
Jan 19th - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
Jan 19th - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
Jan 19th - Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.
Jan 22nd - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
Jan 25th - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
Jan 26th - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.
Feb 4th - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
Feb 12th - A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
Feb 16th - The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Feb 17th - A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
Feb 22nd - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
Feb 23rd - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
Feb 24th - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
Mar 1st - Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time.
Mar 1st - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
Mar 4th - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
Mar 6th - South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
Mar 9th - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
Mar 10th - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Mar 10th - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
Mar 11th - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
Mar 16th - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
Mar 20th - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
Mar 20th - Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
Mar 21st - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
Mar 22nd - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
Mar 22nd - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
Mar 22nd - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
Mar 23rd - The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply.
Mar 24th - Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
Mar 24th - Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
Mar 25th - Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Mar 25th - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
Mar 26th - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
Mar 26th - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
Mar 27th - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
Mar 28th - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
Mar 30th - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
Mar 30th - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
Apr 1st - The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the 'British FBI', is created in the United Kingdom.
Apr 2nd - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
Apr 6th - NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
Apr 8th - Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
Apr 10th - Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States.
Apr 11th - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
Apr 13th - Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa.
Apr 22nd - 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
Apr 22nd - Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.
Apr 24th - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
Apr 27th - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
May 1st - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
May 3rd - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
May 3rd - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
May 5th - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
May 9th - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
May 9th - George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.
May 13th - 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
May 16th - A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.
May 17th - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
May 18th - The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
May 21st - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
May 21st - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
May 22nd - Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
May 26th - The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
May 27th - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
Jun 3rd - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
Jun 5th - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Jun 7th - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
Jun 18th - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
Jun 19th - Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
Jun 21st - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
Jun 28th - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
Jun 29th - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
Jul 1st - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
Jul 3rd - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
Jul 4th - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
Jul 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.
Jul 5th - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
Jul 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.
Jul 6th - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
Jul 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.
Jul 10th - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
Jul 11th - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
Jul 12th - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
Jul 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.
Jul 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.
Jul 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.
Aug 4th - Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August.
Aug 10th - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.
Aug 23rd - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
Aug 24th - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
Aug 27th - Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 3 of 3

Jun 3rd - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family
Jun 18th - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
Sep 6th - Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japan Imperial Family member

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 100 of 612

Jan 1st - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
Jan 1st - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
Jan 1st - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
Jan 1st - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
Jan 2nd - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
Jan 3rd - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
Jan 3rd - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
Jan 4th - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
Jan 4th - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
Jan 4th - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
Jan 5th - Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
Jan 6th - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
Jan 6th - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
Jan 7th - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
Jan 8th - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
Jan 9th - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
Jan 9th - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
Jan 11th - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
Jan 11th - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
Jan 13th - Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
Jan 13th - Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
Jan 14th - Shelly Winters, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Aventure)
Jan 14th - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
Jan 14th - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
Jan 14th - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
Jan 15th - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
Jan 16th - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
Jan 17th - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
Jan 17th - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
Jan 18th - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
Jan 19th - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
Jan 19th - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
Jan 19th - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
Jan 19th - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
Jan 21st - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
Jan 21st - Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
Jan 23rd - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
Jan 24th - Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
Jan 24th - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
Jan 24th - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
Jan 25th - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
Jan 26th - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
Jan 26th - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
Jan 26th - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
Jan 27th - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
Jan 27th - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Jan 27th - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
Jan 28th - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
Jan 28th - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
Jan 30th - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
Jan 31st - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
Feb 1st - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
Feb 1st - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
Feb 3rd - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
Feb 4th - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
Feb 4th - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
Feb 5th - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
Feb 5th - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
Feb 7th - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
Feb 8th - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
Feb 8th - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
Feb 9th - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
Feb 9th - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
Feb 10th - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
Feb 10th - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
Feb 11th - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
Feb 11th - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)
Feb 11th - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
Feb 13th - Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
Feb 13th - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
Feb 14th - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
Feb 14th - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
Feb 14th - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
Feb 16th - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
Feb 16th - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
Feb 17th - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
Feb 17th - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
Feb 18th - Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
Feb 20th - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
Feb 20th - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
Feb 22nd - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
Feb 23rd - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
Feb 23rd - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
Feb 24th - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
Feb 24th - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
Feb 24th - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
Feb 24th - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
Feb 24th - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
Feb 25th - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
Feb 25th - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
Feb 27th - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
Feb 27th - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
Feb 27th - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
Feb 28th - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
Mar 1st - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
Mar 1st - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
Mar 1st - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
Mar 2nd - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)
Mar 2nd - Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
Mar 3rd - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)