Today in People History (Part 5)
Sub-Topics: Beauty Queens - Criminal
Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 598
1994-09-28 - 909 people died when an Estonian ferry capsized & sank in Baltic sea
1995-02-15 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1995-02-17 - Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY
1995-03-05 - 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
1995-03-14 - 1st time 13 people in space
1995-05-28 - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995-08-06 - Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb
1995-11-04 - Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89
1995-11-10 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
1996-01-06 - Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1996-03-10 - 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996-05-13 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1996-06-16 - 50th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
1996-07-17 - 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996-10-16 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1997-01-03 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1997-01-11 - 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins
1997-01-18 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1997-03-13 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
1997-06-16 - The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
1997-07-27 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
1997-08-20 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1997-08-26 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1997-11-16 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
1997-11-17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
1997-12-02 - MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
1997-12-24 - The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
1997-12-30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
1998-01-11 - 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win
1998-01-11 - Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.
1998-01-25 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
1998-01-26 - Pres Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
1998-03-24 - Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
1998-03-24 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1998-03-26 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1998-08-17 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1998-09-02 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998-10-11 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people.
1998-10-29 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998-11-28 - The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
1998-12-08 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
1999-01-04 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
1999-02-24 - A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
1999-03-24 - Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
1999-04-14 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
1999-04-20 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
1999-05-03 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
1999-05-25 - The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
1999-07-20 - Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
1999-08-15 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
1999-08-31 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999-09-07 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
1999-09-13 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
1999-09-21 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
1999-10-05 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
1999-11-09 - TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.
1999-11-19 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999-12-26 - Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar).
2000-01-31 - Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2000-05-13 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2000-05-17 - In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
2000-07-25 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2000-08-27 - 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2000-11-15 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India.
2000-12-19 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001-01-13 - Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people
2001-02-28 - Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
2001-03-04 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001-03-04 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2001-04-11 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.
2001-05-09 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
2001-05-24 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001-05-25 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2001-07-03 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2001-08-03 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2001-09-11 - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
2001-09-11 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people
2001-09-11 - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2001-09-12 - Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.
2001-09-20 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
2001-09-21 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
2001-10-04 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2001-10-19 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2001-11-07 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2001-12-11 - The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2001-12-13 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
2001-12-27 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
2002-01-17 - Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2002-03-27 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2002-05-07 - A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2002-05-25 - A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002-05-25 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2002-06-22 - An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.
2002-07-02 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2002-10-29 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2002-11-06 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2002-11-22 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003-01-18 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2003-02-15 - An estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to protest against the looming war with Iraq
2003-02-18 - Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
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