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Armando Sadiku is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss Challenge League club Bellinzona.
Armando Sadiku, Albanian footballer
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country located in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of the country, with a population of ov…
Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
Continental Express Flight 2574 was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas to Houston Interconti…
Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three…
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operationa…
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the we…
Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
Linux is a family of free and open-source software Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, which was first released on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Some memb…
The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
Eneli Kutter is an Estonian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Naiste II liiga club JK Poseidon.
Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer
Danielle Marie Lao is an inactive American tennis player.
Danielle Lao, American tennis player
Kail Piho is an Estonian Nordic combined skier. He was born in Võru. He competed in the World Cup 2015 season.
Kail Piho, Estonian skier
Yaime Pérez Tellez is a Cuban athlete specialising in the discus throw. In 2022, she defected to the United States.
Yaime Perez, Cuban discus thrower
Tan Zhongyi is a Chinese chess grandmaster (GM). She is a former Women's World Champion, winning the 2017 knockout edition of the world championship in Iran where she defeated Anna…
Tan Zhongyi, Women's World Chess Champion, 2017–2018
Ötzi (German: [œtsi]; c. 3275 BC – c. 3230 BC, also called The Iceman, Similaun man, or Tyrolean Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived during the 4th millennium BC. Ötzi'…
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), which mostly consist of the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish biblical manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered o…
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
The siege of Dubrovnik was a military campaign fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings during the C…
Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
The bombing of the Banski Dvori was a Yugoslav Air Force strike on the Banski Dvori in Zagreb—the official residence of the President of Croatia at the time of the Croatian War of …
Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
Jonathan Andrew Fox is a British Paralympic swimmer.
Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
Azealia Amanda Banks is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Her debut single "212" became a defining song of the 2010s and appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Grea…
Azealia Banks, American singer-songwriter and rapper
Zazie Olivia Beetz is a German-American actress. She is known for her role as Van in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which she received a nomination for the Pri…
Zazie Beetz, German-American actress
Tyrone Roberts is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Ballina Seagulls in the NRRRL as a halfback or five-eighth.
Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player
Yordano Ventura Hernández was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013.…
Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (died 2017)
The Brioni Agreement, also known as the Brioni Declaration is a document signed by representatives of Slovenia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia under the political sponsorship of the Europ…
Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
Anita Faye Hill is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the univers…
Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme…
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Union Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021. She has served as …
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Oh-My-God particle (as physicists dubbed it) was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991 by the Fly's Eye camera in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United Stat…
The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy…