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The Directorate General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE…
French Directorate General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid…
Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak …
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than 130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on…
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003. It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representat…
A car bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Brazilian diplomat Sérgio…
Roy Stewart Moore is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time…
Roy Moore, Alabama's chief justice, was suspended after refusing to comply with a U.S. federal court order to remove a…
Steam is a digital distribution platform for PC games by the American video game studio Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide video game updates …
The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
Kumba Yalá Embaló, also spelled Ialá, was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003…
President Kumba Ialá (pictured) of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.
Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong are domestic workers employed by Hongkongers, typically families. They comprise five percent of Hong Kong's population, and about 98.5% of the…
A levy was imposed on the hiring of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, who numbered in the hundreds of thousands…
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn were German-American entertainers who performed an animal-based magic show together as Siegfried & Roy. The duo, who were also romantically invol…
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance…
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List i…
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduct…
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing …
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio was an Italian friar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, priest, stigmatist and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic …
Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as…
French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at…
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan was established in Pakistan in 1997, under Nawaz Sharif's government, to deal with terrorism cases. It is a parallel legal system to the judici…
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others…
The foreign relations of Switzerland are the primary responsibility of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Some international relations of Switzerland are handled by …
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 was a domestic cargo flight from São Paulo, Brazil to Londrina, Brazil that crashed near Paranapanema 47 minutes after takeoff on 14 September 2002.…
Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandr…
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus…
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately…
Sadie Elizabeth Sink is an American actress. She began her career in theater, playing the title role in the musical Annie (2012–14) and young Elizabeth II in the historical play Th…
Sadie Sink, American actress
Olivia Gadecki is an Australian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 83, achieved on 7 October 2024 and a best doubles ranking of No. …
Olivia Gadecki, Australian tennis player
The Erfurt school massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. 19-year-old expelled stu…
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide
EAS Airlines Flight 4226 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kano to Lagos, Nigeria. On 4 May 2002, the aircraft serving the route, a BAC One-Eleven 525FT with 69 passen…
One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development …
Founding of SpaceX