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Dale Lindsey Whittington was an American racing driver. Born in Farmington, New Mexico, he was the youngest of four sons born to 1950s race car owner Dick Whittington. Dale Whittin…
Dale Whittington, American race car driver (born 1959)
Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. was a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter and playwright. He appeared in many stage productions, television and film roles throughout his career, and receiv…
Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor (born 1911)
Pierre Bourgault was a politician and essayist, as well as an actor and journalist, from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec …
Pierre Bourgault, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1934)
Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher. He is particularly known for his work in philosophical logic, especially deontic logic, his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein's later p…
Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish–Swedish philosopher and author (born 1916)
Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color bar…
Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (born 1923)
A backhoe is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor…
A backhoe breached a pipeline in Toronto, Canada, which caused a gas explosion that killed seven people
Tropical Cyclone Manou was a relatively rare May tropical cyclone that affected southeastern Madagascar. The final named storm of the 2002–03 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season…
Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people
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
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
EgyptAir Flight 843 was a flight from Cairo International Airport to Tunis–Carthage International Airport. On 7 May 2002, the Boeing 737-566 on the route crashed into a hill near T…
An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people
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
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
China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 (CBF6136/CJ6136) was a Chinese domestic passenger flight from Beijing Capital International Airport to Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport. …
A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people
From 2 April to 10 May 2002, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank was besieged by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), targeting suspected Palestinian militants who…
The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to ha
Robert Philip Hanssen was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services off and on against the United States from 1…
FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States s
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter …
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the …
The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement i…
Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963
Anthony David Junior Elanga is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Sweden national team.
Anthony Elanga, Swedish footballer