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Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of…
Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission…
Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire…
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of…
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping…
The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space…
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne…
The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber…
Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history
India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11