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Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats…
Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220…
Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship"…
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's…
U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan…
First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but…
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on…
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies…
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies…
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41…
Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go…
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical wea
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year his