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Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the h
A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahme
The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian…
A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus…
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist…
Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding…
Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World
In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later o
A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "w
A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "w
New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens