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While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began Operation Pawan to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil…
Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the…
Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him…
Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him…
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern…
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern…
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a f
A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of p
Eugene Hasenfus's plane was shot down by Nicaraguan forces while carrying weapons to the Contra rebels on behalf of…
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embass
Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published…
The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which…
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with…