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Earl Manigault was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed "the Goat" or "the Lip". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have pla…
Earl Manigault, American basketball player (born 1944)
Mehmet Naim Talu was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former prime minister of Turkey.
Naim Talu, Turkish economist, banker, politician, 15th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1919)
Obaidullah Aleem was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language.
Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (born 1939)
Sōsuke Uno was a former Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan in 1989.
Sōsuke Uno, Japanese soldier and politician, 75th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922)
Robert Uno Normann was a Norwegian guitarist and considered a jazz guitar pioneer.
Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (born 1916)
Robert Marion Gist was an American actor and film director.
Robert Gist, American actor and director (born 1917)
John Derek was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He appeared in such films as Knock on Any Door, All the King's Men, Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), and The Ten Comm…
John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (born 1926)
José Enrique Moyal was an Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, among other fields…
José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1910)
Telford Taylor was an American lawyer and professor. Taylor was known for his role as lead counsel in the prosecution of war criminals after World War II, his opposition to McCarth…
Telford Taylor, American general and lawyer (born 1908)
Minocher Rustom "Minoo" Masani was an Indian politician, a leading figure of the erstwhile Swatantra Party. He was a three-time Member of Parliament, representing Gujarat's Rajkot …
Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1905)
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the R…
Barry Goldwater, American general, activist, and politician (born 1909)
Josephine Hutchinson was an American actress. She acted in dozens of theater plays and dozens of films, including The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1939), Som…
Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (born 1903)
Pokhran-II was a series of five nuclear weapon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the secon…
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier
Philip Edward Hartman was a Canadian and American comedian, actor, screenwriter and graphic designer. Hartman was born in Brantford, Ontario, and his family moved to the United Sta…
Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1948)
Charles Edward "Poncho" Van Acker Sr was a Belgian-American racing driver. He first attempted to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 1946, but was too slow. In 1947, he made the ra…
Charles Van Acker, Belgian-American race car driver (born 1912)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his earl…
Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer
The Trisakti shootings, also known as the Trisakti tragedy, took place at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, on 12 May 1998. At a demonstration demanding President Suharto's …
Four students were shot and killed by Indonesian soldiers at Trisakti University in Jakarta, which led to widespread rio
Suharto was an Indonesian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. He is the longest serving president of Indonesia at 31 …
Indonesian president Suharto resigned after a collapse of support for his presidency amid economic and political crises,
An earthquake occurred in northern Afghanistan on May 30, 1998, at 06:22 UTC in Takhar Province, with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (S…
A magnitude-6
Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot.
Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
Public Prosecutor v. Taw Cheng Kong is a landmark case decided in 1998 by the Court of Appeal of Singapore which shaped the landscape of Singapore's constitutional law. The earlier…
In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the oppo…
The Labour Party wins the 1997 General Election and Tony Blair is elected as Prime Minister
China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport to Shenzhen Huangtian Airport. On 8 May 1997, the Boeing…
China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people
Laurent-Désiré Kabila usually known as Laurent Kabila or Kabila the Father, was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third president of the Democratic Republic of the…
Troops of Laurent-Désiré Kabila march into Kinshasa