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USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat.…
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after…
Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume. With more t…
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece, the best-selling manga series in history, debuted in Weekly Shōnen…
The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is 328 metres …
The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in…
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who has reached the age of one hundred and ten (110) years or older. This age is achieved by approximatel…
French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years, 164 days, with the longest confirmed human…
Korean Air Flight 801 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air, from Gimpo International Airport, Seoul to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Gu…
Korean Air Flight 801 crashed into a hill on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport in Guam, killing 228…
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, started on Saturday 6 September 1997 at 9:08 am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey started tolling to signal the departure…
An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.
The 1997 Atlantic hurricane season was a below-average hurricane season. It officially began on June 1, and lasted until November 30 of that year. These dates conventionally delimi…
Hurricane Erika, the strongest and longest-lasting hurricane of the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after…
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976. The group comprises Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.. Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has ev…
Irish rock band U2 performed in Sarajevo (pictured), the first major artist to hold a concert in the city since the…
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy during the 1990s, surrounding the Whitewater Development Corporation, a …
Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. I…
A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day
Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 was a scheduled international flight from Fukuoka, Japan, to Jakarta, Indonesia via Bali, Indonesia. On 13 June 1996, Flight 865 crashed on takeoff from…
Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170
The Belgian Air Force is the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces. Between January 2002 and July 2024 it was known as Belgian Air Component. It was founded in 1909 and is one of the…
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven…
The Saguenay flood was a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-cen…
Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
The Battle of Kabul was a series of intermittent battles and sieges over the city of Kabul during the period of 1992–1996.
The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
The Julie N oil spill occurred on September 27, 1996, when the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Julie N struck the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine while carrying over 200,000 b…
Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N oil spill in Portland, Maine.
The Estadio Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on 16 October 1996 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
Millon Air Flight 406 was an international cargo flight from Manta, Ecuador, to Miami, Florida. On October 22, 1996, the Boeing 707 crashed shortly after takeoff from Manta Airport…
Millon Air Flight 406 crashes after takeoff from Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador, killing 34 people.
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. Born in Miami, she grew up in Buenos Aires and London. She began pursuing an acting career at the age of 16. After a series of small …
Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She is a former WTA world No. 1 in doubles, achieved on July 28, 2025. Townsend has won two major doubles titles, at the …
Taylor Townsend, American tennis player
Lorna Katie Fitzgerald is a British actress from Northampton. Her most notable role to date is that of Abi Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Since leaving EastEnders in Ja…
Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress
Caitlin Anne Parker is an Australian amateur boxer, who became the first female boxer from Australia to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze at the 2024 Paris Games. Parker ha…
Caitlin Parker, Australian boxer
Helene Spilling Ødegaard is a Norwegian professional dancer. She is best known for her appearances on Skal vi danse, the Norwegian edition of Dancing with the Stars, and was the wi…
Helene Spilling, Norwegian dancer
The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations…
The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of
The Jokela rail accident occurred on 21 April 1996, at 07:08 local time in Tuusula, Finland, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) north of Helsinki. Four people were killed and 75 i…
Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland