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Phoolan Devi, popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination. She was a woman…
Phoolan Devi, a serving Indian member of Parliament, was shot outside her house in New Delhi, India.
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000. Initially sparked by civilian protests in…
Second Intifada: A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contempo…
American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded…
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contempo…
American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of…
al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world…
al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airliners to carry out a series of terrorist attacks (one pictured) against targets…
George Walker Bush is an American former politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009…
American president George W. Bush delivered remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington (pictured) condemning…
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis. Infection typically occurs by contact with the skin, inhalation, or intestin…
Five letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to various media outlets in the United States.
Air Philippines Flight 541 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Air Philippines from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila to Francisco Bangoy International Air…
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public …
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwi
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previou…
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and …
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the first…
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. P…
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus…
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands. The explosion killed 23 people, including four firefighters, and inj…
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injurin
Southern Lebanon is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The …
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation
The Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. …
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufacture…
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station
On May 21, 2000, a British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 3101 operated by East Coast Aviation Services crashed into mountainous terrain in Bear Creek Township, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl…
Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of …
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna
Resistance and Liberation Day is a Lebanese holiday celebrated on May 25.
Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa
The United Nations (UN) is a global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining internat…
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist, and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inte