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Bruce Gyngell AO was an Australian television executive, active for more than 40 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950…
Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (born 1929)
Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley was a British journalist, author and Conservative Party politician. He was the member of parliament for Rochester and Chatham from 1959 to 1964 …
Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (born 1930)
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah was a Pakistani writer and journalist. Begum Hamidullah was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also of feminism in Pakistan. …
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)
Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later …
Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)
Agnes Betty Jeffrey, was an Australian nurse, prisoner of war and writer, who wrote about her Second World War nursing experiences in the book White Coolies.
Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (born 1908)
Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also a poet, playwright, auth…
Beah Richards, American actress (born 1920)
Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć was a Polish writer and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultura.
Jerzy Giedroyc, Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (born 1906)
Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist. He founded the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000. The same year, he was kidnapped and murd…
Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (born 1969)
Ann Doran was an American character actress, who worked in more than 1500 motion pictures and television episodes. Today's audiences know her as Carol Stark, the mother of James "J…
Ann Doran, American actress (born 1911)
Elián González Brotons is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a six-year-old child, he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between members of his fami…
In a pre-dawn raid, U
Gherman Stepanovich Titov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok …
Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)
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 crashed in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus C…
Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canon
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 took office as the first mayor of London
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…
An explosion at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in da
The 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence in Istanbul, Turkey, between fans of English football team Leeds United and Turkish team Galatasaray on 5 April 2000, the day before the first…
Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish
K-141 Kursk was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy. On 12 August 2000, K-141 Kursk was lost when it sank in the Barents Sea, killing all…
Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during…
William Jefferson Clinton is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he …
President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, f
Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York. On 25 July 2000, a Concorde passenger jet operating the flight crashed shortly after takeoff, kil…
Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109…
A mudflow, also known as mudslide or mud flow, is a form of mass wasting involving fast-moving flow of debris and dirt that has become liquified by the addition of water. Such flow…
Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (pagoda pictured) in Hong Kong fully…
The Speakers' Corner is an outdoor venue located within Hong Lim Park, Singapore, where people can demonstrate, hold exhibitions and performances, and speak freely on most topics. …
Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League …
The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the Sierra Leone Civil War. The operation aimed to rel…
British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys,…
The Real Irish Republican Army, or Real IRA (RIRA), was a dissident Irish republican paramilitary group that aimed to bring about a United Ireland. It was formed in 1997 following …
The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket-launcher attack on the MI6 headquarters in London, with no…