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Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woma…
Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
Shambo was a black Friesian bull living in the interfaith Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales who had been adopted by the local Hindu community as a sacred animal. He cam…
After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu…
A car chase or vehicle pursuit is the vehicular overland chase of one party by another, involving at least one automobile or other wheeled motor vehicle, commonly hot pursuit of su…
While covering a police pursuit in Phoenix, Arizona, two news helicopters collided in mid-air, killing both crews.
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: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a…
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile downstream from the Saint Antho…
Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a…
Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann is a Chilean Army general and a former member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the DINA — the Chilean secret police under Augusto Pinochet's mili…
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been…
Lorena Telpuk, formerly María del Luján Telpuk or the Suitcase Girl, is a former airport police officer at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is best known fo…
An airport police officer discovered a suitcase containing approximately US$800,000 as it passed through security at…
Queen's Pier, named after Queen Victoria, was a public pier in front of City Hall in Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong. For three generations it served not only as a public pier …
Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's Pier, the High Court of Hong Kong dismissed legal…
BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsof…
BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heav…
Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force…
Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry and longest range of their era. Archetypal heavy bombers have therefore usuall…
A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana…
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…
Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport…
A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008. The causes included excessive speculation on property values by both homeowners and financial i…
Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England,…
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, which was a private military company contracted by the United States go…
Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269/OTG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Dougl…
One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashed after attempting a poorly executed go-around while landing in Thailand, killing…
Three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, in the Sinai Peninsula, took place on 24 April 2006. The resort town is popular with Western tourists and Egyptians alike d…
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80
USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) was one of the few Essex-class aircraft carriers completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany dur…
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef
The 2006 Nepal revolution, also known as the Democracy Movement, was a political movement that was opposed to Nepal's monarchy system under King Gyanendra. The movement was the sec…
The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a sec
The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake occurred at 05:53 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging) in the Yogyakarta region of Java…
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Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees …
Hamdan v
The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway, is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet. With over 960 km (600 mi) of track bein…
The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
The Valencia Metro derailment occurred in Valencia, Spain's third largest city, on 3 July 2006 at 1 p.m. CEST between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations on the Line 1 of the Metrov…
The Valencia Metro derailment kills 41 people.
Nathu La is a mountain pass in the Dongkya Range of the Himalayas between China's Yadong County in Tibet, and the Indian states of Sikkim. The pass, at 4,310 m (14,140 ft), connect…
The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
The Spiritwood Incident was a shooting that occurred on July 7, 2006, during a police pursuit in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing two of the three RCMP officers involved.
A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer.