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Nicolas Freeling, was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the "Van der Valk" series of detective novels. A television series based on the character, Van der Valk,…
Nicolas Freeling, English author (born 1927)
John Llewellyn Davies was a New Zealand Olympic bronze medallist and president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).
John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (born 1938)
James E. Davis was an American politician who served on the New York City Council from 2002 until his assassination.
James E. Davis, American police officer and politician (born 1962)
Ludwig Bölkow was a German aeronautical engineer.
Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (born 1912)
John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking…
John Schlesinger, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Rupert Vance Hartke was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977. Hartke was elected to the Senate after serving as…
Vance Hartke, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1919)
Valerie Hamilton, Lady Goulding was an Irish campaigner for disabled people, and senator who set up the Central Remedial Clinic in 1951 alongside Kathleen O'Rourke which is now the…
Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (born 1918)
Robert Steven Hislop was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won at the Isle of Man TT eleven times, was the British 250cc Champion (1990) and lifted the British Superbike champion…
Steve Hislop, Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1962)
Lester Townes "Bob" Hope was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network ra…
Bob Hope, English-American actor, comedian, television personality, and businessman (born 1903)
Foday Saybana Sankoh was a Sierra Leonean rebel leader who was the founder and commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, which was supported by the Charles Tay…
Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (born 1937)
Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced rec…
Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (born 1923)
A backhoe is a type of excavating equipment, or excavator, consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. It is typically mounted on the back of a tractor…
A backhoe breached a pipeline in Toronto, Canada, which caused a gas explosion that killed seven people
Tropical Cyclone Manou was a relatively rare May tropical cyclone that affected southeastern Madagascar. The final named storm of the 2002–03 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season…
Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people
On June 29, 2003, an overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in a Chicago, Illinois, apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty-seven others. It w…
An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
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Sudan Airways Flight 139 was a Sudan Airways passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The Boeing 737 aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khart…
Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashed near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117…
The Directorate General for External Security is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 27 November 1943. The DGSE…
French Directorate General for External Security personnel aborted an operation to rescue Colombian politician Íngrid…
Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak …
Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative was leaked to and published by journalist Robert Novak.
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List i…
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), also known as the Treaty of Moscow, was a strategic arms reduct…
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing …
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress
The Erfurt school massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 26 April 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium, a secondary school in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. 19-year-old expelled stu…
Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide
EAS Airlines Flight 4226 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kano to Lagos, Nigeria. On 4 May 2002, the aircraft serving the route, a BAC One-Eleven 525FT with 69 passen…
One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development …
Founding of SpaceX