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Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in…
Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132…
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-64.
Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West…
The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups…
The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups…
Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the…
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president,…
North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons…
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S.…
The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out
The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for
Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Elth
Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Elth
Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum
Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London