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President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, f
Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during…
British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys,…
The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket-launcher attack on the MI6 headquarters in London, with no…
The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket-launcher attack on the MI6 headquarters in London, with no…
The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars
Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama
The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil,
The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil,
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military
President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military
Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day
In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandat
Legislative powers in Scotland were first devolved from the Scottish Office in London to the Scottish Parliament in…
William Chaney (pictured), a historian of Anglo-Saxon England, retired after a half a century at Lawrence University,…
The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of…
Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier