Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 43 events. Showing 31 - 43.
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- Terry Fox begins his “Marathon of Hope” at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
- The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place - the STS-1 mission.
- Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
- The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
- Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
- US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
- A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
- Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
- A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
- Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
- The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
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