Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.
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- The PlayStation was released in Japan
- In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
- NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
- Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
- Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
- A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
- At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
- In Northern Ireland, 15 police officers are injured during rioting at Belfast City Hall following a vote to change Belfast City Council’s policy on flying the union flag.
- The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to a asteroid to collect rock samples.
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