Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 41 events. Showing 31 - 41.
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- Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
- Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
- Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
- Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
- The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
- Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
- Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
- A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
- Three people die and 17 are injured in a collision between a Pendolino train and a lorry that occurred near Studénka, north Moravia, in the Czech Republic
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