Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.
- Pope John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
- Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland.
- Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
- Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes.
- Karmah Bombing: A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
- The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- Riots in China’s Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injuring 21 others.
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges declares that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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