Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
- The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
- An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
- Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
- India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
- Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
- Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
- At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
- Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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