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Israel2006Wars
When a border raid spiraled into 34 days of devastation
On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah fighters crossed into northern Israel, killed eight soldiers, and captured two others-Lance Corporal Ehud Goldwasser and Sergeant First Class Eldad Regev. - summary
United States2005Tech launches
YouTube democratized video publishing and created the dominant platform for audiovisual content distribution, reshaping media and culture.
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. - summary
Germany2005Elections
Merkel's election made her Europe's most powerful female leader and shaped EU policy for nearly two decades.
Angela Merkel has received awards and honours from national governments, universities, and other non-governmental organisations. - summary
United States2005Tech launches
On February 14, 2005, three former PayPal employees-Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Karim Karim-registered the domain YouTube.com. - summary
Greece2004Sports
Greece returns Olympic hosting to its spiritual birthplace after 108 years, delivering the largest summer games by athlete count and setting new security benchmarks.
The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, and officially branded as Athens 2004, were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. - summary
United Kingdom2000Festivals
Britain's £789 million centennial celebration became an emblem of millennial optimism and architectural ambition.
The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. - summary
Portugal1998Festivals
Lisbon's world exposition celebrating the ocean marked Portugal's cultural resurgence and repositioning as a modern European nation.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. - summary
Japan1998Sports
The first Winter Olympics to allow professional athletes saw the U.S. women's hockey team capture gold in a transformative moment for the sport.
Nagano Winter Olympics '98, known in Japan as Hyper Olympics in Nagano , is a multi-event sports game from Konami. - summary
United States1996Sports
Atlanta hosted the centennial Olympic Games, marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing yet celebrated for Muhammad Ali's torch lighting and record television viewership.
The 1996 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. - summary
United Kingdom1996Tech launches
Scottish scientists cloned a sheep from adult DNA, breaching the apparent barrier to reproductive cloning and sparking urgent bioethical debates that persist today.
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are a pair of identical crab-eating macaques that were created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep in 1996. - summary
Global1994
On this day (07/19), 32 years ago: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is destroyed by a bomb after takeoff from Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in Colón, Panama, killing 21.
Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, registered HP-1202AC, was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante aircraft flying en route from Colón city to Panama City which exploded shortly after departing Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport, on … - summary
Global1993
On this day (05/19), 33 years ago: SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132.
SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a Boeing 727-46 that crashed on 19 May 1993, killing all 132 on board. - summary
Netherlands1992Elections
The treaty transformed the European Economic Community into a union with political and monetary ambitions.
Concluded in 1992 between the then-twelve member states of the European Communities, it announced "a new stage in the process of European integration" chiefly in provisions for a shared European citizenship, for the e… - summary
Global1992
On this day (07/31), 34 years ago: China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108.
On July 31, 1992, the Yakovlev Yak-42D overran runway 06 during takeoff and impacted an embankment at 210 kilometres per hour, 420 metres (1,380 ft) from the threshold. - summary
Soviet Union1991Revolutions
When reforming a superpower accidentally demolishes it instead.
Mikhail Gorbachev had introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in the mid-1980s, intending to reform the system. - summary
Japan1988Tech launches
The world's longest undersea tunnel connected Honshu and Hokkaido, transforming Japanese transportation and regional integration.
The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85-kilometre (33.5-mile) dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3-kilometre (14.5-mile) segment running beneath the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on H… - summary
Soviet Union1987Revolutions
Mikhail Gorbachev's twin reforms—openness and restructuring—fundamentally destabilized the Soviet system and accelerated the path to its dissolution.
In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union within the framework of perestroika, and the word came to be used in English in… - summary
United Kingdom1985Festivals
The simultaneous transatlantic concert featuring Led Zeppelin's reunion and global broadcast raised $127 million for Ethiopian famine relief.
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, July 13th, 1985. - summary
Global1983
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
What little public discussion existed was tinged with stigma—the condition was sometimes called "gay-related immune deficiency" or GRID, a name that would prove both medically inaccurate and socially damaging. - summary
