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Global2002
On this day (07/28), 24 years ago: Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. - summary
Global2002
On this day (07/28), 24 years ago: Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 was a repositioning flight from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow to Pulkovo Airport in St. - summary
Israel2000Protests
Sharon's Temple Mount stroll lit a decade-long powder keg.
On September 28, 2000, Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon walked onto the Temple Mount-the compound housing the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site-accompanied by hundreds of police. - summary
Pakistan1998Tech launches
Pakistan detonated five nuclear devices in the Chagai Hills, becoming the world's seventh nuclear power and triggering an arms race in South Asia.
Number of detonations: Five nuclear devices - key fact
Canada1995Elections
Québec voters narrowly rejected independence in a watershed referendum, exposing deep regional fractures and threatening Canadian federalism.
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with th… - summary
Bosnia and Herzegovina1995Wars
Bosnian Serb forces killed approximately 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since World War II and a watershed for international justice.
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. - summary
Global1994
On this day (07/18), 32 years ago: The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
Executed as a suicide attack, a bomb-laden van was driven into the AMIA building and subsequently detonated, killing 85 people and injuring over 300. - summary
Global1992
On this day (08/12), 34 years ago: Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The North American Free Trade Agreement, referred to colloquially in the Anglosphere as NAFTA, was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. - summary
China1989Protests
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reforms before military suppression ended the movement.
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. - summary
Japan1989Disasters
Japan's Nikkei index reached an all-time high at 38,957, marking the apex of the bubble before the Lost Decade of deflation and stagnation.
The Japanese asset price bubble was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated. - summary
China1989Protests
In spring 1989, students and workers flooded Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding political reform, press freedom, and an end to corruption. - summary
Global1988
On this day (07/22), 38 years ago: The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
The Piper PA-23, named Apache and later Aztec, is an American four- to six-seat twin-engined general aviation light aircraft, used also in small numbers by the United States Navy and military forces in other countries. - summary
Iran1986Wars
Secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and illegal Nicaragua funding scandal emerged, exposing Cold War duplicity and testing American constitutional oversight.
knowledge and tacit approval, shipped the first TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran. - summary
United States1985Tech launches
Symbolics.com became the first registered .com domain, marking the symbolic birth of the World Wide Web's commercial era.
It was established as one of the first state-chartered banks to operate exclusively online and via telephone, without any physical branches. - summary
Global1984
On this day (07/18), 42 years ago: McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: James Oliver Huberty kills 21 people and injures 19 others before being shot dead by police.
The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 22 people, including an unborn baby, and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper approximately 77 minutes after he had first opened fire. - summary
Global1981
On this day (07/19), 45 years ago: In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States was held on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, at the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. - summary
Global1980
On this day (08/01), 46 years ago: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic stateswoman and theatre director who was the fourth president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be democrat… - summary
Global1977
On this day (07/13), 49 years ago: Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
Stretching across the Horn of Africa, it borders Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east. - summary
China1976Disasters
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake flattens the industrial city of Tangshan in seconds, killing an officially estimated 240,000 people—one of the deadliest seismic events in modern history.
The official count stated 242,469 deaths, while historians accepted at least 300,000 died, making it the deadliest earthquake in recorded history and one of the worst disasters in China by death toll. - summary
Lebanon1975Wars
Lebanese Civil War Begins
The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. - summary