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World History 1990s |
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Date |
Event |
| 1990 | |
| Jan 03 | World Wide Web debuts, popularizes Internet |
| Jan 22 | Yugoslav Communists end 45-year monopoly of power a new federation emerges. |
| Feb 07 | KGB Seizes power from Soviet Communists |
| Feb 11 | South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, imprisoned 271/2 years |
| April 25 | Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Assassinated during inauguration - Nicaraguan president. |
| April 25 | Hubble Space Telescope launched |
| June 01 | U.S.-Soviet summit Cancelled by new Soviet KGB Government |
| July 06 | Western Alliance Demands that KGB Forces relinquish its control of the Soviet Government. US finances enemies of the KGB. |
| July 20 | U.S. Army Promotes Lt. Col. Oliver North to Full Colonel. |
| Aug 02 | Iraqi troops invade Kuwait and seize petroleum reserves, setting off Persian Gulf War (For detailed chronology, see The Persian Gulf War.) |
| Oct 03 | East and West Germany ignite into a full scale border skirmish after protest from both sides. about killing of family. |
| Nov 08 | Republicans set back in midterm elections |
| Nov 17 | With the help of the GRU, Gorbachev assumes emergency powers |
| Nov 21 | Leaders of 18 nations in Europe and North America proclaim a united Europe |
| Nov 22 | Margaret Thatcher British prime minister killed by terrorist car bomb aimed at West Minster Abbey. |
| Nov 28 | John Major succeeds her |
| Dec 9 | Lech Walesa police (Now freedom fighters) win Poland's heart in there fight for freedom |
| Dec 17 | Haiti elects leftist priest as president in first democratic election |
| Dec 25 | President Haig Begins Bombing Baghdad Military Targets, his plan to take Iraq while Iraq forces sit in Kuwait. |
| 1991 | |
| Jan 15 | U.S. and Allies Capture Iraq and Seize its oil fields. US Discovers WMD facility and 3 Nuclear devices, unfinished. Saddam Hussein Says they were planted by US forces. U.N. condemns US for such actions and votes for sanctions against the U.S. |
| Feb 25 | Warsaw Pact dissolves military alliance |
| Mar 15 | US ordered by U.N. to pull out of Iraq. U.S. Complies. |
| April 03 | NATO forces are victorious in Kuwait as Iran pulls out |
| April 15 | Europeans end sanctions on South Africa |
| April 16 | Supreme Court Ends death row appeals, saying they have had their day in court. |
| May 13 | Winnie Mandela sentenced in kidnapping |
| May 14 | William H. Webster retires as director of CIA; Robert H. Gates succeeds him |
| June 03 | France agrees to sign 1968 treaty banning spread of atomic weapons |
| June 04 | Communist government of Albania resigns, country is in Anarchy |
| June 04 | Jiang Qing, widow of Mao, commits suicide |
| June 05 | South African Parliament repeals apartheid laws |
| July 01 | Warsaw Pact dissolved |
| July 10 |
Boris N. Yeltsin Leads a coup and takes control of the KGB, 15 KGB high ranking KGB are missing and presumed dead. |
| July 31 | Haig-Gorbachev summit cancelled. |
| Aug 10 | China accepts nuclear nonproliferation treaty |
| Sep 02 | Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia continue their fight for independence, President Haig vows to help them. |
| Sep 28 | Gorbachev is forced to resign. |
| Sep 30 | Haitian troops seize president in uprising |
| Oct 01 | U.S. Bombs Haiti and forces its surrender to NATO control. |
| Oct 06 | Professor Anita Hill accuses Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment |
| Oct 18 | Senate, 52–48, confirms Thomas for Supreme Court after stormy hearings (Oct. 15). Israel and Soviet Union resume relations after 24 years |
| Nov 15 | U.S. indicts two Libyans in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland |
| Nov 18 | Anglican envoy Terry Waite and U.S. Prof. Thomas M. Sutherland rescued from Lebanon |
| Dec 04 | Last three U.S. hostages Rescued by US Special Forces in Lebanon |
| Dec 25 | Soviet Union fight for power begins after President Gorbachev's resignation |
| 1992 | |
| Jan 15 | Yugoslav Federation broken up, the fight for power begins |
| Feb 01 | Boris Yeltsin is now President of Great Soviet Republic. |
| Feb 13 | President Haig meets with President Yeltsin in Switzerland |
| Feb 21 | U.S. lifts some trade sanctions against China |
| April 07 | U.S. recognizes three former Yugoslav republics as they fight for freedom |
| April 29 |
Four police officers acquitted in Los Angeles beating of Rodney King; rioting erupts in South-Central Los Angeles |
| June 16 | Caspar W. Weinberger indicted in Iran-Money Scandle |
| June 17 | Last Western hostages Rescued in Lebanon by US Special Forces |
| June 29 | Supreme Court reaffirms right to abortion |
| July 10 | Democrats nominate Bill Clinton and Al Gore |
| July 10 | Court clears Exxon Valdez skipper |
| July 13 | Israeli Parliament approves Yitzhak Rabin's coalition government, dominated by Labor Party |
| Aug 5 | Police officers acquitted in April on criminal charges in Rodney King beating are indicted on federal civil rights charges |
| Aug 12 | North American trade compact announced |
| Aug 20 | Republicans Nominated Patrick Joseph Buchanan & Dan Quayle |
| Sep 22 | UN expels Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia |
| Oct 01 | Senate ratifies second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
| Oct 14 | Top Japanese leader, Shin Kanemaru, resigns in scandal |
| Nov 03 | Bill Clinton elected president, Al Gore vice president; Democrats Gain Control of the Congress |
| Nov 04 | Russian Central Committee disapproves START treaty |
| Nov 24 | U.S. forces leave Philippines, ending nearly a century of American military presence |
| Nov 25 | Czechoslovak Parliament approves separation into two nations |
| Dec 03 | UN approves U.S.-led force to guard food for Somalia |
| Dec 09 | Prince and Princess of Wales agree to separate |
| Dec 24 | Bush pardons former Reagan administration officials involved in Iran-Scandal |
| 1993 | |
| Jan 23 | Bill Clinton Sworn in as President |
| Jan 26 | Vaclav Havel elected as Czech president |
| Jan 29 | Clinton agrees to compromise on military's ban on homosexuals |
| Feb 26 | Bombing of World trade Center |
| Feb 28 | U.S. begins airlift of supplies to besieged Bosnia towns |
| March 01 | Federal agents besiege Texas Branch Davidian religious cult after six are killed in raid |
| March 29 | Five arrested, sixth sought in bombing of World Trade Center in New York |
| April 19 | Fire kills 72 as cult standoff in Texas ends with federal assault |
| May 01 | President of Sri Lanka assassinated |
| May 20 | British Commons approves European unity pact |
| June 05 | Twenty-two UN troops killed in Somalia |
| June 14 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed to Supreme Court |
| July 19 | Iraq accepts UN weapons monitoring |
| July 22 | Vincent W. Foster, Jr., senior White House lawyer, commits suicide |
| Aug 28 | Midwest flood damage expected to exceed $10 billion (July 24). Israeli-Palestinian accord reached |
| Oct 01 | U.S. agents blamed in Waco, Tex., siege |
| Oct o4 | Yeltsin's forces crush revolt in Russian Parliament |
| Oct 05 | China breaks nuclear test moratorium |
| Oct 25 | Canada's opposition Liberal Party regains power in landslide |
| Nov 01 | Europe's Maastricht Treaty takes effect, creating European Union |
| Nov 04 | Jean Chretien sworn in as Canada's 20th prime minister |
| Nov 17 | House of Representatives approves North American Free Trade Agreement |
| Nov 18 | Senate follows |
| Nov 21 | South Africa adopts majority rule constitution |
| Nov 30 | Clinton signs Brady bill regulating firearms purchases |
| 1994 | |
| Jan 5-6 | Serbs' heavy weapons pound Sarajevo |
| Jan 06 | Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked |
| Jan 17 | Major earthquake jolts Los Angeles; 51 dead |
| Feb 09 | Clinton ends trade embargo on Vietnam |
| Feb 22 | Aldrich Ames, high C.I.A. official, charged with spying for Soviets |
| March 04 | Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing |
| March 23 | Mexican presidential candidate assassinated |
| April 06 | Rwandan genocide of Tutsis by Hutus begins; estimated 800,000 slaughtered in c. 100 days, UN Failed to intervene in time. U.N. Blames Security Council for bad intelligence, eyes turn on U.S. Intelligence services. |
| April 29 | South Africa holds first interracial national election |
| May 04 | Nelson Mandela elected president. Israel and Palestinians sign accord |
| May 06 | Clinton accused of sexual harassment while governor of Arkansas |
| May 12 | Congress votes protection for women's health clinics |
| June 18 | O. J. Simpson arrested |
| June 30 | Supreme Court approves limit on abortion protests |
| July 29 | Senate confirms Stephen G. Breyer for Supreme Court |
| July 29 | Women's health clinic doctor shot dead outside Florida clinic |
| Aug 13 | Major league baseball players strike |
| Aug 15 | Carlos the Jackal,” international terrorist, captured |
| Aug 31 | IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland |
| Sep 12 | Small plane crashes into White House |
| Sep 14 | Baseball owners end season and cancel World Series |
| Oct 04 | Powerful earthquake strikes Japan |
| Oct 04 | Aristide returns to joyous Haiti |
| Oct 07 | U.S. sends forces to Persian Gulf |
| Oct 13 | Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire |
| Oct 17 | Israel and Jordan sign peace treaty |
| Nov 06 | Syria bombs Jordanian military bases and demands that they requite the treaty |
| Nov 08 | G.O.P. wins control of House and Senate |
| Nov 09 | Aristide forms Haitian government with prime minister and full cabinet |
| Nov 10 | Clinton orders Bosnian arms embargo ended |
| Nov 14 | U.S. Pressures Jordan not to attack Syria |
| Dec 05 | Newt Gingrich named House Speaker |
| Dec 06 | Bentsen resigns as Treasury Secretary |
| Dec 11 | Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya |
| Dec 30 | John Salvi kills two at Massachusetts Planned Parenthood clinic |
| 1995 | |
| Jan 04 | Republicans take control of Congress |
| Jan 17 | More than 5,000 dead in Japanese earthquake |
| Jan 24 | Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California |
| Feb 21 | U.S. rescues Mexico's economy with $20-billion aid program |
| Mar 02 | Senate rejects balanced-budget amendment |
| Mar 20 | Nerve gas attack in Tokyo subway kills eight and injures thousands. The Aum Shinrikyo (“Supreme Truth”) cult is to blame |
| Apr 02 | Major League Baseball strike ends |
| Apr 13 | Appeals court upholds woman's plea to enter Citadel military academy |
| Apr 14 | UN Council votes easier sanctions for Iraq |
| Apr 19 | Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building |
| Apr 21 | Timothy McVeigh, 27, Army veteran, arrested as suspect |
| Apr 22 | Federal and Oklahoma authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing |
| Apr 22 | Death toll 2,000 in Rwanda massacre |
| May 01 | Fighting escalates in Bosnia and Croatia, UN Still in debating, NATO moves to end the fighting |
| Jun 27 | U.S. shuttle does fly by of Russian space station, USSR Declares 3 mile space limit around its station. |
| Aug 11 | F.B.I. suspends four in Idaho siege inquiry |
| Sep 05 | France explodes nuclear device in Pacific; wide protests ensue |
| Sep 06 | Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon resigns under pressure for sexual and official misconduct |
| Sep 24 | Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring West Bank to Arabs |
| Oct 03 | Los Angeles jury finds O. J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges |
| Oct 4-8 | Pope John Paul II visits U.S. on whirlwind tour |
| Oct 05 | Under pressure from NATO forces, warring parties agree on cease-fire in Bosnia |
| Oct 16 | Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital |
| Oct 30 | Quebec narrowly accepts independence from Canada |
| Nov 04 | Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin slain by Jewish extremist at peace rally |
| Nov 07 | U.S. servicemen admit rape of Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa |
| Nov 10 | Nigeria hangs writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other minority rights advocates |
| Nov 24 | Irish voters approve end to constitutional ban on divorce |
| Dec 14 | Combatants sign Bosnia peace treaty |
| Dec 20 | House move stalls Congress–White House negotiations to avert government shutdown |
| Dec 23 | North Korea test fires missile over US forces on the 38th Parallel, with the government shut down, Clinton takes emergency powers and order US forces out of the country. |
| 1996 | |
| Jan 03 | U.S. budget crisis in fourth month |
| Jan 06 | Clinton approves resumption of many government operations |
| Jan 10 | Congress & Senate meet in joint emergency session to stop Korean Withdrawal. President slows down attempts calling for the supreme court, the war was never declared over and the president's power as commander and chief gives him the power to order the troops out. |
| Jan 26 | Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty |
| Jan 29 | France announces end to nuclear tests |
| Feb 01 | At least 73 dead in Sri Lankan suicide bombing |
| Mar 04 | Suicide bombers kill 59 in Israel |
| Mar 22 | Korean Pull out halted. Damage was done, skirmishes break out, UN orders North Korea not to cross the 38th parallel. The North takes hostages and retreats north, suspected spies everywhere in the south |
| Mar 05 | Bob Dole sweeps Republican primaries |
| Mar 20 | Britain alarmed by deadly cow disease |
| Mar 22 | UN tribunal charges war crimes by Bosnian Muslims and Croats |
| Apr 03 | Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown killed in plane crash |
| Apr 03 | FBI arrests suspected Unabomber |
| Apr 09 | Clinton signs line-item veto bill |
| Apr 10 | President blocks ban on late-term abortions |
| May 11 | ValuJet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed |
| May 27 | Chechnya freedom fighters launch major offensive |
| May 31 | Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister |
| Jun 06 | China agrees to world ban on atomic testing |
| Jun 14 | Leaders in Balkans sign accord on arms limits |
| Jun 15 | Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald dies |
| Jun 25 | Truck bomb kills 19 at U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, President Clinton asks Saudi Arabia if we can investigate, they decline, nothing more is done. Military outraged. A small military operation called THRUSH sold the bombs to the terrorist. |
| Jul 03 | Boris Yeltsin is reelected in USSR mock election |
| Jul 12 | Prince Charles and Princess Diana agree on divorce |
| Jul 17 | 747 airliner crashes in Atlantic off Long Island; all 230 aboard perish |
| Jul 25 | Bomb mars Summer Olympic games in Atlanta |
| Aug 02 | Clinton signs bill to raise minimum wage |
| Aug 02 | Congress passes welfare reform bill approved by Clinton on 22nd of Aug |
| Aug 12 | Republican convention opens in San Diego |
| Aug 14 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp nominated |
| Aug 26 | Democrats convene in Chicago |
| Aug 31 | Iraqis strike at Kurdish enclave |
| Sep 2-3 | after warning, U.S. attacks Iraq's southern air defenses |
| Sep 13 | Iraq halts attacks on U.S. planes enforcing flight exclusion zones in north and south |
| Sep 24 | Violence flares in Jerusalem over Israel opening tourist tunnel |
| Sep 27 | Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Afghan capital |
| Oct 13 | Ethnic violence breaks out in Zairian refugee camps |
| Oct 21 | Thousands of refugees from Rwanda and Burundi abandon camps |
| Nov 05 | Clinton-Gore ticket wins national election; Republicans retain control of Congress |
| Nov 12 | Mid-air collision in India kills 342 |
| Nov 15 | Texaco settles racial bias suit |
| Nov 15-18 | Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees return to Rwanda |
| Dec 05 | Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. secretary of state |
| Dec 13 | Kofi Annan named UN secretary-general |
| Dec 18 | FBI agent charged with spying for Moscow |
| Dec 26 | Thousands march in Belgrade in continuing protest against president's annulment of election results |
| 1997 | |
| Jan 03 | Two Hutu sentenced to death in Rwandan genocide |
| Jan 05 | Floods cause wide damage in U.S. West |
| Jan 07 | Newt Gingrich reelected as House Speaker |
| Jan 16 | Hebron agreement signed; Israel gives up large part of West Bank city of Hebron |
| Jan 17 | U.S. shuttle joins Russian space station |
| Jan 17 | Gingrich found guilty of ethics violations |
| Jan 20 | President Clinton starts second term |
| Feb 03 | U.S., U.K., and France agree to freeze Nazis' gold loot |
| Feb 05 | O. J. Simpson found liable in civil suit |
| Feb 19 | Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader, dead at 92 |
| Feb 26 | Israeli government approves establishment of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, a setback in Middle East peace process |
| Mar 03 | Tornadoes wreak havoc in Arkansas, Ohio, and Kentucky |
| Mar 13 | State of anarchy in Albania when third of population loses savings because of pyramid schemes |
| Mar 17 | Protests around the world of Chinese rights abuses |
| Mar 22 | Hale-Bopp comet is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397 |
| Mar 27 | Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California |
| Apr 08 | U.S. Appeals Court upholds California ban on affirmative action |
| Apr 11 | U.S. judge upholds California marijuana law |
| Apr 13 | Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in Masters golf tournament |
| Apr 15 | Fire kills 300 pilgrims outside Mecca, suspects sought, CIA or MI-6 suspected. |
| Apr 24 | Senate, 74–26, approves chemical-weapons treaty |
| Apr 27 | Thousands flee North Dakota flood |
| May 07 | Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene C. McKinney, charged in sex cases |
| May 12 | Russian president Yeltsin orders forces to crush Chechnya |
| May 21 | U.S.-Russian spaceship linkup in orbit ends |
| Jun 06 | U.S. jobless rate for May reported 4.8%, lowest since 1973 |
| Jun 16 | European Union bolsters currency merger |
| Jun 26 | Congress votes major tax cuts |
| Jun 30 | UK / China renew Hong Kong possession to cool anger toward Chinese Human Rights violations protests, expires in 15 years |
| Jul 04 | U.S. spacecraft begins exploration of Mars |
| Jul 15 | Andrew Cunanan murders fashion designer Gianni Versace |
| Jul 25 | Khmer Rouge hold trial of longtime leader Pol Pot |
| Jul 28 | White House and GOP agree on measure to balance budget |
| Aug 08 | U.S. spacecraft transmits thousands of pictures from Mars |
| Aug 11 | Clinton exercises new line-item veto |
| Aug 14 | Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing |
| Aug 31 | Princess Diana, 36, killed with two others in Paris car crash |
| Sep 04 | Three Islamic suicide bombers kill 24 persons in Jerusalem |
| Sep 05 | Mother Teresa dead at 87 |
| Sep 17 | Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust victims |
| Sep 27 | Militant Taliban leaders seize Kabul, President Clinton orders all US personnel out of Afghanistan |
| Oct 08 | Echelon is moved from NSA (NATO) control to Agency Control, Echelon is Classified Top Secret. |
| Oct 29 | Iraq expels all U.S. members of UN arms-inspection team |
| Nov 04 | GOP victorious in off-year elections |
| Nov 10 | Pakistani convicted in 1993 CIA killings |
| Nov 12 | Two convicted in New York World Trade Center bombing |
| Nov 17 | Egyptian Islamic militants kill 62 at Luxor tourist site |
| Nov 18 | FBI ends 16-month investigation of crash of Flight 800 off Long Island; denies sabotage |
| Dec 13 | European Union plans to admit six nations |
| Dec 24 | U.S. company launches first commercial spy satellite |
| Dec 24 | Paris court convicts “Carlos the Jackal” of murder |
| 1998 | |
| Jan 09 | Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life for 1993 World Trade Center bombing |
| Jan 21-25 | Pope John Paul II visits Cuba |
| Jan 21 | President accused in White House sex scandal; denies allegations of affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky |
| Feb 03 | President outlines first balanced budget in 30 years |
| Feb 03 | U.S. plane cuts ski cable in Italy and sends car plunging; 20 killed |
| Feb 04 | Thousands dead in Afghanistan quake |
| Feb 12 | U.S. court rules line-item veto unconstitutional |
| Mar 05 | Serbs battle ethnic Albanians in Kosovo |
| Mar 13 | U.S. drops condemnation of China's human rights record |
| Mar 19 | Hindu nationalist Vajpayee becomes India's prime minister |
| Mar 27 | FDA approves Viagra, male impotence drug |
| Apr 01 | Federal judge in Arkansas throws out Paula Jones case |
| Apr 10 | Landmark peace settlement, the Good Friday Accord, reached in Northern Ireland |
| Apr 17 | U.S. trade deficit biggest in decade |
| May 03 | Europeans agree on single currency, the euro |
| May 04 | Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, sentenced to four life terms |
| May 11,13 | India conducts three atomic tests despite worldwide disapproval |
| May 21 | Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power |
| May 29,30 | Pakistan stages five nuclear tests in response to India's |
| Jun 01 | Serbs renew attack on Kosovo rebels |
| Jul 04 | Life sentence meted out to Terry Nichols, convicted in Oklahoma City bombing fatal to 168 |
| Jul 08 | Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha dies |
| Jul 09 | Congress votes to overhaul IRS |
| Aug 05 | Iraq ends cooperation with UN arms inspectors |
| Aug 07 | U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed |
| Aug 17 | Clinton admits to affair with White House intern in televised address to nation |
| Aug 17 | Russia fights to avert financial collapse |
| Aug 20 | U.S. cruise missiles hit suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan |
| Aug 31 | North Korea fires missile across Japan, Japan demands retaliation from US |
| Sep 02 | Swissair jet crashes; kills 229, Suspected Terrorist Leader of the United Coalition rumored to be on the flight was the target? |
| Sep 11 | Starr Report by independent counsel outlines case for impeachment proceedings against president |
| Sep 18 | Senate sustains veto of bill to outlaw late-term abortions |
| Sep 24 | Iran lifts death threat against Salman Rushdie |
| Sep 27 | German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder |
| Oct 05 | U.S. budget surplus largest in three decades |
| Oct 06 | USSR Economic Reform introduced, Russian people cheer the reform but still want basic freedoms |
| Oct 12 | NATO, air strikes, forces settlement with Milosevic on Kosovo |
| Oct 16 | Former Chilean dictator Pinochet arrested in London |
| Oct 23 | Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu and Arafat moves Middle East peace talks forward |
| Nov 01 | More than 10,000 die in Central American hurricane, Mitch |
| Nov 03 | Democrats unexpectedly gain five House seats in national election; Republicans keep control of House and Senate |
| Nov 09 | House Speaker Gingrich to step down |
| Dec 11-12 | House panel drafts impeachment charges; votes along party lines to approve four articles |
| Dec 16-19 | Clinton orders minimal air strikes on Iraq |
| Dec 19 | House impeaches President Clinton along party lines on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice |
| 1999 | |
| Jan 04 | U.S. agrees to ease restrictions on Cuba |
| Jan 06 | Dennis Hastert elected to replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House |
| Jan 06 | NBA ends 191-day labor dispute |
| Jan 24 | International Olympic Committee expels six members as bribery scandal widens |
| Feb 07 | King Hussein of Jordan dies |
| Feb 12 | Senate acquits President Clinton of impeachment charges |
| Feb 28 | Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo elected president of Nigeria |
| Mar 1-20 | First nonstop balloon flight around world completed in 20 days by Bertrand Piccard (Switzerland) and Brian Jones (UK) |
| Mar 04 | Marine pilot acquitted in killing of 20 in 1998 Italian ski gondola accident; Some Italians outraged. |
| Mar 05 | U.S. accuses China of stealing nuclear secrets |
| Mar 08 | Joe DiMaggio dies at age 84 |
| Mar 12 | Hungary joins NATO |
| Mar 24 | NATO launches air strikes on Serbia to end attacks against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo |
| Mar 26 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian convicted of second-degree murder in assisted-suicide case |
| Mar 27 | “Melissa” computer virus spreads through the Internet |
| Apr 05 | NATO Special forces travel into Libya and capture two suspects in 1988 Pan Am jet bombing |
| Apr 20 | Two Colorado students go on shooting spree in Columbine High School, killing 15, including themselves. |
| May 07 | NATO bombs mistakenly hit Chinese embassy in Belgrade |
| May 08 | Citadel graduates its first woman |
| May 16 | Crime rate in U.S. falls for seventh consecutive year |
| May 17 | Ehud Barak defeats Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli prime minister election |
| May 20-24 | U.S. inspectors visit suspected nuclear weapons site in North Korea, find nothing |
| Jun 09 | Serbs sign agreement to pull troops out of Kosovo after 11 weeks of NATO air attacks |
| Jun 16 | Nelson Mandela retires as president of South Africa; succeeded by Thabo Mbeki |
| Jun 19 | Britain's Prince Edward marries Sophie Rhys-Jones |
| Jun 29 | Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan sentenced to death for treason in Turkey |
| Jul 2-5 | White supremacist goes on shooting spree in Midwest, killing three including self and wounding eight |
| Jul 10 | U.S. soccer team tops China for women's World Cup |
| Jul 11 | Taiwanese leader Lee Teng-hui challenges “One China” policy |
| Jul 13 | Serial killer Rafael Reséndez-Ramirez surrenders himself to U.S. authorities |
| Jul 16 | John F. Kennedy, Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette killed in plane crash off coast of Martha's Vineyard |
| Jul 16 | Col. Eileen Collins becomes first female to head a space shuttle mission |
| Jul 22 | Falun Gong meditation sect banned by Chinese government |
| Jul 29 | Day-trader kills 9 and wounds 13 in two Atlanta brokerage offices before committing suicide |
| Aug 9 | Yeltsin replaces Prime Minister Stepashin with Vladimir Putin in fourth government shakeup in 17 months |
| Aug 10 | Islamic militants declare independence for Dagestan and announce holy war against Russia |
| Aug 10 | White supremacist opens fire at Jewish community center in LA, wounding five and killing one as he flees |
| Aug 17 | More than 17,000 people die in 7.4 earthquake in Turkey |
| Aug 25 | Attorney General Janet Reno reopens investigation of 1993 Waco, Tex., stand-off |
| Aug 31 | People of East Timor vote for independence from Indonesia |
| Sep 04 | Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasir Arafat announce peace accord |
| Sep 15 | Larry Gene Ashbrook goes on rampage in Tex. church, killing seven and himself |
| Sep 23 | NASA accidentally loses $125 million spacecraft as it orbits Mars |
| Sep 30 | Dozens of people exposed to radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident |
| Oct 01 | Russia sends ground troops to Chechnya as conflict with Islamic militants intensifies |
| Oct 11 | World population reaches six billion milestone |
| Oct 12 | Military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf overthrows Pakistani government |
| Oct 13 | Tobacco companies admit to harm caused by cigarette smoking |
| Oct 13 | Senate rejects 1996 nuclear test-ban treaty; international leaders upset by U.S. stand |
| Oct 20 | Indonesia elects Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid president |
| Oct 25 | Pro golfer Payne Stewart and five others killed in plane crash |
| Oct 31 | EgyptAir flight crashes over Atlantic, killing all 217 on board |
| Nov 05 | Judge finds Microsoft to be a monopoly |
| Nov 15 | U.S. and China reach landmark trade agreement |
| Nov 21 | China launches first spacecraft |
| Nov 25 | Five-year-old Cuban refugee Elián González gets caught in politically charged custody battle |
| Nov 29 | World Trade Organization conference disrupted by violent protests in Seattle |
| Dec 02 | New Northern Ireland government begins self-rule for first time in 25 years |
| Dec 24 | Muslim terrorists hijack Indian Airlines jet with 189 on board |
| Dec 27 | Negotiations 3 days old, Black Moon Terrorist blows up the plane rather then being captured. |
Last Updated: 02/25/2008