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Estonia ratifies the European Constitution. |
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II. |
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Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a landmine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya. |
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In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130. The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. |
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Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. |
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Armenian forces capture Shusha in the Karabakh War, marking a major turning point in that conflict. At 5:18 a.m. ADT The Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia experiences a methane explosion killing all 26 miners who were working. |
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The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra. |
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The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana. In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunman and two police officers were killed while thirty-three police and civilian vehicles were destroyed in the chase. In Florida, Liberian freighter SS Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses. |
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El Salvador cathedral bloodbath:
At least 18 demonstrators are shot dead and many wounded after police opened fire on anti-government protesters in El Salvador. |
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Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon. |
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Israeli commandos storm hijacked jet:
Twelve Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance staff have stormed a hijacked Sabena Boeing at Lod airport in Tel Aviv and released the 100 people on board. |
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Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protestors peacefully demonstrate behind a barricaded White House. |
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Mystery of missing frogman deepens:
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refuses to give details about the disappearance of a naval diver during a goodwill visit by the Soviet leadership. |
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West Germany accepted into Nato:
West Germany formally joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation at a special ceremony in Paris. |
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Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. |
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The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British. The Soviet Union marks Victory Day. Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops). Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway. Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. |
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Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne. |
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