1994: First NATO military action
In the first military action in the 45-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, US fighter planes shoot down four Serbian warplanes flying a bombing mission in violation of Bosnia’s no-fly zone.
Founded in 1949 to combat Soviet aggression, NATO volunteered in 1994 to enforce United Nations resolutions enacted to end three years of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In 1995, NATO deployed 60,000 troops to the war-torn region to enforce the Dayton Peace Accords, signed in Paris by the leaders of the former Yugoslavia.
2001
In Selby, North Yorkshire a train crashes into a car which had veered off the motorway, killing ten people.
1997
In North Hollywood, U.S.A bank robbers Larry Eugene Phillips Jr, and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu start a mass shootout with Los Angeles Police after robbing a bank. Both robbers are killed.
1993
In Waco, Texas US police raid the Branch Davidian church with a warrant to arrest the group’s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid. A siege starts, which lasts for 51 days.
1991
The Gulf War: A ceasefire is signed, ending the war.
1986
The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and his wife Lisbeth are murdered in Stockholm.
1983
In America, 77 percent of the television viewing audience watch the last episode of TV show M.A.S.H.
1982
J. Paul Getty Museum becomes the most richly endowed museum in the world after receiving the $1.2 billion pounds the late J. Paul Getty left to the museum.
1975
43 people are killed on the London Underground when a train crashes at Moorgate Station
1948
The last British troops leave India.
1935
Wallace Carothers’ research group at the chemical company DuPont discover Nylon.
1933
German President Paul von Hindenburg issues the Reichstag Fire Decree, which effectively suspends the human rights that the Weimer Constitution had guaranteed.
1916
The First World War: Allied forces complete their conquest of the Cameroons, a German protectorate on the coast of western Africa.
1897
Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar is deposed by a French military force. She is the last monarch of the island.
1844
A gun on the boat USS Princeton explodes while it is cruising down the Potomac River. Two US Cabinet members are killed, but President John Tyler is unhurt.