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At least 306 people were killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
A tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.
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Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
The Russell Hill subway accident in Toronto kills 3 and injures 30, due to a combination of human error and a safety system design flaw.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.
A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.
"We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
East Timor: Governor MĂĄrio Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, New York, DJ Kool Herc hosts a house party widely considered to mark the birthplace of hip hop culture and music. DJ Kool Herc demonstrates a new technique of beat juggling and Coke La Rock performs a new style of vocal performance called rapping.
Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon.
Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Chad declares independence from France.
Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
Poles in KrakĂłw engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in the deaths of three Irish Republicans including the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney.
The LatvianâSoviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
SpanishâAmerican War: American troops enter the city of MayagĂŒez, Puerto Rico.
An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
Morean War: The 49-day Siege of Coron ends with the surrender and massacre of its garrison by the Venetians.
Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer BrĂŒcke.
Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.
The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.
The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after Trajan's death.
The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.