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This article is about the year 2002. For other uses, see 2002 (disambiguation). 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 4th millennium, the 2nd year of the21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.

2002 was designated as:
 * International Year of Ecotourism
 * International Year of Mountains

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5See also
 * 6References
 * 7External links

January[edit]

 * January 1
 * The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.[1]
 * The Euro is officially introduced in the Eurozone countries.[2]  The former currencies of all the countries that use the Euro ceased to be legal tender on February 28.[3]
 * January 17 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
 * January 18 – The Sierra Leone Civil War comes to a conclusion with the defeat of the Revolutionary United Front by government forces.[4]

February[edit]

 * February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.[5]
 * February 8–24 – The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.[6]
 * February 12 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, begins at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.[7]
 * February 19 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.[8]
 * February 22 – UNITA guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in clashes against government troops led by Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos in Moxico Province, Angola.[9]  His death leads to the end of the Angolan Civil War on April 4.[10]

March[edit]

 * March 1 – The Envisat environmental satellite is launched, with its purpose being the recording of information on environmental change.[11]
 * March 27 – A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 people and injures 140 others at a hotel in Netanya, Israel,[12]  triggeringOperation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank, two days later.[13]

April[edit]

 * April 2 – Israeli forces besiege the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, when militants took shelter there. The siege would last for 38 days.[14]
 * April 9 – The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
 * April 15 – Air China Flight 129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.[15]
 * April 25 – South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Soyuz TM-34, becoming the first African space tourist.[16]

May[edit]

 * May 20 – East Timor regains its independence after 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]
 * May 24 – In Moscow, United States President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty to replace the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 and the START II Treaty of 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * May 25 – A Boeing 747 operating as China Airlines Flight 611 breaks up and crashes in the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 passengers and crew on board.
 * May 31 – June 30 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan;<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]  which is won by Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]

June[edit]

 * June 6 – An object with an estimated diameter of 10 meters collides with Earth over the Mediterranean and detonates in mid-air.<sup id="cite_ref-21">[21]
 * June 10 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out byKevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]
 * June 24 – A passenger train collides with a freight train in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, killing 281 people, making it the worst rail accident in African history.<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]

July[edit]

 * July 1
 * The Rome Statute comes into force, thereby establishing the International Criminal Court.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24]
 * A Russian passenger jet and cargo plane collide over the town of Überlingen, Germany, killing 71 people.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]
 * July 9 – The Organisation of African Unity is disbanded and replaced by the African Union.<sup id="cite_ref-26">[26]

August[edit]

 * August 26 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable developmentby the United Nations.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27]

September[edit]

 * September 10 – Switzerland joins the United Nations as the 190th member state after rejecting a place in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-28">[28]
 * September 19 – General Robert Guéï leads an army mutiny in an attempt to overthrow Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, resulting in civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * September 25 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurs in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * September 26 – The Senegalese passenger ferry MV Le Joola capsizes in a storm off the coast of the Gambia, killing 1,863 people.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31]
 * September 27 – East Timor is admitted to the United Nations as the 191st member state.<sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]

October[edit]

 * October 12 – Jemaah Islamiyah militants detonate multiple bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Indonesia, killing 202 people and injuring over 300 in the worst terrorist act in Indonesia's history.<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]
 * October 23–25 – Chechen rebels take control of the Nord-Ost theatre in Moscow and hold the audience hostage. At least 170 people are killed following a Russian attempt to subdue the militants.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]

November[edit]

 * November 7 – A sovereignty referendum is held in Gibraltar. The people reject Spanish sovereignty.<sup id="cite_ref-35">[35]
 * November 8 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1441, forcing Iraq to either disarm or face "serious consequences".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0">[36]  Iraq agrees to the terms of the resolution on November 13.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1">[36]
 * November 25 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in1947.<sup id="cite_ref-37">[37]

December[edit]

 * December 23 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-38">[38]

January[edit]

 * January 17 – Samuel, American-South Korean singer

February[edit]

 * February 4 – Graham Verchere, Canadian actor
 * February 5 – Davis Cleveland, American actor
 * February 13 – Sophia Lillis, American actress

March[edit]

 * March 4 – Jacob Hopkins, American actor
 * March 16 – Isabelle Allen, English actress

April[edit]


Skai Jackson



Sadie Sink
 * April 8 – Skai Jackson, American actress
 * April 16 – Sadie Sink, American actress

May[edit]

 * May 14 – Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, grand-niece Of Queen Elizabeth II, member of the British Royal Family
 * May 18 – Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater

June[edit]

 * June 2 – Madison Hu, American actress
 * June 25 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor

July[edit]

 * July 21 – Rika Kihira, Japanese figure skater
 * July 22 – Prince Felix of Denmark
 * July 24 – Benjamin Flores Jr., American actor and rapper

August[edit]

 * August 1 – Oona Laurence, American actress
 * August 19 – Brighton Sharbino, American actress
 * August 30 – Raffey Cassidy, English actress

September[edit]


Asher Angel



Maddie Ziegler
 * September 6 – Asher Angel, American actor
 * September 8 – Gaten Matarazzo, American actor
 * September 27 – Jenna Ortega, American actress
 * September 30
 * Levi Miller, Australian actor
 * Maddie Ziegler, American dancer

October[edit]


Iris Apatow
 * October 2 – Jacob Sartorius, American singer
 * October 6
 * Rio Mangini, American actor
 * Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
 * October 12 – Iris Apatow, American actress
 * October 15 – Malu Trevejo, Cuban-American social media personality
 * October 16 – Madison Wolfe, American actress

November[edit]

 * November 13 – Nikki Hahn, American actress
 * November 20 – Madisyn Shipman, American actress

December[edit]

 * December 23 – Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

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This article is about the year 1990. For other uses, see 1990 (disambiguation).

For the album by Enigma, see MCMXC a.D.

1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen,<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]  the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation ofNamibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika.Yugoslavia's communist regime collapses amidst increasing internal tensions and multiparty elections held within itsconstituent republics result in separatist governments being elected in most of the republics marking the beginning of thebreakup of Yugoslavia. Also in this year began the crisis that would lead to the Gulf War in 1991 following the Iraq invasion and the largely internationally unrecognized annexation of Kuwait resulting in a crisis in the Persian Gulf involving the issue of the sovereignty of Kuwait and fears by Saudi Arabia over Iraqi aggression against their oil fields near Kuwait, this resulted in Operation Desert Shield being enacted with an international coalition of military forces being built up on the Kuwaiti-Saudi border with demands for Iraq to peacefully withdraw from Kuwait. Also in this year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 11 years.

1990 was an important year in the Internet's early history. In the fall of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee created the first web serverand the foundation for the World Wide Web. Test operations began around December 20 and it was released outsideCERN the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]  1990 also saw the official decommissioning of the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet system and the introduction of the first content search engine, Archie on September 10.<sup id="cite_ref-3">[3]

September 14, 1990 saw the first case of successful somatic gene therapy on a patient.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[4]

Due to the early 1990s recession that began that year and uncertainty due to the collapse of the socialist governments inEastern Europe, birth rates in many countries stopped rising or fell steeply in 1990. In most western countries the Echo Boom peaked in 1990; fertility rates declined thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-5">[5]

Encyclopædia Britannica, which ceased printing in 2012, saw its highest all time sales in 1990; 120,000 volumes were sold that year.<sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]  The number of librarians in the United States also peaked around 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-7">[7]

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5Fields Medal
 * 6References

January[edit]


January 7: The Pisa tower closed.
 * January 1
 * Poland becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its state socialist economy. Poland also withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.
 * The first Internet companies catering to commercial users, PSINet and EUnet begin selling Internet access to commercial customers in the United States and Netherlands respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-8">[8] <sup id="cite_ref-9">[9]
 * Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.
 * January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to the American forces.
 * January 4 – Two trains collide in Sangi, Pakistan, killing between 200 and 300 people and injuring an estimated 700 others.
 * January 7 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
 * January 9 – Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan.
 * January 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Lithuania SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence.
 * January 12–19 – Most of the remaining 50,000 Armenians are driven out of Baku in the Azerbaijan SSR during theBaku pogrom.<sup id="cite_ref-10">[10]
 * January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
 * January 15
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
 * Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.
 * Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.
 * January 17 – Smith & Wesson introduce the .40 S&W cartridge.
 * January 20
 * Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and kill over 130 protesters who were demonstrating for independence.<sup id="cite_ref-11">[11]
 * Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir.
 * The government of Haiti declares a state of emergency, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29.
 * January 22
 * The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.
 * Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.
 * January 25
 * Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, New York after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.
 * Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office.
 * Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad.
 * January 25–26 – The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe.
 * January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence.
 * January 28 – Four months after their exit from power, the Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve itself and reorganize itself as theSocial Democracy of the Republic of Poland.<sup id="cite_ref-12">[12]
 * January 29
 * The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's second worst oil spill to date.
 * In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development ofsuperfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.
 * January 31
 * Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens 8 months after construction began on 3 May 1989. 8 months later the first McDonald's in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen.<sup id="cite_ref-McDonald's_13-0">[13]
 * Liberal Muslim Rashad Khalifa is murdered in Tucson, Arizona; his killer is theorized to be a member of an early al-Qaeda sleeper cell.<sup id="cite_ref-s3.amazonaws.com_14-0">[14]
 * President of the United States George H. W. Bush gives his first State of the Union address and proposes that the U.S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their military forces in Europe.



January 29: Trial relating to Exxon Valdez.

February[edit]

 * February/March – 100,000 Kashmiri Pandits leave their homeland in Jammu and Kashmir's Valley after being targeted by Islamist extremists.<sup id="cite_ref-15">[15]
 * February – Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-16">[16]
 * February 2 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
 * February 7
 * The Communist Party of the Soviet Union votes to end its monopoly of power, clearing the way for multiparty elections.
 * In the Tajik SSR, rioting breaks out against the settlement of Armenian refugees there.
 * February 10
 * President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released the next day.
 * Las Cruces Bowling Alley massacre: 2 people walked into the 10 Pin Alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico, (known then as the Las Cruces Bowl) and shot seven people, four of whom were killed. The case is currently unsolved.
 * February 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.
 * February 12 – Representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an "Open Skies" conference. The conference results in agreements aboutsuperpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.
 * February 13
 * German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
 * Drexel Burnham Lambert files for bankruptcy protection, Chapter 11.
 * February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 3.5 billion miles away.
 * February 15
 * The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. The UK had severed ties in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British Dependent Territory, in 1982.
 * In Cartagena, Colombia, a summit is held between President of the United States George H. W. Bush, President of Bolivia Jaime Paz Zamora, President of Colombia Virgilio Barco Vargas, and President of Peru Alan García. The leaders pledge additional cooperation in fighting international drug trafficking.
 * February 26
 * The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the new president of Nicaragua (the first elected woman president in the Americas), replacing Daniel Ortega.
 * The USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.
 * February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.
 * February 28 – President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U.S.-backed contras.

March[edit]

 * March 1
 * A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people.
 * Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
 * The Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues its daily rum ration.
 * Luis Alberto Lacalle, a grandson of the late politician and diplomat Luis Alberto de Herrera, is sworn in as President of Uruguay.
 * March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.
 * March 6 – An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.
 * March 8 – The Nintendo World Championships were held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building, kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American cities.
 * March 9
 * Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax.
 * Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord.
 * March 10 – Eighteen months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril is ousted in Haiti.
 * March 11 – Singing Revolution: The Lithuanian SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
 * March 12
 * Cold War: Soviet soldiers begin leaving Hungary under terms of an agreement to withdraw all Soviet troops by June 1.
 * Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
 * March 13 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union on March 15.
 * March 15
 * Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. Daphne Parish, a British nurse, is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment as an accomplice.
 * The first high speed (T1) transatlantic Internet connection is made over the TAT-8 fiber optic cable between CERN and Cornell University, allowing faster Internet communication between North America and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]
 * Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
 * Singing Revolution: The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
 * Fernando Collor de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected president since Jânio Quadros in 1961. The next day, he announces a currency freeze and freezes large bank accounts for 18 months.
 * March 18
 * Twelve paintings and a Shang dynasty vase, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston,Massachusetts by two thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2018) have not been recovered.
 * Cold War: East Germany holds its first free elections.
 * March 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
 * March 21 – After 75 years of South African rule since World War I, Namibia becomes independent.
 * March 24 – Australian federal election, 1990: Bob Hawke's Labor Government is re-elected with a reduced majority, narrowly defeating the Liberal/National Coalitionled by Andrew Peacock.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * March 25
 * In New York City, a fire due to arson at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87.
 * Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.
 * In the Hungarian parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election since 1948, the Hungarian Democratic Forum wins the most seats.
 * March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winningBest Picture.
 * March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting Radio y Televisión Martí to Cuba.
 * March 28 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
 * March 30 – Singing Revolution: After its first free elections on March 18, the Estonian SSR declares the Soviet rule to have been illegal since 1940 and declares a transition period for full independence.
 * March 31 – "The Second Battle of Trafalgar": A massive anti-poll tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, turns into a riot; 471 people are injured, and 341 are arrested.

April[edit]


April 1990 in Moscow
 * April 1
 * The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests
 * Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.
 * The 1990 United States Census begins. There are 248,709,873 residents in the U.S.
 * April 6 – Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment" show of nude and homoerotic photographs opens at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, in spite of accusations of indecency by Citizens for Community Values.
 * April 7
 * Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of 5 charges for his part in the scandal; the convictions are later reversed on appeal.
 * Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
 * April 8
 * In Nepal, Birendra of Nepal lifts a ban on political parties following violent protests.
 * In the Greek legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament; its leader, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, becomesPrime Minister of Greece on April 11.
 * In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938. After the election, a center-right coalition led by Lojze Peterle forms Yugoslavia's first non-Communist government since 1945.
 * April 9 – Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975, makes its closest approach to the sun.
 * April 12 – Lothar de Maizière becomes prime minister of East Germany, heading a conservative coalition that favors German reunification.
 * April 13 – Cold War: The Soviet Union apologizes for the Katyn massacre.
 * April 14 – Junk bond financier Michael Milken pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges. He agreed to pay US$500 million in restitution and was sentenced on November 21 to 10 years in jail.
 * April 22
 * Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.
 * Earth Day 20 is celebrated by millions worldwide.
 * April 24
 * Cold War: West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
 * STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]
 * President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko lifts a 20-year ban on opposition parties.
 * April 25 – Violeta Chamorro is elected President of Nicaragua, the first woman elected in her own right as a head of state in the Americas.
 * April 28 – Liverpool F.C. win their 18th and as to date last English Football League Title when they beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at Anfield thanks to goals from Ian Rush and John Barnes. Their nearest challengers Aston Villa can only draw 3-3 at home to Norwich City.
 * April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.

May[edit]

 * May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Anglican province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
 * May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date).
 * May 2–4 – First talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress.
 * May 4 – Singing Revolution: The Latvian SSR declares independence from the Soviet Union.
 * May 6–13 – Pope John Paul II visits Mexico.
 * May 8
 * Singing Revolution: The Estonian SSR restores the formal name of the country, the Republic of Estonia, as well as other national emblems (the coat of arms, the flag and the anthem).
 * Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier assumes office as President of Costa Rica.
 * May 9 – In South Korea, police battle anti-government protesters in Seoul and two other cities.
 * May 13
 * In the Philippines, gunmen kill two United States Air Force airmen near Clark Air Base on the eve of talks between the Philippines and the United States over the future of American military bases in the Philippines.
 * The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
 * May 15
 * Singing Revolution: The pro-Soviet Intermovement attempts to take power in Tallinn, Estonia, but are forced down by local Estonians.
 * Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.
 * May 17 – The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]
 * May 18 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany sign a treaty to merge their economic and social systems, effective July 1.
 * May 19 – The US and the USSR agree to end production of chemical weapons and to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons.
 * May 20 – Cold War: The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
 * May 21 – In Kashmir, a Kashmiri Islamic leader is assassinated and Indian security forces open fire on mourners carrying his body, killing at least 47 people.
 * May 22
 * Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
 * Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
 * May 27
 * In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.
 * In the Colombian presidential election, César Gaviria is elected President of Colombia; he takes office on August 7.
 * May 29
 * Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.
 * Boris Yeltsin is elected as the first ever elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
 * European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) founded.
 * May 30 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev begin a four-day summit meeting in Washington, D.C.

June[edit]

 * June – Joanne Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London Euston railway station. She begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-21">[21]
 * June 1
 * Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
 * Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.
 * June 2 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12; 37 tornadoes occur in Indiana, eclipsing the previous record of 21 during the Super Outbreak of April 1974.
 * June 4 – Violence breaks out in the Kirghiz SSR between the majority Kyrgyz people and minority Uzbeks over the distribution of homestead land.
 * June 7
 * Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.
 * Nickelodeon Studios opens
 * Universal Studios Orlando opens
 * June 8
 * The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital HDTV in history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until2004.<sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]
 * Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir ends 88 days with only an acting government by forming a coalition of right-wing and religious parties led by Shamir'sLikud party.
 * June 8–9 – In the Czechoslovakian parliamentary election, Czechoslovakia's first free election since 1946, the Civic Forum wins the most seats but fails to secure a majority.
 * June 9 – Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas.
 * June 10
 * Alberto Fujimori is elected President of Peru; he takes office on July 28.
 * First round of the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly election sees the Bulgarian Socialist Party win a majority. The second round of voting is held June 17.
 * June 11 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam massacre over 600 unarmed police officers in the Eastern Province.
 * June 12
 * Cold War: The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
 * In the Algerian local elections, Algeria's first multiparty election since 1962, the Islamic Salvation Front wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32 of Algeria's 48 provinces.
 * June 13 – Cold War – The destruction of the Berlin Wall by East Germany officially starts, 7 months after it was opened the previous November.<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]
 * June 13–15 – June 1990 Mineriad: Clashes break out in Bucharest between supporters and opponents of the ruling National Salvation Front.
 * June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.
 * June 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
 * June 21 – The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
 * June 22 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled.
 * June 23 – In Canada, the Meech Lake Accord of 1987 dies after the Manitoba and Newfoundland legislatures fail to approve it ahead of the deadline.
 * June 24 – Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.

July[edit]


July 16: 1990 Luzon earthquake
 * July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, the West German Deutsche Mark becoming the official currency of the East also. The Inner German border (constructed 1945) also ceases to function.
 * July 2
 * 1990 Hajj stampede: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca kills 1,426.
 * A U.S. District Court acquits Imelda Marcos on racketeering and fraud charges.
 * July 5 – In Kenya, riots erupt against the Kenya African National Union's monopoly on power.
 * July 6
 * President of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over accusations that he ordered tanks to disperse anti-government protests in December1989.
 * Somali President Siad Barre's bodyguards massacre anti-government demonstrators during a soccer match; 65 people are killed, more than 300 seriously injured.
 * July 7–8 – In tennis, Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.
 * July 8 – 1990 FIFA World Cup Final (Association football): West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
 * July 9–11 – The 16th G7 summit is held in Houston, Texas.
 * July 11 – Terrorists blow up a passenger bus travelling from Kalbajar to Tartar in Azerbaijan. 14 people are killed, 35 wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-supremecourt.gov.az_24-0">[24]
 * July 12 – Foster v British Gas plc decided in the European Court of Justice, a leading case on the definition of the "state" under European law.
 * July 16 – 1990 Luzon earthquake: An earthquake measuring M  7.7 kills more than 1,600 in the Philippines.
 * July 22 – First round of the Mongolian legislative election, the first multiparty ever held in Mongolia; the Mongolian People's Party wins by a wide margin after the second round of voting on July 29.
 * July 25
 * George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
 * The Serb Democratic Party (Croatia) declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
 * July 26 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
 * July 27
 * The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'étatattempt which lasts five days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several are wounded (including the Prime Minister, A. N. R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
 * Cold War: Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union.
 * July 28 – Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
 * July 30 – British politician and former Member of Parliament Ian Gow is assassinated by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb outside his home in England.

August[edit]


August 2:Gulf Warbegins
 * August 1
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Zhelyu Zhelev as the first non-Communist President of Bulgaria in 40 years.
 * RELCOM is created in the Soviet Union by combining several computer networks. Later in August, the Soviet Union got its first connection to the Internet.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]
 * August 2
 * Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
 * The first ban of smoking in bars in the US (and possibly the world) is passed in San Luis Obispo, California.<sup id="cite_ref-26">[26]
 * August 6
 * Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
 * President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismisses Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, accusing her of corruption and abuse of power.
 * The South African government and ANC begin talks on ending Apartheid in South Africa.
 * August 7
 * U.S. President Bush orders U.S. combat planes and troops to Saudi Arabia to prevent a possible attack by Iraq.
 * Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh announces plan to reserve 49% of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus. The plan triggers riots, leaving at least 70 dead by September.
 * August 8
 * Iraq announces its formal annexation of Kuwait.
 * The government of Peru announces an austerity plan that results in huge increases in the price of food and gasoline. The plan sets off days of rioting and a national strike on August 21.
 * August 10
 * Egypt, Syria, and 10 other Arab states vote to send military forces to Saudi Arabia to discourage an invasion from Iraq.
 * A passenger bus, traveling along the route "Tbilisi-Agdam", is blown up; 20 people died and 30 were injured. The organizers of the crime were Armenians A. Avanesian and M. Tatevosian who were brought to criminal trial.<sup id="cite_ref-supremecourt.gov.az_24-1">[24]
 * August 12
 * In South Africa, fighting breaks out between the Xhosa people and the Zulu people; more than 500 people are killed by the end of August.
 * "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson.
 * August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
 * August 21 – Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.
 * August 22 – U.S. President Bush calls up U.S. military reservists for service in the Persian Gulf Crisis.
 * August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27]
 * August 24
 * The Armenian SSR declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 * Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
 * August 26 – In Sofia, protesters set fire to the headquarters of the governing Bulgarian Socialist Party.
 * August 28 – The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago metropolitan area).

September[edit]

 * September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.
 * September 2 – Cold War: Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
 * September 4 – Geoffrey Palmer resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand and is replaced by Mike Moore.
 * September 4–6 – Premier of North Korea Yon Hyong-muk meets with President of South Korea Roh Tae-woo, the highest level contact between leaders of the two Koreas since 1945.
 * September 5 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 158 civilians.
 * September 6 – In Myanmar, the State Law and Order Restoration Council orders the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and five other political dissidents.
 * September 9
 * U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev meet in Helsinki to discuss the Persian Gulf crisis.
 * First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
 * Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers massacre 184 civilians in Batticaloa.
 * September 10 – The first Pizza Hut opens up in the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-newsbank1_28-0">[28]
 * September 11
 * Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
 * First Pizza Hut opens in the People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened there in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-newsbank1_28-1">[28]
 * September 12
 * Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
 * A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * September 17 – In what is now regarded as a landmark event in regards to women in journalism, reporter Lisa Olson was sexually harassed by multiple New England Patriots players while trying to conduct a locker room interview.
 * September 18
 * The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * Provisional Irish Republican Army assassination attempt on the life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives, as does his wife, Lady Betty Terry, who is also shot (most likely by accident).
 * September 24 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union grants Gorbachev special powers for 18 months to secure the Soviet Union's transition to a market economy.
 * September 27 – David Souter is confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice William Brennan.
 * September 29 – Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.
 * September 29–30 – The United Nations World Summit for Children draws more than 70 world leaders to United Nations Headquarters.

October[edit]


October 3: The former flag of West Germany becomes the flag of all Germany.
 * October – Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what would become the Web concept.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31]
 * October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.
 * October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
 * October 4 – Moro conflict: Rebel forces seize two military posts on the island of Mindanao, Philippines before surrendering on October 6.
 * October 8
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on theTemple Mount.
 * Globalization: The first McDonald's restaurant is opened in Mainland China in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.<sup id="cite_ref-McDonald's_13-1">[13]  Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special economic zone.
 * October 13 – Lebanese Civil War: Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, ousting General Michel Aoun's government. This effectively consolidates Syria's 14 year occupation of Lebanese soil.
 * October 14 – Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein dies of a heart attack at his home in New York City at the age of 72.
 * October 15
 * Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.
 * South Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools, and other public facilities.
 * October 17 – A peace agreement which formally ended 28 years of Sarawak Communist insurgency in Malaysia was signed by North Kalimantan Communist Partyinsurgents.
 * October 22 – Nizhny Novgorod restores its official name from Gorky, Volga Federal District, Russia.
 * October 24 – In the Pakistani general election, Prime Minister Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party loses power to a center-right coalition government led by the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad party.
 * October 27
 * Cold War: The Supreme Soviet of the Kirghiz SSR selects Askar Akayev as the republic's first president.
 * The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.
 * October 29 – In Norway, the government headed by Prime Minister of Norway Jan P. Syse collapses.
 * October 30 – The first transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8 fails, causing a slowdown of Internet traffic between the United States and Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]

November[edit]


November 22: Margaret Thatcher, the UK's first female Prime Minister, resigns after 11 years.
 * November – The earliest known portable digital camera sold in the United States ships.<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]
 * November 1 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favorite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.
 * November 2 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
 * November 3 – Gro Harlem Brundtland assumes office as Prime Minister of Norway.
 * November 5 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
 * November 6 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
 * November 7
 * Indian Prime Minister Singh resigns over losing a confidence vote in the Parliament of India, having lost the support of Hindus who want aMuslim mosque in Ayodhya torn down to build a Hindu temple.
 * The final military parade to mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution takes place in the USSR.
 * November 9
 * A new constitution comes into effect in the Kingdom of Nepal, establishing multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy; this is the culmination of the 1990 People's Movement.
 * The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.
 * November 10 – Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India as head of a minority government.
 * November 12
 * Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan following the death of his father on January 7, 1989.
 * Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]
 * November 13
 * The first known web page is written.<sup id="cite_ref-35">[35]
 * In New Zealand, David Gray kills 13 people in what will become known as the Aramoana massacre.
 * November 14 – Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the border at the Oder–Neisse line.
 * November 15
 * STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission.
 * President Bush signed new Clean Air Act, focused on urban pollution and cancer-causing emissions from industrial sources.
 * November 17 – Soviet President Gorbachev proposes a radical restructuring of the Soviet government, including the creation of a Federal Council to be made up of the heads of the 15 Soviet republics.
 * November 19–21 – The leaders of Canada, the United States, and 32 European states meet in Paris to formally mark the end of the Cold War.
 * November 21
 * Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed.
 * Agreement for decriminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in Queensland, Australia.
 * November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party.
 * November 25 – Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław Tymiński win the first round of the first Polish presidential election.
 * November 27 – Women's suffrage is introduced in the last Swiss half-canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
 * November 28
 * Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew resigns and is replaced by Goh Chok Tong.
 * Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher resigns and is replaced by John Major.
 * November 29
 * Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that state does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
 * Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of former communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests.

December[edit]
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 * December 1
 * Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.
 * President of Chad Hissène Habré is deposed by the Patriotic Salvation Movement and replaced as president by its leader Idriss Déby.
 * December 2 – The German federal election (the first election held since German reunification) is won by Helmut Kohl, who becomes Chancellor of Germany.
 * December 3
 * At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members on Flight 1482.
 * Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.
 * December 6
 * Saddam Hussein releases a group of Western hostages he captured.
 * President Hussain Muhammad Ershad of Bangladesh is forced to resign following massive protests; he is replaced by Shahabuddin Ahmed, who becomes interim president.
 * December 7
 * In Brussels, trade talks fail because of a dispute between the U.S. and the European Union over farm export subsidies.
 * The National Assembly of Bulgaria elects Dimitar Iliev Popov as Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
 * December 9
 * Slobodan Milošević elected President of Serbia in first round, general elections won by his Socialist Party.
 * Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
 * December 16 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.
 * December 20
 * Eduard Shevardnadze announces his resignation as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN.
 * December 22
 * The first constitution of the Republic of Croatia is adopted.
 * The Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia become independent, after the termination of their trusteeship.
 * The Polish government-in-exile is dissolved in London after being in exile since 1939.
 * December 23 – In the Slovenian independence referendum, 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, supported independence of the country.
 * December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup.
 * December 25 – Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov commissioned.
 * December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov

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This article is about the year 2005. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 5th year of the 3rd millennium, the 5th year of the21st century, and the 6th year of the 2000s decade.

2005 was designated as:
 * International Year for Sport and Physical Education
 * International Year of Microcredit
 * The year 2005 was the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5New English words and terms
 * 6See also
 * 7References
 * ==Events[edit]==

January[edit]
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 * January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brownusing images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]
 * January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]
 * January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.<sup id="cite_ref-3">[3]
 * January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
 * ===February[edit]===
 * February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[4]
 * February 14 – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.<sup id="cite_ref-5">[5]
 * February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect.<sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]
 * ===March[edit]===
 * March 14 – The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.<sup id="cite_ref-7">[7]
 * March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev is overthrown following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.<sup id="cite_ref-8">[8]
 * March 28 – The 8.6 Mw Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.
 * ===April[edit]===
 * April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.<sup id="cite_ref-9">[9] <sup id="cite_ref-10">[10] <sup id="cite_ref-11">[11]  Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.<sup id="cite_ref-12">[12] <sup id="cite_ref-13">[13]
 * April 9 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.<sup id="cite_ref-14">[14]
 * April 23 – The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo.
 * April 26 – Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-15">[15]
 * April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.<sup id="cite_ref-16">[16]
 * ===May[edit]===
 * May 13 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]
 * ===June[edit]===
 * June 21 – A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * ===July[edit]===
 * July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty Historycampaign.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]
 * July 6
 * The European Parliament rejects the Proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.<sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]
 * The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.<sup id="cite_ref-21">[21]
 * July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.<sup id="cite_ref-22">[22]
 * July 23 – A series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing over 80 people.<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]
 * July 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969, and orders all its units to drop their arms.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24]
 * ===August[edit]===
 * August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]
 * August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
 * August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.<sup id="cite_ref-26">[26]
 * August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on theShandong Peninsula.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27]
 * August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.<sup id="cite_ref-28">[28]
 * August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * ===September[edit]===
 * September 7 – Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with allegations of fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * September 12 – Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31]
 * September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.<sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]
 * September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]
 * ===October[edit]===
 * October 8 – The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximumMercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000 people and displacing several million more.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]
 * October 12 – The second manned Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.<sup id="cite_ref-35">[35]
 * October 19 – The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.<sup id="cite_ref-36">[36]
 * October 24 – Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano.<sup id="cite_ref-37">[37]
 * ===November[edit]===
 * November 9 – At least 60 people are killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated suicide bombings inAmman, Jordan.<sup id="cite_ref-38">[38]
 * November 11 – In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.<sup id="cite_ref-39">[39]
 * November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.<sup id="cite_ref-40">[40]
 * November 22 – Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-41">[41]
 * November 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-42">[42]
 * November 28 – The United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.<sup id="cite_ref-43">[43]
 * November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it.<sup id="cite_ref-44">[44]
 * ===December[edit]===
 * December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.<sup id="cite_ref-45">[45]
 * December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital,N'Djamena.
 * December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-46">[46]
 * ==Births[edit]==
 * February – Alma Deutscher, English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy
 * February 10 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and tarento
 * February 21 – Hong Hwa-ri, South Korean actress
 * February 25 – Noah Jupe, English actor

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This article is about the year 2007. For the False album, see 2007 (album). 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of the21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

2007 was designated as
 * International Heliophysical Year<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]
 * International Polar Year<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]
 * International Year of Languages<sup id="cite_ref-3">[3]

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Unknown date
 * 3Births
 * 4Deaths
 * 5Nobel Prizes
 * 6New English words and terms
 * 7See also
 * 8References
 * 9External links
 * ==Events[edit]==

January[edit]

 * January 1
 * Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[4]
 * Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared from Jakarta's radar. A week later it was founded that the aircraft has crashed into theMakassar Strait, killing all 102 people on board.<sup id="cite_ref-5">[5]
 * January 4 – Congress elected Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
 * January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates;<sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]  they are restored three days later.<sup id="cite_ref-7">[7]
 * January 9 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
 * ===February[edit]===
 * February 2 – The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.<sup id="cite_ref-8">[8]
 * February 3 – A truck bomb explodes in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 135 people and injures 339 others.<sup id="cite_ref-9">[9]
 * February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.<sup id="cite_ref-10">[10]
 * February 26 – The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.<sup id="cite_ref-Sense-2007-02-26_11-0">[11]
 * ===March[edit]===
 * March 1 – The fourth International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-12">[12]
 * March 11 – According to the accusation<sup id="cite_ref-13">[13]  by Georgia, three Russian helicopters fired on the Georgian-controlled<sup id="cite_ref-14">[14]  Kodori Gorgein a break-away autonomous republic of Abkhazia in north-western Georgia.
 * March 13 – April 28 – The 2007 Cricket World Cup is held in the West Indies and is won by Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-15">[15]
 * March 23 – Naval forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrest Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;<sup id="cite_ref-16">[16]  they were released on April 4.<sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]
 * March 27 – Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty between Latviaand Russia, officially demarcating the border between the two.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * ===April[edit]===
 * April 3 – French high speed passenger train, the TGV, reaches a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), breaking the record for the world's fastest conventional train.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19]
 * April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and wounds 17 others in a shooting at Virginia Tech, a university in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCVaTech_20-0">[20] <sup id="cite_ref-Grangereau_21-0">[21] <sup id="cite_ref-조선일보_22-0">[22]
 * April 18 – A series of attacks take place across Baghdad, Iraq, killing nearly 200 people.<sup id="cite_ref-23">[23]
 * April 24 – Gliese 581c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24]
 * April 26–27 – Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet World War II memorial.<sup id="cite_ref-25">[25]
 * ===May[edit]===
 * May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.<sup id="cite_ref-26">[26]
 * May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.<sup id="cite_ref-27">[27]
 * ===June[edit]===
 * June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
 * June 28 – 2007 European heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
 * June 29 – The iPhone, the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It was later released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007.
 * ===July[edit]===
 * July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.<sup id="cite_ref-28">[28]
 * July 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns the runway of São Paulo–Congonhas Airport and crashes, killing all 187 and 12 others on the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * July 24 – Five Bulgarian nurses were released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars inBenghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya".<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30]
 * ===August[edit]===
 * August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole.<sup id="cite_ref-31">[31]
 * August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge fundsheavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the financial crisis of 2007–2008.<sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]
 * August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-33">[33]
 * August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 519 people, injuring more than 1,300, and causing tsunamiwarnings in the Pacific Ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]
 * ===September[edit]===
 * September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike.<sup id="cite_ref-35">[35]
 * September 13 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
 * September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-36">[36]
 * September 20 – The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
 * September 25 – Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park in New Zealand, erupts.
 * ===November[edit]===
 * November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least fifty people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, including six members of theNational Assembly.
 * November 14 – High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
 * November 16 – Up to 15,000 people are believed to have been killed after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh.<sup id="cite_ref-37">[37]
 * ===December[edit]===
 * December 5 – Eight people are killed and four others wounded when a gunman opens fire at Westroads Mall inOmaha, Nebraska.
 * December 13 – Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of European Union.
 * December 20 – The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.<sup id="cite_ref-38">[38]
 * December 21
 * At the age of 81 years, 244 days, Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassingQueen Victoria who was aged 81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901.
 * The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengenborder-free zone.<sup id="cite_ref-39">[39]
 * December 27
 * Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, along with 20 other people, at an election rally in Rawalpindi.<sup id="cite_ref-40">[40]
 * Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the general election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-41">[41]
 * ==Unknown==

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This article is about the year 2010. For other uses, see 2010 (disambiguation). 2010 (MMX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium, the 10th year of the21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade.

2010 was designated as:
 * International Year of Biodiversity
 * International Year of Youth
 * 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
 * International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]

Contents
See also: 2010s § Pronunciation
 * 1Pronunciation
 * 2Events
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5New English words and terms
 * 6References
 * ==Pronunciation[edit]==

There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand [and] ten".<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]  2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000 to 2009 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." as opposed to the less common "twenty-oh-_".

January[edit]


Damaged buildings inPort-au-Prince following the Haiti earthquake on January 12.



Remains of Tu-154 after crash in April 10, 2010 that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński
 * January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.<sup id="cite_ref-USAtoday_3-0">[3] <sup id="cite_ref-opening_4-0">[4] <sup id="cite_ref-news.bbc.co.uk_5-0">[5]
 * January 8 – The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Cabinda Province, Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations. The attack was perpetrated by the FLEC, their first since the Angolan Civil War.<sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]
 * January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 316,000,<sup id="cite_ref-MiamiHerald13_7-0">[7] <sup id="cite_ref-CNN13_8-0">[8] <sup id="cite_ref-9">[9]  it is the tenth deadliest on record.
 * January 14 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
 * January 15
 * The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.[citation needed]
 * The Chadian Civil War officially ends.[citation needed]
 * January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.
 * ===February[edit]===
 * February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.<sup id="cite_ref-10">[10] <sup id="cite_ref-11">[11]
 * February 12–28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
 * February 15 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
 * February 18 – The President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace<sup id="cite_ref-Todd_12-0">[12] and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.<sup id="cite_ref-Ousts_13-0">[13]
 * February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.<sup id="cite_ref-muertos_14-0">[14]  The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.
 * ===March[edit]===
 * March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.<sup id="cite_ref-15">[15]
 * March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-dailynk1_16-0">[16] <sup id="cite_ref-17">[17]
 * April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the country amid fierce anti-government riots in the capital, Bishkek.<sup id="cite_ref-18">[18]
 * April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-19">[19] <sup id="cite_ref-20">[20]
 * April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-NASInfo_21-0">[21] <sup id="cite_ref-22">[22] <sup id="cite_ref-BBC8622438_23-0">[23]
 * April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.<sup id="cite_ref-24">[24] <sup id="cite_ref-Wardell_25-0">[25]
 * April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of a €45-billionEU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value,<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_2_26-0">[26] <sup id="cite_ref-BBC_27-0">[27] <sup id="cite_ref-CNN_28-0">[28]  and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.
 * ===May[edit]===
 * May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.<sup id="cite_ref-29">[29]
 * May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.<sup id="cite_ref-30">[30] <sup id="cite_ref-31">[31] <sup id="cite_ref-32">[32]
 * May 6 – The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash, occurs over 36 minutes, initiated by a series of automated trading programs in a feedback loop.<sup id="cite_ref-phillips-5-11-10_33-0">[33]
 * May 7
 * Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD.<sup id="cite_ref-34">[34]
 * Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of theNeanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.<sup id="cite_ref-Pinkowski_35-0">[35] <sup id="cite_ref-Green_Krause_36-0">[36]
 * May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.<sup id="cite_ref-37">[37]
 * May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.<sup id="cite_ref-deaths_38-0">[38] <sup id="cite_ref-39">[39]
 * May 20
 * Scientists announced that they have created a functional synthetic genome.<sup id="cite_ref-40">[40]
 * Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-sky_41-0">[41] <sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_42-0">[42]
 * May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.<sup id="cite_ref-43">[43]
 * May 28 – the 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc20100528_44-0">[44]
 * May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.<sup id="cite_ref-edition.cnn.com_45-0">[45] <sup id="cite_ref-46">[46]
 * ===June[edit]===
 * June 10–14 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.<sup id="cite_ref-47">[47]
 * June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
 * June 24 – Julia Gillard is elected unopposed in a Labor Party leadership ballot and sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.<sup id="cite_ref-48">[48]
 * ===July[edit]===
 * July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.<sup id="cite_ref-49">[49]
 * July 21 – Slovenia becomes the 32nd member of the OECD.<sup id="cite_ref-50">[50]
 * July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-51">[51]
 * July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.<sup id="cite_ref-52">[52]
 * ===August[edit]===
 * August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.<sup id="cite_ref-53">[53]
 * August 21 – Australian federal election, 2010: Julia Gillard's Labor Government is re-elected, narrowly defeating<sup id="cite_ref-3005179abc_54-0">[54]  theLiberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott.<sup id="cite_ref-55">[55]
 * ===September[edit]===
 * September 4 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of damage but no direct fatalities.<sup id="cite_ref-56">[56]  It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage.<sup id="cite_ref-57">[57] <sup id="cite_ref-58">[58]  Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-59">[59]
 * September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the OECD.<sup id="cite_ref-60">[60]
 * September 30 – Germany pays war reparations for World War I.
 * ===October[edit]===
 * October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.<sup id="cite_ref-time_61-0">[61]
 * October 22 – The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).<sup id="cite_ref-62">[62] <sup id="cite_ref-63">[63]
 * October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.<sup id="cite_ref-G20_summit_agrees_to_reform_IMF_64-0">[64]
 * October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_Major_earthquake_65-0">[65]
 * October 26 – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill 300 people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.<sup id="cite_ref-66">[66] <sup id="cite_ref-guardian_toll_67-0">[67] <sup id="cite_ref-bknpb1_68-0">[68]
 * ===November[edit]===
 * November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1106_69-0">[69]
 * November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.<sup id="cite_ref-70">[70]
 * November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-71">[71]
 * November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.<sup id="cite_ref-72">[72]
 * November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the Lisbon Summit Declaration.
 * November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country'sfinancial crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-73">[73] <sup id="cite_ref-RTE_21/11_74-0">[74] <sup id="cite_ref-75">[75]
 * November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident causes an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompts widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declares it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.<sup id="cite_ref-76">[76] <sup id="cite_ref-77">[77] <sup id="cite_ref-78">[78]
 * November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".<sup id="cite_ref-79">[79] <sup id="cite_ref-manila_80-0">[80]
 * November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fundand bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.<sup id="cite_ref-rescuedeal_81-0">[81]
 * November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).<sup id="cite_ref-82">[82] <sup id="cite_ref-83">[83]
 * ===December[edit]===
 * December 9 – Estonia becomes the 34th member of the OECD.<sup id="cite_ref-84">[84]
 * December 17 – The attempted suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, triggers the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring throughout theArab world.<sup id="cite_ref-85">[85]
 * December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place.<sup id="cite_ref-86">[86] <sup id="cite_ref-87">[87]

date[edit]

 * Mauritania is the last country to criminalize slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-42">[42]
 * March 26 – Ella Anderson, American actress
 * April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
 * June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
 * July 25 – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
 * October 4 – Rina Endō, Japanese actress
 * October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
 * October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia
 * December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway

World population[edit]
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 * Ab urbe condita
 * 2750
 * Armenian calendar
 * 1993
 * Armenian calendar
 * 1993

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This article is about the year 2000. For the number, see 2000 (number). For other uses, see 2000 (disambiguation).

2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.

2000 was designated as:
 * International Year for the Culture of Peace<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]
 * World Mathematical Year<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian Calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year AD 1. Since the calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Century and Millennium.)

The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand").<sup id="cite_ref-3">[3] <sup id="cite_ref-4">[4]  The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which are fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5See also
 * 6References
 * 7External links

January[edit]

 * January 2 – Massacre of twenty Copts by Muslim villagers in Kosheh, Egypt.
 * January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
 * January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
 * January 14
 * The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).<sup id="cite_ref-5">[5]
 * A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
 * January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
 * January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
 * January 31
 * Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
 * Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

February[edit]

 * February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
 * February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.
 * February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
 * February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.
 * February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Lilian rule was introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.

March[edit]

 * March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan.[importance?]
 * March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of two Tokyo Metro trains kills five people.
 * March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.<sup id="cite_ref-6">[6]  Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100,S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years.
 * March 12
 * Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
 * A Zenit-3SL launch fails due to a software bug.<sup id="cite_ref-7">[7]
 * March 13 – The United States dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre.

April[edit]

 * April 3 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
 * April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, D.C., ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
 * April 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sundaycelebrated worldwide.

May[edit]

 * May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.<sup id="cite_ref-comp_8-0">[8] <sup id="cite_ref-UCSD-press-release_9-0">[9]
 * May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
 * May 4
 * After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
 * The 7.6 Mw Central Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving 46 dead and 264 injured.
 * May 5 – A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.<sup id="cite_ref-10">[10]
 * May 11 – The billionth living person in India is born.<sup id="cite_ref-11">[11] <sup id="cite_ref-12">[12]
 * May 13
 * A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23.
 * Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
 * May 24 – Real Madrid C.F. defeats Valencia CF 3–0 in the UEFA Champions League Final at Stade de France to win their second title between 1998 and 2002, and their eighth overall.

June[edit]

 * June 4 – The 7.9 Mw Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), killing 103 people and injuring 2,174–2,585.
 * June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
 * June 10 – July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.
 * June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.
 * June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-13">[13]
 * June 28 – Elián González returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, ending a protracted custody battle.
 * June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, nine die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.

July[edit]

 * July 1 – The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for traffic.
 * July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1 after extra time in the final of the European Championship, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
 * July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter.
 * July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
 * July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
 * July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.

August[edit]

 * August 3 – Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besiege the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
 * August 7 – DeviantART is launched.
 * August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
 * August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
 * August 14
 * Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, debuts.
 * August 23 – John Anthony Kaiser, a Roman Catholic priest, is murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
 * August 24 – The Nintendo GameCube is revealed.

September[edit]

 * September 6 – The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
 * September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at U.N. Headquarters.
 * September 7–14 – Fuel protests take place in the United Kingdom, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
 * September 10 – Operation Barras: A British military operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during theSierra Leone Civil War, all of which were rescued.
 * September 13 – Steve Jobs introduces the public beta of Mac OS X for US$29.95.<sup id="cite_ref-14">[14]
 * September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, is the last Olympic Games of the 20th century.
 * September 16 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
 * September 26 – The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
 * September 29 – The HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland is closed.

October[edit]

 * October 5 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milošević.
 * October 6 – The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
 * October 11 – 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
 * October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
 * October 22 – The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
 * October 26
 * Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian Princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day fake on April 17, 2001.
 * The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets 4-2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1. The series win was the Yankees third in a row and 26th overall.[importance?]
 * October 30 – This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space; on October 31, Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to theInternational Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
 * October 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.

November[edit]

 * November 2 – The first resident crew enters the International Space Station.
 * November 3 – Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.
 * November 7 – In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
 * November 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
 * November 17 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

December[edit]

 * December 7 – Kadisoka temple discovered in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
 * December 15 – The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.
 * December 25 – The Luoyang Christmas fire at a shopping center in China kills 309 people.

World population[edit]
4693 or 4633 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4694 or 4634 (平成９年) 民國86年 (male Fire-Rat) 2123 or 1742 or 970 — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 2124 or 1743 or 971 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 10th year of the 1990s decade.
 * Assyrian calendar
 * 1980
 * Bahá'í calendar
 * 153–154
 * Balinese saka calendar
 * 1918
 * Bengali calendar
 * 1988
 * Berber calendar
 * 1985
 * British Regnal year
 * 45 Eliz. 2 – 46 Eliz. 2
 * Buddhist calendar
 * 2541
 * Burmese calendar
 * 1359
 * Byzantine calendar
 * 7505–7506
 * Chinese calendar
 * 丙子年 (Fire Rat)
 * 2541
 * Burmese calendar
 * 1359
 * Byzantine calendar
 * 7505–7506
 * Chinese calendar
 * 丙子年 (Fire Rat)
 * Chinese calendar
 * 丙子年 (Fire Rat)
 * 丙子年 (Fire Rat)
 * Coptic calendar
 * 1713–1714
 * Discordian calendar
 * 3163
 * Ethiopian calendar
 * 1990
 * Hebrew calendar
 * 1995
 * Hindu calendars
 * - Vikram Samvat
 * 2053–2054
 * - Shaka Samvat
 * 1918–1919
 * - Kali Yuga
 * 5097–5098
 * Holocene calendar
 * 11997
 * Igbo calendar
 * 997–998
 * Iranian calendar
 * 1375–1376
 * Islamic calendar
 * 1417–1418
 * Japanese calendar
 * Heisei 9
 * Holocene calendar
 * 11997
 * Igbo calendar
 * 997–998
 * Iranian calendar
 * 1375–1376
 * Islamic calendar
 * 1417–1418
 * Japanese calendar
 * Heisei 9
 * 1417–1418
 * Japanese calendar
 * Heisei 9
 * Heisei 9
 * Javanese calendar
 * 1929–1930
 * Juche calendar
 * 86
 * Julian calendar
 * Gregorian minus 13 days
 * Korean calendar
 * 4330
 * Minguo calendar
 * ROC 86
 * Korean calendar
 * 4330
 * Minguo calendar
 * ROC 86
 * ROC 86
 * Nanakshahi calendar
 * 529
 * Thai solar calendar
 * 2540
 * Tibetan calendar
 * 阳火鼠年
 * Tibetan calendar
 * 阳火鼠年
 * 阳火鼠年
 * Unix time
 * 852076800 – 883612799
 * }
 * }

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5References
 * 6External links

January[edit]

 * January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
 * January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill six Spanish aid workers, three soldiers, and seriously wound another.
 * January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
 * January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
 * January 22 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate.

February[edit]

 * February 4
 * On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.
 * After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
 * February 10 – Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
 * February 13 – STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from theSpace Shuttle Discovery.
 * February 22 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
 * February 27 – Divorce becomes legal in the Republic of Ireland.
 * February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.[relevant? – discuss]

March[edit]

 * March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
 * March 7 – In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill at least 100.
 * March 13
 * India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
 * The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.
 * March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and hismercenaries of the Sandline International.
 * March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
 * March 21 – In Zaire, Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
 * March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
 * March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, withThe English Patient winning Best Picture.
 * March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
 * March 26 – Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.
 * March 30 – Channel 5 began broadcasting and was the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue network in the United Kingdom.

April[edit]

 * April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
 * April 14
 * Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 7 miles (11 km) from Mecca; 343 die.
 * Former S.S. Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to five years in prison.
 * April 18 – The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
 * April 21 – A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
 * April 22
 * Haouch Khemisti massacre: 93 villagers are killed in Algeria.
 * A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru.
 * April 23 – 42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in Algeria.
 * April 29
 * The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), CWC treaty enters into force.
 * Two trains crash at Hunan, China; 126 are killed.

May[edit]

 * May 2 – The Labour Party of the United Kingdom returns to power for the first time in 18 years, with Tony Blair becoming Prime Minister, in a landslide majority in the 1997 general election.
 * May 3 – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the UK with Love Shine a Light.
 * May 10 – The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
 * May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.
 * May 12
 * The Russian–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed in 1990.
 * An F1-rated tornado strikes downtown Miami, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
 * May 15 – The United States government acknowledges existence of the "Secret War" in Laos (1953–1975) during the Vietnam War, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
 * May 16
 * President Mobutu Sese Seko is exiled from Zaire.
 * U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.
 * May 17 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
 * May 23 – Mohammad Khatami wins the 1997 Iranian presidential election and becomes the first Iranian Reformist president.
 * May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
 * May 27 – The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
 * May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.

June[edit]

 * June 1
 * Socialist Party-led Centre-left coalition won the second-round in 1997 French legislative elections, began with the third Cohabitation (1997–2002).
 * Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
 * June 2 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
 * June 10 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
 * June 11 – In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
 * June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
 * June 16 – About 50 people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
 * June 25
 * A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.
 * An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
 * June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.
 * June 26 – Bloomsbury Publishing publishes J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in London.

July[edit]

 * July – The 1997 Central European flood occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
 * July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
 * July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis
 * July 4 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
 * July 5
 * In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
 * The Egyptian Islamic Group announces a cessation-of-violence initiative.
 * July 8 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
 * July 10 – In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
 * July 11 – Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya kills 90.
 * July 13 – The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on 9 October1967 in Bolivia.
 * July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami residence.
 * July 17 – The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
 * July 21 – The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1]
 * July 25 – K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
 * July 27 – About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
 * July 30 – 18 people are killed in the Thredbo landslide in the Snowy Mountains resort in Australia.

August[edit]

 * August 1 – Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
 * August 3 – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
 * August 3–11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
 * August 4 – Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever, dies at age 122 years 164 days in Arles, France.
 * August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
 * August 13 – In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cruzeiro defeats Sporting Cristal of Peru 1–0, becoming the Copa Libertadores champions for the second time.
 * August 20 – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane massacre in Algeria.
 * August 26
 * 60–100 are killed in the Beni Ali massacre in Algeria.
 * The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
 * August 29 – Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the Rais massacre in Algeria.
 * August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 3:00 am.

September[edit]


The funeral cortege ofDiana, Princess of Wales, en route to Westminster Abbey from Kensington Palace.
 * September 5
 * Over 87 are killed in the Beni Messous massacre in Algeria.
 * The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.<sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]
 * September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over two billion people worldwide.
 * September 11 – Scotland votes in favour of a devolved Parliament forming the Scottish Parliament less than two years later
 * September 13 – Iraq disarmament crisis: An Iraqi military officer attacks an UNSCOM weapons inspector on board an UNSCOM helicopter, while the inspector attempts to take photographs of unauthorized movement of Iraqi vehicles inside a site designated for inspection.
 * September 15 – The Norwegian parliamentary election was held in Norway.
 * September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
 * September 18
 * Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly for Wales.
 * Al-Qaeda carries out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * September 19 – 53 are killed in the Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria.
 * September 21 – The Islamic Salvation Army, the Islamic Salvation Fronts' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
 * September 25 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
 * September 26
 * Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.
 * An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

October[edit]

 * October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
 * October 4 – Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolinaoffice of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
 * October 12 – 43 are killed at a false roadblock, in the Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria.
 * October 15
 * Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
 * NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
 * October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
 * October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
 * October 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.

November[edit]


Mary McAleese
 * November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
 * November 12 – Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
 * November 13 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 * November 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
 * November 19 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.
 * November 27 – NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.

December[edit]

 * December 1 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
 * December 3 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not sign and/or ratify the treaty.
 * December 10 – The capital of Kazakhstan is moved from Almaty to Astana.
 * December 11 – The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by a United Nations committee.
 * December 19
 * Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana.
 * James Cameron's Titanic, the then highest-grossing film of all time, premieres in the U.S.
 * SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
 * December 21 – Brazil beats Australia 6–0 in the Confederations Cup final.
 * December 24 – 50–100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria.
 * December 27 – Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
 * December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
 * December 30 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 are killed from four villages in the wilaya ofRelizane.

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This article is about the year 1995. For other uses, see 1995 (disambiguation). 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1995th year of theCommon Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade. This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding.<sup id="cite_ref-1">[1] <sup id="cite_ref-2">[2]  America Online andProdigy offered access to the World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_3-0">[3]

Contents

 * 1Events
 * 2Births
 * 3Deaths
 * 4Nobel Prizes
 * 5References
 * ==Events[edit]==

January[edit]

 * January 1
 * The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT).
 * Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
 * January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
 * January 16 – An avalanche hits the village Súðavík in Iceland, killing 14 people.
 * January 17 – The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
 * January 25 – Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
 * January 31 – Mexican peso crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
 * ===February[edit]===
 * February 13 – 21 Bosnian Serb commanders are charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a tribunal on human rights violations during the Wars in the Balkans.
 * February 21
 * Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: 4 guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
 * Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
 * February 25 – The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]) is formed.
 * February 26 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank, collapses after securities brokerNick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
 * ===March[edit]===
 * March 1
 * Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as President of Uruguay for his second term.
 * Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
 * March 2 – Nick Leeson is arrested in Singapore for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.
 * March 3 – United Nations Operation in Somalia II, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia, ends.
 * March 14 – Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American to ride into space aboard a Russian launch vehicle (the Soyuz TM-21), lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 * March 20 – Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway: members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on 5 subway trains in Tokyo, killing 13 and injuring 5,510. 11 of the principal activists are hanged in 2018.
 * March 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
 * March 26 – The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.
 * March 31 – TAROM Flight 371 from Bucharest to Brussels crashes shortly after take off killing all 60 people on board.
 * ===April[edit]===

April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building inOklahoma City, killing 168
 * April 7 – First Chechen War – Samashki massacre: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
 * April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols.
 * April 28 – In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 people, mostly teenage schoolboys.
 * April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatised system.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[4]
 * ===May[edit]===
 * May 1 – Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
 * May 10 – At Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney, a runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 feet (460 m) to the bottom of the 6,900 feet (2,100 m) deep shaft, killing 104.<sup id="cite_ref-5">[5] <sup id="cite_ref-indep_6-0">[6]
 * May 11 – More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
 * May 13 – The 6.6 Mw Western Macedonia earthquake strikes northwestern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensityof VIII (Severe), injuring 25 and causing $450 million in damage.
 * May 14 – The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
 * May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
 * May 24 – AFC Ajax wins the UEFA Champions League at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna by defeating A.C. Milan 1–0.
 * May 28 – The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
 * ===June[edit]===
 * June 2
 * Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovinawhile patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later.
 * Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy.
 * June 6
 * U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir.
 * The Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes capital punishment in South Africa in the case of S v Makwanyane and Another.
 * June 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
 * June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
 * June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
 * June 24 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup.
 * June 29
 * Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.
 * STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.
 * The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.
 * ===July[edit]===

Exhumed grave of victims of the JulySrebrenica massacre.
 * July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
 * July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
 * July 4 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major is re-elected as leader of the Conservative Party.
 * July 9 – Sri Lankan Civil War: 125 civilians are killed in Navaly as result of bombing by the Sri Lanka Air Force.
 * July 10 – Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi is freed from house arrest.
 * July 11
 * Srebrenica massacre: Units of the Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, enter Srebrenica with little resistance from Dutchpeacekeepers of the United Nations Protection Force, going on to kill thousands of Bosniak men and boys and rape many women.
 * President Clinton announces the restoration of United States–Vietnam relations twenty years after the Vietnam War.
 * A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
 * 

The Taiwan Strait Japan on December 9. It comes to U.S. showrooms on July 11, 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-3">[3] 13
 * July 21–26 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The Chinese People's Liberation Army fires missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
 * ===August[edit]===
 * August 4 – Croatian forces, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, launch Operation Storm against rebel Republic of Serbian Krajina forces, which subsequently ceases to exist as a political entity.
 * August 16 – Bermudans reject independence in a referendum.
 * August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95.
 * August 29 – Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian head of state, survives an assassination attempt in Tbilisi.
 * August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into September. At the same time, ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Bosnian Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia, andBosnian Krajina.
 * ===September[edit]===
 * September – The European Parliament elects the first European Ombudsman, Jacob Söderman, who takes up office in September 1995.
 * September 4–15 The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
 * September 6 – NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces continue, after repeated attempts at a solution to the Bosnian War fail.
 * September 19 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
 * September 26 – The trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is accused of Mafia connections, begins.
 * September 27–28 – Bob Denard's mercenaries capture President Said Mohammed Djohor of the Comoros; the local army does not resist.
 * ===October[edit]===
 * October 3 – O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
 * October 5 – Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
 * October 6 – Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main-sequence star.
 * October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
 * October 17 – French woman Jeanne Calment reaches the confirmed age of 120 years and 238 days, making her the oldest person ever recorded.
 * October 24 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-7">[7]
 * October 28 – A fire in Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, kills 289 passengers (the world's worst subway disaster).
 * October 30
 * Quebec independentists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada.
 * Tansu Çiller of DYP forms the new government of Turkey.
 * ===November[edit]===
 * November – The Indian government officially renames the city of Bombay, restoring the name Mumbai.
 * November 1
 * NASA loses contact with the Pioneer 11 probe.
 * Participants in the Yugoslav Wars begin negotiations at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
 * November 2 – The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of Erich Priebke, ex-S.S. captain.
 * November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
 * November 7 – Typhoon Angela leaves the Philippines and Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest ever to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and gusts of 180 mph (290 km/h).
 * November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
 * November 16 – A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić with genocide during the Bosnian War.
 * November 21 – The Dayton Agreement to end the Bosnian War is reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio (signed December 14).
 * November 22
 * The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
 * The first-ever full-length computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, is released by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures.
 * November 28 – 27 nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the Union for the Mediterranean.
 * November 30 – Operation Desert Storm officially ends.
 * ===December[edit]===
 * December 3 – Strikes paralyze France's public sector.
 * December 7 – NASA's Galileo Probe enters Jupiter's atmosphere.
 * December 8 – 5-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery.
 * December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War.
 * December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the United Nations Special Commission, dredge the Tigris near Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
 * December 20
 * American Airlines Flight 965 (Boeing 757) crashes into a mountain near Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, after veering off its course en route to Cali, Colombia. Of the 164 people on board, 4 passengers survive.
 * NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
 * December 30 – The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set atBraemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982.
 * ===Date unknown[edit]===
 * Sudden oak death, the tree disease caused by the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, is first observed, in California.
 * ===World population[edit]===