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- Clockwise, from top left: A destroyed Serbian T-55 tank during the Croatian War of Independence, the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars; the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, the second-most powerful eruption of the 20th century; Lauda Air Flight 004 crashes, killing all 223 on board; Boris Yeltsin waves the new Russian flag after the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt; the United States and soon-to-be dissolved Soviet Union sign the START I treaty; a flooded village in Bangladesh after a...
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January 1: The law criminalizing stalking goes into effect in California. The law was passed in 1990, following several high-profile murders. January 2: Salvadoran rebels in El Salvador shoot down an American Army helicopter and kill all three crew members. It is believed that two crew members initially survived and were executed on the ground. Jan...
February 1: USAir Flight 1493 collides with a smaller aircraft when it comes to land at LA International Airport. SkyWest Airlines flight 5569, a small 19-seater plane had been taxiing onto the runway for take-off when the Boeing 737-300 crushed it before careering off the runway and catching fire. 35 people in total die, including all 12 aboard th...
March 3: Four Los Angeles police officers are videoed repeatedly beating a black motorist, Rodney King. The amateur footage is sent to a local news station, before being picked up by stations worldwide. March 3: Passenger flight United Airlines Flight 585 crashes in Colorado Springs. All 25 people on board are killed. March 10: America begins Opera...
April 4: Seven people are killed when a helicopter collides with a private plane over Merion, Pennsylvania. Aboard the plane is Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania. April 4: In the Orkney Islands, Scotland, nine children are returned to their homes after being removed in February by social services on suspicion of satanic abuse. The claims are unfou...
May 5: In the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington DC, a riot breaks out following the shooting of a handcuffed Salvadorean man by police. Around 400 youths battle with police for several hours, police cars are torched and numerous shops looted. May 6: In British soccer, Arsenalare announced as Football League champions, their second league ti...
June 3: Three IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland are killed by the British Army. One of the men killed is Peter Ryan who had been on the run for ten years after escaping from prison in Belfast. June 3: In Japan Mount Unzen erupts, the resulting pyroclastic flowkills 46 people. June 4: The largest solar flare to ever be recorded triggers an anomalously ...
July 1: 12 million customers are affected when a software bug affects telephone services in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San Francisco. July 3: Michael Shorey, the boyfriend of Eastenders star, Sandy Ratcliffe is found guilty of murdering two women he lived with. Ratcliffe, who provided him with an alibi is subsequently convicted o...
August 4: The 571 passengers aboard cruise liner MTS Oceanos are rescued by South African Air Force helicopters when it sinks off the coast of South Africa. The vessel had begun taking on sea water and staff on deck abandon ship, neglecting to help passengers. August 6: The first ever website, info.cern.ch, is created by Tim Berners-Lee. August 8: ...
This Day in History: April 10. What Happened On Your Bday? Featured Event. 1938. Anschluss approved in Austria. In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler 's invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: “Union”)—the political unification of Austria and Germany.
April 10. A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola, the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites. The Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, resulting in 140 deaths with one survivor.
