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May 23, 2024 · On July 27, 1996, a single homemade pipe bomb left in a knapsack exploded amid a crowd of spectators in Centennial Olympic Park, near the main sites of the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The blast caused by the crude device killed one person and injured 112 others. A photojournalist also died, of a heart attack while running to cover the event.
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2 days ago · The 1988 Summer Olympics (Korean: 1988년 하계 올림픽), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (제24회 올림픽경기대회) and commonly known as Seoul 1988 (서울 1988), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women ...
May 21, 2024 · At the 1988 Summer Olympics, this sprinter briefly set a world record for the 100 meters before having the medal and record stripped. Answer: Ben Johnson Ben Johnson's 9.79 time in the 100 meters shattered the existing world record (9.93 by Carl Lewis), but he failed a drug test after the race and was stripped of his gold medal, which was ...
May 9, 2024 · Pan Am flight 103, flight of a passenger airliner operated by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, after a bomb was detonated. All 259 people on board were killed, and 11 individuals on the ground also died. About 7:00 pm on December 21, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 en route to New ...
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May 16, 2024 · Pan Am flight 103. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi (born April 1, 1952, Tripoli, Libya—died May 20, 2012, Tripoli) was a Libyan national who was the only person to be convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing (also known as the Lockerbie bombing), in which 270 people died. Megrahi gained fluency in English through studying in the ...
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3 days ago · The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was rapid in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
2 days ago · The 1998 Winter Olympics were held from Saturday, 7 February to Sunday, 22 February. This was 16 days and included three weekends. The number of events increased from 61 at the 1994 Winter Olympics to 68 in 1998. Two sports, curling and snowboarding were added to the program, as was women's ice hockey.
