Tag: History
History of 13 May
History of 13 May
1998 - India did a second round of nuclear tests. The first round had been done 2 days earlier. Within...
History of 12 May
History of 12 May
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and named Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin as his successor.
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History of 9 May
History of 9 May
1994 - Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa's first black president.
1996 - In video testimony to a...
History of 8 May
History of 8 May
1997 - Larry King received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - A pipe burst leaving a...
History of 7 May
History of 7 May
1992 - A 203-year-old proposed constitutional amendment barring the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm pay raise was ratified as the...
History of 6 May
History of 6 May
1994 - The Channel Tunnel officially opened. The tunnel under the English Channel links England and France.
1994 - Former...
History of 5 May
History of 5 May
1991 - In New York, Carnegie Hall marked its 100th anniversary.
1997 - Dolores Hope received a star on the...
History of 4 May
History of 4 May
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that...
History of 3 May
History of 3 May
1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after...
History of 2 May
History of 2 May
1993 - At Washington's National Gallery of Art, an exhibit of 80 paintings from the collection of Dr. Albert C....
History of 1 May
History of 1 May
1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared...
History of 30 April
History of 30 April
1991 - An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a cyclone that hit Bangladesh.
1993 - CERN put the World...