295 - Origin of Era of Ascension
607 - Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 - Lotharius becomes king ofFrance
1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1439 -Plymouth , England
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 - Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 - France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1813 - Allied troops occupyZwolle Neth
1823 - Great NorthHolland Canal (Amsterdam
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1873 - Bay District Race Track opens
1885 - Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 - Allegheny Athletic Assn beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
1899 - British troops reachDurban Natal
1900 - World's Fair inParis opens (50 million visitors)
1905 - (November 12 & November 13)Norway
1906 - C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1914 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 - Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 - 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 - 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 - Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 - WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 - RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 - Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 - "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 - Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 - 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 - Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 - Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1960 - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 - Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 - Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 - Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 - Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
607 - Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
954 - Lotharius becomes king of
1028 - Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
1439 -
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1591 - Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza
1614 - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1673 - Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn
1682 - Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy
1727 - France & Bavaria renew secret treaty
1775 - General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1813 - Allied troops occupy
1823 - Great North
1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1859 - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1873 - Bay District Race Track opens
1885 - Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1892 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 - Allegheny Athletic Assn beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1893 - The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan - the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
1899 - British troops reach
1900 - World's Fair in
1905 - (November 12 & November 13)
1906 - C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
1910 - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1912 - Robert Scott's diary & dead body found in Antarctica
1914 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1915 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1918 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 - Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1922 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1923 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1924 - Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1925 - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 - 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 - Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 - British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1931 - Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London
1932 - 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 - 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate's Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1933 - 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 - 1st TV Gardening show
1936 - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 - Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1936 - St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
1938 - Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 - Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David
1940 - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 - WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1942 - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1943 - Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1944 - RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway
1945 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 - 1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)
1946 - Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
1947 - KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1947 - Schilderijenvervalser Han of Meegeren to 1 years jail sentenced
1948 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 - Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards
1951 - "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1952 - Phila A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1952 - White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 - US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 - Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 - 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 - Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 - E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 - Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1958 - Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1959 - White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1960 - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1963 - Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1964 - Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 - Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 - General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 - Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 - Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1967 - Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 - Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1968 - KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1969 - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 - US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 - WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1973 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 - Ernest N Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 - "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 - Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 - 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 - Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 - 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 - NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 - "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 - Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili,East Timor .
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 - 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 - Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 - NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 - Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 - NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikesTurkey
2001 - 2001 Attack onAfghanistan : Taliban forces abandon Kabul , Afghanistan , ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance
2001 - InNew York City , American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic , crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 - The former Sovietrepublic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia
1969 - US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 - WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1970 - 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 - Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
1973 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 14th String Quartet premieres
1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1975 - NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 - Ernest N Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1978 - "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1979 - Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 - Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 - US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 - Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 - US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 - 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 - 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 - Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in NYC
1981 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1981 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 - Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
1982 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983 - 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 - NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
1985 - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
1985 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1986 - France performs nuclear test
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1987 - "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1988 - Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
1989 - Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1991 - "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born
1991 - Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award
1991 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili,
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is reinstated for 8th time
1995 - 25th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
1995 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995 - Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe
1995 - Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL all-time passing yardage mark of 47,003
1995 - NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
1995 - STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
1996 - Toronto's Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
1997 - Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
1997 - Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 - NY Islanders tie Detroit Red Wings 1-1, to end 10 game losing streak
1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
1999 - The Düzce earthquake strikes
2001 - 2001 Attack on
2001 - In
2003 - With 501 km/h (311 mph) Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world record for commercial railway systems.
2003 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 - The former Soviet
