March 2: The Galileo spacecraft sends data that reveals that the moon of Jupiter, Europa, has a liquid ocean underneath a thick layer of ice. March 4: In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, the Supreme Court of the United States declares that federal laws banning sexual harassment on the job also applies when both people are of the same sex.
March 5: It is announced by NASA that the Clemetine probe that orbits the Moon has enough water in its polar craters to support a rocket fuelling station, as well as a human colony.
March 6: Following a change of protocol after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the British Union Jack flag begins to fly full-mast over Buckingham Palace whenever the British monarch is not in residence. March 6: An aggressive lottery accountant, Matt Beck, kills four people at the Connecticut state lottery. March 8: American football player Ray Nitschke passes away from a heart attack at the age of March 9: Rapper Eminem, then unknown, is signed by Dr. March The High-Z Supernova Search Team is the first to publish evidence for the expansion of the universe at an accelerating rate.
March Southeastern Iran is hit by an earthquake measuring 6. March American writer and paediatrician Benjamin Spock passes away at the age of March In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two students aged 11 and 13 open fire against teachers and students at Westside Middle School. The event becomes known as the Jonesboro Massacre and five people are killed, with another ten wounded. March In Dantan, India, a tornado sweeps through the area, injuring people and killing March In Algeria, the Oued Bouaicha massacre takes place, with axes and knives killing 52 people.
The crowd was made up of 62, spectators. Image: Wikimedia Commons. They defeat the Giants in Phoenix, Arizona in one of the main April events in sport.
The bridge cost around 3. April 6: In Pakistan, medium-range missiles are tested which have the capability of hitting India. April 6: American country singer Tammy Wynette passes away at the age of She suffered from a lot of health problems but continued to perform, and her doctor claimed she died from a blood clot in her lung. This agreement ended most of the Troubles violence, a political conflict that had been taking place in Northern Ireland since the late s.
The agreement is not signed by the Democratic Unionist Party and is signed by the agreeing parties an hour after the talks deadline had ended. April In Slovenia, an earthquake measuring 5. April Cambodian dictator and revolutionary Pol Pot passes away at the age of April After 28 years, the Red Army Faction, a German terrorist group, declares their dissolution.
May 4: In Sacramento, California, unabomber Ted Kaczynski is given 4 life sentences by a federal judge, plus another 30 years after.
Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement which spared him the death penalty. Wood threw a one-hotter and in his 5th career start, he did not walk a batter. May 7: The largest industrial merger in history at the time takes place when Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for 40 billion US dollars, forming DaimlerChrysler.
May In India, three nuclear tests are conducted underground in Pokhran, which includes a thermonuclear device. May In Pessac, France, the first euro coins are minted. Since the final specifications for the coins were not finished this year, the coins have to be melted down and minted once again in May In Jakarta, Indonesia, race riots break out and shops that are owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted, and women are raped.
Around people are killed by the riots. May Two more nuclear tests are carried out at Pokhran in India, following the three tests carried out on May May American singer Frank Sinatra passes away at the age of He was one of the most influential and popular music artists of the 20th century. May The very last episode of Seinfield airs.
Ballard, a former US Navy Officer. May Five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida, are hit by a butyric acid attacker. May After 31 years in power, the president of Indonesia, Suharto, resigns. His resignation ends the New Order period after his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament, and his hand-picked Vice President B. May In the ongoing Lewinsky scandal, it is ruled by a federal judge that agents of the United States Secret Service can be compelled to testify before a grand jury regarding the scandal involving US President Bill Clinton.
May Pakistan holds five nuclear tests in response to the ones done by India earlier in the month, which prompts Japan, the United States and other nations to impose economic sanctions. May Canadian actor and comedian Phil Hartman is killed by his wife in his sleep at the age of May Up to 5, people are killed in northern Afghanistan when a magnitude 6. American singer Frank Sinatra in , who would pass away this year Image: Pixabay.
June 1: Susie Maroney from Australia is the first person to swim to Cuba from Mexico, across the shark and jellyfish-infested Yucatan Straits. She swims the mile distance in 38 hours and 33 minutes in a cage. June 5: In Flint, Michigan, a strike begins at the General Motors parts factory, which rapidly spreads to five other assembly plants.
The strike would continue for 7 weeks. June A resolution is passed by the Organisation of African Unity, stating its members will not comply with punitive sanctions that are applied by the UN Security Council against Libya. City of New York. The Line Veto Act was a federal law granting the President the power to line-item veto budget bills that had been passed by Congress.
June The first on-demand video game service, Sega Channels, closes down. July 1: After no agreement is made with players about salary issues, the NBA begins a player lockout. This lasts days and the basketball season is cut short by 50 games. July After nine former altar boys claim they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos, the Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay The final score was July A year after Giovanni Maria Versace was murdered, his sister Donatella Versace launches her first couture collection for his Versace label.
The family were killed back in by the Bolsheviks. July nations vote for the creation of a permanent International Criminal Court at a conference in Rome, to prosecute people for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
July The region near Aitape is shaken by the 7. The earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII Severe and was a submarine earthquake that triggered a landslide, resulting in an extremely destructive tsunami. More than 2, people lost their lives and thousands were injured. The crisis involved the suspected contamination by cryptosporidium and giardia, microscopic pathogens, of the water supply.
Later on, he is deemed to be incompetent to stand trial. August 4: 5. August 7: The Yangtze river in China floods, with the river breaking through the main bank. August 7: One of the major news events brought us was the bombing of the United States embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
She had apparently misused or failed to return government property after she had been dismissed in as Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, with the two million rand supposedly being equivalent in value to the property. August In Northern Ireland, the Omagh bombing results in the deaths of 29 people and injures around She loves literature, travelling, baked goods and is always hunting for new music.
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We associated the surnames, Clinton and Lewinsky Europeans agree on a single currency — the Euro 3. Britney Spears stole our hearts 4. Microsoft becomes the biggest company in the world 5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was all the Rage 7. We all listened to All Saints.
Their single Bootie Call reached number 1. I'm sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the best PS, I'll be back. He is charged with criminal trespassing and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
June 5: Mulan hits theaters, kicking off the career of Christina Aguilera. Several thousand activists, musicians and politicians engage in protests at the United States Capitol for President Clinton to negotiate between Tibet and China in mid-June June Johnny Cash returns to the stage following a life-threatening bout with pneumonia. In early July, Barbra Streisand and actor James Brolin are married in a private ceremony -- but don't think that means it was a no-frills affair.
The soon-to-be-megastar is born to Karen and Manuel Mendes; by age 13, he begins learning guitar through YouTube videos. The charge, brought against him by an exotic dancer, gets dropped after a DNA test. A former member of The Fugees , Hill graces the world with her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill , a confessional opus that garnered a whopping 11 Grammy nominations and five wins including album of the year.
Within its pages, the tome includes a note to the president from Monica Lewinsky recognizing their joint love for Sarah McLachlan. Dolittle soundtrack. Which music video is crowned No. Sep A new bill limits the intrusion of paparazzi in the lives of celebrities. Governor Pete Wilson makes California the first state to pass a bill to hold photographers liable for invasion of perceived privacy, significantly increasing the privacy rights of celebrities from paparazzi.
The rodeo performer dies at his home in Studio City, Calif. The new law adds 20 years to the length of protection allotted for copyrighted works, extending the time period before those works would enter the public domain.
It isn't the first nor last time Manson would draw controversy -- the musician was dragged the year prior by religious and conservative groups protesting his tour promoting Antichrist Superstar. Fugees alum Lauryn Hill hits No. A Garth Brooks live-concert broadcast is shown at 2, Wal-Mart stores across the country to promote his concurrent release of his eventually Diamond-certified Double Live set; it's the first of many partnerships between Brooks and the retail chain.
Dec 5: Billboard changes its Hot policy, allowing airplay-only tracks to chart for the first time. Prior to the switch, only songs available to purchase as a physical single were eligible to chart. As a result, the Hot lineup changes drastically that week, with R. While Bruce Springsteen spent most of the '90s recording new material as a solo act, the Boss announces a reunion tour with the E Street Band in late '98, though the group doesn't make a new album together until 's The Rising.
Dec Busta Rhymes is charged with weapon possession after police find a loaded gun in his car during a routine traffic stop. Busta Rhymes was charged with possession of an unregistered. The lawsuit against the Zeeland, Mich. Welcome to Miami, bienvenidos a Miami. Smith jets to a beach bash in the , flirts with future Hitch co-star Eva Mendes on the road and ends the night boogie-ing at a club in the flashy visual for his No. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In.
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