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The FBI finally arrests the Unabomber.
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South Frica gets a new constitution.
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Valujet crashes in Everglades; all 110 aboard killed.
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Militant Taliban leaders seizes capital of Afghan, Kabul.
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Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California.
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Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule.
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I was born in Haiti at 6:23PM weighing 4lbs. 3 ounces on August 7 1997.
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Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing.
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Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust victims.
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President Clinton accused in White House sex scandal with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
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Europeans agree on single currency, the euro.
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Unabomber sentenced to four life terms.
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Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power . -
US Senate opens impeachment trial of President Clinton.
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Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, steps down.
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John F. Kennedy Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren G. Bessette are lost at sea when a plane he was piloting disappears near Martha's Vineyard, off Mass. coast.
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Magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills more than 15,600 and leaves 600,000 homeless in Turkey.
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Cuban boy Elián González, 6, at center of international dispute, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home
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U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion
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Mad cow disease alarms Europe.
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President Bush wins Florida recount and wins president election against Al Gore.
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George W. Bush is sworn in as 43rd president
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Terrorists attack United States. Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh.
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Israel condemns the Palestinian Authority as a "terror-supporting entity" and severs ties with leader Yasir Arafat following mounting violence against Israelis.
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Taliban regime in Afghanistan collapses after two months of bombing by American warplanes and fighting by Northern Alliance ground troops
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India's worst Hindu-Muslim violence in a decade rocked the state of Gujarat after a Muslim mob fire-bombed a train, killing Hindu activists. Hindus retaliated, and more than 1,000 died in the bloodshed
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U.S. withdraws from International Court treaty.
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East Timor becomes a new nation
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Pennsylvania miners rescued after spending 77 hours in a dark, flooded mine shaft.
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Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts.
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Libya accepts blame for 1988 bombing of flight over Lockerbie, Scotland; agrees to pay $2.7 billion to the families of the 270 victims.
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John A. Muhammad, convicted in the 2002 Washington, DC, area shootings, receives death sentence.
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Saddam Hussein is captured by American troops.
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Armed rebels in Haiti force President Aristide to resign and flee the country.
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U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Gay marriages begin in Massachusetts, the first state in the country to legalize such unions.
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Chechen terrorists take about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia; 340 people die when militant detonate explosives.
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George W. Bush is officially sworn in for his second term as president.
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Pope John Paul dies.
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London hit by Islamic terrorist bombings, killing 52 and wounding about 700. It is Britain's worst attack since World War II.
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Hurricane Katrina wreaks catastrophic damage on the Gulf coast; more than 1,000 die and millions are left homeless.
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Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group, fires rockets into Israel. In response, Israel launches a major military attack, sending thousands of troops into Lebanon.
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President Bush uses his veto power for the first time, striking down legislation that would have expanded the number of stem cell lines available for embryonic research using federal financing.
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Saddam Hussein is convicted of crimes against humanity by an Iraqi court and hanged in Baghdad.
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John Bolton steps down as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when it becomes clear that he does not have enough votes in the Senate to win confirmation.
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David Hicks, an Australian, pleads guilty to providing material support to al Qaeda. He's the first Guantánamo Bay detainee to be convicted by a military commission.
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Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain.
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The minimum wage increases to $5.85, up from $5.15. It's the first increase in 10 years.
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President Bush signs law that legalizes government eavesdropping of telephone conversations and emails of American citizens and people overseas without a warrant as long as there is a "reasonable belief" that one party is not in the United States.
