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micheal breaks the 400 meter record at 43.18 sec
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A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens
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nasa lost contact with their mars rover
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Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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The New York Yankees sweep the Atlanta Braves to win their 25th world championship.
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EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts
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The Aggie Bonfire collapses in College Station, Texas, killing 12
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In Seattle, Washington, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters
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NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform
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Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members were killed.
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Storm Lothar kills 137 people as it crosses France, southern Germany, and Switzerland
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The U.S. turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government,
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New Zealand broadcasting on Chatham Island is watched worldwide to start millennium celebrations
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The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
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America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
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The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth
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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88
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German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines
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Stipe Mesic is elected president of Croatia
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The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan. Several months later it becomes the best-selling game console of all time
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Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
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United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
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The billionth living person in India is born
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Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years
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An earthquake hits Bengkulu, Indonesia, leaving 94 dead
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Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament
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At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.
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A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth
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A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
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The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board
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Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, debuts.
