1998 Two US tourists, Thomas and Eileen Lonergan, are left behind by a scuba diving operator on a reef off Port Douglas, north Queensland. They are never found

1999 More than one thousand people are killed when an eartquake rocks the South American country of Colombia.

1999 The first hand transplant in the U.S. takes place in Louisville, Kentucky.

1579 Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic

1917 The United States buy the Virgin islands for 25 million dollars

1918 Russia declared a Soviets republic

1924 First modern Winter Olympic games held, in French alps

1955 US and Panama sign canal treaty

1972 World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London

1974 Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place

1992 A selection of America's popular films begins showing on Soviet television

1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language

1759 The birth of Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet

1882 The birth of Virginia Woolf, English novelist

1928 The birth of Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet politician

2005 A stampede at Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and small children.

2006 Hamas wins the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections.

2006 Deus Caritas Est, the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is promulgated.

2007 The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.

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