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1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1000th base 
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)
1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50.
1994 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road).
1994 Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
1994 Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34.
1995 Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia vs West Indies at Sabina Park
1996 Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67.
1997 Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1997 Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1998 Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver dies today in Pomona, California, at age 62
1999 The body of British mountaineer George Mallory is are discovered on Mount Everest almost 75 years after he disappeared on a climbing expedition
2002 Indian heat wave in India killing 1030 people.
2005 A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, and leaves at least 25 people dead and more than 30 others injured. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad
2006 Bolivian President Evo Morales nationalizes his nation's gas fields
2006 The Great American Boycott takes place across the United States as marers protest for immigration rights
2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden
2009 Bolivian dengue fever epidemic in Bolivia killing 18 people
2009 Gujarat hepatitis outbreak in India killing 49 people.
2009 Dengue fever in Queensland, Australia.
2009 Mumps outbreaks in the 2000s in Worldwide
2009 10 West African meningitis outbreak in West Africa killing 1100 people
2009 flu pandemic (informally called "swine flu") in Worldwide killing 151700-575400 people
2011 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.
2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI
2012 China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal.
2013 Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand.
2014 Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
2017 World Snooker Championship: Briton Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins 18-15, at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
2017 Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
2018 Liverpool's Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is recorded as becoming the inaugural African to be named England Football Writers' Footballer of the Year.
2018 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website.
2018 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests
2018 Scotland is the inaugural country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol
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