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1992 Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79. 
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war.
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4 million settlement.
1993 Kurd rebellion results in the deaths of 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey.
1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66.
1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1994 Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48.
1995 Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79.
1996 "Spy Hard" starring Leslie Nielsen is released.
1996 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83
1997 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan.
1997 Edward Mulhare, actor (Ghost and Mrs Muir), dies of lung cancer at 74
2006 East Timor's Foreign Minister Horta officially requests military assistance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Portugal
2013 Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador.
2014 Yingluck Shinawatra, former prime minister of Thailand, is detained by army after a military coup
2017 UEFA Europa League won by Manchester United 2-0 against Ajax in Stockholm
2018 Record US fentanyl seizure of 120lbs (54kg) confirmed by police in Nebraska in April, enough to kill 26 million people, one of largest drug busts in US history
2018 Actor Morgan Freeman accused of sexual harassment by several women in CNN report
2018 At least 14 children reported mauled to death by wild dogs near Khairabad, India after closure of slaughterhouses.
2018 US President Donald Trump cancels summit with North and South Korea because of hostile statements from North Korea
2018 US President Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for racially orientated criminal conviction - transporting a white woman across state lines
2018 World's largest cat-proof fence (44km) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protest endangered species
2018 Bangladeshi police reported to have shot 52 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics crackdown in 10 days.
2018 US President Trump signs into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act easing financial regulations and reducing oversight for banks
2018 Foreign journalists report that tunnels in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site have been destroyed by the North Korean government in a move to reduce regional tensions
2019 A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.May 26 - Amazonas prison massacres: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in Amazonas, Brazil.
2020 British PM Boris Johnson refuses to sack his senior aide Dominic Cummings, after it is revealed he broke the country's lockdown rules to drive across the country.
2020 Mining corporation Rio Tinto admits to blowing up the 46000-year-old Juukan Gorge caves in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. The firm later issues an apology to the two Aboriginal peoples who are the traditional owners of the site.
2020 A "once in a decade" storm batters 3000 kilometres (1900 mi) of the coast of Western Australia
2020 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi pardons 3157 prisoners to celebrate Eid al-Fitr and, two days later, President of Zambia Edgar Lungu pardons nearly 3000 inmates to commemorate Africa Freedom Day.
2021 Deposed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court against charges laid by the military government
2021 A coup d'état in Mali removes interim President Bah Ndaw and the acting Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, from power and restores military rule leading to the country being suspended from the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union, as well as France suspending its military operations in the country.[103][104].
2023 Former US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman 's poem, “The Hill We Climb” is placed on a restricted reading list at Bob Graham Education Center, Miami Lakes, amid increasing censorship across Florida
2023 Canada and Saudi Arabia agree to restore full diplomatic relations after a breakdown in relations in 2018 over the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.
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