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Wednesday, 02 September 2026

1998

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

1992

An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.

1991

The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

1990

Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.

1970

NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.

1967

The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.

1963

''CBS Evening News'' becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

1960

The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.

1958

United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.

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