TOP TEN LISTS
Today in History
Wednesday, 09 July 2025
2006
At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
2002
The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Its first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
1999
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
1995
The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1991
South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1989
Two bombs explode in Mecca killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1986
The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1982
Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1979
A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1962
The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States of America.
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