World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the
Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the
Information Age.[1][2]America Online and
Prodigy offered access to the
World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.[3]
January 25 –
Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at
Andøya, Norway, is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
March 18 –
Michael Jordan announces his return to the Chicago Bulls basketball team and the NBA through a two-word press release: "I'm back."
March 20 – Members of the doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo carry out the
Tokyo subway sarin attack, killing 14 people and leading to over a thousand injured. The attack remains the deadliest terrorist incident in Japanese history.
10 – The
Vaal Reefs mining disaster at
Vaal Reefs gold mine in
Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 feet (460 m) to the bottom of the 6,900 feet (2,100 m) deep shaft, killing 104.[7][8]
May 16 – Following the
Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.
June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked
All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (
Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara.
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq than in disarming the country.
July
July –
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by
August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel al-Majid,
Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
August 7 – The Chilean government declares
state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the
White Earthquake.[12]
August 14 – Nepali Prime Minister
Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives a helicopter crash.[13]
October 5 –
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government of
Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
October 26 – An
avalanche hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland, killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this calendar year.
November 7 –
Typhoon Angela leaves the
Philippines and
Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and
US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and gusts of 180 mph (290 km/h).
November 20 – A car bomb explosion outside the
Egyptian Embassy in
Islamabad, Pakistan destroys the face of the building, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens more.[16]
The 7.3 MwGulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the
United Nations Special Commission, dredge the
Tigris near
Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
^DePrince, Michaela; Elaine, DePrince (2014). Taking Flight: From War Oprhan To Star Ballerina. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 75.
ISBN978-0-385-75513-9.
^"Allisha Gray". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
^"B. Mead". soccerway.com.
Archived from the original on December 1, 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
^"שירה האס" [Shira Haas]. Ishim Film Database (in Hebrew).
Archived from the original on September 20, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2020. (born 11/5/1995)
^"Lukáš Rohan". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
^"Evelyn MAWULI". fiba.basketball.
Archived from the original on February 15, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
^"Vlhova Petra". FIS.
Archived from the original on March 21, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
^"Manika Batra". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Emmanuel Korir". worldathletics.org. World athletics.
Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
^"Sara KOLAK". worldathletics.org.
Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the
Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government no longer providing public funding, marking the beginning of the
Information Age.[1][2]America Online and
Prodigy offered access to the
World Wide Web system for the first time this year, releasing browsers that made it easily accessible to the general public.[3]
January 25 –
Norwegian rocket incident: A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at
Andøya, Norway, is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
March 18 –
Michael Jordan announces his return to the Chicago Bulls basketball team and the NBA through a two-word press release: "I'm back."
March 20 – Members of the doomsday cult
Aum Shinrikyo carry out the
Tokyo subway sarin attack, killing 14 people and leading to over a thousand injured. The attack remains the deadliest terrorist incident in Japanese history.
10 – The
Vaal Reefs mining disaster at
Vaal Reefs gold mine in
Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a lift shaft onto an ascending cage and causes it to plunge 1,500 feet (460 m) to the bottom of the 6,900 feet (2,100 m) deep shaft, killing 104.[7][8]
May 16 – Following the
Tokyo subway sarin attack two months earlier, Japanese police besiege the headquarters of
Aum Shinrikyo near
Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader
Shoko Asahara. Further police operations result in over two hundred arrests and thirteen members of the cult, including Asahara, are sentenced to death.
June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked
All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (
Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of
Shoko Asahara.
Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with
Iraq than in disarming the country.
July
July –
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by
August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law,
Hussein Kamel al-Majid,
Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.
July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program, but denies weaponization.
August 7 – The Chilean government declares
state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the
White Earthquake.[12]
August 14 – Nepali Prime Minister
Man Mohan Adhikari along with seven other high-ranking officials survives a helicopter crash.[13]
October 5 –
Tansu Çiller of
DYP forms the new government of
Turkey (51st government, a minority government which failed to receive the vote of confidence).
October 26 – An
avalanche hits the village
Flateyri in
Iceland, killing 20 people, the second of two deadly avalanches to occur in Iceland during this calendar year.
November 7 –
Typhoon Angela leaves the
Philippines and
Vietnam devastated, with 882 deaths and
US$315 million in damage. The typhoon was the strongest to strike the Philippines in 25 years, with wind speeds of 130 mph (210 km/h) and gusts of 180 mph (290 km/h).
November 20 – A car bomb explosion outside the
Egyptian Embassy in
Islamabad, Pakistan destroys the face of the building, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens more.[16]
The 7.3 MwGulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
December 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi scuba divers, under the direction of the
United Nations Special Commission, dredge the
Tigris near
Baghdad. The divers find over 200 prohibited Russian-made missile instruments and components.
^DePrince, Michaela; Elaine, DePrince (2014). Taking Flight: From War Oprhan To Star Ballerina. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 75.
ISBN978-0-385-75513-9.
^"Allisha Gray". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on February 6, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
^"B. Mead". soccerway.com.
Archived from the original on December 1, 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
^"שירה האס" [Shira Haas]. Ishim Film Database (in Hebrew).
Archived from the original on September 20, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2020. (born 11/5/1995)
^"Lukáš Rohan". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
^"Evelyn MAWULI". fiba.basketball.
Archived from the original on February 15, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
^"Vlhova Petra". FIS.
Archived from the original on March 21, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
^"Manika Batra". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Emmanuel Korir". worldathletics.org. World athletics.
Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
^"Sara KOLAK". worldathletics.org.
Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2023.