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Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan following a campaign rally.
Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan following a campaign rally.
Adrian Peterson, playing for the Minnesota Vikings, ran for 296 yards against the San Diego Chargers.
The Colorado Rockies won their first pennant by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-4, at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. The Colorado Rockies lost to the
In a baseball game, the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3.
San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run to break Hank Aaron’s career record with one out in the fifth inning against the
The I-35W Mississippi Bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) experienced a catastrophic failure killing 13 people and injuring 145 people.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin.
The United States National Park Service established the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, commemorating the Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864.