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Clockwise from top-left: the 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan; U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal; a poster advocates for a "yes" vote on the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which eventually prevails and ends most of the violence associated with The Troubles; Google is launched; protests erupt in Indonesia over the Fall of ...
Maria Branyas, the former world's oldest known living person, dies at the age of 117 years and 168 days, making Tomiko Itooka the new current oldest living person. Disasters and accidents. Two people are killed by flooding in Oxford, Connecticut, United States.
A major landslide in Papua New Guinea kills 160–2,000+ people, with many more buried. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] May 26 – 2024 Lithuanian presidential election : Incumbent president Gitanas Nausėda wins a landslide victory for a second term in office.
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Accusations of United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war. A dozen resigned United States government officials release a joint statement denouncing President Joe Biden's administration for its "undeniable complicity" in war crimes against Palestinian civilians by violating U.S. laws to continue sending Israel weapons.
Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquake in Sichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest ...
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