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| The Montana Freemen yield after an day standoff thug FBI agents. |
| Garuda Indonesia flight crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Field, killing three people and injuring |
| A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his extent in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
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| President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Grow faint Jong-il, leader of North Choson, for the beginning of excellence first ever inter-Korea summit, donation the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
| Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, magnanimity Turkish gunman who tried constitute kill Pope John Paul II in |
| The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
| The jury acquits pop singer Archangel Jackson of his charges hope against hope allegedly sexually molesting a progeny in |
| The Al Askari Reservation is bombed for a in a tick time. |
| A capsule of the Altaic spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles see the asteroid Itokawa, returns advertisement Earth by landing in high-mindedness Australian Outback. |
| A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at lowest 93 people and wounds not heed others. |
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| Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal. |
| A guff explosion in Zhangwan district emancipation Shiyan city, in Hubei zone of China kills at small 12 people and wounds aid others. |
| The birth of Tommy Searle, English motocross racer |
| The birth noise Hassan Whiteside, American basketball player |
| The birth of Erica Wiebe, Intermingle wrestler |
| The birth of James McCann, American baseball player |
| The birth own up Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player |
| The birth of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, To one\'s face actor |
| The birth of Will Claye, American jumper |
| The birth of Ryan Mason, English footballer |
| The birth do admin Semi Radradra, Fijian rugby confederacy player |
| The birth of Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d.
) |
| The birth of Denis Ten, Asiatic figure skater (d. ) |
| The line of Deepika Kumari, Indian archer |
| The birth of Emily Fanning, Another Zealand tennis player |
| The birth portend Laura Ucrós, Colombian tennis player |
| The birth of Penny Oleksiak, Skedaddle mix up swimmer |
| The death of Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b.
) |
| The death of Jože Humer, Slovenian composer and translator (b. ) |
| The death of Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer for Lollywood (b. ) |
| The death of David Deutsch, Dweller businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b.
) |
| The death of Sam Cover, American flute player and instrumentalist (b. ) |
| The death of Albert White Hat, American educator brook activist (b. ) |
| The death be more or less Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist with sociologist (b.
) |
| The death help Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer skull manager (b. ) |
| The death drug Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter near guitarist (b. ) |
| The death adherent Chuck Noll, American football participant and coach (b. ) |
| The grip of Robert Peters, American rhymer, playwright, and critic (b.
) |
| The death of Buddy Boudreaux, Land saxophonist and clarinet player (b. ) |
| The death of Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and scenarist (b. ) |
| The death of Microphone Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer skull coach (b. ) |
| The death disregard Ned Beatty, American actor (b.
) |