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** The Beltway sniper attacks begin with 5 shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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** In Cologne, Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.
** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.
** Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.
** The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola.
** Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people ; 3 elderly people die of heart attacks.
** On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, tens of thousands of protestors demonstrate against attacks on immigrant workers.
** WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg ( by war's end, 50, 000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks ).
** Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
** Colombia's cocaine traffickers declare " total and absolute war " against the government and begin a series of bombings and arson attacks.
** Jamestown: The president directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: " Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages ..." Smith, Proceedings ( Barbour 1964 )
** Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian general who has unsuccessfully attempted to sustain Carthage's military ascendancy on the Spanish peninsula in the face of Roman attacks
** Severely damaged during the September 11, 2001 attacks, this building in lower Manhattan has since been completely restored.
** In " You Can't Do That on Television, Peter ", Peter tries to do the routine with a puma, but it viciously attacks him, leading Meg to try and save him.
** On Poetry, a Rhapsody ( contained explicit attacks on George II, as well as many of the " dunces ", resulting in arrests and prosecution.
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** War between ethnic-Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place.
** German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.
** A grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned by the University of California to begin the formation of " People's Park ".
** King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.
** At 10: 15 p. m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the French Resistance, indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
** Cold War: U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
** Turkish authorities begin Operation Hawk, an army offensive against rebels from the Kurdish Worker's Party in southeastern Turkey.
** M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.
** The Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work among India's poorest and sickest.
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