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Created by Dajuan_Butler on Mar 14, 2011

Last updated: 03/16/11 at 06:00 AM

• On this day in history jennifer Maria Holsten
  May 2011

  18, crowned Miss Filipino-American

• Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami
  May 2011

  109 die on this day in history

• A storm hits Mt Everest
  May 2011

  killing eight climbers in one of the worst disasters since Everest was first conquered in 1953 on this day in history.

• On this day in history
  May 7, 2011

  comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
  http://www.hisdates.com/years/1996-historical-events.html

• On this day in history in Western Nei Mongol
  May 3, 2011

  China a 6.0 earthquake killed at least 18 people, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area.

• Fighting breaks out in Monrovia
  Apr 6, 2011

  , Liberia between various rebel factions struggling for power in the country's interrupted civil war. Several foreign nationals leave the nation. Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31,683 packed in Spartan Stadium, to witness the historic first game. San Jose Clash forward Eric Wynalda scores the league's first goal in a 1–0 victory over D.C. United. Turkish authorities begin Operation Hawk, an army offensive against rebels from the Kurdish Worker's Party in southeastern Turkey.

• A Boeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia
  Apr 3, 2011

  All 35 people on board die, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (see 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash).

• The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
  Apr 1, 2011

  An overcrowded ferry sinks off the coast of Irois, Haiti, killing more than 200 people.

• Fire breaks out at the Pasar Anyar shopping centre
  Mar 28, 2011

  in Bogor, West Java. The first death toll estimate is 78 until rescuers notice that 68 of them are mannequins. Three British soldiers are found guilty of the manslaughter of Danish tour guide Louise Jensen in Cyprus. Allan Ford, Justin Fowler and Geoffrey Pernell receive life sentences for their crime, which was committed in September 1994.

• The International Monetary Fund
  Mar 2011

  approves a $10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Mar 14, 2011 6:15 AM

• Violent clashes erupt between Filipino soldiers and Vietnamese boat people,
  Feb 14, 2011

  as the Philippines government attempts to forcibly repatriate hundreds of Vietnamese asylum seekers.

• An earthquake near Lijiang in southwest China,
  Feb 4, 2011

  measuring up to 7 on the Richter scale, kills at least 240 people, injures more than 14,000 and makes hundreds of thousands homeless.

• Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
  Jan 10, 2011

  irael rescued 100 palestine prisoners

• A Birgenair Boeing 757, on an unauthorised charter flight from the Caribbean to Germany
  Jan 6, 2011

  crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 passengers and crew (see Birgenair Flight 301).

• King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah
  Jan 1, 2011

  King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996