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A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.

Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide.

Outbreak of CIH computer virus.

China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.

Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

British session drummer (Primal Scream; Gary Moore)

British actress (Secrets & Lies

French art curator and president of Musée d’Orsay (2024-25)

Hungarian tennis star (1985 US Clay Courts)

Japanese Manga artist who created YuYu Hakusho

American actor and comedian (The King of Queens)

American actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)

Canadian NBA center (Chicago Bulls)

English footballer

American actress and comedian (Mad TV)

Scottish rock singer (Hipsway; Cowboy Mouth; The Skinner Group)

Italian mobster

American actor (Young & Restless) and singer ("Rock On")

Icelandic artist best known for his collaborations with his father Dieter Roth (Roth Bar

American drummer (The Replacements