At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.

A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in…

Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

The Ballantyne’s Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.

Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.

Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.

The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.

Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.

In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.