The Microsoft Corporation releases Windows ME.

With the help of the CIA, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup in the Congo, suspending parliament and the constitution.

The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar. To do so, they skip eleven days.

The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, dies after an assassination attempt a week earlier.

The Major League Baseball this season is canceled because of a strike by the players.

A Soviet bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic bomb north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout as part…