At least two people die.ġ993: Miners massacre 73 Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.ġ994: Food distribution to 350,000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding gangs.ġ996: Despite an appeal for restraint from King Hussein, stone-throwing demonstrators in Amman, Jordan, clash with police for a second day to protest the doubling of bread prices.ġ997: The NATO-led peace force intervenes to keep a stand-off between policemen backing Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic and her opponents from breaking into violence.ġ999: A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 17,200 people and injuring more than 20,000. Only 154 refugees stayed in Italy.ġ896: Gold is discovered in Klondike territory, Canada, attracting 100,000 adventurers in a two-year rush.ġ920: Romania joins Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in alliance that becomes Triple Entente, where each country pledges not to conclude peace separately.ġ945: Sukarno proclaims Indonesian Independence, but it is refused by the Dutch.ġ954: Two-thousand religious pilgrims drown in a flash flood at the Muslim shrine of the Imam Zadeh Davud in Farahzad, Iran.ġ962: East German border guards shoot and kill an 18-year-old who attempts to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.ġ964: Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe appeals to five African nations to help put down rebellion in the Congo.ġ969: Hurricane Camille hits the US Gulf Coast, killing 248 people.ġ972: Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan offers an interim peace agreement with Egypt based on a truce line dividing the Sinai Peninsula.ġ976: Tidal wave on Philippine island of Mindanao leaves estimated 8,000 people dead or missing.ġ980: Diplomatic officials close the British Embassy in Iran because of hostile demonstrations.ġ985: A car packed with dynamite explodes outside a crowded supermarket in Lebanon's Christian east Beirut, killing at least 50 people and wounding 80.ġ986: Rescuers continue evacuating by boat more than 100,000 people marooned in flood-swept, south-eastern India.ġ988: Pakistan's President Zia ul-Haq and US Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed when their Pakistani military plane explodes.ġ990: Iraq announces policy of holding foreign nationals in Iraq and Kuwait as human shields against attack.ġ992: Mortar shells blast a crowded refugee hotel in Sarajevo, Bosnia, setting it ablaze.
The Italian Government admitted the offer of asylum was a ruse to persuade Albanians to give up their often-violent resistance. There are 136 days left in the year.ġ991: Italy repatriates the last of an estimated 18,000 Albanian refugees who arrived in southern Italy by boat earlier in the month.
Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, is born on this day, 1887.