1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are
killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was
piloted by Kennedy.
2001 - "Jurassic Park III", starring Sam Neill and William H Macy, premieres in the US
2003 - 11th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Serena Williams win
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early
21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2005 - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling is
published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs
2006 - 14th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sorenstam win
2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan,
killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007
Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
2008 - 79th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York
2012 - "The Dark Knight Rises", directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Anne
Hathaway, premieres in New York
2013 - 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide
in India
2013 - 84th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-0 at Citi Field, New York
2014 - Israel intensify strikes on Gaza
2014 - Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria
2014 - Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel
2014 - Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting
the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
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