On this day — July 6

a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.

killing all 28 aboard.

Nigeria.

killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.

Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.

sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.

Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.

In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.

under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.

One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.

Aeroflot Flight 411, an Ilyushin Il-62, crashes near Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, killing all 90 people on board.