Nathan Gale opens fire at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, killing former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others before being shot dead by a police officer.

2001

Milestone

A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore.

1998

Milestone

Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

1991

Milestone

The leaders of Russia

Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.

1988

Milestone

A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid

Germany, killing five people and injuring 50 others.

1987

Politics

Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.

1987

Milestone

An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.