| 2006 | A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully convert pig waste into crude oil. |
| 2004 | The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people. |
| 2002 | Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the ''Man With Two Hats'' monument in Ottawa (May 11, 2002) and Apeldoorn (May 2, 2000, symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War. |
| 2000 | Last performance of the musical Cats in London's West End. |
| 1998 | An election is held in the Philippines where actor Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for President. |
| 1998 | India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device. |
| 1997 | IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. |
| 1996 | After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. |
| 1995 | In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. |
