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1.4 April

April 2 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem which has Palestinian terrorists taking hostage of the church; around 200 Palestinians inside. A siege ensues.
April 15 - An Air China Boeing 767-200 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128.
April 17 - Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. F-16s
April 18 - New order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, announced.
April 25 - South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome - he had paid £15 million for the trip.
April 26 - Robert Steinhauser opens fire on his former teachers and other students in Erfurt, Germany and then kills himself - 16 dead
April 27 - The eleventh Duke of Devonshire publicly apologizes for the actions of his grandfather during the Great Trespass of 1932
April 30 - Pakistan: referendum on continuation of military government votes in favour

1.5 May

May 6 - In the Netherlands, politician Pim Fortuyn is killed by Volkert van der Graaf.
May 7 - Gay Canadian teenager Marc Hall is granted a court injunction ordering that he be allowed to attend his high school prom with his boyfriend.
May 9 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. The standoff started on April 2
May 9 - In Kaspiysk , Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130
May 10 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds
May 11 - Diane Pretty , who campaigned for the right to die after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, dies at a hospice near Luton, England
May 12 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution
May 15 - The Netherlands: elections for the Lower House
May 20 - Restoration of East Timor independence
May 22 - In Washington, DC, Chandra Levy's remains are found in Rock Creek Park
May 22 - American civil rights movement: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls.
May 23 - First Eurovision Song Contest in a former Soviet country, Estonia
May 25 - A China Airlines Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225.
May 26 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
May 28 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's death was the result of homicide
May 31 through June 30 - 17th Football World Cup in Japan and South Korea

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