The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political-sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
The majority of the House of Representatives believed that Clinton’s giving false testimony and alleged influencing Lewinsky’s testimony were crimes of obstruction of justice and perjury and thus […]

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SilkAir Flight 185 was a scheduled passenger service from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore. On December 19, 1997, the ill-fated flight was being operated by a Boeing 737-300, registration 9V-TRF. All 97 passengers and 7 crew, died when the aircraft, in a nearly vertical attitude, impacted the Musi River near Palembang, Sumatra following an abrupt descent.
The […]

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The December 1998 bombing of Iraq (code-named Operation Desert Fox) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from December 16-December 19, 1998 by the United States and United Kingdom.
These strikes were undertaken in response to Iraq’s continued failure to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions as well as their interference with United […]

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Netscape Navigator, also known as Netscape, is a proprietary web browser that was popular during the 1990s. Once the flagship product of Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant browser in usage share.
Beta versions of the web browser were freely downloadable in mid- to late-1994, and version 1.0 of the browser was released on December 15, […]

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The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995.
These accords put an end to the three […]

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On December 13, 1996, Kofi Annan was recommended by the United Nations Security Council to be Secretary-General, and was confirmed four days later by vote of the General Assembly.
Annan took the oath of office without delay, starting his first term as Secretary-General on January 1, 1997. Annan replaced outgoing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt, becoming […]

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The Babri Mosque, or Mosque of Babur was a mosque constructed by order of the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, in Ayodhya in the 16th century.
Before the 1940s, the mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan (”mosque of the birthplace”). The mosque stood on Ramkot (”Rama’s fort”) Hill (also called Janmasthan (”Birthplace”). It was destroyed by […]

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The Unity connecting module was the first U.S. built component of the International Space Station.
It is cylindrical in shape, with six berthing locations (forward, aft, port, starboard, zenith, and nadir) facilitating connections to other modules. Unity measures 4.57 meters (15 ft) in diameter, is 5.47 meters (18 ft) long. Unity is the first of three […]

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Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991.
Founded as a seaplane service out of Key West, Florida, the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry. Due to a series […]

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Space Shuttle program STS-61 - NASA launched the Space Shuttle Endeavour on December 2, 1993 on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
It was found that the main mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope suffered from spherical aberration due to faulty quality control during its manufacturing, which severely compromised the telescope’s capabilities. the STS-61 […]

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