EVENTS ON SPECIAL DATES

12-12-12:

A mass concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, featuring Paul McCartney, The Who, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys and Kanya West.

11-11-11:

Gold Coast, Australia is chosen as the host city for the 201 8 Commonwealth Games. Up to 250 Syrians killed as t in Syria’s eight-month-old crackdown on prodemocracy pro protests.

10-10-10:

1,000th

Hanoi, Vietnam, celebrates its birthday.

George Lippitt > of Leicester, turns

10-years-old at 10:10AMon 10/10/10. > Dissolution of Dutch Antilles.

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die and injured in PLUS Highway crash near Simpang Ampat toll plaza in Negri Sembilan.

09-09-09:

Aeroméxico Flight 576

, a Boeing 737

104 hijacked carrying people, is shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport. New York Times’ Stephen Farrell is rescued in northern Afghanistan after four days in Taliban captivity. ‘Beatles Day’ is celebrated worldwide as remastered versions of The Beatles’ albums are released, as

The Beatles: Rock Band well as

08-08-08:

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing The kicks off. > Former US President GeorgeW. Bush dedicates a new American embassy in Beijing. Georgia begins a full-scale attack on the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.

077-07-07:

Nearly 100 million Internet and phone voters chose the new seven wonders off the world, in a poll conducted byy a private Swiss foundation. They included Brazil’s Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid, the Great Wall of China and India’s Taj Mahal.

06-06-06:

The Omen Horror film , where the 666 numbers is featured prominently, debuts fourth at the Hollywood box office, raking in 12,633,666 US$ (RM38,159,988).

05-05-05:

Polls open for the United Kingdom general election of 2005, ending with the re-election of Tony Blair.

04-04-04:

Former two-time cycling world champion

Briek Schotte dies.

02-02-02:

Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, heir to the Dutch throne, marries Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Amsterdam.

01-01-01:

Greece adopts the Euro as it currency.