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1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso
The 1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso is the fundamental law adopted by referendum on 2 June 1991, which established the Fourth Republic and its semi-presidential system.
1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement
The 1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement was signed in Moscow in 1991 by China and the Soviet Union. It settled the eastern stretch of the border.
1992 Constitution of Ghana
The 1992 Constitution of Ghana is the supreme law of Ghana, approved by referendum in April 1992 and in force since 1993 as the founding instrument of the Fourth Republic.
1992 Dayton Christmas murders
The 1992 Dayton Christmas murders: a 60-hour Ohio killing spree by the Downtown Posse (Keene, Mathews, Taylor, Smith), six dead, two wounded; Keene executed 2009, others serving life terms.
1992 Peruvian self-coup
The 1992 Peruvian self-coup, known in Spanish as the autogolpe or Fujimorazo, saw President Alberto Fujimori dissolve Congress and suspend the constitution on 5 April 1992, ruling by decree until 2000.
1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting
1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting: Chuck E. Cheese's massacre on December 14, 1993, in which fired cook Nathan Dunlap, 19, killed four employees; he was sentenced to death and became central to Colorado's death penalty debate.
1993 United Nations Security Council election
1993 United Nations Security Council election: annual General Assembly secret-ballot vote filling five non-permanent Council seats for two-year terms from 1 January 1994 under the resolution 1991 A(XVIII) regional-group formula; Rwanda among the elected members.
1994 Solar Temple massacres
The 1994 Solar Temple massacres: 53 Order of the Solar Temple (Ordre du Temple Solaire) members killed or led to die at Morin Heights, Cheiry and Granges-sur-Salvan on 4–5 October 1994, staged as a 'transit' to Sirius; 74 died overall by 1997.
1995 Greater Pittsburgh bank robberies
The 1995 Greater Pittsburgh bank robberies: McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed Mellon Bank and Fidelity Savings Bank with lemon juice on their faces, believing it made them invisible to cameras; the case inspired the Dunning–Kruger effect.
1995 Okinawa rape incident
1995 Okinawa rape incident (沖縄米兵少女暴行事件): September 1995 gang rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by three U.S. servicemen, sparking 85,000-strong anti-base protests, a SOFA custody dispute, a Clinton apology, and the Futenma return promise.
1997 Constitution of Eritrea
The 1997 Constitution of Eritrea is the ratified supreme law of Eritrea, approved by a Constituent Assembly on 23 May 1997 but never implemented, so Eritrea still operates without it.
1998 blackbuck poaching case
1998 blackbuck poaching case, also called the Kankani case: Salman Khan and co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, and Neelam accused of killing two blackbucks near Jodhpur during Hum Saath Saath Hain; Khan convicted in 2018, five years, appeals pending.
1998 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly
The 1998 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly (Asamblea Nacional Constituyente 1997–1998) was a 70-member body convened in 1997 that wrote Ecuador's Constitution of 1998, chaired by former president Osvaldo Hurtado.
1999 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
October 1999 Term opinions of the US Supreme Court (ended June 28, 2000): 74 signed opinions among 79 dispositions, 7,377 filings, including Stenberg v. Carhart, Hill v. Colorado, and four Fourth Amendment rulings.
1999 Tulsa County double murder
The 1999 Tulsa County double murder: George Hanson and Victor Miller carjacked and killed Mary Agnes Bowles near Owasso, Oklahoma, and killed witness Jerald Thurman; Hanson was executed in 2025, Miller serves life.
2000 United Nations Security Council election
2000 UN Security Council election: General Assembly vote of 10 October 2000 electing Colombia, Ireland, Mauritius, Norway, and Singapore to 2001-2002 non-permanent seats; Mauritius beat US-opposed Sudan 113-55 and Norway beat Italy 115-57 after four ballots.
2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation, signed July 16, 2001 in Moscow by Putin and Jiang Zemin; first Sino-Russian friendship treaty since 1950, non-military, 25 articles, 20-year term, extended in 2021.
2002 British Columbia treaty referendum
2002 British Columbia treaty referendum: provincewide mail-in vote, April 2 to May 15, 2002, on eight principles for treaty negotiations; 36% turnout, over 80% approval; opposed by First Nations Summit and BCCLA.
2002 Lima, Ohio, apartment shooting
2002 Lima, Ohio apartment shooting: January 3, 2002 robbery by half-brothers Jeronique Cunningham and Cleveland Jackson in which eight people were shot on East Eureka Street, killing Jayla Grant and Leneshia Williams; both received death sentences.
2002 Norfolk bank murders
The 2002 Norfolk bank murders: five people shot in about 40 seconds during a botched U.S. Bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, on September 26, 2002; four men convicted, three sentenced to death.
2003 Brownsville child murders
The 2003 Brownsville child murders involved the killing of three young children by their parents in Brownsville, Texas. John Allen Rubio is scheduled for execution in 2026.
2005 Burundian constitution
The 2005 Burundian constitution is the fundamental law of Burundi, promulgated on 18 March 2005 to end a transitional period and establish power-sharing democracy with entrenched ethnic quotas.
2005 Dutch European Constitution referendum
Consultative Dutch referendum of 1 June 2005 on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, also called the Dutch nee vote; 61.5% rejected the treaty, days after France's No, ending ratification and leading to the Lisbon Treaty.
2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump
The 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump was the disposal of 528 cubic meters of chemical waste from the Trafigura-chartered ship Probo Koala around Abidjan.
2006 Noida serial murders
2006 Noida serial murders (Nithari killings): rape-murders of children and women in Nithari, Noida, discovered December 29, 2006 from a drain behind Moninder Singh Pandher's house; Surendra Koli received 13 death sentences, all later set aside by 2025.
2006 Richmond spree murders
2006 Richmond spree murders: January 2006 killings of seven people from two Richmond, Virginia families, the Harveys and the Tucker-Baskervilles, by ex-convicts Ricky J. Gray and Ray J. Dandridge during robbery home invasions; Gray was executed in 2017, Dandridge is serving life.
2006 United Nations Security Council election
The 2006 UN Security Council election (16 October 2006) elected Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, and South Africa uncontested, while Guatemala versus Venezuela for the GRULAC seat ran 48 ballots before Panama won with 164 votes.
2007 Kazakh constitutional amendments
The 2007 Kazakh constitutional amendments were changes to Kazakhstan's 1995 Constitution adopted in May 2007, shifting the country toward a presidential-parliamentary system while exempting the first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from term limits.
2008 Kosovo declaration of independence
The 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, adopted 17 February 2008 by the Assembly of Kosovo in Pristina, unilaterally proclaimed Kosovo independent from Serbia under the Ahtisaari Plan; the ICJ ruled in 2010 it violated no international law.
2008 Noida double murder case
The 2008 Noida double murder case, also called the Aarushi murder case, is the unsolved 2008 killing of 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj in Noida, India.