100 killed as train derails in Andhra Pradesh
2005 - Dreams of being home for India’s most important festive season ended in a pre-dawn nightmare of swirling floodwaters and twisted metal for hundreds when their train derailed in Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. More than 100 people were killed and 20 to 30 more were feared dead when the passenger train derailed and toppled into floodwaters. Survivors said many passengers had been heading to join relatives for the Hindu festival of Diwali and the Muslim Eid Al Fitr celebrations marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month. The Delta Fast Passenger train derailed as it hit a section of the track. The engine and the first seven carriages fell into the floodwaters when the train hit breaches in the track caused by water overflowing from reservoirs after incessant rains.
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1863 - International Committee of the Red Cross is founded in Geneva.
1881 - Japan’s first national political party is founded.
1901 - US President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is executed.
1915 - Aristide Briand becomes Prime Minister of France (for the 3rd time).
1923 - Republic of Turkey is proclaimed, with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as its first president.
1929 - New York stock market collapses, marking “Black Tuesday”.
1936 - General Bakr Seddiqi overthrows Iraqi government.
1942 - Germans massacre 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Russia.
1956 - During the Suez Canal crisis, Israel launches an invasion of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
1960 - Boxer Muhammad Ali wins his first professional fight, beating Tunney Hunsaker.
1962 - US lift its naval quarantine of Cuba at the request of UN Secretary-General U Thant.
1972 - Palestinian militants hijack German airliner and gain release of three people seized in massacre at Munich Olympics.
1982 - Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party sweeps to victory ending 43 years of conservative rule.
1990 - Libya expels 145 members of the Palestine Liberation Front, a radical faction of the PLO, and close four training bases .
1999 - Dubai Internet City, the world’s first free trade zone for e-business is launched in Dubai.
2000 - Ebrahim Rugova claims victory after the first democratic elections in Kosovo.
2013 - Turkey opens the world’s first underwater rail link between Asia and Europe.
2014 - Zambia’s Guy Scott becomes Africa’s first white head of state in 20 years.
