Edgewood High School, El Corral, 2000, Millenia Review 10

Description:	EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the AtlanticOcean on October 31, killing all 217 peopleon board. Although suspicious actions of apilot are under scrutiny by American andEgyptian officials, the cause of the crashremains a mystery.On October 12, the worlds official populationhits 6 billion. The designated 6 billionth humanis a baby boy born in Sarajevo.As part of Romes continuing restoration, thecity unveils a plan to create an 18,000-square-yardrambling space connecting the Imperial Forumswith the Roman Forum.In September,more than)Japaneseare checkedfor radiationexposure afteran inadvertentnuclear reactionat a uraniumprocessing plant.In an October coup, the Pakistani army dismisseselected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif andhis government after Sharif announces theremoval of his powerful military chief, GeneralPervaiz Musharraf.Nearly a million ethnic Albanians flee Yugoslaviaand thousands are killed after Serbs begin aviolent ethnic cleansing campaign in 1998.Seventy-eight days of NATO bombing bring thewar to an end in June. An international tribunallater charges Yugoslav President SlobodanMilosevic with crimes against humanity.FlashBritains Prince Edward marrieslongtime girlfriend Sophie Rhys-Joneson June 19.Cuban Elian Gonzalez, 6, becomesthe center of a bitter citizenshipdebate after surviving a Novemberboat wreck off the Florida coast inwhich his mother dies.In a violent October coup, gunmen stormthe Armenian Parliament and assassinatePrime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and sixother top officials.In India, two trains collide head-on in August,killing 285 people and injuring more than 300.It is one of the worst train disasters in thecountrys history.
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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