Events listed on this post may include things like injuries that cross calendar months, college courses, and selected actual “real-life” events that transpired that year, etc. I’m listing these type of events in one location since they are not specific full blown missions.
Events
- February 27, 57 Hindu activists are killed after a muslim mob fire-bombed a train. Hindus retalitated and more than 1,000 died in the bloodshed.
- March 2, US and Afghan troops launch Operation Anaconda against remining al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
- March 29 – April 21, In response to a string of Palenstinian suicide attacks, Israeli tanks and warplanes attack West Bank towns of Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem and others.
- April 12, 14, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ousted in coup. Then reinstated.
- October 12, Terrorist bomb of the violent Jemaah Islamiyah Islamist group kills 202 and injures 209 in Bali, Indonesia.
- October 2-24, Police arrest two sniper suspects after they snipers preyed upon DC suburbs, killing 10 and wounding others.
- October 23, Chechen rebels take 763 hostages in Moscow theater.
- October 26, Russian authorities release gas into the theater, killing 116 hostages and freeing remainder.
