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Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic addresses journalists on March 11, 1993 in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris.
On this day in 2002, the rusty iron gun turret of the U.S.S. Monitor broke from the water and into the daylight for the first time in 140 years. The ironclad warship was raised from the floor of the Atlantic, where it had rested since it went down in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during the Civil War. Divers had been working for six weeks to bring it to the surface.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin inside the Apollo 11 prior to the lunar landing on July 20, 1969.
Nobel laureate and former US President Jimmy Carter arrives 08 December 2002 in Oslo, where he will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 10 December. (Photo by NTB / AFP) (Photo by -/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)
MOSCOW - OCTOBER 24: A general view of the theatre that was seized by armed men early on October 24, 2002 in Moscow. Armed men entered the crowded Moscow theatre on Wednesday and took the audience hostage; the Federal Security Service said 'A Soviet-era House of Culture that belonged to a ball-bearing plant was staging a performance of the musical "Nord-Ost"'. The poster on the theatre reads: "Nord-Ost". (Photo by Getty Images).
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