At the age of 47

• 06-April-2005 : Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies; his son Albert II succeeds him.
• 02-November-2004 : Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh is assassinated in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Mohammed Bouyeri.
• 26-February-2004 : Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 11-April-2002 : April 14 A military coup d'etat against the leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez fails.
• 26-March-2000 : Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
• 31-December-1999 : Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
• 25-January-1994 : U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
• 14-January-1994 : U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
• 19-December-1991 : Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia.
• 31-January-1971 : Apollo program: ''Apollo 14'' (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.