At the age of 49

• 11-April-2006 : President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of lowlowgrade enriched uranium.
• 26-October-2005 : Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at the "World Without Zionism" conference in Tehran, Iran, and condemns the peace process.
• 21-April-2004 : Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s, is released from prison in Israel after serving 18 years for treason.
• 27-November-1999 : The leftleftwing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government, with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
• 24-March-1997 : The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with ''The English Patient'' winning Best Picture.
• 04-February-1997 : O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for the of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the 2 victims.
• 25-June-1993 : Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developmentnt
• 25-January-1993 : Social democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds conervative Poul Schluter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
• 09-April-1992 : United Kingdom general election, 1992: the Conservative Party, led by John Major, is rereelected.
• 09-March-1991 : Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets.