At the age of 50

• 11-December-2006 : The Holocaust conference is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
• 05-September-2005 : John G. Roberts is nominated by President George W. Bush for Chief Justice of the United States, replacing William Rehnquist, who had died 2 days previously.
• 26-December-2004 : The rererun of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the winner.
• 11-December-2004 : Tests show that Ukrainian opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with a large dose of dioxin.
• 14-November-2004 : U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell submits his resignation. He is replaced by Condoleezza Rice after her confirmation by the United States Congress.
• 23-March-1998 : The 70th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California with the film ''Titanic'' winning a record 11 Oscars.
• 27-January-1998 : U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on ''The Today Show'', calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast rightrightwing conspiracy."
• 16-May-1997 : U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Malegro Maleand their families.
• 27-April-1997 : Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that lasts until July and ends with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
• 04-March-1997 : U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.