The May 02:
1989 Spain ratified the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.
1991: the chancellor of the FRG, Helmut Kohl is greeted with eggs and bags of ink in Halle, during the first visit by one of the new federal territories.
1992: in the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin takes over as army chief by decree own.
1992: the European Economic Community and EFTA agree to the creation of the European Economic Area (EEA) market only has half of world trade.
1994: the African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela , achieved a spectacular victory in the first democratic elections in South Africa after apartheid.
1994: in Bangladesh 200 people die because of a cyclone.
1997: the Atapuerca science team wins the Prince of Asturias Research.
1997: in the UK, Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister . Is the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
1998: Brussels establishing the European Central Bank to define and implement monetary policy in the EU.
1999 : the three U.S. soldiers captured by Serb troops are delivered leader American religious Jesse Jackson, who personally negotiated his release with President Milosevic.
1999: Panama, Mireya Moscoso (widow of Arnulfo Arias leader) is elected president after defeating incumbent candidate Martin Torrijos (son of the late dictator Omar Torrijos).
2002: in the Colombian town of Choco Department Bojayá the FARC massacred 119 people.
2003: Yellow Sea waters, the 70 crew of a Chinese submarine die in an accident.
2004: in Fallujah (Iraq) six U.S. soldiers killed in a Iraqi insurgents attack.
2004: In Nigeria, the ethnic violence claimed hundreds of lives.
2004: in Amsterdam gymnast Elena Gomez gets the silver medal in floor in the European Championships.
2004: in Germany, Maria Basque wins bronze medal in the 20 km the World Cup underway.
2004: in Spain the English side Ciudad Real Handball proclaims Asobal League champion.
2005: in northern Afghanistan, a tinderbox underground explosion left 28 dead and more than 70 injured.
2006 : in Andalusia, the Parliament approved the reform the Statute of Autonomy with 67 votes (PSOE and IU) and 41 against (PP and the Andalusian Party).
2008: in Chile, the Chaiten volcano erupts at 0:30 (UTC-4), the first eruption on record. The eruption causes the inhabitants of Chaiten and Futaleufu have to be urgently evacuated from the dense cloud of ash at the site.
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