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Date Event Anniversary
September 20, 2008 A massive suicide truck bomb detonated outside the prestigious Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 54 people, injuring 266 others and leaving a vast crater outside the hotel. The attack occurred just hours after President Asif Ali Zardari made his first speech to parliament 2 years ago
September 20, 2008 South African President Thabo Mbeki agreed to resign after the ruling African National Congress requested him to step down 2 years ago
September 20, 2007 American cyclist Floyd Landis was officially stripped of his win in the 2006 Tour de France and banned from competition for two years after an arbitration panel found him guilty of doping during the race 3 years ago
September 20, 2006 The corruption trial of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was thrown out by the judge at Pietermaritzburg High Court, who ruled that the State's case had failed to follow proper procedure 4 years ago
September 20, 2005 Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal died at his home in Vienna, Austria, aged 96. Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Holocaust, dedicated his life after World War II to finding and bringing to justice over 1,100 Nazi war criminals responsible for the genocide of the Jews. High-profile successes included Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor Nazi death camps in Poland, and Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank 5 years ago
September 20, 2004 Legendary British soccer manager Brian Clough died from stomach cancer at the age of 69. Clough won successive European Cups with Nottingham Forest in 1979 and 1980, and also won Football League titles with both Forest and Derby County, after taking both teams from relative obscurity to the pinnacle of the English game 6 years ago
September 20, 2004 Indonesia’s former security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won a commanding victory over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in the final round of the country’s first direct presidential election, a massive exercise in logistics with 500,000 polling stations spread across three time zones 6 years ago
September 20, 2004 The U.S. lifted all economic sanctions against Libya, followed two days later by the European Union 6 years ago
September 20, 2003 A memorial commemorating the 8,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia in 1995 was opened, with former U.S. President Bill Clinton among attending dignitaries 7 years ago
September 20, 2002 Israeli soldiers destroyed all but one building in the Ramallah compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat following another suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, and demanded that dozens of Palestinians it had linked to terrorist acts leave the last building. Under U.S. pressure, Israeli forces withdrew on September 29 8 years ago
September 20, 2002 An enormous chunk of ice broke away from a glacier in the Caucasus mountains, burying a village in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The resulting avalanche and mudflow killed more than 120 people, including a film crew of 27 people and popular action-movie star Sergey Bodrov Jr, who were filming in the area at the time 8 years ago
September 20, 2001 With U.S. forces massing in the Gulf, President Bush warned Afghanistan's Taliban regime that unless they handed over wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden they would share his fate 9 years ago

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