Schumacher wins Monaco Grand Prix
2001 - Michael Schumacher cruised to his fifth Monaco Grand Prix victory and extended his lead in the Formula One championship over David Coulthard, who wasted his pole position by stalling at the start of the formation lap. Coulthard had to start the 78-lap race from the back of the pack, allowing Schumacher to start alone from the front row of the grid. Schumacher, the three-time defending Formula One champion, seized the opportunity and paced Ferrari to a comfortable 1-2 victory, with Brazilian teammate Rubens Barrichello in second place, 0.4 seconds behind. Eddie Irvine of Britain finished third in his Jaguar, 30.6 seconds behind. Fourth place went to former champion Jacques Villeneuve of Canada, while Coulthard battled his way back to fifth.
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1883 - Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow.
1905 - Japan annihilates Russian fleet of 32 ships in the Tsushima Straits off Korea.
1927 - Thomas Masaryk is elected Czechoslovakia President.
1936 - British luxury liner Queen Mary begins maiden voyage across Atlantic Ocean.
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, opens.
1941 - German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British Navy off France, with loss of 2,300 lives.
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.
1960 - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey.
1964 - India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies.
1971 - Soviet Union signs 15-year pact with Egypt, pledging assistance in recovery of all Arab territories occupied by Zionists.
1975 - United States agrees to end its aid programme in Laos.
1977 - Two Boeing 747s of Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582.
1991 - Austrian jet of Lauda-Air explodes over central Thailand, killing 223 passengers and crew.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after two decades in exile.
1996 - Russia signs a deal with the leader of the Chechen rebels to end fighting in the breakaway region in what President Boris Yeltsin called a historic moment.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with Nato.
1999 - A United Nations tribunal indicts Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity, holding the Yugoslav president responsible for the horrors in Kosovo.
2000 - The new campus of the American University in Dubai is inaugurated.
2006 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in central Indonesia killed at least 5,800 people.
2007 - Sindh administration bars Tehreek-E-Insaf chief Imran Khan from entering Karachi for a month.
2012 - Mark Webber wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
2015 - Swiss police arrest seven senior Fifa officials from a plush Zurich hotel, including vice-president Jeffrey Webb.
