launched an artillery attack against the town of Tuzla, which left 71 dead and 240 wounded. The event is also known as the Tuzla massacre. May 28 – The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,967 people dead and 750 injured. June June 2 Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O'Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines six days later. Waffen-SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina to Italy. June 6 U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard breaks NASA's space endurance record of 14 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station Mir. The Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes capital punishment in South Africa in the case of S v Makwanyane and Another. June 13 – French President Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics. June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker was armed with a knife and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara. June 24 – South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup. June 29 Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere. STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time. The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937. Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the U.N. Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country. July July – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to end all cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, if sanctions against the country are not lifted by August 31. Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq also withdraws its last U.N. declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs. July 1 – Iraq disarmament crisis: In response to UNSCOM's evidence, Iraq admits for first time