926 Milestones 5

1985: Hong Kong's Legislative Council holds its first indirect election. 1988: Ben Johnson is stripped of his Seoul Olympics 100m gold medal after failing a drug test. 1991: The US 'Biosphere 2' laboratory begins its first experimental mission. 1995: The Taliban occupies Afghan radio, television, and the presidential palace. 1997: Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes in Indonesia. 2001: Tsinghua University's Shuimu Tsinghua BBS begins a trial arbitration system. 2002: The Senegalese ferry 'Joola' sinks in Gambian waters with 1034 passengers; only 64 survive. 2003: An 8.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Hokkaido, Japan. 2003: China sees its 'First Case of Hepatitis B Discrimination'. 2005: China decides to develop the next-generation Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) standard based on the AVS video codec. 2006: Shinzo Abe is inaugurated as the 90th Prime Minister of Japan. 2006: Merrill Lynch merges with BlackRock.