1999. Speaker Préval refers Parliament:
The 1995 electoral law providing for the end of the mandate of the members of the
46th Legislature on January 11, 1999, President Préval then decided to dissolve
the OPL-majority parliament, which led to a political crisis.
2010. A violent earthquake struck Haiti:
The earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, struck Haiti at 16:53,
causing inestimable damage, mainly in Port-au-Prince, Pétion-Ville,
Léogâne, Jacmel. The victims were counted in hundreds of thousands. The palace
national, the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, the palace of ministries,
several other important buildings were destroyed.