1987 Supreme Court of Canada rules that the right to strike is not guaranteed by the constitution

1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama

1989 Entertainment Tonights Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman

1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car

1990 "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premiers on ABC-TV

1990 Ottawa signs final land claim agreement with 15,000 Dene-Metis of Mackenzie Valley; they are awarded surface title to 181,230 sq km land, mineral rights to 10,000 sq km and $500 million cash over 20 years

1990 Ryan White hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18. The Ryan White Foundation was founded later in 1991 by Jeanne White and Phil Donahue

1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0 (Windows was gaining popularity)

1991 Georgia SSR votes to seceede from the USSR

1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of the pancreas

1991 Oakland A's stadium becomes first outdoor arena to ban smoking

1992 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway

1992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

1992 John Majors, (C) elected PM of England

1992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges

1667 First ever public art exhibition opens in Paris

1682 La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

1865 The American Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate forces

1940 German forces invade Denmark and Norway during World War 2

1947 Atomic Energy Commission formed

1957 The Suez Canal, Egypt, is cleared and opens to shipping

1980 Israeli troops move into Leanon

1991 Georgia votes to seceede from the USSR

1879 The birth of WC Fields, American actor

1908 The birth of Victor Vasarely, Russian painter

1933 The birth of Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor

2005 Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, marched through Baghdad denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rallied in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.

2005 The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place, after being briefly postponed after the Pope's death. Camilla assumes the titles Her Royal Highness and The Duchess of Cornwall.2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is removed from office after four months in a coma.

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