1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes for heavyweight boxing title

1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)

1987 Maxwell D Taylor US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85

1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone

1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time

1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champ Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman

1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990

1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"

1587 English captain Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour

1775 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon. A shot is fired and the American revolution begins at the Lexington Common. That was the "shot heard round the world"

1933 FDR announces that the US will leave the gold standard

1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights

1971 The Soviet Union launch the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1

1972 Bangladesh joins the British Commonwealth

1995 A massive bomb explosion destroys much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA

1903 The birth of Eliot Ness, American agent who put Al Capone behind bars

1925 The birth of Hugh O'Brien, American actor

1933 The birth of Jayne Mansfield, American actress

1935 The birth of Dudley Moore, British actor

1946 The birth of Tim Curry, American actor

2005 Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.

2006 Han Myeong Sook becomes the first female Prime Minister of South Korea.

2007 US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over South Korea with over 500 planes.[8]

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