1989 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution

1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

1990 Engineers digging a rail tunnel under the English Channel link up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed, and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age

1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks

1990 Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their first joint session

1991 Ukranian people vote for independence

1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands

1994 the Société des chemins de fer du Québec commences operation over the former CN line from Limoilou to Clermont, Québec.

1995 Michael Monus, the former president of the Phar-Mor drug store chain, was found guilty of embezzling roughly $1 billion from the company.

1996 A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air

1996 Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Quebec Railway Corporation, commences operation over the former CN line beween Matapedia and Chandler, Que.

1996 In a move that led to a public-relations disaster, America Online shifted to a flat $19.95-per-month fee for unlimited access

1998 St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (Quebec) commences operation over the CN Sherbrooke subdivision between St. Rosalie, QC and Norton, VT.

1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress during segragation, refuses to give her bus seat to a white man, an event that sparked the Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott, one of the critical events in the U.S. civil rights fight.

1959 Twelve countries sign a treaty to protect Antarctica, as a preserve for scientific research

1761 The birth of Madame Marie Tussaud, French waxworks modeller

1935 The birth of Woody Allen, American actor, director and producer

1945 The birth of Bette Midler, American actress and singer

2005 South Africa becomes the fifth country in the world where same-sex marriages are recognized.

2006 Felipe Calderón is sworn in as the President of Mexico by the Congress in Mexico.

2006 The 15th Asian Games start in Doha, Qatar; the closing ceremony takes place on dec 15.

2006 Typhoon Durian kills at least 388 people in Albay province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.

2007 A triangular conjunction formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a prominent object in the evening sky.

2008 A triangular conjunction formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a prominent object in the evening sky.

2008 A triangular conjunction formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a prominent object in the evening sky.

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