1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's first female governor

1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers first stroke

1988 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva

1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong

1990 President De Klerk of S Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid

1991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation

1991 New York assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud

1993 Hubble Space Telescope repaired

1998 Ottawa Central Railway, a subsidiary of RailLink's Quebec Railway Corporation, commences operation over the CN Beachburg subdivision between Ottawa and Pembroke, ON as well as the Walkley line in Ottawa. The Ottawa Central also received running rights over the Alexandria subdivision between Ottawa and Coteau.

1577 Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, on his round the world voyage

1642 New Zealand discovered by the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman

1847 Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', publishes 'Wuthering Heights'

1990 The United Nations launch an aid appeal, when new famine threatens Ethiopia

1797 The birth of Heinrich Heine, German romantic poet and writer

1925 The birth of Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian, of stage and screen

1929 The birth of Christopher Plummer, Stage and screen actor

2005 A 6.7 magnitude earthquake rocks South Asia.

2005 Death of Stanley Williams, American gang founder (executed) (b. 1953)

2005 Birth of Prince Nicolas of Belgium, grandson of King Albert II of Belgium

2005 Birth of Prince Aymeric of Belgium, grandson of King Albert II of Belgium

2005 Mass race riots in Sydney, Australia, involving up to 5,00 youths.

2006 The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.

2006 U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) suffers a stroke during a radio interview.

2007 European leaders sign the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon.

2007 Entry into force of the revised version of the European Patent Convention (EPC), known as the EPC 2000.

2007 Former US Senator George J. Mitchell publicly releases a report accusing 88 retired and active Major League Baseball players of anabolic steroid use.

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