1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach NY

1987 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector 1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000)

1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London

1988 NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years

1989 US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him

1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15

1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns

1995 NATO assumes peacekeeping duties in Bosnia

1860 South Carolina secedes from the American Union, and joined the Confederacy

1990 Eduard Shevardnadze resigns as Soviet foreign minister

1946 The birth of Uri Geller, Israeli psychic

1957 The birth of Bo Derek, American actress

2005 205 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 10 goes on strike for three days, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.

2006 Somalia: Islamic Courts Union fighters begin attacking the government-held town of Baidoa.

2007 A group of activist Lakota Indians send a letter to the United States State Department declaring their secession from the Union.

2007 An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 ML hits the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, causing one death and significant damage in the town of Gisborne.

2007 The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, together with O Lavrador de Café [3], by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

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