1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points

1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides

1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case

1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar

1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs India

1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 &injuring 160

1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA

1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV

1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson MS, 30 years after the crime

1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections

1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund

1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)

1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini

1999 Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year in a Maryland jail for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident.

1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel

1904 American occupation of Cuba ends

1917 Mexican constitution proclaimed

1922 The very first 'Readers Digest' appears on the shelves

1971 The US Apollo 14 (Shepard and Mitchell onboard) lands on the Moon

1988 Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

1840 The birth of John Dunlop, Scottish inventor of pneumatic bicycle tire

1919 The birth of Red Buttons, American actor.

1940 The birth of H R Giger, Dutch painter.

1943 The birth of Nolan Bushnell, American game designer (founder of Atari and creator of Pong, the first videogame)

1946 The birth of Charlotte Rampling, British actress.

2005 Death of Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)

2006 The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL, defeating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10.

2009 e United ates Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging e ship as well as a coral reef.

2009 e United ates Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging e ship as well as a coral reef.

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