1994 Actor Joseph Cotten dies in Los Angeles at age 88.

1994 José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica

1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland

1995 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter

1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence

1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm

1998 "Africa The Serengeti" becomes the first DVD to include separate language tracks

1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years

1998 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a bill renaming Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan National Airport.

1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris (First US treaty). England immediately declares war on France.

1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth of the United States.

1899 Treaty of Paris is ratified by the U.S. Senate by one vote, ending the Spanish-American War

1958 A plane carrying the Manchester United football team crashed at Munich airport, killing 7 of the team

1959 Indira Ghandi becomes the leader of India's Congress Party

1991 Debris from the Soviet space station 'Salyut 7' fall into the Atlantic as it breaks up

1911 The birth of Ronald Reagan, Former actor and US (40th) President

1919 The birth of Zsa Zsa Gabor, American actress

1922 The birth of Patrick McNee, British actor.

1932 The birth of Francois Truffaut, French director

1945 The birth of Bob Marley, Jamaican singer.

2005 The New England Patriots won their third Super Bowl title in four years by winning 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX.

2005 Death of Merle Kilgore, singer, songwriter (b.1934)

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