1992 16th Winter Olympics games open in Albertville, France

1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

1993 GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die

1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car

1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432

1994 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm

1994 Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; and they say crime doesn't pay?

1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)

1995 In Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General

1996 US bookstore chain Borders says it will invest in a chain of bookstores in Canada; Ottawa will block the plan under the cultural exemption of NAFTA.

1997 Jean-Luc Brassard wins gold medal in free-style skiing at the World Championships in Nagano

1998 The first female ice hockey game in Olympics history Finland beats Sweden 6-0

1999 A funeral service is held in Amman, Jordan, for King Hussein, who died the day before of cancer.

1725 Catherine the Great becomes the Empress of Russia

1924 Gas chamber used for the first time in an American state prison

1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed

1942 Congress advises FDR that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post, which used to carry Norman Rockwell covers.

1969 First test flight of the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet

1973 Senate names seven members to investigate Watergate scandal

1974 The US spacestation, Skylab, crashes back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere

1920 The birth of Lana Turner, American film actress

1925 The birth of Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor

1931 The birth of James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')

1932 The birth of John Williams, US film score writer

2005 Danish parliamentary elections continued the center-right coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party.

2006 2006 East Timor crisis: 404 soldiers desert their barracks in East Timor.

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