1990 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR

1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV

1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics first gold medal for the USA

1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana

1992 Roots author Alex Haley dies in Seattle at age 71.

1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people

1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia

1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA

1995 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek

1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov

1996 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20,000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America

1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)

1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages

1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR

1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95

1998 Canadian National President Paul Tellier says CN is acquiring US rail company Illinois Central Corp for $2.4 billion

1999 A federal judge orders American Airlines pilots back to work after their sickout grounds 2500 flights, stranding 200,000 travelers and crippling cargo carriers.

1635 Academie Francaise is founded in Paris by Cardinal Richelieu

1763 The Peace of Paris ceedes Canada to Britain

1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."

1931 New Delhi becomes the capital city of India

1942 The first ever record 'Gold Disc' is presented to Glenn Miller

1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam, saying it has potential to turn into a quagmire.

1986 Largest ever Mafia trial, in Palermo, Sicily

1986 Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti flees the country to France

1870 The birth of Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor.

1890 The birth of Boris Pasternak, Russian author.

1898 The birth of Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist

1906 The birth of Lon Chaney Jr., American actor.

1930 The birth of Robert Wagner, American actor

2005 North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it felt from the United States.

2005 Saudi Arabia held its first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men were allowed to vote.2006 The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy. The closing ceremony occurred on feb 26.

2007 U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announces a presidential bid in Springfield, Illinois.

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