1994 Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada

1994 Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease

1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections

1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds)

1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement

1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die &50 hurt

1998 Intel unveils its first graphics chip i740

1999 American Airlines pilots defy a federal court order and continue their sickout, causing the airline to cancel over a thousand flights.

1999 The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial.

2000 Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry dies at age 75 after battling leukemia for nine months.

2000 Peanuts creator Charles Schulz dies of colon cancer in his Santa Rosa, California, home at age 77.

1912 China becomes a republic, after centuries of rule by an Emperor

1915 Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial

1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.

1961 First spacecraft to the planet Venus launched

1973 American prisoners captured in Vietnam are released

1994 Edward Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen from the Norwegian National Gallery. It is later returned and promptly stolen again.

1809 The birth of Charles Darwin, English scientist

1809 The birth of Abraham Lincoln, Former (16th) US President

1923 The birth of Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director

1933 The birth of Costa Gavras, Argentinian director.

2005 Fire devastated the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.

2007 An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.

2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in e ate of New York killing 50 people.

2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in e ate of New York killing 50 people.

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