1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system

1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300

1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins

1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79

1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons

1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas

1997 Abitibi-Price and Stone-Consolidated announce a $2.3 billion merger, creating the world's largest newsprint maker

1999 John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor during the Nixon administration and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal, dies in Atlanta, at age 73.

1999 Quebec Railway Corporation takes over the former CN Mont Joli and Matane subdivisions linking Matane to Riviere du Loup, QC. The Matane sub. was the former Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway.

2000 Tornadoes rip through southwestern Georgia just after midnight, killing 19 people and injuring more than 100 others.

1903 US Dept of Commerce and Labor is established

1924 Thomas Watson opens IBM

1929 The St Valentines Day Massacre, in Chicago, between rival gansters

1950 USSR and China sign peace treaty.

1963 First successful kidney transplant

1766 The birth of Thomas Malthus, British philosopher.

1894 The birth of Jack Benny, American actor

1944 The birth of Alan Parker, British director

1944 The birth of Carl Bernstein, American journalist (Watergate).

2005 A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.

2005 Death of Rafik Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon (assassinated) (b. 1944)

2005 Around 59 people were killed and 20 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran.

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