1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane

1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13 48.20)

1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses his sins to his congregation

1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling

1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)

1990 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win

1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances

1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable

1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating

1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City

1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 meters)

1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado

1995 Steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, becomes the first person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit

1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres

1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands

1804 The first ever steam train to run on rails is demonstrated by Richard Trevithick

1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba

1972 US President Richard Nixon goes to China, to help improve relations

1907 The birth of W.H Auden, English poet

1924 The birth of Robert Mugabe,, First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

1934 The birth of Nina Simone, American singer

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