1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic

1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1

1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34

1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating

1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London

1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated

1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16

1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison

1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL

1992 The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upholds Canada's anti-pornography law

1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr

1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway

1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed

1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)

1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India

1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC

1997 Divorces become legal in Ireland.

1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop

1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards

1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer

1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati

1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges

1999 Democratic rule returns to Nigeria as its citizens elect Olusegun Obasanjo as president.

1879 Two American chemists announce the discovery of saccharin

1933 German parliament building (Reichstag) destroyed by fire

1948 The Communist Party takes control in Czechoslovakia

1991 An allied ceasefire in the Gulf War begins, Iraqi forces withdraw from Kuwait.

1807 The birth of Henry Longfellow, American poet

1902 The birth of John Steinbeck, American writer

1930 The birth of Joanne Woodward, British actress

1932 The birth of Elizabeth Taylor, American actress

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