1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century

1989 Jim &Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)

1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement

1990 Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities

1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years

1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders

1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter

1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs India at Sydney

1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months

1993 U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign a treaty to reduce the inventory of nuclear missiles.

1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt

1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field

1994 A Russian Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed

1995 The U.S. Postal Service raises the price for a 1st-class stamp to 32 cents.

1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV

1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare

1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0

1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor

1924 The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen is discovered by Howard Carter

1959 Alaska becomes the 49th United State, bought from Russia

1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

1993 The Russian and American leaders sign the second START agreement in Moscow

1892 The birth of J.R Tolkien, English author

1909 The birth of Victor Borge, Danish comedian and musician

1956 The birth of Mel Gibson, Australian actor2006 Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, U.S.

2007 China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.

2009 Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

2009 Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

2009 Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

2009 Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.

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