1989 Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs.

1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

1989 Vice President Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President

1990 Canada defeats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win World Junior Hockey title.

1991 AT"T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable everyone wonders what happened

1991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th

1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland

1995 Denis Lortie released on parole after serving 10 years in prison for 1984 shooting in the Quebec National Assembly, where he killed three people.

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House

1997 Canada wins the World Junior Hockey title in Switzerland.

1999 Former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as Governor of Minnesota.

1885 An appendix is successfuly removed for the first time in Iowa, USA

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin

1948 Britain grants independence to Burma

1951 Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul, Korea

1958 Sputnik reenters atmosphere and burns up

1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm

1965 Lyndon Johnson makes "Great Society" State of the Union Address

1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee

1989 Two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen

1643 The birth of Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist

1809 The birth of Louis Braille, creates the Braille system for the blind

2005 Death of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri, assassinated by gunmen.

2005 Death of Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad (assassinated)2006 Powers are transferred from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to his deputy, Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, after Sharon suffers a massive hemorrhagic stroke.

2006 The Texas Longhorns of the University of Texas beat the University of Southern California Trojans, 41-38 in a last minute touchdown by Texas quarterback Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

2007 Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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