1987 The 100th US Congress convenes

1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)

1991 Jorge Serrano Elías elected President of Guatemala

1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds)

1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his first Test innings

1993 Ballet star Rudolf Nureyev dies in Paris at age 54.

1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones

1993 Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie dies in Englewood, New Jersey, at age 75.

1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a

1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews

1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88

1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard

1995 Six people die trying to escape a fire in a 29-storey apartment building in North York near Toronto

1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)

2000 Quebec Central Railway takes over the former CPR Quebec Central Lines. Service between Sherbrooke and Vallee Jonction resumed 24 June 2000. The new Quebec Central is operated by Express Marco Inc

1535 City of Lima (Peru) founded by Francisco Pizarro

1838 Samuel Morse gives the first demonstration of the electric telegraph

1912 New Mexico becomes 7th American state

1945 The Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes, starts

1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR

1412 The birth of Joan of Arc, French martyr

1745 The birth of Jaques Montgolfier, French inventor who built first hot air balloon

1878 The birth of Carl Sandburg, American poet

1913 The birth of Loretta Young, American film actress

1931 The birth of Edgar Laurence (aka. E.L.) Doctorow, American writer.

2006 The record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially draws to a close as Tropical Storm Zeta dissipates.

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