1984 STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad

1984 Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family

1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)

1988 USSR announces it will participate in the Seoul Summer Olympics

1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)

1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school

1990 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence

1990 Actor Joseph Cotten undergoes vocal-chord cancer operation at 84

1991 Ben Johnson first race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd

1991 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq

1991 Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title

1991 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence

1992 Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation

1992 Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa

1992 US female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi

1993 Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 of its 112 stores, then sells another 39 stores to an Italian jewellery group

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW)

1993 Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics

1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA

1995 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise

1995 Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs

1995 Fifty-two people are killed when a Colombian airliner crashes near the resort town of Cartagena in the Caribbeans.

1995 NHLPA &owners agree to end NHL strike

1996 Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard chosen as the 4th President of the Parti Quebecois, and Premier designate of Quebec.

1996 Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space

1997 23rd People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby wins

1997 Telstar 401 Satellite Fails

1998 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win

1998 US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan

1998 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge

1785 Continental Congress convenes in New York City

1787 William Herschel discovers that the planet Uranus has moons

1803 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans. they buy Louisiana.

1923 French troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations

1973 Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Washington, DC

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