1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect

1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England

1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris

1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV

1990 11th ACE Cable Awards

1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf

1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV

1991 Jorge Serrano Elías sworn in as President of Guatemala

1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA

1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR

1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS

1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands

1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

1998 100th episode of "Ellen," airs

1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge

1999 House prosecutors request U.S. President Bill Clinton's removal from office, during post-impeachment proceedings in the Senate.

1783 American congress ratifies peace treaty (Treaty of Paris) between US and UK

1953 Yugoslavia elects its first president (Marshal Tito)

1963 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"

1741 The birth of Benedict Arnold, American traitor

1875 The birth of Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary and Nobel Prize winner

1892 The birth of Hal Roach, American director

1904 The birth of Cecil Beaton, British photographer

1909 The birth of Joseph Losey, American film director

1940 The birth of Trevor Nunn, British stage director

1941 The birth of Faye Dunaway, American film actress

1967 The birth of Emily Watson, British actress

2005 The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn.

2006 A natural gas explosion in a coal mine kills eight in Romania.

2007 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officially adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.

2007 Nazanin Fatehi, a 19 year old Iranian girl previously sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her niece, is exonerated, as her re-trial comes to an end

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