1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president

1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India

1985 Rose Bottle is born

1985 Tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years

1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World

1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins

1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes

1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record

1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble

1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000

1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds

1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins

1990 A computer problem disrupts AT&T's long distance telephone service around the U.S. for nearly nine hours.

1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch

1990 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares a state of emergency in parts of Azerbaijan and Armenia, due to increased ethnic violence.

1990 VIA cuts half of its passenger network. Included in these cuts are a decision to run just one transcontinental train between Toronto and Vancouver via CN through Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Jasper.

1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup

1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't)

1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia

1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man

1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence

1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum

1992 The federation of Yugoslavia, intact since 1918, crumbles as the European Community recognizes the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.

1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die

1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV

1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo

1994 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10

1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)

1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334

1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360

1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin

1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station

1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

1559 Coronation of British Queen Elizabeth I

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