1995 Former federal minister Ros Kelly, brought down over her administration of sports grants, resigns from Australian parliament.

1996 New South Wales Premier Bob Carr announces that the state's next governor will be part-time and Government House to be turned over to public use.

1997 A bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six people.

1997 Ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was shot to death while changing a tire on a freeway exit ramp in Los Angeles.

1998 Investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with President Clinton.

2000 Ricardo Lagos is elected Chile's first socialist president since Salvador Allende, whose government was toppled in a bloody 1973 military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet.

2001 Environmental activists and local authorities in a town in El Salvador where a mountainside buried an entire neighbourhood say deforestation – and greed – contributed to the earthquake disaster.

2001 President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one of his bodyguards, who in turn was killed by other bodyguards.

2003 President George W. Bush called the Michigan affirmative action program unconstitutional.

2004 NASA announced plans to cancel further space shuttle missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, an act that would condemn the Hubble to mechanical failure in the next two years.

1547 Ivan the Terrible crowns himselfst tsar of Russia

1604 At the Hampton Court Conference in England, John Rainolds presents to King James I the motion '...that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible.' Approved the next day, Rainolds' motion leads to the 1611 publication of the King James' Bible

1920 The United States begin the prohibiton era, banning the sale of alcohol

1964 Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megatons nuclear bomb

1969 The Soviets carry out the first manual docking of a spacecraft in orbit

1979 The ruler of Iran, the Shah, leaves his country

1991 Operation 'Desert Storm' begins against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait

1994 Syria declares its commitment to peace with Israel

1853 The birth of Andre Michelin, French tiremaker

1909 The birth of Ethel Merman, American singer and actress

1932 The birth of Diane Fossey, American zoologist

1959 The birth of Sade, American singer

2005 Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so.

2005 Armed militants kill 1 person and wound 8 people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.Confirmation needed

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