1989 Murden & Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

1990 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards Bobby Darin

1990 A study concluded it is not oat bran itself, but the substitution of oat bran or other foods for high-fat foods which cuts blood cholesterol.

1990 Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1991 Iraq fires 8 SCUD missiles on Israel

1991 Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq - first US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)

1991 The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 114.60, the second highest one-day point-gain ever.

1991 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that Florida dentist David Acer had infected three patients with the AIDS virus.

1992 Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews)

1993 14th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 32 awards

1994 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage

1994 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Southern California, killing 61 people and causing $20 billion in damage.

1994 A pre-dawn earthquake struck the Los Angeles area, claiming 61 lives and causing widespread damage.

1994 Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment

1995 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

1995 A powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing more than 5,000 people.

1995 More than 6,000 die as a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Kobe, Japan.

1996 Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman got life in prison and 16 others were also sentenced to jail for plotting to bomb the United Nations.

1998 President Clinton faces sexual harassment charges from Paula Jones

2000 Almost 50,000 people marched in Columbia, S.C., to protest the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol.

2001 Jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

2001 Parts of California were plunged into darkness after utility companies failed to deliver enough electrical power. The rolling blackouts affected as many as 2 million people.

2002 The U.S. Justice Department began an international manhunt for five suspected al-Qaida members believed to be plotting a new suicide attack.

2002 The volcano on Mount Nyiragongo, near the town of Goma in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted causing at least 45 deaths and leaving an estimated 55,000 people homeless.

2004 Authorities placed the U.S. military death toll in Iraq at 500, including 346 in combat.

1773 Captain Cooks ship becomes the first to cross the Antartic Ocean

1911 Failed assassination attempt on premier Aristide Briand in French Assembly

1912 English explorer Robert F. Scott is first to reach the South Pole

1945 Liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi by Soviet troops

1959 The African country of Mali is formed with the joining of Senegal and French Sudan

1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

1706 The birth of Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and scientist

1880 The birth of Mack Sennett, American director

1899 The birth of Al Capone, American gangster

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