1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)

1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins

1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board

1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)

1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey

1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988

1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup

1990 Arthur J. Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is found dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment at age 81.

1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress

1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting

1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in an FBI sting at a downtown hotel and charged with buying and smoking crack cocaine.

1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years

1991 Eastern Airlines stopped flying and said it would liquidate its assets. The announcement followed a two-year effort to escape bankruptcy.

1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel

1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 minutes

1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career

1992 49th Golden Globes

1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui

1992 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident

1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for first time

1993 Seven people were killed and nearly 70 more injured when two commuter trains collided on a bridge in Gary, Ind.

1993 West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0

1994 Iran-Contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh issued his final report on the scandal. He blasted former President Bush for his Christmas Eve 1992 pardons of six Iran-Contra defendants.

1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs Kerala

1995 Officials in Paris announced the discovery of a magnificent display of Paleolithic cave art in southern France.

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia

1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY

1996 Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of The King Elvis Presley, filed for divorce from Michael Jackson after 20 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable difference.

1997 Norway's Boerge Ousland emerges on the Pacific edge of Antarctica to become the first person to cross the continent alone and unaided.

1997 Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1,675-mile trek across Antarctica, the first time anyone transversed the continent alone.

2001 Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted he had fathered a daughter born out of wedlock in 1999 to an employee of his Rainbow/PUSH coalition.

2002 In another anti-terrorist step ordered by Congress, U.S. airlines began inspecting every piece of luggage checked by passengers.

2003 Protesters nationwide demonstrated in opposition to possible war in Iraq.

2004 At least 23 people were reported killed when a powerful car bomb exploded in Baghdad. No Americans were listed among the dead.

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