1991 Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt

1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000

1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992

1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble

1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ

1993 Celebrities ranging from Barbra Streisand to Michael Jackson to a reunited Fleetwood Mac threw a nationally televised pre-inaugural bash for President-elect Clinton.

1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal

1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA

1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands

1994 -20ºF (-29ºC) (5 32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland OH

1994 -36ºF (-38ºC) in New Whiteland IN (state record)

1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg

1995 Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Mary McKillop before crowd of 120,000 at Randwick racecourse in Sydney.

1995 Russian forces captured the presidential palace in the rebel republic of Chechnya.

1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix

1997 Two bombs exploded at a Tulsa, Okla., abortion clinic that had been bombed two weeks earlier.

1998 Rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins, whose hit song Blue Suede Shoes helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, dies aged 65.

1998 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC.

1999 NATO warned Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic that he must honor the 1998 cease-fire negotiated with the rebels in Kosovo or face air strikes.

2000 Film star Hedy Lamarr, 86, found dead in her Florida home

2001 President Clinton announced he had made a deal with the independent prosecutor that would prevent him from being indicted after he left office.

2003 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Bush administration might allow Saddam Hussein to seek safe haven in another country as a way to avoid war.

2004 U.S. military authorities denied Afghan claims that a U.S. helicopter attack killed 11 civilians, including four children, saying instead that five Taliban fighters were the only fatalities.

1793 King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention

1915 German zeppelins bomb London for the first time in World War I

1942 Japanese forces invade Burma during World War 2

1991 Iraqui Presidential Palace attacked as the Gulf War begins

1992 A new Bulgarian President is elected in the countries first free elections

1993 Israel recognizes PLO

1736 The birth of James Watts, Scottish 'steam' inventor

1737 The birth of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French author

1807 The birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general

1809 The birth of Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet

1839 The birth of Paul Cézanne, French painter

1943 The birth of Janis Joplin, American rock singer

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