1991 Iraq launched the third and bloodiest Scud missile attack against Israel, injuring 98 people. Three others died of heart attacks.

1991 The Canadian House of Commons votes 217-47 to endorse UN resolution on military action against Iraq

1992 Boeing sells 51% of financially-troubled de Havilland Aircraft to Montreal-based Bombardier, with the province of Ontario acquiring the remaining shares

1994 Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, with guests Rod Stewart and Sting, has a #1 Billboard hit with the single, All For Love

1994 Twenty-one firefighters die after they are trapped in a brush fire in southern Argentina;

1995 Rose Kennedy dies at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at age 104.

1995 Twenty-one Israelis are killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing in central Israel.

1995 Two Palestinians killed 18 Israeli soldiers, a civilian and themselves in a bombing outside a military camp in central Israel.

1996 Costas Simitis was chosen to be the new prime minister of Greece. His predecessor, Andreas Papandreou, had stepped down due to ill health.

1996 The Galileo probe plunges into Jupiter's atmosphere and finds it windier and drier than expected, with less helium and less lightning.

1997 A weekend freeze cost Florida farmers at least 100 million dollars in crop losses. Winter vegetables in south Dade County and southwest Florida were hardest hit when temperatures dropped as much as 20 degrees in four hours Saturday night

1997 The Senate confirms President Clinton's nomination of Madeleine Albright, making her the first female secretary of state in U.S. history.

1998 Accused bomber Ted Kaczynski pleaded guilty to all counts against him in California and New Jersey. He was sentenced to life in prison on May 4.

1999 Pope John Paul II arrived in Mexico City on a visit to Mexico and the United States.

2003 Snowboard pioneer Craig Kelly died in a British Columbia avalanche.

2003 The Senate approved the nomination of former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to be the first secretary of home security by a 94-0 vote.

2004 Allegations that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had accepted bribes damaged his credibility, a new poll showed. But, Sharon brushed aside the allegations and a source said no indictment was expected.

1771 The Falkland Islands are given to Britain by the Spanish

1879 British troops are massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana, South Africa

1941 Tobruk, North Africa, is captured by Australian troops

1946 US President creates the CIA

1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula

1973 With Roe vs Wade, US Supreme Court legalizes abortion

1980 Russian dissident Andrei Sacharov is sent to Gorki gulag

1561 The birth of Francis Bacon, English politician and philospher

1788 The birth of Lord Byron, English poet

1875 The birth of D.W Griffith, American film director/producer

1940 The birth of John Hurt, English actor

2006 Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in regulation and is second only to the legendary 1960s center Wilt Chamberlain, who had 100 points.

2007 A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.

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