1995 Five thousand mourners gather at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its liberation.

1996 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies

1996 70th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)

1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the first New York female Episcopal bishop

1996 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1996 Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

1996 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs Jamaica at Kingston

1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City NY

1997 24th American Music Award Toni Braxton &Alanis Morissette win

1997 It's the worst snowstorms to hit northwest China in 30 years. An update today from Beijing says the storms have killed 39 people and caused more than 24 million dollars in losses.

1997 The weekend rescue of more than 300 anglers from the ice of Lake Simcoe could cost up to 500 000 dollars. The ice fishers were stranded after a 32 kilometre-long pressure crack openedup between them and shore.

1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10

1888 : National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC, US.

1924 : Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square

1926 : US Senate agrees to join World Court

1926 : John Baird gives the first public demonstration of the television set.

1967 : Three American astronauts killed in an Apollo spacecraft ground test

1967 : Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed

1973 : US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war2006 Celebrations are held in Salzburg and around the world for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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