1988 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15

1988 Rogier van Otterloo Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 46

1988 Talks break down between Sandinistas and Contras

1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds

1989 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index at 2,256.43

1989 Episcopal church appoints first female bishop

1989 Orlando Arena opens

1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit

1990 Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

1990 Former Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges arising from worst oil spill in U.S. history.

1990 IN Ottawa Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General

1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (begins)

1991 Nelson Mandela &Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet in Durban after 28 years

1991 Yasushi Inoue Japanese historian, dies

1992 Willie Dixon blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76

1993 Hank Werba [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety), dies at 79

1993 Michel Renault French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies

1993 Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman

1994 Jevgeni P Leonov Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67

1995 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide

1995 The San Francisco 49ers make NFL history by winning their fifth Super Bowl, defeating the San Diego Chargers in super Bowl XXIX by a score of 49-26.

1996 23rd American Music Award Garth Brooks wins

1996 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"

1996 Last day of Test cricket for David Boon

1996 Timmins, Ontario's Shania Twain named best new country artist at the American Music Awards

1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale FL

1998 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR

1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium &Netherlands, 6 die

1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham AL bombed, 1 killed

1933 German President von Hindenburg makes big mistake, appoints Hitler chancellor

1969 Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community

1978 Sweden is the first country to introduce a law banning the use of aerosol sprays harmful to the ozone layer

1737 The birth of Thomas Paine, American writer

1866 The birth of Romain Rolland, French writer

1867 The birth of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer

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